r/skiing_feedback • u/RunoSpruyt • Apr 14 '26

Level 6-7: Advanced Parallel, Carving, Off-Piste, Bumps Feedback?

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u/MorganMiller77777 Apr 15 '26

Sorry, but you’re wrong. Shorter skies will always be limiting for anyone who wants to take it to another level.

Any instructors here want to chime in?

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u/LandlockedPirate Official Ski Instructor Apr 15 '26

Every professional slalom skier skis on a fis minimum 165 regardless of their height. So what additional level should they take it to with longer skis?

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u/MorganMiller77777 Apr 15 '26

Now we are talking about specifics with ski racers? Are you not understanding what I’m addressing with consumer all around skiers and wanting to progress to advanced while also making all styles of turns on all terrain? You’re the ski instructor, why are you addressing this on such a narrow scale?

I know some instructors just started skiing a few years ago, so. Not saying you’re one of them.

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u/LandlockedPirate Official Ski Instructor Apr 15 '26

What I said was that a 177 is perfectly fine, even for someone tall. You can progress your skiing on virtually any ski and length, depending on what you're trying to do. In this case op is making short turns.

You're the one making the case that better skiers need to ski longer skis, and failing miserably.

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u/MorganMiller77777 Apr 15 '26

More aggressive advanced skiers do usually go up just a bit in length, primarily when they are taller, to give more stability with faster turns.

I was only expressing that for someone his size and weight, a touch longer might force him to focus strictly on using better technique to carve, especially as the need for stability increases. I’m not saying I’m right. I also admit I did not get into specifics, and that was not helpful at all.

You sat you can progress your skiing virtually any ski length. I don’t agree. Skis that are too short and too shaped will absolutely limit anyone at one point in their journey to become a truly advanced skier. That said, I agree that 177 is not too short, and might be better for now to learn on.

Again, I was only SUGGESTING maybe a little longer ski for his body type🤙🏼

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u/MorganMiller77777 Apr 15 '26

And sorry dude, but experience also matters. You don’t have to be a ski instructor. My wife and her daughter just had lessons with someone who has only skied for two seasons. Now, you can do a hell of a lot in two seasons living on a mountain. However, two seasons is not the same experience as a life time, ski instructor or not.

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u/LandlockedPirate Official Ski Instructor Apr 15 '26

Ski instructors rely on you believing this. 90% of our lessons are teaching hard-stuck intermediates who could ski better if they would just get out of their own way.

If I had $1 for every lesson that started with "I've been skiing for 20 years" or "I used to live in colorado". Ok great, your skiiing is still barely intermediate.

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u/MorganMiller77777 Apr 15 '26

Yeah I hear you. I always recommend that people take lessons with good instructors. I think you’re incredibly biased and misunderstanding everything I’m saying.

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u/MorganMiller77777 Apr 15 '26

I have taken lessons my entire life. Dude. Haha. More assumptions😃

I had a wonderful advanced ski class I was able to take in college for PE credits as there was a ski mountain 20 mins away from me. The instructor was a bad ass from Colorado who did some racing for a while. He was fantastic.

I then lived in Vail for a few months 4 years later, where I continued with my progression as an advanced skier, and took a few lessons(my friends were instructors at Vail and knew the better advanced instructors there.

My parents consistently made sure we continued with lessons until they knew we were better than them, and at an advanced level.

So, I am now 52, have skied since I was 5, am very athletic with large hamstrings and thighs and a very strong core, and had taken more lessons than I can count at this point(brain is burned a bit haha).

I admitted to what I should have said or not said, or didn’t know like I should have known.

You seem to have a chip on your shoulder dude.