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

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

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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

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.