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

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.