[hintymad]

Speaking of lessons, I envy the kids who can join teams in those ski resorts, and the team coaches are usually regional or national medalists, who know how to drill fundamentals into kids. Adults are not so lucky. I tried many coaches or lessons offered by either ski resorts or by some ski schools. The coaches somehow could not convey exactly how one can go from pizza to parallel ski then to carving and finally to short turns. Yeah, they would give instructions like big toe small toe, lean forward, keeping upper body angular and etc. What they failed to do, though, is pointing out exactly what a series of drills that one can do to make progress.

[tafda]

Highly recommend "Breakthrough on the New Skis" by Lito Tejada-Flores for an explanation that makes sense of what to do on skis. It's not an easy concept to communicate and comprehend, and much more important than any equipment at an intermediate level. More or less any set of all mountain 80-95mm width skis with correctly fitting boots will work until you're skiing off-piste.

https://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-New-Skis-Goodbye-Interme...

[hd95489]

You can’t verbally describe body motion is not with. The reason you do the drill is to get the motion down. It could take 200 times or 2000 times before you get there it’s very variable. The same way I can’t really tell you how to balance in one leg, but I can offer tips to break down the motion into more practiceable chunks