SKI Magazine director of instruction and PSIA Team Captain

[Blake]

Snowrider: 太極兄 - 他那 Blake 根本就是神經病! 我就根本不想回他的帖子! 他的說法可以拿去 EpicSki 上面跟別人討論討論! 我承認他很牛! 但是他不能說PSIA是個笑話! 那是不是所有的 XSIA 都是笑話呢? 他搞不清楚 XSIA 的教學對象是一般大眾而不是比賽運動員! 他說HH方法比較好 - 但是他不知道HH實際上是將PSIA的一些東西偷出來改名販賣! 他說 HH 是 racer 出身所以正確 -但是他不知道 PSIA national team 裡面都是 racer 出身的! 每一個都滑得比HH還要強! 重點是: HH是個生意人 ... 知道實情的人都知道HH在PSIA meeting 時是不受歡迎的!


I can't help but wonder what this says. If it's about Epicski, keep in mind that they used to
pay me to write articles for them. It's only a few idiots that I had a problem with there, and
they were people that had a lot of ego in what they would say. There were not typical or good
PSIA guys. There are some PSIA guys that are really good guys and know their stuff. I
know of one guy who is a level 3 PSIA telemarker and also a level 3 PSIA alpine skier who
was banned from epicski for losing his patience with the same sorts of other PSIA people that
I had the problems with. He told me in a personal message on Epic that he thought that many of the
instructors on epic make ski instructors look like idiots. I still have the message. He has also said that
he wants to learn from me and my brother this year and he skis at the same place as us and he gave
my brother his business card and told my brother to give me the card and have me call him.
This shows the difference in a PSIA person with no ego and who actually knows what good skiing is.
The PSIA guys who are incredibly arrogant are the only problem. Somehow there are a whole lot
of them that are incredibly arrogant without ever having the ability to win a high level race or mogul
competition. "The judging is flawed" is what they would say to justify their
arrogant claims.

If you are trying to argue against what I said, one simple way to do it would be to win
a high level mogul competition or race. I haven't heard of anyone who has only learned
from the PSIA doing that and I don't believe that the judging is flawed.

I even said that the PSIA is good until the advanced level. I have two videos that I am
working on that will discuss some commonly misunderstood things that can be
misunderstood by anyone PSIA or not, so the PSIA will not be directly discussed. I'll
have a demonstration on skis to go with every thought. My efforts with these videos,
and my efforts with most of the posting that I've done, and my efforts with writing the
articles that I wrote for epicski, are all made to help skiers learn for free. So if you
are bashing me, I don't think it's appropriate.

I would like to not get into arguments here and I would like it if you guys would not talk in
Chinese about me where I can't read it. I don't think that's a lot to ask. If I never heard the
word "epicski" again, that would be awesome.

[Blake]

Also, it was through Bob Barnes who is about as high up in the PSIA as you can get that I
started getting paid to write about ski technique. It was his idea and he made it happen so
he obviously thinks that I know what I am talking about with ski technique. Again, this shows
a major difference in some PSIA guys compared to others. Bob Barnes is a good guy and he
knows about skiing. He has written books for the PSIA on ski technique. There are just way
too many instructors that are a lot different in a bad way. The worst ones are probably the
ones online.

[norman]

你練直排輪豚跳已不少時間，

就說你們不相信，我已經把在家裏練習的時間，如踼小沙包、做一些小動作的練習...等，加上在馬路上拍片及練習的時間(連拍片時間都加進去)，全部都加一加，像大多時候，一天只練30秒到1分鐘左右，這種零零散散的全加進去了，真的就是沒超過20個小時，不然我的耐力跟體力也不會那麼差。

如果單單針對用直排輪及馬路滑雪板的練習時間來算的話，這總長時間，加上我拍的跳360度，連拍影片的時間都加進去，應該沒超過10個小時。

如果只是單純計算穿著直排輪跟馬路雪板做豚跳的練習及拍片，那總時間加一加不會超過5~6個小時。

所以我去年一整年的練動作及運動時間加起來真的沒超過20個小時啦。

信不信由你們囉。

[pku]

就說你們不相信，我已經把在家裏練習的時間，如踼小沙包、做一些小動作的練習...等，加上在馬路上拍片及練習的時間(連拍片時間都加進去)，全部都加一加，像大多時候，一天只練30秒到1分鐘左右，這種零零散散的全加進去了，真的就是沒超過20個小時，不然我的耐力跟體力也不會那麼差。

如果單單針對用直排輪及馬路滑雪板的練習時間來算的話，這總長時間，加上我拍的跳360度，連拍影片的時間都加進去，應該沒超過10個小時。

如果只是單純計算穿著直排輪跟馬路雪板做豚跳的練習及拍片，那總時間加一加不會超過5~6個小時。

所以我去年一整年的練動作及運動時間加起來真的沒超過20個小時啦。

信不信由你們囉。

所以結果跟你預測差了十萬八仟里，連我這個被你認為毫無進步的老人家也可快你那麼多，

[skier888]

Snowrider: 太極兄 - 他那 Blake 根本就是神經病! 我就根本不想回他的帖子! 他的說法可以拿去 EpicSki 上面跟別人討論討論! 我承認他很牛! 但是他不能說PSIA是個笑話! 那是不是所有的 XSIA 都是笑話呢? 他搞不清楚 XSIA 的教學對象是一般大眾而不是比賽運動員! 他說HH方法比較好 - 但是他不知道HH實際上是將PSIA的一些東西偷出來改名販賣! 他說 HH 是 racer 出身所以正確 -但是他不知道 PSIA national team 裡面都是 racer 出身的! 每一個都滑得比HH還要強! 重點是: HH是個生意人 ... 知道實情的人都知道HH在PSIA meeting 時是不受歡迎的!


I can't help but wonder what this says. If it's about Epicski, keep in mind that they used to
pay me to write articles for them. It's only a few idiots that I had a problem with there, and
they were people that had a lot of ego in what they would say. There were not typical or good
PSIA guys. There are some PSIA guys that are really good guys and know their stuff. I
know of one guy who is a level 3 PSIA telemarker and also a level 3 PSIA alpine skier who
was banned from epicski for losing his patience with the same sorts of other PSIA people that
I had the problems with. He told me in a personal message on Epic that he thought that many of the
instructors on epic make ski instructors look like idiots. I still have the message. He has also said that
he wants to learn from me and my brother this year and he skis at the same place as us and he gave
my brother his business card and told my brother to give me the card and have me call him.
This shows the difference in a PSIA person with no ego and who actually knows what good skiing is.
The PSIA guys who are incredibly arrogant are the only problem. Somehow there are a whole lot
of them that are incredibly arrogant without ever having the ability to win a high level race or mogul
competition. "The judging is flawed" is what they would say to justify their
arrogant claims.

If you are trying to argue against what I said, one simple way to do it would be to win
a high level mogul competition or race. I haven't heard of anyone who has only learned
from the PSIA doing that and I don't believe that the judging is flawed.

I even said that the PSIA is good until the advanced level. I have two videos that I am
working on that will discuss some commonly misunderstood things that can be
misunderstood by anyone PSIA or not, so the PSIA will not be directly discussed. I'll
have a demonstration on skis to go with every thought. My efforts with these videos,
and my efforts with most of the posting that I've done, and my efforts with writing the
articles that I wrote for epicski, are all made to help skiers learn for free. So if you
are bashing me, I don't think it's appropriate.

I would like to not get into arguments here and I would like it if you guys would not talk in
Chinese about me where I can't read it. I don't think that's a lot to ask. If I never heard the
word "epicski" again, that would be awesome.

SR is against norman. You are for norman. SR is against HH. You are for HH. That is where things are.

[pku]

SR is against norman. You are for norman. SR is against HH. You are for HH. That is where things are.

I don't think Snow rider is really against HH

Some terms HH use was just trying to be extraordinary. 太商業化

HH skiing is good 但不是那麼 outstanding

[skier888]

I don't think Snow rider is really against HH

Some terms HH use was just trying to be extraordinary. 太商業化

HH skiing is good 但不是那麼 outstanding

I am not saying he is against his skiing. If you read carefully about HH's comment, it is not about skiing. That is what I remember anyway

[norman]

所以結果跟你預測差了十萬八仟里，連我這個被你認為毫無進步的老人家也可快你那麼多，

明明就跟去年白馬差很多吧？跟2011年的安比拍的動作影片更有明顯的差別，動作又更漂亮了，不是嗎？

[skier888]

明明就跟去年白馬差很多吧？跟2011年的安比拍的動作影片更有明顯的差別，動作又更漂亮了，不是嗎？

除了說眼光太差，還能說什麽呢

[norman]

除了說眼光太差，還能說什麽呢

這應該跟眼光沒關係吧？兩者的滑法跟動作明明差很多吧？

[skier888]

這應該跟眼光沒關係吧？兩者的滑法跟動作明明差很多吧？

明明差很多還看不出來，不是眼力差是神馬

[norman]

明明差很多還看不出來，不是眼力差是神馬

這個應該叫做刻板印象。

[pku]

明明就跟去年白馬差很多吧？跟2011年的安比拍的動作影片更有明顯的差別，動作又更漂亮了，不是嗎？

是有點進步，但只是有點，但短彎是安比好，你可比較一下安比黑線跟我幫你在紅線拍的，比較一下

原因是安比雪好，那黑線又是很平坦，而我挑那段紅線是最

[norman]

是有點進步，但只是有點，但短彎是安比好，你可比較一下安比黑線跟我幫你在紅線拍的，比較一下

原因是安比雪好，那黑線又是很平坦，而我挑那段紅線是最

我去剪來了，我今年滑的方法跟安比不一樣了，你認為安比好，是因為安比的動作是我從一開始就一直這麼練，練了好幾年才到這頂了，這動作是極限了。

嚴格來講，今年的動作是今年第一次開始練的，所以往後皆會以今年的動作為主來練習，而這動作是超過安比的難度的，才是我最終的動作。

你可以注意，這兩者的動作是不一樣的，第二段是第一天，第三、四段是第三天你拍的，第四段是第五天，我只能說跟你滑的那天，滑的真慘不忍賭，哈哈，但我只能跟你講，這動作比安比的動作還強及難練，今年第一次練，姿勢不夠好看是正常的，未來只會越來越好看而已。

[Blake]

skier888: SR is against norman. You are for norman. SR is against HH. You are for HH. That is where things are.

Ok. Thanks for filling me in.

Just to be clear, in the big picture I am not completely for HH. I have never read the book or
anything so I don't know all about it... but still I know of some parts of HH's ideas that I don't
agree with. I understand that he teaches the same technique on all types of terrain. That's
not how I ski.

Also, I cannot read Chinese. This means that I can't know whether or not I agree with
Norman a lot of the time. I don't even read a little bit of Chinese. That's why I asked that
you guys give me the courtesy of not talking about me in Chinese.

Furthermore, I am not entirely against the PSIA. I think it's good for getting someone to the
advanced level.

These things aren't all black and white.

I am 100% against the arrogance and stupidity of some (not all) PSIA skiers.

That one is black and white for me. Who would be 'for' arrogance and stupidity?

[pku]

我去剪來了，我今年滑的方法跟安比不一樣了，你認為安比好，是因為安比的動作是我從一開始就一直這麼練，練了好幾年才到這頂了，這動作是極限了。

嚴格來講，今年的動作是今年第一次開始練的，所以往後皆會以今年的動作為主來練習，而這動作是超過安比的難度的，才是我最終的動作。

你可以注意，這兩者的動作是不一樣的，第二段是第一天，第三、四段是第三天你拍的，第四段是第五天，我只能說跟你滑的那天，滑的真慘不忍賭，哈哈，但我只能跟你講，這動作比安比的動作還強及難練，今年第一次練，姿勢不夠好看是正常的，未來只會越來越好看而已。

http://youtu.be/2Kg0kZ6qQow

好明顯安比韻律最好，瑕疵也小點，速度控制也好，而且你那次好像只滑了三天。

[taichiskiing]

Snowrider: 太極兄 - 他那 Blake 根本就是神經病! 我就根本不想回他的帖子! 他的說法可以拿去 EpicSki 上面跟別人討論討論! 我承認他很牛! 但是他不能說PSIA是個笑話! 那是不是所有的 XSIA 都是笑話呢? 他搞不清楚 XSIA 的教學對象是一般大眾而不是比賽運動員! 他說HH方法比較好 - 但是他不知道HH實際上是將PSIA的一些東西偷出來改名販賣! 他說 HH 是 racer 出身所以正確 -但是他不知道 PSIA national team 裡面都是 racer 出身的! 每一個都滑得比HH還要強! 重點是: HH是個生意人 ... 知道實情的人都知道HH在PSIA meeting 時是不受歡迎的!

Let me translate, if I can't, I'll just paraphrase them. "Hi taichiskiing bro (yes, that's addressed to me), the Blake guy is a loony, his argument can be taken to EpicSki to discuss with others. I agree that he skis well, but [I don't think] that he can't say that PSIA is a joke; if that's true, then all other ski schools/XSIA would be a joke too? He doesn't know the targeted clients that XSIA's teaching are normal general public, not the racing athletes. He said that HH's teaching system better, but he doesn't know that a lot of his/HH stuff are copied from PSIA's materials and changed to new terms to sell them as different technique. He said that HH was a racer is correct, but he doesn't know that PSIA national team also has a lot of members were also racers, each of them may ski better that HH. HH is a business man... those who are in the know all know that HH is not quite welcomed in the PSIA's meeting."

I can't help but wonder what this says. If it's about Epicski, keep in mind that they used to
pay me to write articles for them. It's only a few idiots that I had a problem with there, and
they were people that had a lot of ego in what they would say. There were not typical or good
PSIA guys. There are some PSIA guys that are really good guys and know their stuff. I
know of one guy who is a level 3 PSIA telemarker and also a level 3 PSIA alpine skier who
was banned from epicski for losing his patience with the same sorts of other PSIA people that
I had the problems with.

Yes, I have run in with those "barking bears" in the past, beg's link showed a typical incidence, and that was pretty low "low-class."

He told me in a personal message on Epic that he thought that many of the instructors on epic make ski instructors look like idiots. I still have the message. He has also said that
he wants to learn from me and my brother this year and he skis at the same place as us and he gave my brother his business card and told my brother to give me the card and have me call him. This shows the difference in a PSIA person with no ego and who actually knows what good skiing is.

I do think that most of PSIA L3 are decent/very good skiers and well disciplined; L2, not so much.

The PSIA guys who are incredibly arrogant are the only problem. Somehow there are a whole lot of them that are incredibly arrogant without ever having the ability to win a high level race or mogul competition that I mentioned. "The judging is flawed" is what they would say to justify their arrogant claims.

I think that is because your mogul skills are so good that they cannot do it and slip into perpetuated denial.

If you are trying to argue against what I said, one simple way to do it would be to win
a high level mogul competition or race. I haven't heard of anyone from the PSIA doing that
often and I don't believe that the judging is flawed.

I'm not sure if PSIA even teach "zipperline" techniques for moguls, that's "higher"/"advanced" technique, and they only teaching the "basic" skills; advanced stuff, they think, should be developed by the individuals after they've learned basic moves.

I even said that the PSIA is good until the advanced level. I have two videos that I am
working on that will discuss some commonly misunderstood things that can be
misunderstood by anyone PSIA or not, so the PSIA will not be directly discussed. I'll
have a demonstration on skis to go with every thought. My efforts with these videos,
and my efforts with most of the posting that I've done, and my efforts with writing the
articles that I wrote for epicski, are all made to help learning skiers for free. So if you
are bashing me, I don't think it's appropriate.

I don't think that Bob Barnes and HH would have problems with each other's skiing. The way that HH and PSIA can't get along is only because them/both systems' "ranking instructors" who knows no better, and don't see "eye to eye" to each other, without seeking higher level understanding, and slipping into perpetuated bashing. In Chinese we have a term “同行相輕”/those who work in the same business, look down on each other [to levitate oneself].

I do have problems with both systems though, their skiing knowledge/techniques are not "scientific based," so, that creates a lot of confusion as well.

I would like to not get into arguments here and I would like it if you guys would not talk in
Chinese about me where I can't read it. I don't think that's a lot to ask. If I never heard the
word "epicski" again, that would be awesome.

Yah, we shouldn't talk about you in Chinese, but not much we can do about it. Your name is mostly brought up by your admirer, and he cannot really use English efficiently, though I try to use English, but eventually, it always revert back to Chinese. Nevertheless, next time I'll mention it to him that you don't wish your name to be brought up in Chinese conversations. And as not to mention "epicski," you're also out of luck, as some of our "virtual experts" are prone to use it as their knowledge base or as a hiding shield to pretend that they are knowledgeable and levitate them to a high that they don't deserved. So, just ignore them, or bashing them back. I'll keep an eye for them for you.

Gone skiing, :)
IS

[Blake]

Thank you very much taichiskiing!

From taichiskiing's translation of snowrider's comments: He doesn't know
the targeted clients that XSIA's teaching are normal general public, not the racing athletes.
He said that HH's teaching system better, but he doesn't know that a lot of his/HH stuff are
copied from PSIA's materials and changed to new terms to sell them as different technique.
He said that HH was a racer is correct, but he doesn't know that PSIA national team also has
a lot of members were also racers, each of them may ski better that HH.

I would have to be pretty dumb to not know that the PSIA is meant for the general public.
You are not listening very well. I already covered this when I said that they're good for
basics. It is the PSIA guys that don't know it's meant for the general public rather than for
elite skiers that are the problem. I already talked about that too. Here is my quote again:
The PSIA is good for learning what I would consider to be basics. In fact, I
think that if their goal is to teach basic technique they definitely succeed... the guys who
think that the skiing that they teach is the best skiing out there are hurting our sport.


In my next posts I also said that the PSIA is good until the advanced level.

Read my posts more carefully. I know that racers are a different type of skier and I know
that there have been racers on the national demo team. What I said is that there aren't any
successful racers or mogul skiers that have learned ONLY from the PSIA. It seems that I am
not nearly as dumb as you think.

I am comparing the PSIA way to the way of the skiing elite, like Olympians for example.
This was also clear in what I said. Please read my posts carefully. I don't feel like I was
understood very well. My problem is with the most arrogant PSIA guys. I also made that
clear already in my posts.

At this point I would like to wait to further discuss any technique until after my new videos
are done. That would probably make sense because then you could easily understand what
I think about expert technique. That might be relevant to know BEFORE this discussion and
judgment of me. Just remember that my videos will not be directly about the PSIA (I
already discussed this too on this thread). I am not out to start arguments. I am trying to
help people ski better at no cost to them. I can't imagine why anyone would have a problem
with that.

taichiskiing:I don't think that Bob Barnes and HH would have problems with
each other's skiing. The way that HH and PSIA can't get along is only because them/both
systems' "ranking instructors" who knows no better, and don't see "eye to eye" to each other,
without seeking higher level understanding, and slipping into perpetuated bashing. In Chinese
we have a term “同行相輕”/those who work in the same business, look down on each other
[to levitate oneself].

I do have problems with both systems though, their skiing knowledge/techniques are not
"scientific based," so, that creates a lot of confusion as well.


I don't think they'd have a problem with each other either. I agree with what you said here.

I agree with your entire post!

[Blake]

taichiskiing:Yah, we shouldn't talk about you in Chinese, but not much we
can do about it. Your name is mostly brought up by your admirer, and he cannot really use
English efficiently, though I try to use English, but eventually, it always revert back to
Chinese. Nevertheless, next time I'll mention it to him that you don't wish your name to be
brought up in Chinese conversations.

I guess I should rephrase what I said. I understand that not everyone can speak English well.
So let me say this...

I would like it if I wasn't talked about in Chinese in any thread that I am participating on.
I guess it doesn't matter as much on the topics that I am not writing on. When people can't
speak English well and have to post in Chinese I understand... but if you can read my post and
understand it in English, I would like to be able to understand your reply to my post.

[norman]

好明顯安比韻律最好，瑕疵也小點，速度控制也好，而且你那次好像只滑了三天。

我的回應換地方一下，這裏簡單說，韻律好不代表動作及效能比較好。

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