A simpler way to teach skiing?

As I attempted to explain in my previous blog, ski students at American ski school are told a mambo-jumbo of technical stuff and often end up totally mixed up. Little details are thrown together with fundamental truths with little sense of gradation or importance.

All gets jumbled up and confuses the hell out of skiers who don't really understand what the instructor is talking about. As I was telling my wife, later on that day; the problems that Bode Miller, Marcel Hirscher and Ted Ligety occasionally face on the hill are the exact same that befall the lowly skier. Not anticipating enough and being late both in terms of decision and balance.

So simple, isn't, yet where are the right words to tell that story?