The problem with teaching skiing...

...is precisely teaching it.

Let me explain; whenever I see a ski instructor and their student that are stopped on the hill, I see the pro is spending a lot of time and resources explaining how things work as both stand frozen on the hill.

There must be a lot of talk about body positioning, weight transfer, muscular pressure, psychology and the like, but – I suspect – very little said about speed. Yet, speed is the energy we use, not just to make ski possible, but to make it fun and exhilarating.

I've said it before, I say it again, if you teach skiing, bring speed into the picture and give it the full place it badly deserves...