Communication ski instructor’s style

A few days ago, as I was riding a lift with my daughter, the four other passengers were a ski instructor (male) and his three students. From bottom to top, he was preaching his view of the ski technique by using words and explanations that made not much sense in English.

He was talking about “transition” instead of turn and of “long legs” vs. “short legs” instead of bending one’s knees and there was a multitude of other arcane and senseless words that I cannot remember, but that were peppering his entire spiel.

The students were two mature parents and their teenage daughter, and while the mom seemed enthralled by the senseless explanations, asking follow-up question, the instructor had long lost the two others. 

Unfortunately, this instructor isn’t alone and I suspect some of that techno-gobbledygook is the product of how instructors are taught instructing skiing without even for a moment trying to record themselves, put themselves inside their student helmets and listen to what their complicated assembled words sound like...