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Actually I've been teaching skiing for a long time. So it frusterates me when people essentially quote their manual over the internet.
You are giving ski instructors a bad name, one they already have, for sitting on their high horse thinking they are gods gift to the ski world. Telling kids that fat skis are cheating or only good for heli/cat skiing. I see that all the time, and its really just making us seem like arrogant pricks. So yeah maybe I dont like it when you spread that image on newschoolers.
All you ever say is how awesome you are, you can ski pow on 167 fujatives, it "makes peoples jaws drop." All because you are such an enlightened skier. Just stay centered!. Boom, done. He can ski now. There is so much more too it than that, I hope not all your lessons are that basic. In reality skiing centered on an already centremount ski in deep snow is going to mean going over the handlebars. Not because of the underfoot dimensions of the ski, but because of the shape (read; zero taper, shovel ect). Also where you're weight will be on a centremount ski if you are in fact centered, will create a lot of tip dive. All of this just adds up to frustration, and no one wants to be frusrated on a pow day.
I stick behind my advice, if he gets to Utah and it dumps, go rent some fat, funshape skis. It will be so worth it in softer snow, Id be willing to bet one of the best spent $40 of his life. And he wont have to spend the first day trying to figure out the half there advice some dude on newschoolers gave him about skiing technique without even seeing him ski.
I love summer on newschoolers!
