Neither of those videos represent the epitomy of skiing at the time.
I know what the awsome skiers were doing in the "oldschooler" era and we were all turning heads doing whatever we wanted as we skied our hearts out where ever we went.
I have seen the awsome newschoolers who ski through the hot ski runs and they all turn heads as they do whatever they want.
Those two videos show pre thought out demonstrations of boring skiing.
Give skiing your best. See yourself imitating those who take advantage of the moguls in a zillion ways and don't be afraid to turn, angulate, unweight, check, get air, and let out some yahoos of pure joy!
I guess I’ve been skiing long enough to know firsthand the pros and cons of skiing with the “old fashioned ski gear” and at least I know the cons of some of the new stuff. Sorry I have not experience any of the improvements. I started skiing in about 1955 and by 1961 was teaching skiing and by 1966 was and examiner of ski instructors. I skied in Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Italy,… down the 11 mile Valley Blanche of Mt. Blanc, all over Kitzbuhel (where I met my wife), all over Zermatt, Cormier, Cervinia, St Anton, Zurs-Lech, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Olympics of Washington, all over the Cascades, Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, the Canadian Rockies, Sun Valley, ad infinitum with ecstatic obsession like perfection before most of you were born though had you been I am sure you would have done the same even with the old equipment that was available at the time.
I started with wooden skis with cable bindings then went to wooden skis like Kastle, then to Head metal skis, and later White Star 220cm downhill racing skis with Marker bindings, long thong wraps around handmade for me soft leather Rogue boots from Munich Germany, as seen in my profile photos. My favorite skis were fisher imperator 207cm. They were stolen and I have never found skis to equal them. My first instructor was a mirror image of Stein Erikson. My second ski instruction experience was with Jim and Louis Whittaker from whom I also learned mountaineering. I developed and imported and marketed ski gear that changed the height of ski boots and the safety of ski equipment.
I never had a problem with the old equipment though skiing in breakable crust with 220 down hills was a challenge requiring great effort. The effort though made my body ready to tackle all conditions with unweighting and angulation. I took it to the extreme doing jump turns that led to some calling me the jackrabbit in Garmisch, jumping off cliffs and skiing up one side of the roofs of houses to jump off the other when conditions permitted. I just love snow.
My point? There are at least two ways to get better at skiing; the hard way with good longer narrower skis and the easy way with good shorter wider skis. I think what you see and learn from in the videos of Ingemar Stenmark and Jean-Claude Killy “The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.” Their techniques are examples of the culmination of their desires made manifest through the intent of ecstatic obsession like perfection probably by watching the best.
Bob Connor … “Desire to Desire the best you can desire. Humbly humble self in search of wisdom to inspire.”
Ten percent imitate champions ninety percent passionately driven effort to do better.
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