Thanks for all that you and the FHL team do for our sport. Always inspiring. Looking forward to podcast return!

In PMTS (developed for Alpine carving), Harald Harb points out that to tip the boot and the ski to the edge, one needs a movement that would tip the boot (and initiate the movement further up the kinematic chain - in the ankle, knee and then the hip) with minimal force (so as not to tire oneself out). So he suggests that when we want to tip the boot - and the ski that's attached to it - on to the big toe edge, instead of trying to force the big toe down through the compacted snow of the piste, one should tip the foot inside the boot up and roll it onto the big toe side - so the foot ends up standing on its big toe side, pronating the foot, starting the pronation by lifting the pinky toe side of the foot up and rolling the foot to the big toe side - down the path of least resistance. The foot will then push against the big toe side of the boot laterally, creating a tipping force with minimal effort. It will also move the ankle, that will push against the side of the cuff of the boot, and then the knee will engage, following a 'windshield wiper'-style trajectory, being actively pulled by the muscles of the hip. That adds a strong leverage to the tipping movement, initiated by the small and presice movement of the foot. Harb also suggests that the tipping of the skis into the new turn should be initiated with the free leg (in Alpine skiing you unload one leg - the inside leg of the future turn - and balance on the other leg. The unloaded leg is called 'free leg' in PMTS. Actually, when carving, you balance on the big toe edge of the load-bearing leg's foot, and to get to that edge, you start the movement chain with the free leg, as that requires the least possible effort to get the job done). Ted Ligety and Lindsey Vonn ski with this technique, among many other successful alpine skiing pro athletes and around 20k amateur Alpine carving enthusiasts. I have personally tried PMTS (got the ebook from Amazon) and it helped me to go from snowplow turns to parallel carving turns in about 2 days (and I am a very slow learner). I wonder if PMTS could be adapted (at least partially) to tele skiing? I mean - in tele skiing, one still needs to tip the skis, right?

Thank you! Under appreciated big toe.

Well I’ve been doing my technique wrong all these years. I was just the opposite. Pressuring my back leg more to make turn with big toe. Not the front. Thanks for the tips!

Big toe/little toe… have you interviewed the OG Paul Parker for the pod yet?

Is pressuring the ball of the foot as good as pressuring the big toe?