I'll chime in here...
surprisingly...
this comment I thought I'd touch on first, as I just skied with this member this week:
I always welcomes Josh's contributions (even on the old site). And, yes, its the bumps that prove that I cannot ski
First off, this is quite self deprecating... Alex can ski bumps.
but,
Josh's old sign off is good, I always liked it too...
I always thought BWPA lacked a filter on that other site in the old days, but he had good points to be made.
Someone said "he has mellowed with age", and I can see that. Still direct, and can be somewhat unfiltered, but that can be nice in a practice (ski teaching), where constructive info is often buried in what is sometimes call the "positive sandwich".
aspects of my skiing has been bugging me a bit this year, much less skiing in the last couple years, then a month of pow, maybe, and after viewing a video, very quickly, Josh cut concisely to the issue. After calling it out quite accurately, he even softened it a bit in a follow up post to help soften the blow (that may be part of that mellowing w/ age thing)
Anyway, good thread Phil, a deserved "call out"... and I would like to be the judge of the ski off in chute 75!
thx Josh.
Cheers,
Wade