In that Killington training video, everything is kept very simple. This is the first of four two-hour-beginner-lessons that adults buy in a bundled batch. I don't know if they do this progression with kids, or if they use this terrain for kids and do other things with them depending on age.
We have a smaller version of the TBL across the road for kids although it's being completely redone for this coming season. With kids you generally use the kids side mini-pipe over ramshead off the carpets and then quickly move them to the adult side TBL below the mini-pipe.
This video is a few years old now so the TBL looks a bit different than what's in the video. The ski school and snow operating have been iterating on the setup each year to try and improve it bit by bit.
What they do not do in this video:
--I can't find anything where they teach them to stop. Students coast to a stop on friendly terrain built for that purpose. They do teach the first single turn up onto a berm, then down onto the flat, where they coast to a stop.
This is usually taught immediately after the students become comfortable with a straight glide across the minipipe. You see it a bit in the video where they do a straight run in the gliding wedge. In a real lesson you would have the students do multiple runs of this with variations on the size of the wedge. That said, most instructors try to instill early on that the primary way of coming to a stop is by turning up the hill rather than having them rely on a braking wedge.
--I can't find anything addressing release: no mention of flattening a ski, shortening or flexing a leg, lengthening or extending a leg, or intentionally flattening one or both skis before starting a new turn.
--I can't find anything where they have students get tall/small to start/end a turn.
What most of us have found is that you kind of have to pick one thing for them to focus on otherwise they get overloaded and just completely lose focus. The standard "move" we teach is to focus on the turning of the ski although certainly if you have students who don't quite get that you then start to throw in what you've mentioned. This video is just meant to represent the ideal 1st lesson rather than cover all bases. Pretty much nobody uses the boot assisted turn shown in the video. Students don't really get what it's trying to teach and it freaks quite a few of them out.
Also, for anyone interested the guy in the silver/gray jacket with the black Tecnica boots is former PSIA president Ray Allard.
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