As explained on About some special terms, a number of important terms currently used in ski instruction are confusing. Some are illogical, some have a significantly different meaning in everyday life, and some have different meanings in different instruction sources.
That can seriously diminish the effectiveness of a ski lesson, and hinder fruitful discussions between ski instructors about other methods or even just drills. And because the average adult skier takes lessons once every few years at the most, the terms should not only be logical and unambiguous, but easy to remember as well.
With that in mind, I went through the terms to solve those problems. Resulting in the Glossary and especially in About some special terms. For most terms, it was just a matter of picking the best definition from one of the instruction sources. For a few terms, it appeared necessary to come up with an all new one, such as Plow with parallel for this technique:
Plow with parallel, in the Austrian School called Plow steering ('pflugsteuern'). Producer: NOESLV.
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