foot2foot wrote:
OK, Britt wants to know the difference, (he claims, maybe he
just wants more argument for argument's sake) and it actually
comes up all the time, you try to explain magic turns and sooner
or later somebody pipes up and says "yeahhh that's just the old
stem christy". But it's not.

Many ski schools are now teaching parallel turns from the very 1st day.
They do so by teaching with very short skis and no ski poles. With
the shorter skis and new teaching methods people are learning at a far
faster pace.