Thanks Barry. Indeed, Fawcett was the man.
Good skiing technique certainly brings a lot to alpine snowboarding technique, and vice versa. But I have never liked this PSIA notion of downward pressure or sideways pressure. No such thing man. If your board is carving, it doesn't matter if you are hunched over in a "bad C", or executing a perfect "good C", or touching your toes, or standing bone straight like a pole, or riding backwards. You are pressuring the board in exactly one direction. It is the precisely the single direction that balances gravity and centripetal force. If your center of mass is on that line, you will carve, no matter how silly you look, and all your "pressure" will be going straight down that line into the snow.
What makes one body position better than another is if it allows you to maintain or recover that balance when the snow surface gives way or tries to knock you over.
Agreed.
Pointing the light down the fall line is obsolete technique if the goal is round, C-shaped carves that start and finish perpendicular to the fall line. That goes for skiers and snowboarders.
Haha, no way, skiers are welcome here! :D