just unacceptable. It?s the same with GS?ing bumps. 99% of BASI's (L3 & 4 and even some 1 and 2') can do it, but should it be taken into account if you can?t (or choose not to)? If you can GS a bumps field then why not, it's fun? People do it, just as guys jump off very big cliffs, because they can do it. I once watched a guy in NZ straight line a moguls comp course because he could do it and he obviously thought it would be fun (he didn't win though ). I didn't at any point suggest I would use this in a lesson, but that's mainly because there's a tiny,tiny percentage of skiers who can do it well enough for it to be safe, and yes I understand SEL or SET or whatever you wish to call it, it was one of the first principals of ski teaching I was taught over 20 years ago. And without E there is unlikely to be L. I don't agree either that the instructor/assessor would have run out of ideas, it's just another way of being versatile on skis. Also you could be doing GS size turns but without the same level of speed as you would take on a non-bumps piste, or the bumps could be small with lots of soft snow in the troughs. There really are so many variables in snow, speed, line, bump size, bump shape, prevailing weather, performer mentality and level that