Do they still teach that method? I’ve always wanted to learn to ski.
Sure! It's the method where you ski parallel (no snow-plow!) from day 1, starting, with rather shorter skis than were common ye olden days. Of course, it helps to have been in very good condition, and to have been a hockey player.
After a few short days of intensive Germanic accented risk of life and limb and NAZI ridicule ....Voilà .... you are a skier... a real skier. Worked for me and many others, despite whatever they said about Herr Foeger.
http://jaypeakhistory.com/published-works/walter-foeger-and-natur-teknik-an-overlooked-part-of-skiing-history/
Well I'll be dipped after all these years, it's on the web! I underwent the process in 1965. BTW, Herr Foeger was not the only crypto-NAZI ski-innovator out there. I submitted to the Winter Olympic Committee my ideas for improving that Biathlon thing, where you ski, stop, and shoot targets, by equipping the skiers with full-auto AK 47's, no stopping, and using live snowboarders as targets. They were making life on the slopes hell. Bastards turned me down cold!