Downhill Skiing

 

Total Skiing by Chris Fellows Paperback from Human Kinetics ISBN: 0736083650 What type of skier are you? What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? How can you improve your skills and your downhill experience? Total Skiing was developed specifically to help you answer those questions. Author and renowned ski instructor Chris Fellows shares his proven pyramid program for assessing skills and creating your skiing profile. Step by step, you'll identify exercises to enhance those skills and create a personal training program to improve functional movement, including stability and mobility, ski-specific fitness, essential ski techniques, and tactics for performance on all terrains. Total Skiing also includes sample programs for each skier type that offers guidance from preseason to postseason with dry-land and on-snow drills for foundational, intermediate, and advanced performance solutions. Whether you are looking to polish your skills, conquer the new terrain, or compete on circuit, Total Skiing is your total guide to exhilarating all-mountain skiing!

Ultimate Skiing by Ron LeMaster Paperback from Human Kinetics ISBN: 0736079599 Break through to the next level of ski performance! Renowned instructor, coach, and ski technique expert Ron LeMaster takes you beyond The Skier's Edge by improving, expanding, and enhancing that seminal work. The result, Ultimate Skiing, will help you master the mechanics of great skiing as never before--explaining how it's done, showing how it looks, and describing how it feels. LeMaster has made Ultimate Skiing a comprehensive manual on ski technique. Learn how skis interact with the snow and how best to manipulate your skis, boots, and poles on the steepest slopes, in monster mogul fields, and through the deepest powder. Technique tips and kinesthetic cues help translate the sensation of each movement. Throughout, LeMaster incorporates his one-of-a-kind, full-color photo montages and 3-D diagrams to take you onto the slopes and into the action. These phenomenal images capture some of the world's greatest skiers while illustrating the correct techniques for every condition and terrain. To get the most out of your skiing potential, you need the ultimate in ski instruction. You need Ultimate Skiing.

Allen & Mike's Really Cool Telemark Tips, Revised and Even Better!: 123 Amazing Tips to Improve Your Tele-Skiing (Allen & Mike's Series) by Allen O'Bannon Paperback from FalconGuides ISBN: 076274586X 123 tips for beginners and experts looking to improve their telemark skiing. Filled with funny & practical illustrations.

In Search of Powder: A Story of America's Disappearing Ski Bum by Jeremy Evans Paperback from Bison Books ISBN: 0803228392 As a recent college graduate and fledging newspaper reporter in the Lake Tahoe area, Jeremy Evans became immersed in ski bum culture--a carefree lifestyle whose mantra was simply: "Ski as much as possible." His snowboarding suffered when he left for a job in the Portland area; and when, at twenty-six, he suffered a stroke, he reexamined his priorities, quit his job, moved back to Tahoe, and threw himself into snowboarding. But while he had been away, the culture had changed. This book is Evans's paean to the disappearing culture of the ski bum. A fascinating look at a world far removed from the larger culture, it is also a curious account of a passion for powder and what its disappearance means.Evans looks at several prominent ski towns in the West (including Crested Butte, Jackson Hole, Telluride, Lake Tahoe, Park City, and Mammoth) and the ski bums who either flourished or fled. He chronicles the American West transformed by rising real estate costs, an immigrant workforce, misguided values, and corporate-owned resorts. The story he tells is that of quintessentially American characters--rejecting materialism, taking risks, following their own path--and of the glories and pitfalls their lifestyle presents.(20101114)

Free-Heel Skiing: Telemark and Parallel Techniques for All Conditions (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert Series) by Paul Parker Kindle Edition from Mountaineers Books Media Published: 2001-   In this bible for telemark skiers, author Paul Parker covers everything you'll need to know to free your heel. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. In this bible for telemark skiers, author Paul Parker covers everything you'll need to know to free your heel. In this bible for telemark skiers, author Paul Parker covers everything you'll need to know to free your heel. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The New Guide to Skiing: Concise Edition by Martin Heckelman Paperback from W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN: 0393306097 From the basics to expert and off-trail skiing by one of the world's leading instructors. With its clear, explanatory text and over 300 specially commissioned color photographs illustrating, step-by-step, how to turn and how to maintain control with a maximum of ease under all conditions, this is the book alpine skiers have been waiting for. Packed with over 80 unique stop-action photographic sequences of the author, it also includes highlighted hints and tips to help all aspiring skiers improve their skills. Based on the newest and least stressful methods, it demonstrates how to deal with skiing off trail and in deep powder, and it illustrates the eleven specific turns needed to master difficult conditions, including moguls. Martin Heckelman has been teaching skiing professionally for more than thirty years. He has held positions in the United States, South America, and Europe, and currently is one of the most sought-after private instructors in the French Alps.

Harald Harb's Essentials of Skiing: The Fastest Way to Master the Slopes by Harald Harb Paperback from Hatherleigh Press Media Published: 2010- ISBN: 1578263646 Learn the key steps to skiing perfection and master the mountain. Harald Harb, inventor of the Primary Movement Teaching System, has already helped thousands of professional and recreational skiers achieve ski mastery. Now, Harb reveals the basic lessons that will give you immediate improvements at any level. This easy-to-use yet powerful program is proven to create success on the slopes, whether you are a coach, racer, recreational skier, or just starting out. With in-depth descriptions and clear, detailed photos, these techniques and exercises will benefit all skiers. Harald Harb's Essentials of Skiing will show you how to: * Perfectly coordinate your upper and lower body movements * Increase your balancing ability * Expertly control speed, carving arcs, flexing and tipping * Much, much more Whether you have never strapped on a pair of skis or hit the slopes every weekend, Harald Harb's Essentials of Skiing is your guarantee of skiing success. Bonus FREE video offer included with purchase: Get the latest video coaching from Harald Harb with the special video offer. Details provided inside the book to unlock your free skiing video companion to Essentials of Skiing.

Skiing with the Whole Body: Your Ticket to the Expert Slopes by Jack Heggie Paperback from North Atlantic Books Media Published: 1993- ISBN: 1556431406 Discover the key to expert skiing by learning how to use your whole body when you ski! In Skiing with the Whole Body you'll learn how to let your ankles work together with your knees to achieve easy knee flexion; find the balance point for easy turning; speed up your learning by a factor of ten; and teach yourself to ski like you've always dreamed you could. This book uses Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement exercises to make learning downhill skiing fast, simple, and fun.

Wild Snow: A Historical Guide to North American Ski Mountaineering (American Alpine Book Series) by Louis W., II Dawson Paperback from American Alpine Club ISBN: 0930410815 This meticulously researched book covers the surprisingly rich history of ski mountaineering and also doubles as a detailed guide to 54 sought-after mountain descents-from New Hampshire's Mount Washington to Alaska's Mount McKinley. The route selection is a hit-list intended for all levels of telemarkers, snowboarders, or alpine skiers.

The Chuting Gallery: A Guide to Steep Skiing in the Wasatch Mountains by Andrew McLean Paperback from Paw Prince Press ISBN: 0962193577 The Chuting Gallery - A Guide to Steep Skiing in the Wasatch Mountains, details 100 of the best and most challenging descents in Utah's famous backcountry. It provides route descriptions, maps photographs and ratings to help you make the most out of a quick visit, or create a hit-list for the season.

 

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