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Title: The Skier's Edge by Ron Lemaster ISBN: 0-88011-982-9 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Possibly the best ski book ever written
Comment: This is an amazing amazing book. Unlike other ski books, this book not only tells you "how", but "why". All those times when your ski instructor told you to keep your shins on the tongues of your boots or edge the skis during turns; well, this book will explain what all that madness is about. Of course, the reasoning can be all explained by physics, but the author is very talented in providing just the right amount of science with the sport and as a result produces a book that is comprehensible not only to Einstein.
This is a book that can be of value to anyone that is serious about skiing. I believe the beginner can benefit from this book because it offers him a solid foundation to build on. The expert will find many ways to fine tune his skiing through this book. For people who only go skiing once a year or go just to hang out with friends or to look cool, this book will put them to sleep, guaranteed.
Although this book is quite technical, it is not comprehensive in the "how to" area. For a more definitive guide in this area, I recommend "The All-Mountain Skier" to supplement this book. Together, you will have possibly everything you need to know about skiing like a pro minus how to install bindings on skis (Can't have everything). "The All-Mountain Skier" will also have a comprehensive guide on equipment and maintenance of it.
I can't possibly imagine a ski book getting more technical and specific as this one. Plus, this book have pictures of only pro skiers so you can emulate with security. Lastly, this book is very, very well written which is important since you have to read it!
Rating: 5
Summary: Immense Information Concisely Presented
Comment: This is the best book on elite skiing technique out there. (And I have them all. It's even better than Ski Faster by Lisa Feinberg Densmore, which is excellent.) The sequential photographs alone are worth the cover price. The book covers the physics of modern skiing and modern equipment, and demonstrates different key skills (angulation, inclination, rotation, pole plants, cross under, cross over, the virtual bump, forward pressure early in turns with foot thrusts in the transition) with extraordinary side by side and sequential photographs of the best World Cup athletes in competition. Just a few of the things I learned, just from the photographs: (1) amazingly large initial steering angles (pivoting ski before the turn) used by World Cup racers, who can still carve cleanly, (2) World Cup racers consistently catch air over the virtual bump between turns, giving the lie to the advice given junior racers everywhere to always keep their skis on the snow.
Instead of general advice and platitudes, the book is full of specifics, with clear illustrations drawn from action photos of some of the world's best skiers (Hermann Maier, Kjetil Andre Aamodt, Katja Seizinger, Alberto Thomba--the book was put together a year before Bode Miller took the World Cup by storm and radical inclination.)
It's an essential book for recreational ski racers, and a good book for anyone who aspires to ski with excellence (or who just wants to know how those top racers ski so incredibly well).
Now (sigh) I just have to wait some months for the white flakes so I can practice more of the book learning in the gates.
Rating: 5
Summary: Book that tells you how mass dynamics of skiing works.
Comment: This book tells you what comes natural and why it does. It is all the way mass movements and dynamics of skiing. Advanced or real expert can like way it looks skiing.
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Title: Ski Faster: Lisa Feinberg Densmore's Guide to High Performance Skiing and Racing by Lisa Feinberg Densmore ISBN: 0071343814 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 24 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: All-Mountain Skier : The Way to Expert Skiing by R. Mark Elling ISBN: 007140841X Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Athletic Skier by Warren Witherell, David Evrard ISBN: 1555661173 Publisher: Johnson Books Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Ski the Whole Mountain: How to Ski Any Condition at Any Time by Eric Deslauriers, Rob Deslauriers, Hank Devre ISBN: 0971774838 Publisher: Mountain Sports Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Breakthrough on the New Skis 3 Ed: Say Goodbye to the Intermediate Blues by Lito Tejada-Flores ISBN: 0967674727 Publisher: Velo Press Pub. Date: 09 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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