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Title: How the Racers Ski by Warren Witherell, Doug Smith ISBN: 0-393-30344-6 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: How to carve:A ski classic to take you to the expert level.
Comment: I read this book on the advice of a fellow ski journeyman (now renowned Aspen Mountain Ski Instructor, Paul Wade) in the mid 70's as an instructor at Sugarbush, Vt. I've been skiing all my life and this book almost single handedly - along with Paul's advice - changed my skiing forever delivering me to the 'next level' ... the magic "it" where the "there" is. Witherall's clear and concise writing took me from an excellent skier [albeit sliding, sometimes carved turns] to an expert, consistently on the ski's edge with beautiful ripped and carved turns. Even with shorter, phatter skiis of 2004, Witherall's writing is still current and uniquely relevant, if not even more so because skiis have gotten so much better as described by Witherall [maybe even predicted? where yesterday's term "sidecut" means the same as today's "parabolic"] ...If you understand how skiis work, and Witherall documents this, you'll understand even more how phat, tapered waist, i.e parabolic, skiis will help you, partner with you, to carve perfect turns. I hear this book has been controversial, that not everyone agree's with Witherall [in Western US ski teaching camps with softer snow conditions, there's more emphasis on equal weighting and "sliding" your skis], but until otherwise advised, this book has no equal for learning how skiis work and how to carve and rip through harder packed, iced, Eastern US ski conditions. It will take you to a rad, bad and oh so fine expert level wherever you ski, however freestyle you go.
Rating: 5
Summary: How to carve: A ski classic to take you to the expert level.
Comment: I read this book on the advice of a fellow ski journeyman (now renowned Aspen Mountain Ski Instructor, Paul Wade) in the mid 70's as an instructor at Sugarbush, Vt. I've been skiing all my life and this book almost single handedly - along with Paul's advice - changed my skiing forever delivering me to the 'next level' ... the magic "it" where the "there" is. Witherall's clear and concise writing took me from an excellent skier [albeit sliding, sometimes carved turns] to an expert, consistently on the ski's edge with beautiful ripped and carved turns. Even with shorter, phatter skiis of 2004, Witherall's writing is still current and uniquely relevant, if not even more so because skiis have gotten so much better as described by Witherall [maybe even predicted? where yesterday's term "sidecut" means the same as today's "parabolic"] ...If you understand how skiis work, and Witherall documents this, you'll understand even more how phat, tapered waist, i.e parabolic, skiis will help you, partner with you, to carve perfect turns. I hear this book has been controversial, that not everyone agree's with Witherall [in Western US ski teaching camps with softer snow conditions, there's more emphasis on equal weighting and "sliding" your skis], but until otherwise advised, this book has no equal for learning how skiis work and how to carve and rip through harder packed, iced, Eastern US ski conditions. It will take you to a rad, bad and oh so fine expert level wherever you ski, however freestyle you go.
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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: 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: Prime Ski Racing : Triumph of the Racer's Mind by Jim Taylor ISBN: 0595139930 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Skier's Edge by Ron Lemaster ISBN: 0880119829 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Ski Flex: Flexibility, Fitness, and Conditioning for Better Skiing (Sports Flex Series) by Paul Frediani, Harald R. Harb ISBN: 1578260582 Publisher: Hatherleigh Pr Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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