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Dean
Cummings H2O Heli-Guides
Helicopter Skiing and Boarding with H2O Heli Guides in Valdez, Alaska
H2O
Guides Summer Adventures
Description: Alaska glacier tours and summer adventures, Valdez, Alaska
The
Ski Coach™
Designed to improve your skiing by providing instant audible feedback about each
turn you make. Specifically the Ski Coach™ will remind you if your shoulders
have remained level to the slope or not as you turn. Mention code 129001P
to receive a 10% discount!
Books and other instructional resources
In addition to correctly doing Ski Smarts' drills, we recommend several
excellent books and videos -- all available at discounted prices from Amazon.com.
Books
Ski Smarts is an Amazon.com Associate, bringing
you books at the full discount offered by Amazon (no mark-up by Ski Smarts!) Ordering online is easy and
secure - just click on the book title.
Skiing
for Dummies
By Allen St. John
Great book if you know nothing about skiing. Also lots of things veteran's can
learn. Little in terms of technique, but gets you pointed in the right
direction. Allen
edited Ski Smarts for readability.
Breakthrough
on Skis: How to Get Out of the Intermediate Rut
By Lito Tejada-Flores
A
superb book, although sometimes difficult to read. Best appreciated if also
purchase the accompanying video.
The
All-Mountain Skier: The Way to Expert Skiing
By Mark
Elling
The
Skier's Edge
By Ron Lemaster
A
Parent's Guide to Teaching Skiing
By Paul & Christine
McCallum
Read this before you send your kids off to ski boot camp, or
heaven forbid - teach them yourself!
Technical
Skills for Alpine Skiing
By Ellen Post Foster
Terrain
Skiing: How to Master Tough Skiing Like the Experts
By Seth
Masia
The
Athletic Skier
By Warren Witherell and David Evrard
A
classic, dealing with alignment and other equipment issues.
All-Terrain
Skiing
By Dan Egan and Mihaela Fera-Egan
The
Avalanche Handbook
By David McClung
Waxing
and Care of Skis and Snowboards
By Michael Brady
High-Performance
Skiing
By John Yacenda and Tim Ross
Skiing
and the Art of Carving
By Ellen Post Foster
Excellent
technically, but sometimes hard to follow.
The
Physics of Skiing: Skiing at the Triple Point
By Scott P.
Sanders
Videos
Breakthrough
on Skis
Lito Tejada-Flores. Excellent videos, wonderfully filmed. Highly recommended.
Breakthrough
on Skis II, Bumps & Powder Simplified
Lito Tejada-Flores. Excellent videos, wonderfully filmed. Highly recommended.
Breakthrough
on Skis III, The New Skis
Lito Tejada-Flores. Excellent videos, wonderfully filmed. Highly recommended.
Web links
PSIA-East
Eastern division of the Professional Ski Instructors of America national site.
Interesting articles, especially for first-timers.
Also interesting articles in the "Media"
section.
PSIA
Professional Ski Instructors of America national site.
AASI
American Association of Snowboard Instructors.
The
Ski Coach™
Designed to improve your skiing by providing instant audible feedback about each
turn you make. Specifically the SKI COACH™ will remind you if your shoulders
have remained level to the slope or not as you turn.
Shape Ski
Al Hobart's sales pitch for his instructional program and materials.
SkiNet
Showcase for Ski, Skiing and Freeze magazines and other properties. Good
instructional material and lots of neat other stuff. Gear and destinations are
especially well covered.
SportsID
Better have very high speed access for this to work.
MountainZone
One of the originals and still going strong.
ZuluSports
Mixed bag of how-to information covering several sports.
About.com
Great site of links and interesting articles.
Ski
Tips
Various on-line tips for skiing.
LearnMysport
Multi-sport instructional site.
Skiers.com
Lots of goodies.
GoSki
Variety of ski stuff.
SkiPros
Listing of instructors ready to serve you.
Parrallel
Dreams
Online skier's resource shop and links
Linking
to us
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Ski Smarts. We encourage you to link to us and we will link back to you.
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Thank you.
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