Breakthrough On Skis I, Expert Skiing Simplified [VHS]

But calling this video of Breakthrough on Skis a ski lesson is a bit inaccurate. This one-hour tape contains all the material--the movements and techniques, the practice patterns and explanations--that I would normally share with intermediate skiers during one full week of lessons. And this tells you that however useful this video may be, it's not an instant shortcut to expert skiing. But it is a clear, effective, workable road map that can get you there. Using this tape to guide your own learning experience on skis, you can become an expert skier. And you should. It's well worth it. The payoff for the concentration, patience and practice you put into this process is enormous. You've suspected it all along, and I can confirm it. Expert skiers have more fun. And the freedom of effortless, efficient turns on any slope is not an unreasonable goal for most skiers-even though few seem to reach it.

My explanation of this distressing fact is simple. Most skiers, even experienced long-time skiers, don't ski like experts simply because they don't know how experts do it. Superficially, expert skiing looks like an improved, polished version of average intermediate skiing. But it's not. Experts use a fundamentally different set of movements patterns as they sail down the slopes. And the goal of this video (and of my book, ) is to show you these few critical expert movement patterns in such a clear, easy to understand way that you can literally transform your skiing. It works.

Of course, it would be easier if I could ski with you for a week. I could make sure it worked, by carefully structuring our time together, by choosing the practice terrain, by balancing short intense periods of concentrated practice with longer breaks of relaxing skiing where new skills "soak in" through repetition, by repeating demonstrations and explanations often enough that the key ideas and images of expert skiing remain sharp and clearly focused.

But instead of a week-long series of ski lessons, you have a videotape, a television and a VCR--and a lot of good will, a real desire for a breakthrough on skis. So I'd like to offer you a few suggestions on the best ways you can use this tape to achieve that breakthrough: some are obvious, some less so, some not at all.