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"SKIING
IS A SLIDING SPORT":
Conventional Skiing Wisdoms (CSW's)
by Bill Jones, Ski Instructor
Certified Professional Ski Instructor (Registration #110478)
CSW #15:
"After one ski lesson, I should be able to
'ski the
mountain'."
Were it only so! Skiing is a
demanding athletic sport from both physical and skill standpoints--especially to
a new skier whose body is unused to new ways of being moved. Still, many try to
"ski the mountain" after one lesson--and some with no lesson--and a few succeed
(probably less than 1 in 100, not counting those who come down the mountain in
what could hardly be called skiing).
Lessons are designed to provide
progressive steps to acquiring skiing skills, and the first lesson or lessons
are to give skills to negotiate the easiest of terrain, not the next level that
is "up the mountain". It is not possible on the gentle terrain where first
lessons are taught to complete the teaching of skills needed for steeper and
more varied terrain. Instead, these early lessons are designed to give a
foundation for adding skills that will allow skiing terrain to match.
Being able to stop and turn on
gentle terrain can be done with elementary maneuvers such as the snowplow. These
do not work well if at all on steeper slopes, however, and skills must be added
for success there.
Nevertheless, many venture up the
lifts to steeper slopes before they have the skills needed to control their
direction and speed, with serious risk to themselves and to others whom they may
run into. Skiing, after all, is a sliding sport, and we must manage the sliding.
The assumption is that added skills give added safety.
main CSW contents
prior CSW #14: "For my height I need skis of a certain
length"
next CSW #16: "Fast skiers are out of control "
"SKIING
IS A SLIDING SPORT"--a skiing web manual:
Skiing Web Manual
Contents Why Read
This Skiing Web Manual That
First Lesson A
Little Skiing History
Motion in
Skiing
CONVENTIONAL SKIING WISDOMS
Skier Excuses Fear in
Skiing
Conditioning for Skiing
Equipment and Technique
Skiing Equipment
How Skis
Work
How
to Develop Balance on Skis
A Skiing
Turn Simplified Tactics for Terrains and Snow
Textures
Skiing Tips and Tales--a potpourii
Children
and Skiing
Age and Skiing
Gender & Skiing Culture
& Skiing
Skiing Ethics and Survival Slope Safety Skiing
Environment Glossary Acknowledgements
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Copyright © 2010 William R Jones.
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