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"SKIING IS A SLIDING SPORT": Glossary
by Bill Jones, Ski Instructor
Certified Professional Ski Instructor (Registration #110478)
This "Skiing Manual--Skiing is a Sliding Sport" advocates a
certain way of positioning oneself on skis and of moving one's body around that
flexible position, i.e., of maneuvering while sliding. A lot of terms are used
in describing this, and so a glossary is given in case any are not clear, for
how will you know if you are performing the moves appropriately if you don't
clearly understand the terms describing them?
A glossary will be added to this website. Meanwhile, the
following references are suggested:
THE COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SKIING: the indispensable
reference for instructors and all skiers, by Bob Barnes. Snowline
Press: Silverthorne, CO. 1999, 324 pages of extended definitions. ISBN
0-9669131-5-9.
CORE CONCEPTS FOR SNOWSPORTS INSTRUCTORS. Professional
Ski Instructors of America: Lakewood, CO, 2001. 90 pages. Includes
glossary.
ALPINE TECHNICAL MANUAL: Skiing and Teaching Skills.
Professional Ski Instructors of America: Lakewood, CO, 2002. 76 pages.
Includes glossary.
Words to include in glossary:
piste/off-piste
graupel
inclination
angulation
anticipation
banking
blocking
boot-out
wedge/snowplow
braking wedge
gliding wedge
wedge christie
stem christie
parallel christie
telemark turn
retraction
extension
camber
sidecut
rotation
sequential/concurrent
shaped skis
sidestep
sideslip
skid
slip
carve
arc
skate
snow--powder, packed powder, corn, crud, wind-crust, cement, ice
steering
stem
step
tactics
technique
traverse
weight transfer
unweighting
mogul
chicken-heads
death-cookies
triangular sustentation
leverage
parallel
hop turn
crossover/crossunder
anticipation/release
blocking
cant
decamber/reverse camber
diverging/converging/parallel
drill/bag of tricks
down stem/upstem
edging/tipping/exercises
extension
flexion
fall line/rise line/gravity zone
footbed
alignment
garlands
falling leaf
gliding
herringbone
hockey stop
pivot slip
matching
pivoting/steering
stance/balance
railroad tracks
open-stance parallel
weight transfer
albedo
some more from skismart.com (see for definitions)
angulate
balancing
cants
carving
center of mass
counter-rotation
edge agnle
extension
fall fline
flow line
flexion
garland
inclination
matching skis
pressure control
rebounding
retraction
side-slipping
skidding
sweet spot
traversing
steering
muscle-memory
"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 potpourri
Children
and Skiing
Age and Skiing
Gender & Skiing
Culture & Skiing Skiing Ethics
and Slope Survival Slope Safety
Skiing Environment
GLOSSARY
Acknowledgements
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Copyright © 2010 William R Jones.
William R Jones.
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