This one book distills all the information you'll ever need to make your skiing ability soar! Internationally-renowned ski instructor Tim Petrick starts with the oft-overlooked keys of edging, rotary motion and pressure control and then presents a natural skill progression that can help even the least-athletic person ski to his or her ulimate potential.  Sports Illustrated Skiiing  will show you:Helpful tips on selecting the right equipment and clothingThree fundamentals that can positively transform your skiingHow foot-consciousness can make you a more  balanced  skierTen easy steps for progressing from christy to parallel skierThe secret to skiing steeper slopedSkiing the bumpsNine special exercises that can help you master any mountainSpecial chapters on year-round training, nutrition, imaging, ski-specific stretching and much, much more

Sports Illustrated Skiing (Sports Illustrated Library)

Sports & Outdoors

Petrick, Tim

Winter Sports

Perennial / HarperCollins

Tells how to select skis, boots, equipment, and clothing, demonstrates fundamental skiing techniques, and discusses conditioning exercises and ski areas

Sports Illustrated Skiing

Harpercollins

This one book distills all the information you'll ever need to make your skiing ability soar! Internationally-renowned ski instructor Tim Petrick starts with the oft-overlooked keys of edging, rotary motion and pressure control and then presents a natural skill progression that can help even the least-athletic person ski to his or her ulimate potential. Sports Illustrated Skiiing will show you: Helpful tips on selecting the right equipment and clothing Three fundamentals that can positively transform your skiing How foot-consciousness can make you a more balanced skier Ten easy steps for progressing from christy to parallel skier The secret to skiing steeper sloped Skiing the bumps Nine special exercises that can help you master any mountain Special chapters on year-round training, nutrition, imaging, ski-specific stretching and much, much more

Sports Illustrated Skiing: Six Ways to Reach Your Skiing Potential (Sports Illustrated Winner's Circle Books)

Kluetmeier, Heinz

Sports Illustrated

Eight chapters and 78 color photos provide tips for safety and fun on skis, skiboards, snowboards, snowscoots, ski foxes, and snowbikes. "Gliding on snow is a dance with gravity. . . . Getting hooked on snow-gliding sports is just about the best thing you can do for yourself." - from the book; "A great pocket companion for a day on the slopes." - Ski magazine.

Good Things to Know . . . About Gliding on Snow

Campbell, Stu

Mountain Sports Pr

This one book distills all the information you'll ever need to make your skiing ability soar! Internationally-renowned ski instructor Tim Petrick starts with the oft-overlooked keys of edging, rotary motion and pressure control and then presents a natural skill progression that can help even the least-athletic person ski to his or her ulimate potential. Sports Illustrated Skiiing will show you: Helpful tips on selecting the right equipment and clothing Three fundamentals that can positively transform your skiing How foot-consciousness can make you a more balanced skier Ten easy steps for progressing from christy to parallel skier The secret to skiing steeper sloped Skiing the bumps Nine special exercises that can help you master any mountain Special chapters on year-round training, nutrition, imaging, ski-specific stretching and much, much more

Skiing: Six Ways to Reach Your Skiing Potential (Sports Illustrated Winner's Circle Books)