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Summary: Greatest Instruction Book of All-Time
Review: I started to ski five years ago at the age of 46 when my wife, an avid accomplished skier, insisted. After numerous group and private lessons, I was probably a 5 on the standard 10 scale. It was discouraging. Then, I discovered Lito's books, tapes and lessons. Now, I'm a 9 on a 10 scale able to easily ski on all but difficult black diamond bumps. Everything else is a breeze and fun. Better skiing is not harder, it's just different. Lito's book takes you step by step, stage by stage, one phase at a time. It's so simple it's remarkable that no other book has come close. For example, since skiing generally requires all your weight on one foot at a time, which foot is it? Most people, even accomplished skiers, answer either the uphill or downhill ski. This answer is both right and wrong. As Lito explains, it is the outside ski which could be uphill at one point and downhill at another point. Next, he explains how and why shifting weight to the other ski must be completed early and dynamically. This is actually simple somewhat like a dance step. The book continues on with secret after secret until the cumulative result is advanced skiing. After five or six days following his advice, it really came together. I'll never forget that time down a black diamond slope using his techniques naturally and easily. At the bottom, I looked back at the formerly imposing slope and realized that it had been a breeze. Looking to the ski, I said thank you God and Lito. Since then, fear and trepidation (except for those black diamond bumps) have forever been excised from my skiing. If you're tired of stopping at the top of a tough slope trying to build up your courage, you've apparently never read Lito's book, seen his tapes and/or implemented his advice. After reading and trying almost everything else, Lito's book allowed the easy opportunity to enjoy this incredible sport. Once again, thank you Lito.
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Summary: How I learned to ski
Review: I started to ski five years ago at the age of 46 when my wife, an avid accomplished skier, insisted. After numerous group and private lessons, I was probably a 5 on the standard 10 scale. It was discouraging. Then, I discovered Lito's books, tapes and lessons. Now, I'm a 9 on a 10 scale able to easily ski on all but difficult black diamond bumps. Everything else is a breeze and fun. Better skiing is not harder, it's just different. Lito's book takes you step by step, stage by stage, one phase at a time. It's so simple it's remarkable that no other book has come close. For example, since skiing generally requires all your weight on one foot at a time, which foot is it? Most people, even accomplished skiers, answer either the uphill or downhill ski. This answer is both right and wrong. As Lito explains, it is the outside ski which could be uphill at one point and downhill at another point. Next, he explains how and why shifting weight to the other ski must be completed early and dynamically. This is actually simple somewhat like a dance step. The book continues on with secret after secret until the cumulative result is advanced skiing. After five or six days following his advice, it really came together. I'll never forget that time down a black diamond slope using his techniques naturally and easily. At the bottom, I looked back at the formerly imposing slope and realized that it had been a breeze. Looking to the ski, I said thank you God and Lito. Since then, fear and trepidation (except for those black diamond bumps) have forever been excised from my skiing. If you're tired of stopping at the top of a tough slope trying to build up your courage, you've apparently never read Lito's book, seen his tapes and/or implemented his advice. After reading and trying almost everything else, Lito's book allowed the easy opportunity to enjoy this incredible sport. Once again, thank you Lito.
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Summary: It works, It works, It works, It works...
Review: I was a terminal intermediate skiier, enjoying skiing but facing the fact that at 47, after skiing for about 10 years, I'd probably never really progress. I bought this book, and a few others, and this is the one that has made the difference for me. After a short morning of trying out his ideas (he has one MAIN point in each of 3 chapters that are the real keys) I was grinning from ear to ear. After a couple of days I was at a level where I was thinking to myself, "I can't believe how *incredible* it feels to really ski well -- so this is what skiing is supposed to be like." I was hitting the runs in big swooping carves or popping short radius turns, feeling things from my skis that I had never been aware of before. Many of my friends and, yes, old ski instructors talked to me about my "amazing improvement". The book made sense, the few important points were easy to follow and implement, and I now enjoy skiing so much more than I ever did before. It worked for me.
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Summary: Buy it NOW !! It took me from the Blue to Diamond
Review: I was an Intermediate skier and could not break the rut.
This book made it happen when all else failed.
It REALLY works.
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Summary: You will become an expert
Review: If you study this book carefully, it will teach you all you need to know. Learn how your skiis work and how to put them to use. Read it twice.
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Summary: A must-have for any skiier
Review: It's happened to just about any skiier. You get over the initial fear of falling, and learn how to get from the top of the hill down to the bottom. You move from the greens to the blues, and get a sense of what skiing is generally about. But you're not *great*.This plateau is hit by skiiers of all ages and backgrounds. They know the mechanics of skiing, and they know what to do. But they marvel at those people zooming down the slopes effortlessly, as if they were dancing on the snow. The solution is this book. I didn't even buy it on my own originally - it was given to me by a skiier friend who had read it and loved it. The book made a circuit through our skiing group and soon we all had copies of it. We then lent those out to friends, so they could learn too! This wasn't the basics - how to snowplow, how to stop. And it wasn't complicated either. It was full of great, practical, easy to understand *tips* that you could immediately apply to your own skiing. Highly recommended!
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Summary: A True Confidence-Builder - In Plain English!
Review: Lito is a gentle, nurturing teacher who assures you that you can do what he promises - become an expert skiier! Broken into six chapters and written in large, easy-to-read print, Lito teaches you to trust in your own ability to develop the same movements used by expert skiiers. He shows you how these movements are different from the movements you have been using as an intermediate and how your new movements enable you to conquer new situations while skiing in a more relaxed and enjoyable manner. Lito does not burden the reader with a series of exercises nor does he suggest that you go out and buy all new equipment. He does elevate you to a new level in a most calm and assuring manner. A pure joy to read and pleasure to work through, Lito's book helped me to break through the intermediate barrier to a new level of expertise and confidence - and I'm past 55yrs old!
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Summary: The best book on Skiing ever.
Review: Lito is a god. His writing is clear, and his recommendations are logical and sensible. He is the only one to explain both the how and the why of skiing. Couldn't recommend this book more highly.
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Summary: The best book on skiing ever written.
Review: Simply the best ski instruction book ever
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Summary: If you only have one book on how to ski this is it!!!
Review: The absolute best book on how to ski ever written. Provides
concrete skills and techniques that you can use on the slopes
to really transform yourself from an intermediate into an advanced skier.
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