Rating: Summary: The only ski instructor worth knowing Review: This book is your personal ski instructor - its clear, comprehensible, sympathetic to your inabilties but best of all it is the only instructor that says the same thing every year. I can quite truthfully claim that this book has single-handedly transformed my skiing and I wouldn't be seen on the piste without it.
Rating: Summary: A True Confidence-Builder - In Plain English! Review: This book was by far the best of the more than dozen books on skiing I've read. After taking a couple of ski weeks, and being a casual skier for several years, I was still a lower-level intermediate. After reading the book once in the off-season, I was able to ski better at the beginning of the season than I had at the end of the previous. After two days of working on the things in the book, I was skiing better than ever before in my life. I've read it multiple times, and each time my skiing has significanly improved. Skiing has gotten more fun, easier, and less tiring for me because of this book.
Rating: Summary: Absolutely Incomparable Review: This book was by far the best of the more than dozen books on skiing I've read. After taking a couple of ski weeks, and being a casual skier for several years, I was still a lower-level intermediate. After reading the book once in the off-season, I was able to ski better at the beginning of the season than I had at the end of the previous. After two days of working on the things in the book, I was skiing better than ever before in my life. I've read it multiple times, and each time my skiing has significanly improved. Skiing has gotten more fun, easier, and less tiring for me because of this book.
Rating: Summary: Just buy it and read it Review: This is not just the best book on skiing available, it's the best way to learn, period. I never thought I could learn a sport from reading a book, but I skied for twenty years and never got any better. Then I read this book and in one week I was three times the skier. It was like a new sport. Since then I have encouraged a half-dozen friends to read it, all with the same results. My friend Al neglected to actually read the book for years. Then one time we went skiing together and he was suddenly doing everything right, looking like a new, confident, expert skier. I was amazed, and I remarked "your skiing is SO much better!" He replied "I read the book!"
Rating: Summary: Just buy it and read it Review: This is not just the best book on skiing available, it's the best way to learn, period. I never thought I could learn a sport from reading a book, but I skied for twenty years and never got any better. Then I read this book and in one week I was three times the skier. It was like a new sport. Since then I have encouraged a half-dozen friends to read it, all with the same results. My friend Al neglected to actually read the book for years. Then one time we went skiing together and he was suddenly doing everything right, looking like a new, confident, expert skier. I was amazed, and I remarked "your skiing is SO much better!" He replied "I read the book!"
Rating: Summary: Greatest Instruction Book of All-Time Review: This is the best instruction book on skiing - by far. Follow its advice and you will improve. Don't be put off by the relative lack of pictures and diagrams. Take the time to read and digest what the author is saying and you will know how to ski like an expert. This guy flat out knows how to teach.
Rating: Summary: The best I have read! Review: This is the only ski instruction book I have ever read that was easily applicable to the slopes. The author's explanations are simple and to the point, but at the same time leave the reader with vivid visual images of the techniques being described. There is no other instructional ski book in this league
Rating: Summary: The technical skills of expert skiing carefully described. Review: Yeah, I know -- skiing books don't teach you to ski. But this book, a slope, and a week WILL teach an intermediate skier to ski like an expert. His main point is crucial: expert skiing is a different set of skills. Many of us (me especially) reach intermediate level quickly, but we stay there forever. Refining those skills won't make an expert skier. Lito Tejada-Flores breaks the skills of skiing down into simple, straightforward technical steps. He teaches you to ski with your feet, not your head. Skiing only one week a year, I went from NASTAR bronze to NASTAR gold. My wife and I own over two dozen ski books. This one alone did more for us than all the rest. We will both read it again before and during this year's ski trip. It's a winner.
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