Steering Your Skis - Part 1 (Ski Performance Breakthrough, #2)

by Hugh Monney

Overview

Suitable for intermediate and advanced skiers, experts and racers, this highly illustrated Kindle ebook shows you how to finesse excellent performance with more skill and less effort.

Steering your skis - part 1
This subject relies on the work in a previous section, Centred balance and athletic movement, and works hand-in-hand with the section, "Master your speed and line".
The immediate effect of this section, will be to give you much more control, precision and sensitivity as you steer your skis in the snow.
You'll be able to apply yourself to the strategies described in
"Master your speed and line".
You will be able to use the design qualities of your skis to your advantage and you'll develop a versatile approach to using those design advantages.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045588874
Publisher:	Hugh Monney
Publication date:	01/13/2014
Series:	Ski Performance Breakthrough , #2
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Performance coach and author of Ski Performance Breakthrough - the series of e-books.
Hugh is also the Director and founder of the BASS Network of elite snowsports schools, operating in:

Chamonix - Chatel - Courchevel - Les Gets - Les Contamines - Les Deux Alpes - Megeve - Meribel - Morzine - St Gervais - Tignes - Val d'Isere

He runs advanced skiing clinics and off pistes courses in the Alps, as well as off piste adventures across the globe, having previously trained thousands of skiers and hundreds of ski instructors.

Formerly a research chemist, for the Cancer Research Campaign, Hugh has a degree in Chemistry and a Master's research degree. He is also a qualified science teacher. He spent 10 years in the science departments of British universities before switching to a career in skiing.

He began skiing in 1975 and became a full time ski teacher in 1984, to get out of the lab and into the mountains.
He has skied extensively throughout Europe and his off piste skiing and Heliski clinics have taken him to Argentina, Canada, Chile and Greenland.

He was a Trainer and examiner of instructors for the British Association of Snowsports Instructors, for 22 years, from 1989 to 2011, and contributed to the development of BASI's system of instructor training. He represented Britain as a member of the GB Demonstration Team, at the 1991 Interski Congress, in St Anton.

For many years, Hugh was invited to train the British Mountain Guides in Off Piste skiing performance.

Hugh wrote and presented the 1991 Channel 4 TV and video series "The Complete Skier" and in the same year he founded BASS, The British Alpine Ski and Snowboard School. The BASS Network of elite snowsports schools now extends to 12 resorts across the Alps.

His main interests, in addition to his family, are: Alpine & Telemark skiing, developing the quality of service to clients of the BASS Network, Photography, Science, Tai Chi Chuan, Motorcycling, Cycling, Balance trainiing, including slack line and playing guitar.

Qualifications include;
BASI ISTD Level 4, International Ski Teacher Diploma
BASI Telemark Teacher
Full certification in France
M.Phil, B.Sc. (Hons), PGCE

Some comments from Hugh's clients and colleagues:

"Hugh is a technical expert and an innovator, continually pushing the boundaries with his exciting and dynamic ideas, many of which have put BASI at the fore...