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Book #1: £50:00 redrunmarcus
Book #2. £46:00 anon
Book #3. £45:50 pompeymanc
Book #4. £45:00 Jerry
Book #5. £41:00 holidayloverxx
(If there is more than one bid at the same amount - then the first to bid at that amount is listed)
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The book that we were discussing at the EoSB last April is now available. As a thank you to snowHeads, this thread will auction off five books to benefit snowHeads. Michelle has kindly volunteered to handle the role of auctioneer (something about payback for that night at the American restaurant...  )
To give you some ideas about the book, here are what a few folks have said about it:
"For we who ski, this book puts into words the connections we have felt but couldn't voice. For you who have yet to ski, this book will give you a tantalizing glimpse into that wonderful universe. Skiing can be a struggle against the world's best, or an opportunity to test your own limits. Serene solitude, an intimate gathering of friends and relatives, or the biggest party imaginable. Chest-bursting exhilaration, or humiliation and pain.
"In offering us all these modes of existence, skiing is in one way unique, but in another way just an extension of the nature of our sojourn on this planet. What Steve has done so brilliantly in this book is to link everything together."
—Martin Bell, Four-Time Olympian, Television Analyst, and Ski Coach
"Open Your Heart with Skiing achieves its aim of making a lifetime passion easily accessible to skiers of all abilities and experience."
—Joan Rostad, Professional Ski Instructors Association Examiner & Clinic Leader with 25 years teaching experience, Author
"Skiing offers challenges for all of us, from Olympic medalists to the novice taking her first hesitant slides down freshly groomed snow. Skiing also helps us to see more about ourselves than we might otherwise know. In this book, Steve shows us some ways of finding those connections and expanding our joy in skiing and in life. Read it and strengthen your experiences."
—Deb Armstrong, Olympic Gold Medalist, U.S. Ski Team member, and Professional Ski Instruction Association Alpine Team member
"Open Your Heart with Skiing is a place where the detailed elements of skiing are connected to critical living issues that touch all of us. This is no little task, nor can it be done without significant courage to stand up and be vulnerable.
"However, that’s who Steve is. He’s all about risk, vulnerability, honesty, and integrity. When he sees it and believes it, he’ll say it. He walks the talk of his book. Good for us!"
(from the forward by...)
—Weems Westfeldt, Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) Examiner & Clinic Leader (Rocky Mountain division), and author of Brilliant Skiing, Every Day. He is a freestyler in the best sense of the word and has forty-two years of teaching experience
Writing this book has been a delightful, challenging, fun, awe-inspiring journey for me. That the book is available at all is a tribute to the EpicSki and snowHeads Internet communities. So many of you participated in its creation that I can never thank you all enough... Stories from last year's EoSB made it into the book, of course...
I am pleased to announce this snowHeads auction for autographed copies of Open Your Heart With Skiing; Mastering Life Through Love of the Turns. There are five copies available, and the five highest bids will win them. After the auction is over, I will sign each book to its new owner, ship all of them to Michelle, and she will distribute them to each of you. All proceeds from the auction (less shipping from Michelle to you) will go directly to snowHeads.
Post questions and bids in this thread.
| Michelle wrote: |
This initial post will be regularly updated with the highest bids.
You can place a bid directly onto the thread, or if you’d prefer your bid to be anonymous, please PM me here, and I will place the anonymous bid for you.
All proceeds from the bids (except for p&p) will go to snowHeads. The RRP of this book is £7:35, with Amazon advertising it for £5:69 plus p&p. BUT they won’t be dedicated to you and signed by our very own ssh  so get bidding for what I’m sure will be a fantastic book and raising funds for what we know is a fantastic website.
Closing date for all bids will be Friday 14th September.
Best of luck… and let’s get bidding
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Current bids have been moved to the top of the page
| Michelle wrote: |
I’ve just been speaking to ssh and convinced him that he really ought to make it even more worthwhile for you to bid for this book 
So, in addition to your signed copy, you may be the lucky ‘winner’ of an
Open Your Heart with Skiing day
This is one voucher for a day with ssh, in ‘Summit County, Colorado or other location as mutually determined’
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| if they want to pay my travel, I'll meet 'em anywhere! |
and will be valid throughout the 07/08 and 08/09 seasons – plenty of time to arrange a meet!
How will it work?
A book will be randomly selected to get the winning copy – the voucher will then be placed into it... you’ll know who you are when you open your book!
An excellent gift of your time, ssh |
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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My friends...
This is from my chapter on Gear in my book Open Your Heart with Skiing.
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Getting Balanced, the Foundation for Efficient Skiing
Skiing is a sport of balance. We move in balance to balance and we balance in motion, as we’ll see in more detail in chapter seven. The movements we make are to maintain balance while allowing the skis to do their job in taking us where we want to go. That said, our bodies are amazing in their ability to compensate for challenges to our balance. We all know that we can catch our balance when we’re surprised by an irregular sidewalk, an invisible pothole, or snow that collapses unexpectedly. As a result of our ability to compensate, many skiers ski for years not realizing that they are compensating for equipment that holds them in an unbalanced position when they are standing in what should be a neutral stance. Before you get on the hill, get balanced! It’s the best place from which to start the movements that will allow you to get the most of your days on the mountain.
What do we mean by getting balanced? It’s a simple concept that often takes some work to accomplish: being balanced is being able to stand in neutral in your boots on your skis, with your feet a comfortable, natural width apart, your lower legs just touching the front, back, and sides of your boots—in neutral—and being in comfortable, athletic, neutral equilibrium. Feeling like you could stand that way for a long time because it’s natural. Your big muscles are supporting you as your body is stacked naturally. You can easily move in any direction you’d like in order to cause the effects that you’d like to have on the skis . . . or to recover your balance when you’re surprised. This is being balanced.
On the other hand, many skiers are not balanced. Their boots and skis tip their lower legs too far forward, forcing their hips back to compensate, together with other adjustments. Or their lower legs are too straight, making it difficult to flex and extend from neutral. Or they have to move differently in order to place the skis on edge in one direction rather than the other. And so on. One of the reasons that so many people think that skiing requires a lot of strength from their quadriceps is that they are set up in such a way that their hips are back so they have to use their quads to stay upright.
To feel what it’s like to be out of balance, take out a block of wood—a two-by-four, for example—or a large book, and put it on the floor. Put your toes on it and feel how you have to compensate. Then put it on the side of your foot and stand on one foot. Put it on the other side of that foot. And so on. Feel how the changes to your foundation make a significant difference.
Do you see the challenge? Imagine now being locked in that position by a rigid ski boot: Too much forward lean, too much “zeppa” (tipping the foot forward in the boot), and various angles of the footboard under the foot all impact your balance. Instead of compensating, we want your body to use all of its available energy and movements to effect a result that you want, rather than simply to compensate for being out of balance.
Fortunately, there are boot specialists who can help you get to this place on your equipment. Unfortunately, they are relatively rare.
Let me introduce you to a couple of them, my friends Jeff Bergeron and Bud Heishman. Jeff is located in Breckenridge, Colorado, and is a racer, a racing coach, and one of the best boot specialists on the planet. He has done my boot work for the past four seasons, and I trust him completely. For my most recent pair of boots, he watched me stand and flex in my stocking feet and told me which boots to purchase based on which ones would both fit me best and provide the best starting point to get balanced into the boot and moving most efficiently in it. It is important that you understand that there can be no “best” boot, since we’re all so different. Instead, there are a small selection of boots that will be “best” for you, based on your foot and leg shapes, their functional characteristics, and your needs and desires for the performance characteristics of the boots.
Please understand that the last thing you do when trying on boots is to put them on with the liners. Instead, start by having a specialist like Jeff or Bud look at your feet, your stance, your leg shape, the way your legs and feet function when you flex forward and back, and tip side to side, as you will when you’re skiing; and have them tell you which boots to try first. They’ll pull the liners out, have you put your foot into the boot so that your toes are just touching the front of the shell (the plastic outer part of the boot), and look at the shape of the shell to see how closely it matches your foot. They’ll look at how much space is behind your heel, and, depending on the kind of performance you want, decide which shell size you should use. The shell fit is extremely important! If the shell is too big, the boot will be more comfortable in the shop, but will quickly degrade while you ski to the point that you won’t be able to accurately direct your skis with them. Worse, your feet will begin to move around inside the boot. Avoid that temptation! If the shell is too small, they’ll have to do more work to make it comfortable, and you may have to put up with some fit issues. If the shell doesn’t approximate your foot shape, you are likely to have fit issues; too tight in spots, too loose in others. Skiing when your feet hurt is brutal—and no fun at all!
After picking the boot and size, your specialist will get you in the boot and start looking at how your body affects the boot. When you stand in neutral, are the soles of the boot flat? Or when the soles are flat, are you in neutral? When Bud Heishman fit my wife, Terry, last season, we discovered that her foot and leg shape were such that she was dramatically tipped in (knockkneed) when she stood with her boots flat. Bud checked the options and then adjusted her boots so that her skis would be flat when she was standing in neutral. For the first time in her skiing life, I saw her able to tip both her skis at the same time when she next got on them. It was the beginning of a dramatic change in her skiing.
Bud is a ski instructor who was a PSIA Alpine Team finalist. During his campaign to become a member of the team, he became fascinated by the value of getting skiers balanced in their equipment before they even try to ski. As a result, he refocused his efforts on getting skiers into balance and learning to ski from a foundation of balance. At his shop in Reno he gets skiers balanced, spends time with them on-snow to fine-tune their fit and balance, and coaches them in improving their technique to take optimal advantage of what modern equipment can do. Bud’s laugh is infectious and his love for the sport is contagious. It also helps that his skiing is superb and his understanding of skiing skills and movements is exceptional!
Jeff and Bud are examples of a new breed of boot and balance specialist. In earlier days, the focus was fitting boots to your feet. Today, the way the boot fits your body—what the specialists call your morphology—is even more important. Boots can be stretched and ground to fit your foot better, but if they don’t hold you in a balanced, neutral position, you will forever have to compensate for that.
For more information and a current list of exceptional boot specialists, check out www.stephenhultquist.com/boots on my website. |
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Fri 31-08-07 23:47; edited 2 times in total
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Dude, there's nothing there.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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I know. Sorry. It's being built. I toss something up there now, in fact.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Ok, Bode, I put the current (relatively small) list out there just now.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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achilles, look closer. CEM is there. I'm waiting for contact info from SZK. I don't know anything about the other two.
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So how does one bid?
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Good luck with the book Steve.
Dodgy reviewers I'd say
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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An excellent starting bid of £20:00!
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Book 3 - £20
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Poster: A snowHead
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Book 4 - £20
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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£20 for book 5
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| beanie1 wrote: |
| Book 4 - £20 |
I hope you win one, beanie1... The quote in your signature appears in the book...
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Book 2 £20
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Any of the books £30
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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ssh, my bad on CEM. I think you'll find Lockwoods is where SZK started his boot-fitting career. I understand you not referring to Precision if you are unaware of them, but they have been recommended by many (including me - I bought my boots from them) - though eng_ch had a problem.
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Any book £30 
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Ok, I was the anonymous opening bidder, I'll go to £30
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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£30 any book
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The one that's still on £20 - £30
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Jerry, I like the American ethos of "The customer is king", as opposed to the European ethos " The customer is surely taking the p!ss dressed in that outfit"
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Poster: A snowHead
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Ok, £35 over here...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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so that's 5 at £30 and one at £35....
I'll go to £35 too ......leaving 4 still on £30...someone's going to miss out 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
so that's 5 at £30 and one at £35....
I'll go to £35 too ......leaving 4 still on £30...someone's going to miss out |
Just a note: 5 total. 2 now at £35, 3 at £30.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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I hope it's printed on soft paper, if you know what I mean ssh
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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(If there is more than one bid at the same amount - then the first to bid at that amount is listed)
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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when does the auction end?
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| Michelle wrote: |
Closing date for all bids will be Friday 14th September.
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I bid £35.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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hbunny, Welcome to the auction!
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Come on you lot! Let's get bidding for a fabulous prize & cause!
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