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So, what ski books have you found really useful ? Any ?
Came across this last year http://www.breakthroughonskis.com/Pages/_books/soft_skiing_book.html and as I am getting on a bit I thought it might be interesting. Well worth it - at last, when I tried what he suggested, I could see what everyone was going on about over these new fangled (!) carving skis. May also be useful to those still under pension age !
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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"Mountain Memories", by Mick Hull. Out of print and only found in 2nd-hand book shops. Mick writes about skiing in Australia from 1930s, and thence at Zurs. Some fantastic photos.
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| deerman wrote: |
| May also be useful to those still under pension age ! |
What makes you think you have to give up skiing as soon as you get a bus pass 
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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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Lechbob, I think he was implying that some younger people might feel they didn't need to be introduced to carving since they learned that way. Nothing to do with giving up skiing.
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snowball, got it, jumped in with both feet.
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I got www.thebookofcandide.com not exactly a read just some great pics taken over the last few years of the greatest skier on the planet
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Lechbob, The book I referred to is titled: Soft Skiing - The Secrets of Effortless, Low-impact Skiing for Older Skiers. I was merely suggesting that the principles might also be useful to younger skiers.
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roga, Got hold of a copy of Inner Skiing - an interesting read and I can see why you would either love it or hate it. Found some bits were potentially useful - the rest I'm a bit agnostic about. I've no doubt though that once your technique is OK, it's all in the mind from there on ! Despite skiing in Scotland for many years I still find ice can be a bit unsettling - initial reaction is to stiffen up until unconscious thought takes over, legs relax, and the skis bite again instead of skidding.
rob@rar, That's a real heavyweight ! I thought I understood physics, but I didn't half labour through the first chapters ! Some more interesting stuff later on.
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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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roga, I got The Hermanators book as a present.....his graphic description of THAT accident is wincely real, I could feel everything he described, although I can't help wonder how sportsman as important as him was let ride a high powered motorbike like that.
Imagine Wayne Rooney riding some auld screaming bike like that???
...actually hold on.
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You know it makes sense.
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Mt Blanc & the Aiguilles Rouges a Guide for Skiers by Anselme Baud. Makes me crap my pants and think lets do that in equal measures.
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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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I can't help wonder how sportsman as important as him was let ride a high powered motorbike like that.
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if you're the big bad world champion, I guess you get to decide that sort of stuff for yourself!
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Swirly wrote: |
| Mt Blanc & the Aiguilles Rouges a Guide for Skiers by Anselme Baud. Makes me crap my pants and think lets do that in equal measures. |
love that book - you can almost use it as a history of extreme skiing in the Mt Blanc area as much as a guidebook
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sondre Norheim - The father of Modern Skiing by Anne-Gry Blikom and Eivind Molde ISBN 0-942323-35-1.
Probably the most important person in the history of recreational skiing. 
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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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Skiing Around the World by Jimmy Petterson
400 page hardback, really well written, with some great photos.
I cant put it down. The ultimate ski bum bible
Sadly out of print and took me couple of months to find a copy (from a second hand book shop on the web).
Was really lucky to get it at RRP.
They are now going for circa £90 on amazon / ebay though...
So you might have to search to find one at a decent price.
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| Arno wrote: |
| Swirly wrote: |
| Mt Blanc & the Aiguilles Rouges a Guide for Skiers by Anselme Baud. Makes me crap my pants and think lets do that in equal measures. |
love that book - you can almost use it as a history of extreme skiing in the Mt Blanc area as much as a guidebook |
ditto ... (awe) inspiring
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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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Mountain Skiing by Vic Bein was the "bible" by which I taught myself to Telemark. I think it was one of the first book written on the subject. We all aspired to things like "The cross over telemark" and "the reverse telemark"! It even had a whole chapter and falling!!!
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Skiing Around the World by Jimmy Petterson
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I can also highly recommend this book if you can get your hands on a copy. A true adventure skiing book with cool photos and great experiences written up in an easy to read format.
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| deerman wrote: |
So, what ski books have you found really useful ? Any ?
Came across this last year http://www.breakthroughonskis.com/Pages/_books/soft_skiing_book.html and as I am getting on a bit I thought it might be interesting. Well worth it - at last, when I tried what he suggested, I could see what everyone was going on about over these new fangled (!) carving skis. May also be useful to those still under pension age ! |
Truly the best piece of ski instruvtion I have ever seen, I grew up on skis like many of you, and still learnt more from these lessons that any other instructor.. THe DVD set is Superb, (once you get past the Purple jumpsuit.)
Nixmap..
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