Skiing: Six Ways to Reach Your Skiing Potential

By Kim Petrick, Heinz Kluetmeier, Tim Petrick

Book Overview

This one book distills all the information you'll ever need to make your skiing ability soar Internationally-renowned ski instructor Tim Petrick starts with the oft-overlooked keys of edging, rotary motion and pressure control and then presents a natural skill progression that can help even the least-athletic person ski to his or her ulimate potential. Sports Illustrated Skiiing will show you:
Helpful tips on selecting the right equipment and clothing
Three fundamentals that can positively transform your skiing
How foot-consciousness can make you a more balanced skier
Ten easy steps for progressing from christy to parallel skier
The secret to skiing steeper sloped
Skiing the bumps
Nine special exercises that can help you master any mountain
Special chapters on year-round training, nutrition, imaging, ski-specific stretching and much, much more

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568000286
• ISBN13: 9781568000282
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Sports Illustrated Books
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.0"