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VHS : Breakthrough On Skis I, Expert Skiing Simplified |
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Amazon.com's Price: $29.95 Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780941283120
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0941283127
Number Of Items: 1
Release Date: October 01, 1993
Running Time: 58 minutes
Sales Rank: 13058
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Welcome to Breakthrough on Skis #1, my first ski teaching video. Creating this video has been one of my most exciting ski teaching experiences. I think this video may be one of the best ski lessons I've ever given. And of course, I'm hoping that using this video will be one of your very best ski-learning experiences...
But calling this video of Breakthrough on Skis a ski lesson is a bit inaccurate. This one-hour tape contains all the material--the movements and techniques, the practice patterns and explanations--that I would normally share with intermediate skiers during one full week of lessons. And this tells you that however useful this video may be, it's not an instant shortcut to expert skiing. But it is a clear, effective, workable road map that can get you there. Using this tape to guide your own learning experience on skis, you can become an expert skier. And you should. It's well worth it. The payoff for the concentration, patience and practice you put into this process is enormous. You've suspected it all along, and I can confirm it. Expert skiers have more fun. And the freedom of effortless, efficient turns on any slope is not an unreasonable goal for most skiers-even though few seem to reach it.
My explanation of this distressing fact is simple. Most skiers, even experienced long-time skiers, don't ski like experts simply because they don't know how experts do it. Superficially, expert skiing looks like an improved, polished version of average intermediate skiing. But it's not. Experts use a fundamentally different set of movements patterns as they sail down the slopes. And the goal of this video (and of my book, ) is to show you these few critical expert movement patterns in such a clear, easy to understand way that you can literally transform your skiing. It works.
Of course, it would be easier if I could ski with you for a week. I could make sure it worked, by carefully structuring our time together, by choosing the practice terrain, by balancing short intense periods of concentrated practice with longer breaks of relaxing skiing where new skills 'soak in' through repetition, by repeating demonstrations and explanations often enough that the key ideas and images of expert skiing remain sharp and clearly focused.
But instead of a week-long series of ski lessons, you have a videotape, a television and a VCR--and a lot of good will, a real desire for a breakthrough on skis. So I'd like to offer you a few suggestions on the best ways you can use this tape to achieve that breakthrough: some are obvious, some less so, some not at all.
Amazon.com:
Veteran ski instructor Lito Tejada-Flores offers an hour filled with intense and detailed lessons designed to move skiers past what he calls 'intermediate rut.' Making the point that moving from being an intermediate to an expert skier isn't so much an advance in levels but rather learning an entirely new set of skills, Tejada-Flores zeroes in on what those elusive skills are. Much of the focus is on learning to turn properly, and the camera follows expert skiers who show the 'proper arc of the turn.' Drills are shown during which students are urged to visualize skiing on one foot to get the idea in their head that the 'outside ski' during a turn has to handle all the action. The camera work is very good throughout, with much of the action shown in close-ups on the feet. Slow-motion footage is used judiciously to show precisely how a skier should position himself when making perfect turns. The lessons in this video contain a wealth of detail, yet it's presented in a manner that would make it easy to remember, and putting the lessons to work out on the slopes would no doubt be a good way to increase one's skill level. Also included is a booklet that essentially duplicates the information on the video. --Robert J. McNamara
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great ski lesson... with a couple of cautions...
I love, love, love this ski video. My sister and I ski about 30-40 days a year and we watch this video a LOT. We watch it practically nightly, when we are off skiing. And with every viewing we get something out of the "video lesson".
I agree with nearly all of the positive reviews.
My only caveat... many people are in the Intermediate Rut because of some perpetually hanging on, unbroken bad habit (or habits).
A very common bad habit is being too far back ... Read More
Rating:  - Out of this world
My wife and I are intermediate skiers who began skiing a couple of years ago. Our first ski was where we were told that 'the wedge' is the ONE and ONLY way to go. After two years we were still stuck with the wedge even down the intermediate slopes. True, the wedge idea got us going, but we were unable to get ouf that rut... unitl we bought this DVD. This is such a wonderful video that I bet it is better than any class out there. The booklet that is attached on the DVD conver summarizes all the lessons. ... Read More
Rating: - Breakthrough on skis
The best introductory ski video with no equal. I'm an almost an advance skier, but I still watch it before every ski season.
Rating: - Excellent training video
I hadn't skiied in 5 years and being older now, wanted to "do it right" this time. I thought about taking a lesson, but I remembered never getting much out of them. After reading other customer reviews about this video, I bought it and I couldn't be happier. No snow plows or wedge christie's here. I studied the video, studiously followed Lito's directions in the accompanying concise booklet and video, and made tremendous progress on the first day on the slopes. I am skiing parallel for the first time ... Read More
Rating: - Worth Every Penny!
I've been skiing since the early 80s and I looked just like all the intermediates that Lito shows on this and his other two videos. I even hurt my knee when one of my skis slid out from under me during a stem turn over ice. I never felt completely in control and my knees and legs always felt wiped out after a long day on the slopes. I have been out twice since viewing this video and I can't believe how much progress I have made so far. He describes very clearly and in great detail exactly how to carve beautiful ... Read More
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