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"Covers more information than a week's worth of private lessons." - Ski Magazine
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"Covers more information than a week's worth of private lessons." - "Ski magazine". "The All-Mountain Skier" takes you to the most difficult places on the mountain - bumps, steeps, and trees - and helps you conquer them. If you yearn for speed, gravity-defying jumps, or fluid grace on challenging terrain, here is your step-by-step guide to becoming an expert all-mountain skier. This second edition contains all the information you need on the latest equipment - including shaped skis, boots, bindings, and footbeds - to perform like a pro on crud, hardpack, powder, and ice. "Wow! This book can help you conquer the steeps of Valdez, the peaks of the Alps, the powder of Alta, and everything in between. A blizzard of information that will truly change the way you ski." - Gordy Peifer, U.S. (2000) and Canadian (1998) Freeskiing Champion, ski film star.
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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Some people will never be able to get any benefit from reading a book on a sport. Not everyone can take the knowledge of _how_ something should be done and the advice on how it should look/feel, and be thinking about it when they are trying to perform the action later. For them, all such books are wasted efforts.
Luckily for me I get real benefits from these sorts of books if they are done well. Especially in sports that are technical and often counter-intuitive, which skiing certain is.
This book is superb example of a sports manual and it does all that one could hope for in a book.
For me the most useful aspects of the book are:
- the author explaining to you in detail what is happening when you ski, how it works, what your body does and what the skis do
- how it should _feel_ to do something right. This allows you to have a goal to work towards and goes some way to addressing the disadvantages of not having an instructor.
- the drills
The overall structure of the book is also a strong point. The author breaks down 'skiing' into stance, steering, edging, body movement etc and goes into great detail on each. This helps you to target areas more specifically and find where lies the weakness that seems to be holding you back.
There is also a great section on choosing your equipment, and perhaps more importantly, having it set up correctly.
Later on in the book the chapters move away from this 'toolbox' approach and onto how a skier should use their tools ski in a certain manner and to deal with different terrain and conditions (steeps, crud, trees, bumps).
This sections of the book feels like getting the best advice your instructor/friends ever gave you. Certainly you then have to get out there and do it in order to learn, but at least you know what you should be doing, how it should feel, what your problems may be etc.
I have already gone on long enough, but in closing I would remind anyone reading how much even 1 hour of tuition costs. Even if you don't get as much out of this book as I did it is a bargain, and the _only_ book I would recommend.
I would defy anyone to read it and not feel that they have learned something which they can use to improve their skiing.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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Highly recommended book for any skier who aspires to the Holy Grail of being able to ski in all kinds of terrain, in any condition. This book is most suitable for intermediate to advanced skiiers who are hoping to make the progression to all-terrain skier one day.
It's often very difficult to pay attention to all of the different skills needed to ski well at the same time. Mr. Elling uses a "toolbox" approach to break down each skill, and recommends specific drills to strengthen one's abilities in each skill.
Where this book really shines, though, is Elling's explanation of how these different skills should be combined in order to tackle different types of terrain and/or snow condition. Many ski instruction books out there are written with the goal of teaching you how to ski expertly...on perfectly groomed snow. But the skills that apply to Eastern hardpack/ice (edging, pressure on single ski, etc.) do not apply to Utah powder (even weighting on both skis) and Mr. Elling spells out the differences better than anyone else I have come across.
Also a useful section on ski equipment and boot fit that correctly drives home how important good boot fit is to effective skiing.
Overall an excellent book that anyone who wants to stray off the corduroy should take a look at.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book on my way to a ski vacation at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I tried to apply as many of the "tool kit" concepts in skiing the steep, ungroomed runs at JH, and found that the approach raised my skiing to a higher level. This book is designed to improve intermediate and advanced skiers, and based on my experience, it definitely achieves this objective. Over the past 15 years I have read a number of ski instruction books, and have purchased several, but none as effective as this one. Comparable books in another sport are Vic Braedon's tennis instruction series. Braedon's and Elling's books break their respective sports into the basic physical principles and techniques to understand the mechanics and make significant performance improvements. I highly recommend this book.
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Excellent book could be helped by better illustrations
I was lent this book on a recent skiing holiday, and really found that it helped by skiing. I started reading a chapter or two each night and then putting it into practice the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Becky
wow, what a book
As a scientist, I am pretty good at analysing data, drawing conclusions and putting theory into practise. But even I didn't expect this. Read more
Published 5 months ago by M. U. Hulse
This is the book to buy
I have only been skiing for just over two years and definitely still an early intermediate. Having had quite a few lessons I was really looking for something that would explain... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Waggers
Very Entertaining!
I'm not sure if this book is intended to be funny but it provided us with hours of giggles! My friend brought it with her on our recent ski trip. Read more
Published 16 months ago by MollyG
Great book
Great book with lots of informative detail and good structure. A great reference book to help target specific weaknesses in your skiing.
Published 17 months ago by scottb
Excellent book, really achieves its scope of skill improvement.
A book that really worths every penny. Although it discusses a topic that relates to body stance and movement, the author achieves with appropriate pictures and examples to make... Read more
Published on 4 Mar 2010 by Christos Stathopoulos
A useful guide/reference for the Intermediate skier
I recently took this book on my skiing trip (3 Valleys, France) and it proved to be very valuable to me. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2010 by Murat Imamzade
Great for the ski nerds out there
I must admit this is the first book about skiing I have read, and I'm a very average skier, but I found this book excellent in the amount of detail it contains. Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2010 by Darren Edwards
Excellent tool - recommended!
I bought this book as I had just learned to ski the previous winter and would be skiing with more advanced skiers on my next holiday. Read more
Published on 29 May 2009 by Ms. M. Taylor
What a difference
I highly recommend this book - it has literally transformed my skiing and changed how I ski, where I ski and the speed at which I cover the snow. Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2009 by G. Edwards
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