Discover the key to expert skiing by learning how to use your whole body when you ski! In Skiing with the Whole Body you'll learn how to let your ankles work together with your knees to achieve easy knee flexion; find the balance point for easy turning; speed up your learning by a factor of ten; and teach yourself to ski like you've always dreamed you could. This book uses Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement exercises to make learning downhill skiing fast, simple, and fun.
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"Anyone who uses it, even ever so casually, will reap an internal change for a better life. He or she will indeed learn to understand the latent abilities in us that demand to be used."
-Moshe Feldenkrais
-Moshe Feldenkrais
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Jack Heggie, a skier for three decades, earned a degree in physics, and worked as a computer design engineer, programmer and field engineer. He has been a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method for ten years. The author of Running with the Whole Body, he maintains a practice in Boulder, Colorado.
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You are your own best teacher!,
By Jim Spaller (Syracuse, New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Skiing with the Whole Body: Your Ticket to the Expert Slopes (Paperback)
If you love to ski and want to improve faster than traditional methods will allow, this book is for you. Rather than showing you a standard and having you try to produce the movements that meet the external standard, Mr. Heggie teaches you how to teach yourself the small simple component movements which when combined produce the desired end result skill. The lessons are easy to follow and produce immediate results. Mr. Heggie makes the book very interesting and easy to read by including real life examples of skiers that he has trained in every chapter. I would highly recommend this book for any skier to take his enjoyment of skiing to the next level.
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The best skiers fly down the mountain with an ease and quality of movement that make the onlooker gasp with amazement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
skiing posture, straighten your ankles, skis tilt, skiing stance, independent leg action, uphill ski, turn your whole body, quiet upper body, few traverses, scanning your body, bump field, parallel turn, bump trail, scan your body, move your knees, straighten your knees, wedge turn, right ski, stem turn, postural mechanisms, tilting movement, skiing ability, been skiing, left ski, uphill direction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The best skiers fly down the mountain with an ease and quality of movement that make the onlooker gasp with amazement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
skiing posture, straighten your ankles, skis tilt, skiing stance, independent leg action, uphill ski, turn your whole body, quiet upper body, few traverses, scanning your body, bump field, parallel turn, bump trail, scan your body, move your knees, straighten your knees, wedge turn, right ski, stem turn, postural mechanisms, tilting movement, skiing ability, been skiing, left ski, uphill direction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Moving Mind, Summary Here, The Twist New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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books:
- Awareness Through Movement: Easy-to-Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Personal Awareness by Moshe Feldenkrais in Back Matter
- Inner Skiing: Revised Edition by W. Timothy Gallwey on page 48
- The Feldenkrais Method: Teaching by Handling by Yochanan Rywerant in Back Matter
- Master Moves by Moshe Feldenkrais in Back Matter
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