Soft Skiing: The Secrets of Effortless, Low-Impact Skiing for Older Skiers [Paperback]

Lito Tejada-Flores (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 29, 2009

Soft Skiing is unique among many how-to-ski-better books-full of practical, easy-to-follow and immediately effective ski coaching ideas, it's also a collection of personal memories by one of America's best known ski instructors, Lito Tejada-Flores. Lito is the author of Breakthrough On The New Skis, and the creator of the Breakthrough-On-Skis video series. He has never followed the "party-line" of official ski teaching orthodoxy, and his Breakthrough on Skis books are amongst the best selling ski instruction books of all time. In this book, Lito breaks new ground, focusing 100% on the art of skiing in a relaxed, energy-efficient manner, a style of virtually effortless expert skiing that is ideally suited to older skiers. In his easy-to-follow conversational style, Lito reveals the secrets of skiing all day, on all terrain, without fatigue, without a moment of struggle or stress. Actually this is a book for all skiers but more than anything it is a gift for older skiers looking for grace, elegance and efficiency rather than aggressive daring-do on the slopes. This is a book that will change skiing lives, expand skiing horizons.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Western Eye Press (October 29, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0941283224
• ISBN-13: 978-0941283229
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,665 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #41 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Outdoor Recreation > Skiing

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A teacher for the ages, January 7, 2010

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Richard O. Dorworth - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Soft Skiing: The Secrets of Effortless, Low-Impact Skiing for Older Skiers (Paperback)

Lito Tejada-Flores has always laid down the best tracks on the steep, tricky slopes of ski instruction writing. With the publication of "Soft Skiing: The secrets of effortless low-impact skiing for older skiers" Lito's tracks are alone and they are elegant. Every older skier who wants to keep skiing, keep improving, keep his or her body functioning while continuing to do what is, after all, a dangerous, demanding and unforgiving activity will do him or her self a favor by reading "Soft Skiing." Lito uses many tools to get across his message, including the process of his own learning to ski as a young man (alone worth the read), and becoming one of the best known ski instructors in America, and then becoming what we all have such a hard time coming to grips with---an older skier---and then, in Lito's case, one who has recovered from a broken back to continue to lay down elegant tracks the soft way. This book is ahead of its time and I highly recommend it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Really What I Was Hoping For, January 7, 2010

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GN "GN" (NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Soft Skiing: The Secrets of Effortless, Low-Impact Skiing for Older Skiers (Paperback)

I have gotten a great deal of benefit from Lito's previous books, namely Breakthrough on Skis and Breakthrough on the New Skis. I had hoped that this newest book would contain some new "nuggets" of wisdom to help me make another jump in performance on the slopes. Unfortunately I did not find that to be the case.

This book essentially expands on a concept that was discussed in Breakthrough on the New Skis, namely the soft weight shift. I think almost 3/4's of the book deals with explaining this concept and discussing how it is learned and applied on the slopes. If you've already employed this technique based on his previous book then I don't think you'll gain much here. There is no coverage of bump technique at all, but simply refers you to the previous book - excellent coverage on the subject already, I might add. There's a very small bit on powder but really not anything that Lito hasn't written before.

I always enjoy Lito's writing, but I certainly got more from earlier books.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lito does it again, March 8, 2010

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WylieWabbit "SJ" (South Carolina) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Soft Skiing: The Secrets of Effortless, Low-Impact Skiing for Older Skiers (Paperback)

Lito has written another great instructional book on skiing. One of his earlier books, Breakthrough on the New Skis, lifted my skiing to a whole new, higher, more enjoyable level. This book reiterates many of those same points but in an even more effective way for us "older" skiers. His instructions are so clear, you can feel them while reading them. I would HIGHLY recommend this to anyone who wants to ski more and work less.