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Ultimate Skiing Ron LeMaster

Ultimate Skiing By Ron LeMaster

Ultimate Skiing by Ron LeMaster


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Summary

An instruction manual for skiers seeking the developments in technique and technology that includes techniques for ski designs and tips for fine-tuning boots for specific styles and terrain. It offers a tactical approach to applying technique to meet the needs for various conditions and ski objectives, such as ice, powder, moguls and steeps.

Ultimate Skiing Summary

Ultimate Skiing by Ron LeMaster

Break through to the next level of ski performance! Renowned instructor, coach, and ski technique expert Ron LeMaster takes you beyond The Skier's Edge by improving, expanding, and enhancing that seminal work. The result, Ultimate Skiing, will help you master the mechanics of great skiing as never before-explaining how it's done, showing how it looks, and describing how it feels.

LeMaster has made Ultimate Skiing a comprehensive manual on ski technique. Learn how skis interact with the snow and how best to manipulate your skis, boots, and poles on the steepest slopes, in monster mogul fields, and through the deepest powder. Technique tips and kinesthetic cues help translate the sensation of each movement.

Throughout, LeMaster incorporates his one-of-a-kind, full-color photo montages and 3-D diagrams to take you onto the slopes and into the action. These phenomenal images capture some of the world's greatest skiers while illustrating the correct techniques for every condition and terrain.

To get the most out of your skiing potential, you need the ultimate in ski instruction. You need Ultimate Skiing.

Ultimate Skiing Reviews

I have been teaching, training, and coaching for over 20 years. Ron LeMaster's insights in Ultimate Skiing have helped create better experiences for everyone I work with on the slopes.
Katie Fry
Managing Director, Ski and Snowboard Schools of Aspen and Snowmass
PSIA and AASI National Education Teams Manager

Ultimate Skiing explains how to ski smoothly, strongly, and confidently. Through Ron LeMaster's insights from analyzing and coaching the best skiers in the world, you will improve your skills for better days out on the hill.
Daron Rahlves
Hahnenkamm Champion, World Champion, Olympian, 12-Time World Cup Winner, XGames Champion

Ultimate Skiing provides the definitive description of the inner workings of ski technique and performance. Ron LeMaster's expert instruction, complete with tools and drills to assess and adapt ski technique, is your ticket to skiing like the professionals.
Dee Byrne
Vail Snowsports School Director

About Ron LeMaster

Ron LeMaster spent more than 30 years as a ski instructor and race coach. Certified and accredited by the Professional Ski Instructors of America, LeMaster was a technical advisor to the U.S. ski team and Vail Ski School, and he lectured frequently about technique and biomechanics to ski schools and teams around North America, South America, and Europe.

A regular contributor to skiing magazines, LeMaster had also written technical guides for the Professional Ski Instructors of America. He had degrees in mechanical engineering and computer science.

LeMaster passed away in November 2021.

Table of Contents

Part I Fundamentals: Skiing From the Snow Up

Chapter 1. Skiing Mechanics

Chapter 2. Skis, Snow, and Motion Control

Chapter 3. Turn Anatomy 101

Part II Techniques: Controlling Your Interaction With the Snow

Chapter 4. Alignment and Stance

Chapter 5. Fore and Aft

Chapter 6. Up and Down

Chapter 7. Turning the Skis

Chapter 8. Edging the Skis

Chapter 9. Lateral Balance

Chapter 10. Boots

Part III Matching Tactics and Technique to Real-World Skiing

Chapter 11. Ice

Chapter 12. Moguls

Chapter 13. Powder, Crud, and Slush

Chapter 14. Steeps

Additional information

GOR005638434
9780736079594
0736079599
Ultimate Skiing by Ron LeMaster
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Human Kinetics Publishers
20091013
224
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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