OK, let’s take a break from skills, strategies and concepts. The brain and body can only absorb so much. Let’s hurt something else. Our wallets. Equipment is something that we all can change relatively easily. Compression clothing really does help a skier. I don’t pretend to understand how it truly works but it does. With…
Every start of the season, after a few runs of clearing the cobwebs, I find myself skiing quite well. Then somehow through the season, that feeling slowly but surely dissipates. It happens almost without fail every season. Through shared conversations with other instructors, I’ve discovered that this phenomenon is not unique just to myself. So…
As strange as that sounds it holds true and very much so for many instructors I know as well. Although more accurately it should probably be, “…so I could learn how to ski better“. Being a ski instructor has several advantages in that pursuit that others cannot usually get, not at least without great expense.…
