Centred Balance And Athletic Movement: Ski Performance Breakthrough, #1

By Hugh Monney

Excellent skiers influence their skis with very subtle inputs.
These inputs are often too subtle to be seen by the untrained eye, but have very clear and obvious consequences.
Most skiers attempt to imitate these consequences, without being aware of the subtle inputs that created them.
This is the source of frustration, fatigue and that 'out of control' feeling.
Once you understand the subtle inputs and use them for yourself, you will begin to create your own, excellent consequences.
At each stage in this series of books, you will discover exactly
what these subtle inputs are,
why you need them and
when, where and how to apply them.
Just as importantly, you'll discover how to control them, shape them, adapt them and adjust them, so that they give you the control that earns you the freedom of the mountains.
Centred balance - your number one priority
There is a sweet spot on each ski, a place to balance, a place to be.
Your number one priority, as a skier, is to find this place on each ski, so that you can become familiar with it, balance upon it, press through it and pivot about it.
There are three questions that will help us get to grips with this issue:
Where is the place?
Why is this place so important? How do I get there?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hugh Monney
• Release date: Jan 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9780992800833

Hugh Monney

Performance coach and author of Ski Performance Breakthrough - the series of e-books. Hugh is also the Director and founder of the BASS Network of elite snowsports schools, operating in: Chamonix - Chatel - Courchevel - Les Gets - Les Contamines - Les Deux Alpes - Megeve - Meribel - Morzine - St Gervais - Tignes - Val d'Isere He runs advanced skiing clinics and off pistes courses in the Alps, as well as off piste adventures across the globe, having previously trained thousands of skiers and hundreds of ski instructors. Formerly a research chemist, for the Cancer Research Campaign, Hugh has a degree in Chemistry and a Master's research degree. He is also a qualified science teacher. He spent 10 years in the science departments of British universities before switching to a career in skiing. He began skiing in 1975 and became a full time ski teacher in 1984, to get out of the lab and into the mountains. He has skied extensively throughout Europe and his off piste skiing and Heliski clinics have taken him to Argentina, Canada, Chile and Greenland. He was a Trainer and examiner of instructors for the British Association of Snowsports Instructors, for 22 years, from 1989 to 2011, and contributed to the development of BASI's system of instructor training. He represented Britain as a member of the GB Demonstration Team, at the 1991 Interski Congress, in St Anton. For many years, Hugh was invited to train the British Mountain Guides in Off Piste skiing performance. Hugh wrote and presented the 1991 Channel 4 TV and video series "The Complete Skier" and in the same year he founded BASS, The British Alpine Ski and Snowboard School. The BASS Network of elite snowsports schools now extends to 12 resorts across the Alps. His main interests, in addition to his family, are: Alpine & Telemark skiing, developing the quality of service to clients of the BASS Network, Photography, Science, Tai Chi Chuan, Motorcycling, Cycling, Balance trainiing, including slack line and playing guitar. Qualifications include; BASI ISTD Level 4, International Ski Teacher Diploma BASI Telemark Teacher Full certification in France M.Phil, B.Sc. (Hons), PGCE Some comments from Hugh's clients and colleagues: "Hugh is a technical expert and an innovator, continually pushing the boundaries with his exciting and dynamic ideas, many of which have put BASI at the fore...

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