جزئیات کتاب
فرمت
کیندل
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304
زبان
انگلیسی
منتشر شده
Nov 26, 2013
ناشر
George C. Baird
توضیحات
What is in this book for you?
To my many students throughout the years, may I express my deepest gratitude for there immeasurable contributions to this work. Without their faith in the value of my quest, I could not have searched so painstakingly as I did for the more universal solutions that lay beyond the ready answers. Without their encouragement, I would have lacked both the motivation and the opportunity to test my finding and document the results. This book is dedicated to all the skiers I've known and skied with. Most of all, it is dedicated to the skiers of tomorrow that I may never know but help in some small way by writing about what I've learned.
This book came about because my daughters, Becky and Susan, asked me to write down the things I had taught them, their children and friends about skiing as they grew up. After compiling and writing this work, I determined it was
"good information" and would possibly be of interest to others. So, it is a history book, rather than , a dictatorial invention about ski technique.
The information enclosed in this book is what I learned and used to ski and teach thousands of ski lessons over the last 40 years. I joined the National ski patrol for a few years because as a certified ski instructor I was having trouble analyzing their skiing technique. As an instructor, I had skied with and helped many patrolmen and women and was amazed at their power and grace. I thought, " it must be they know something I don't know". It wasn't that I didn't understand current ski technique as I had been awarded the " Outstanding Ski Instructor" award in the greater Salt Lake City ski school. In all the time I talked and skied with them I never saw or heard of any skill not included in this book. the conclusions I came to, because it happened to me, they were mostly right brained skiers who dealt with skiing as a whole "holistically", not by the numbers. They were able to block out the left-brain's critical input because they were worrying about other things like safety and injuries to skiers in the area of their responsibility.
If you have found a better technique than GC Baird's history book, use it. That is certainly understandable, because, skiing is like music with its endless combinations.
If your objective is to use this material to simply help you ski better, I have no doubt your objective shall be attained and our time together will have been productive. it will have been perfecto.
Who is this book for? Skiing in motion. Reducing it to a series or combination of static body poses is pointless.
In a typical ski school, you will hear instruction: " don't do this. make sure you do this. No,no you are supposed to do it this way!" Skiing becomes an endless list of do and don't, should and shouldn't. Although much is being taught, the learning, I fear, is deficient. If the learning experience does not lead naturally to the experience of dynamic skiing, then the most sophisticated and technical instruction will have missed the point of this book.
What's most important is your ability to learn. Learning is easy. it's fun. Learning generates new opportunities, expands your perspective, and adds depth to your experiences. It is very possible for you to learn to ski well enough to experience the flowing dynamic qualities of skiing. The goal of this material is to help you do just that. From here on in this material, the holistic sensation that people feel when they ski with the total involvement will be referred to as "flow".
Perhaps the clearest sign of flow is the merging of the action and awareness. A person in flow has no dualistic perspective; he or she is aware of their action but not of awareness itself. Flow is a state of ecstasy.
To my many students throughout the years, may I express my deepest gratitude for there immeasurable contributions to this work. Without their faith in the value of my quest, I could not have searched so painstakingly as I did for the more universal solutions that lay beyond the ready answers. Without their encouragement, I would have lacked both the motivation and the opportunity to test my finding and document the results. This book is dedicated to all the skiers I've known and skied with. Most of all, it is dedicated to the skiers of tomorrow that I may never know but help in some small way by writing about what I've learned.
This book came about because my daughters, Becky and Susan, asked me to write down the things I had taught them, their children and friends about skiing as they grew up. After compiling and writing this work, I determined it was
"good information" and would possibly be of interest to others. So, it is a history book, rather than , a dictatorial invention about ski technique.
The information enclosed in this book is what I learned and used to ski and teach thousands of ski lessons over the last 40 years. I joined the National ski patrol for a few years because as a certified ski instructor I was having trouble analyzing their skiing technique. As an instructor, I had skied with and helped many patrolmen and women and was amazed at their power and grace. I thought, " it must be they know something I don't know". It wasn't that I didn't understand current ski technique as I had been awarded the " Outstanding Ski Instructor" award in the greater Salt Lake City ski school. In all the time I talked and skied with them I never saw or heard of any skill not included in this book. the conclusions I came to, because it happened to me, they were mostly right brained skiers who dealt with skiing as a whole "holistically", not by the numbers. They were able to block out the left-brain's critical input because they were worrying about other things like safety and injuries to skiers in the area of their responsibility.
If you have found a better technique than GC Baird's history book, use it. That is certainly understandable, because, skiing is like music with its endless combinations.
If your objective is to use this material to simply help you ski better, I have no doubt your objective shall be attained and our time together will have been productive. it will have been perfecto.
Who is this book for? Skiing in motion. Reducing it to a series or combination of static body poses is pointless.
In a typical ski school, you will hear instruction: " don't do this. make sure you do this. No,no you are supposed to do it this way!" Skiing becomes an endless list of do and don't, should and shouldn't. Although much is being taught, the learning, I fear, is deficient. If the learning experience does not lead naturally to the experience of dynamic skiing, then the most sophisticated and technical instruction will have missed the point of this book.
What's most important is your ability to learn. Learning is easy. it's fun. Learning generates new opportunities, expands your perspective, and adds depth to your experiences. It is very possible for you to learn to ski well enough to experience the flowing dynamic qualities of skiing. The goal of this material is to help you do just that. From here on in this material, the holistic sensation that people feel when they ski with the total involvement will be referred to as "flow".
Perhaps the clearest sign of flow is the merging of the action and awareness. A person in flow has no dualistic perspective; he or she is aware of their action but not of awareness itself. Flow is a state of ecstasy.
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هیجانانگیز و تعلیق
کودکان
اکشن و ماجراجویی
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