Soft Skiing: The Secrets of Effortless, Low-Impact Skiing for Older Skiers
16
Jan
Product Description
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 a… More >>
Soft Skiing: The Secrets of Effortless, Low-Impact Skiing for Older Skiers
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.
Rating: 3 / 5
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.
Rating: 5 / 5