A Savvy Skiboy's Seven Silky Sayin's

From The GREATEST SKI INSTRUCTOR In the West:

by GARY HEINS

A Savvy Ski-boy's Seven Silky Sayin's For Skillful Skiin'

                I              Nobody can train

                                             a good skier in a hurry,

                                                          and anybody can spoil 'em

                II             Get mounted on ski equipment

                                         as you would a horse-n-saddle,

                                                for your own compat-ability level

                III           Ski every turn . . .

                                        as if it could be your last,

                                              and make thy turns multiply

                IV           Develop three basic skills

                                     for balance--pressure, edge, turning,--

                                                        and be the ski-teacher's PET

                V             Monitor three primary variables

                                 --slope, snow, task--for your comfort-zone,

                                                             and ski fluently in any context

                VI           Ski down the mountain,

                                           not across it, . . . and

                                                be S-turn stern, not Z-turn zingy

                VII          The Golden Rule:

                                   One Good Turn Deserves Another

                                            . . . and then another and another

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