FDB Skiers Need One-Ski Before Two

One of the best things you can do for your First-Day-Beginner Skiers is to start them out on one-ski with poles---they learn several things: they learn to ski while they walk, to use their poles to go but not to stop, to operate their bindings, to get around, to be able to get up after they fall down--they learn tons of confidence, setting the stage for the rest of their ski life. Skip the one-ski scenario, and you teach them failure--and it only takes a few minutes,--otherwise they can't get started right . . . and learn to abuse or hate poles.

Should "Ski Bums" Be Instructors?

Too many Ski Instructors confess or even brag they're a "Ski Bum" . . . without ever considering what they're saying. When I joined Pro Ski Instructors of Am in 1980, I took pride in the idea of being a "Professional"--it had a nice ring; but little did I know They would laugh at me later for thinking I could make a living. I have nothing against Ski Bums always plotting their next ski days; but they shouldn't hog the lift tickets and locker rooms and uniforms away from the True Professionals who are few-n-far between, . . . and they shouldn't be getting paid for giving lessons they don't even want or know-how to teach.

Teachin n Learning--Opposite Sides of Same Coin

Teaching anything is tricky and requires a lot of Responsibility. A Student has a potential, and it's the Instructor's job to help bring this out. Too many teachers take all the credit for a student performing well, and too many students don't know when they've been taught right. Actually, a Great Teacher knows more about just setting up the right circumstances for Comfort Zone and Learning . . . and then getting out of the Student's Way; . . . and it might help if progressive students could recognize when they've been taught right, instead of just taking it for granted. Our current socio-economic systems are not conducive to recognizing this fundamental truth, hence most great teachers go totally unnoticed, which is unfortunate for any students to come. Oh, I might cry in my beer about not getting very far in Life, but at least I know I've done what I can (which is good for the soul in the  long run),---and a few Great Students will know as well, as Teaching and Learning are opposite sides of the same coin.

The GH Syndrome

I realize what I do as a Ski Instructor may be just water under the bridge at this late date. But my books are out, and the Powers-That-Ski are reading them---that sure counts, as They're probably learning from me even if They don't admit it. Call it "the GH Syndrome: those who affect change . . . don't always win." Surely a small percentage of you give-a-damn and agree with my philosophy and methods and good intentions: Don't be afraid to stick your neck out like myself. It's not just about Ski Instruction, it's about doing what is right in all walks of life, and ultimately Saving Mankind and even The Planet---otherwise we're all just a bunch of ski bums not caring of any consequences. No, I'm not Jesus, and I don't have his support---but I don't make promises I can't keep. I'm just a damn-good Ski Teacher doing what I can when I can. Personally, I'd like to avoid or post-pone any shit hitting the fan, to ski-n-teach forever-and-ever-Amen . . . or at least an extra day.

A Skier's Natural "Differential"

It's not feasible or even possible to carve equally with both skis at the same time. In "RailRoad Track" Turns, when the skis stay exactly parallel, it's not because they carve totally the same, it's because the skier has a built-in "differential" in his body--your bones are all connected, so the inside ski just natually goes along for the ride as it is lighter than the outside working ski, much like the wheels on the drive-axle of your car. For the inside ski to really carve, it would actually need more edge-n-pressure than the outside ski, because the inside ski has a slower-tighter arc to make--and you don't want to ski "bowlegged" and risk putting your inside knee in the snow. Anyone who tells you to "work" that inside ski just as much or more than the outside ski is either ignorant or just playing PSIA Politics--they harass a lot of students and Certification Candidates with this one. When the "Shaped" Skis became twice as easy, they found a way to make some techniques triple-difficult and even impossible. Oh, they might have you carve on one-ski left-n-right, which is fine for some real hard-core experts, but this is not nice to force upon most people. GARY HEINS shows how easy skiing should be, not how hard.

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The GREATEST SKI INSTRUCTOR In the West
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