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Myths, Lies and Skiing Apr 23, 2011
By Tony Brooks I have read a number of instructional books on skiing and each time learnt something that has helped. Often however you are left with the impression that your day on the slopes is going to be taking up with exercises and hard concentration, instead of enjoyment and fun (which is why I ski). The technical aspects of skiing are important but often cloud the mind with too much information and too much to think about especially at speed down a slope avoiding other skiers and keeping an eye out for bumps, trees, snow conditions etc. This book is different!
Les is not interested in impressing the reader with how much he knows technically about skiing (which is no doubt a lot) but instead impresses with how much he knows about people and the differing ways they learn. And this is the important bit, how we humans learn, in this regard the book is revolutionary and quite different to any other books out there at the moment.
I have two other books that I have enjoyed and learnt from, Soft Skiing by Lito Tejada-Flores and The All-Mountain Skier by R.Mark Elling. Both quite different books one trying to simplify and the other more of a skiing manual. Myths, Lies & Skiing, is strangely enough a mixture of the two, covering the important basic aspects of both.
If you are anything other than an expert skier this book will be an extremely helpful and enjoyable read. I rate it 4 stars simply because 5 stars would be perfect and I don't see that as possible, no matter what you do there should always be room for improvement. A great book!
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