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Fore

Description:

On gentle terrain, do half turns, then full turns,

then finally connected turns, with your weight always concentrated on the balls of your feet. 


Purpose:

Learning to ski in a fore state of balance,

and discover how the skis perform there.


Hints For Success:


  1. Bullet Make your balance state adjustments mainly
    by flexing and extending your ankles. 

  2. Bullet Focus on the pressure under your feet.

Maintain consistent ball of foot pressure. 

  1. Bullet Feel how easily the skis want to turn when skiing fore balanced. 

    Variations:

Do left and right half and full turns.  Do both short and long radius full and connected turns.   Vary how far you move fore.   Move to steeper terrain.




THE ANGULATION & TRANSITION

DVDs ARE FINISHED !!

I'm very pleased to report to you that production of the entire Building Blocks Instructional Series is now complete.  I devoted a good portion of my summer/fall to the editing of our Angulation and Transitions DVDs from the on snow footage we shot last winter, and they are now available for sale.  


What a monumental project this have been.  I'm glad that when I started I didn't have a clear picture of what it would require to complete this endeavor, or I may have never begun.    It's now very obvious to me why no one before had produce an instructional series as comprehensive as Building Blocks.  For the past two years I've lived grasping firmly to the belief that elephants can indeed be consumed if eaten one bite at a time, and I'm here to tell you it's true.  We now have Building Blocks available in it's entirety.  


The Building Blocks Instructional Series is a 6 DVD series that consists of 9 full hours of skills training that will allow skiers of all levels to take their skiing prowess to its highest potential.  Nothing else on the market offers the comprehensive skill building that Building Blocks provides.   While only on the market for a year now, and in bits and pieces while production has commenced, Building Blocks has been selling around the world (see our countries list), and has been receiving rave reviews.  We're thrilled with the abundance of positive feedback.  I knew there was a huge void in the market for the type of self training program Building Blocks provides, and I appreciate everyone letting us know that our desire to fill that void has been such a success.


I want to thank all my friends and students for your continuous encouragement through the many months of long hours and late nights creating the Building Blocks Instructional Series.  You provided the motivation I needed to soldier on to the end.  We now have a training program that for years to come will help skiers find greater satisfaction and joy in this sport we all love. 


Sincerely, 


Rick Schnellmann

Your Ski Coach

What's New?

Some of our students have wanted to take summaries of the DVDs to the hill. So now we are making drill cards available for ALL the Building Blocks DVDs. Laminated pocket sized cards with summary of the drill, hints, cautions and variations. One drill per side. Two per card. Take just the drills you want to work on, to the ski hill with you, in your pocket.

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All Drill Cards Available

Some of our students have wanted to take summaries of the DVDs to the hill. So now we are making drill cards available for the ALL the Building Blocks DVDs. Laminated pocket sized cards with summary of the drill, hints, cautions and variations. One drill per side. Two per card. Take just the drills you want to work on, to the ski hill with you, in your pocket.

Around the World
See where we have sent DVDs

Beginner Videos
New learn to ski videos



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Spiral Learning

A new spin on developing your skiing skills.



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