Your Ski Coach
Bringing World Class Skills To The Recreational Skier
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The premiere website for skiers looking to improve their skiing skills. If you're looking to take your skiing to the next level, and increase the amount of fun you have during your days on the slopes, you've come to the right place!
Coach Rick Schnellmann brought his decades of experience developing world class racers to the recreational skier. He'll show you how to develop the skills that will allow you to reach your own personal potential, and experience the sport in a way that most skiers never do.
Have a look around the site and see how we can help you reach your goals.
Let us introduce some of the main sections of our site:
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Ski Instruction DVDs
All you need to know about our ski lesson DVDs and how to purchase them -
Online Ski Instruction
Articles on ski instruction that support our DVDs -
Beginner Ski Instruction
Hints and tips about learning to ski for beginner skiers -
Ask the Coach
Questions to the coach and his answers -
Building Blocks
Building Blocks is the guiding principle of our series of ski instructional DVDs - this section provides support for the building blocks DVD series
Improve Your Skiing with Learn to Ski DVDs, Online Ski Instruction, and Coaching.
New stuff
Spring Ski Camps
Some of our students have wanted to take summaries of the instruction DVDs to the hill. So now we are making drill cards available for the ALL the Building Blocks ski instruction 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
New Articles
Saying Good-bye to Fear
How to learn to shed the fear that inhibits your ability to ski steep terrain, or just stops you from really enjoying the intermediate slopes.
Old School - New Skool
How the shaped (carve) ski has changed ski technique
A Revival of the Steered Turn Rediscovering the virtues and benefits of steering, to take your skiing to a new level.
A new spin on developing your skiing skills.
If there are areas you'd like us to write about please email us.
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