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Edgework: A short but good on essential knowledge for skiers: where to place the binding on your ski. This one is produced with the emphasis on freestyle skiing. It’s information you should know before you put a new set of bindings on your new skis (or your old ones for that matter). The video is …
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Edgework: It’s not the Winter Film Festival without a film from Warren Miller (or to be more specific, Warren Miller Entertainment). Today’s treat–the full length feature “Live Like There’s No Tomorrow”–has all of the highlights we’ve come to expect from a Warren Miller film. Terrific camerawork. amazing skiing, big air, exotic locations, laconic athletes who …
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Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Friday, 9 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. A huge snowstorm–with the emphasis on “storm”–hit the Northeast last night. Schools were closed; traffic disrupted; streets clogged. But as big and impactful as the weather can be, it takes second place this week to national …
Edgework: From out friends at Ski School, another very good video on how to ski bumps. Bumps can be either an absolutely disaster if you don’t have the right technique, or a lot of fun if you do. Some people dread skiing the bumps–they’re terrified because they don’t know how to handle them. Face it: …
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“If you don’t do it this year, you’ll be one year older when you do…”
Edgework: To follow up on our previous post about Giant Slalom skiing, here’s another nice video,, this one by FISI TV, featuring Frederica Brignone of the Italian National Team. The dialogue is in Italian (you do speak Italian, don’t you), but there are subtitles and plenty of good action shots and overheads to give you …
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Press Clippings: Good Morning. It’s Thursday, 9 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. The Washington soap opera rolls on. Are we making any real progress? America voted and got the government it wanted. It’ll even out–sooner or later. But maybe not. And..the world goes on. Catch up on what’s happening with the …
Edgework: One of holy grails of skiing is skiing the trees. It’s right up there with deep powder, helicopter skiing, and skiing the backside of the mountain. The attraction is a combination of danger and exhilaration: get it right and it’s one of the best experiences you’ll ever have on skis. Get it wrong and …
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit…..”
Edgework: A short, great video from ski company Rossignol on Giant Slalom(GS) racing and racing technique. Giant Slalom is the skiing event that splits the difference between the jarring, quick-turn discipline of slalom (be precise and be super-quick or you’re out) and the power-through-the-danger style of the downhill. Giant Slalom racing is a more fluid …
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