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Herman Maier is one of history’s great ski competitors. He has won 4 overall World Cup titles, a pair of Olympic Gold Medals (in 1998), 54 World Cup Races and three World Championships. Known as “The Herminator”(one of the all-time great sports nicknames and obviously derived from fellow Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character “The Terminator”), Maier is a …
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Tempting Fear is a piece of dangerous art. The film, sponsored by Salomon (almost everyone who skis has skied on Salomon gear), follows extreme skier Andreas Fransson. Extreme skiing is dangerous. Backcountry skiing is dangerous. Skiing off-piste is dangerous. Skiing the trees is dangerous. Skiing is a dangerous sport (all the more reason to be …
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One of America’s great competitors–Lindsey Vonn–in a short clip that shows her winning her 62nd World Cup race. Vonn has suffered multiple serious knee injuries but she is ruthless in her determination to compete and refuses to walk away from a sport that she loves as long as she can recover to the ability to …
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Powder snow is to skiing as clay courts are to tennis. A great powder day lives forever, as anyone who skis powder knows. This short film is a wonderful celebration of all that is good (and dangerous) about powder skiing. Yes…it’s a promotional film. So? It is exceptionally well shot, edited, and produced and you …
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Great, short, little film, that will give you some insight into the event a lot of experts believe to be the purest in all of Alpine skiing: the downhill. The concept is simple: get out of the gate and go down the course as fast as you can, testing muscle, nerves, stamina, and technique at …
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It’s the middle of winter and time for skiing–World Cup Skiing to be exact. The FIS World Championships to be even more exact. Last year, at this time, we were headed into the Winter Olympics (the opening ceremony was on 7 February 2014). This year, the Olympics are a memory but the series that keeps skiing …
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Edgework: Continuing with our series of videos to make you more technique conscious. More instruction from the Ski Priority Series…this one on Pressure Based Steering, something you will need to master to ski it steep and ski it deep. Watch the video a couple of times and it’s best if you can kick it to …
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