Every Shot in the Bag

Every Shot in the Bag

You can’t consider yourself a complete golfer if you can’t put every club in the bag to good use.  Skiers also have a bag of clubs, not in the sense of having 14 skis from which to choose, but in the arsenal of turn shapes and turning techniques that can be deployed...
What Separates Great Skiers from Good Skiers

What Separates Great Skiers from Good Skiers

The Cutting Edge: What Separates Great Skiers from Good Skiers Isn’t Their Skis This reverie may strike some readers as an odd blog entry from a person who writes over 200 ski reviews a season, but chances are a new ski won’t change your skiing as much as learning how...
Ski Lessons

Ski Lessons

Snowbird Secrets co-author “Guru” Dave Powers at work A ski lesson is a period of instruction meant to advance one’s skills. But a ski lesson can also mean something else; skiing also teaches us about the meaning of life. Two years ago I published a...
Stepping into the Stream

Stepping into the Stream

John Clendenin’s Day Off! Stepping into the Stream Or Motion Beyond Mechanics Among the many ways to define the boundary between good skiers and true masters is that the former tend to be obsessed with technique (the better to breach said boundary), while the...
You Can’t Get There From Here

You Can’t Get There From Here

The Tipping Point Or, You Can’t Get There From Here There’s a folk tale about a Vermonter that begins with a lost tourist asking for directions and ends with the native’s curt advice: You cain’t git they-ah from he-ah. Expert skiers who have mastered a measure...