It’s my business to sell the promise that a new pair of skis will bring joy and a sense of completion that life would lack without them. It grieves me to no end to inform you that while new skis may indeed augment your happiness and boost your self-esteem, the...
Before diving headlong into this week’s topic, let me clarify a central point that in a sense renders this Revelation’s irrelevant: technique conquers all. Great skiers can take their game anywhere with no discernable decline in performance. From the point of view of...
When I took my first steps on skis, it was Stein. He was the skier everyone wanted to emulate. “You ski like Stein” was the highest possible compliment one could pay to another member of skiing’s cozy fraternity. Pardon the cliché, but it was a simpler time. The ski...
What Separates Good Skiers from Great 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 for realskiers.com, but chances are a new ski won’t change your skiing as much as learning...
