Snowborne: Journey into Freestyle Skiing Mastery

Snowborne: Journey into Freestyle Skiing Mastery
Author: Viona D. Rennoll
Publisher: Book Lovers HQ
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2024-09-24
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

"Snowborne: Journey into Freestyle Skiing Mastery" is your essential companion to mastering the exhilarating world of freestyle skiing. Whether you’re just starting or looking to sharpen your skills, this book takes you through every aspect of freestyle, from basic tricks to advanced combinations, helping you gain confidence, creativity, and control on the slopes. Freestyle skiing is about more than technique—it’s about personal expression, pushing boundaries, and finding freedom in every run. This book dives deep into the art of skiing, offering expert tips on how to progress through various tricks, manage fear, and build the mindset of a true freestyle skier. Alongside physical skill-building, you'll discover mental strategies to help you break through limitations, enter the flow state, and stay calm under pressure. Learn how to choose the right gear, master foundational skills like spins and grabs, and progress to more advanced techniques such as corks and rail slides. With a focus on creative thinking, this book encourages you to develop your own style while learning from the legends of the sport. You’ll also explore off-snow conditioning, competition preparation, and career-building strategies for those aiming to take freestyle skiing to the next level. What you will find in this book: Comprehensive breakdown of freestyle skiing techniques Step-by-step progression for tricks, jumps, and rail features Mental training to manage fear and perform under pressure Tips on building your personal style and creative approach How to choose and maintain the best gear for freestyle skiing Off-snow training methods to improve strength and agility Guidance on competing, self-promotion, and career-building Whether you're aiming to dominate competitions or simply make the most of your time on the mountain, "Snowborne" will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to ride with style and mastery.

The Old Weird Albion

The Old Weird Albion
Author: Justin Hopper
Publisher: Bright Sparks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: National characteristics, British
ISBN: 9781908058379

A woman stands at the edge of a cliff, looking out to sea and the horizon. Dancers welcome the sun in a circle of stones. A dowsing road turns without warning. A church bell. Footsteps. Old Weird Albion is America writer Justin Hopper's dark love song to the English South; a poetic essay interrogating the high, haunted landscape of the South Downs Way; the memories, myths and forgotten histories from Winchester to Beachy Head. When someone disappears, when someone leaps from a cliff and is all-but-erased from memory, what traces might we find in the crumbling chalk of the cliff face; in the wind that buffets the edge of this Albion? A skewed alternative to Bill Bryson, Hopper casts himself as the outsider as he wanders the English countryside in pursuit of mystical encounters. His journey sees him joining New Age eccentrics and accidental visionaries on the hunt for crop circles and druidic stones, discussing the power of nature with ecotherapists and pagans, tracing the ruins of abandoned settlements and walking the streets of eerie suburbs. Through a startling revelation of his own family history, Hopper turns part detective, part memoirist, tracking the footsteps of his grandfather's first wife, Doris; piecing together her forgotten history.

Skiing Into Modernity

Skiing Into Modernity
Author: Andrew Denning
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2014-11-26
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0520284275

"Examines the relationship between skiers and the Alpine environment since the late nineteenth century. It argues that skiing and winter tourism modernized the Alps in both material and perceptual terms while the Alpine landscape itself challenged skiers to alter their practices and philosophies of sport, leisure and nature, harmonizing Alpine skiing with modern cultural values and social practices in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

Two Planks and a Passion

Two Planks and a Passion
Author: Roland Huntford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826423388

Roland Huntford's brilliant history begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth. Man is a travelling animal, and on these icy slopes skiing began as a means of survival. That it has developed into the leisure and sporting pursuit of choice by so much of the globe bears testament to its elemental appeal. In polar exploration, it has changed the course of history. Elsewhere, in war and peace, it has done so too. The origins of skiing are bound up in with the emergence of modern man and the world we live in today.

The Ski Guide Manual

The Ski Guide Manual
Author: Rob Coppolillo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2020-11-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1493043439

This updated, expert ski guide provides top-of-the-line insight for backcountry/off-piste skiiers and guides. The Ski Guide Manual presents wisdom earned through decades of experience guiding and. The result is a successful system of travel and risk management in the winter environment. The collective work of thousands of mountain guides have proven how to have the most fun and find the best snow, all which reducing risk of avalanche, cold, crevasses, and optimize group dynamics.

Best of Andrae Crouch

Best of Andrae Crouch
Author: Andraé Crouch
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996-04
Genre: Contemporary Christian music
ISBN: 9780793564736

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 25 beloved classics from this Grammy Award-winning member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, including: The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power * Got Me Some Angels * Jesus Is the Answer * The Lord Is My Light * My Tribute * Soon and Very Soon * We Give You the Glory * and more.

The Very Best of Albert King (Songbook)

The Very Best of Albert King (Songbook)
Author: Albert King
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2002-12-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1458486044

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Albert King was one of the greatest and most important guitarists of all time. He not only changed the blues world, but also influenced most modern guitar playing whether today's players realize it or not! This collection assembles 15 of his finest pieces transcribed note-for-note with tab. Includes: Angel of Mercy * Blues Power * Born Under a Bad Sign * Crosscut Saw * Don't Throw Your Love on Me So Strong * The Hunter * I Wanna Get Funky * Killing Floor * Laundromat Blues * Oh Pretty Woman * The Sky Is Crying * and more.

To Heaven's Heights

To Heaven's Heights
Author: Ingrid Christophersen
Publisher: Unicorn
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2021-09-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781913491765

* A unique anthology of skiing literature* Famous international authors* A beautiful presentation* Edited by the leading skiing authority

Supernormal

Supernormal
Author: Meg Jay
Publisher: Twelve
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2017-11-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1455559148

Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity. Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us experience adversity by the age of 20. But these experiences are often kept secret, as are our courageous battles to overcome them. Drawing on nearly two decades of work with clients and students, Jay tells the tale of ordinary people made extraordinary by these all-too-common experiences, everyday superheroes who have made a life out of dodging bullets and leaping over obstacles, even as they hide in plain sight as doctors, artists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, parents, activists, teachers, students and readers. She gives a voice to the supernormals among us as they reveal not only "How do they do it?" but also "How does it feel?" These powerful stories, and those of public figures from Andre Agassi to Jay Z, will show supernormals they are not alone but are, in fact, in good company. Marvelously researched and compassionately written, this exceptional book narrates the continuing saga that is resilience as it challenges us to consider whether -- and how -- the good wins out in the end.

Hut to Hut USA

Hut to Hut USA
Author: Laurel Bradley
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1680512692

2023 Independent Publisher Book Award GOLD in Travel Guidebooks Overview of sixteen complete systems (three or more huts) with all you need to know to plan a trip—from terrain to costs and other logistics At-a-glance tables for quick comparison of hut systems Full-color photos and detailed maps Hut to Hut USA celebrates the opportunities for hut-tohut hiking, mountain biking, and skiing or snowshoeing at sixteen hut systems across the United States—from the Appalachian Mountain Club’s hiking huts in the White Mountains, to the San Juan Huts that allow mountain bikers to pedal from Telluride or Durango to Moab, to the Rendezvous Huts for Nordic skiers in Washington’s Methow Valley. For the featured systems, the book describes modes of travel, amenities, quality of experience, terrain, required skill level, the route itself, wayfinding tips, and booking and cost details, with photographs and maps. Suggested day-by-day itineraries with mileages, elevation gain and loss, and hut GPS coordinates help adventurers craft their trip. Demas and Bradley also offer a general history of hut systems around the world and examine how they have developed in the US over the past century. This comprehensive, practical guidebook is the first to cover all of the US hut systems, meeting growing interest in hut-tohut travel.