Chalky White's The 7 Secrets of Skiing: A Proven Systematic Route into the World of Advanced/Expert Skiing

by Chalky White

Overview

The book's first edition, this is the second published by the author himself, for several months, has been #1 in Amazon 'Average Custom Reviews'. 7 Secrets author, Chalky White, maintains that few skiers have a clear understanding of how to consistently work body and equipment as one efficient unit - one that will stand the testing rigours of advanced skiing. Chalky upholds that this situation can be changed if approached in a systematic way. This book's information offers skiers just that; a functional way of developing dominance over mind, body and equipment. The premise of the book is that skiers developing a rock like athletic stance can develop true balance - Balance means Power! First, powerful balance enables any skier to make basic, forceful turns - turns the vast majority can only dream about, but rarely achieve. Second, from that base, a skier can kick the gateway to advanced/expert skiing wide open. A bonus - exhilaration tends to replace the 'great inhibitor', fear. The 7 Secrets of Skiing system is powerful and, it works. Any skier with a strong work ethic will develop from the book's information. The 7 Secrets' back cover offers contact, website and blog information. Balance is power!

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940013331020
Publisher:	Bernard White
Publication date:	10/03/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Once described by one of his clients as, "One of the World's best ski instructors," Bernard 'Chalky' White, is originally from from the United Kingdom. Author of Chalky White's, The 7 Secrets of Skiing', he is a long established member of the esteemed Beaver Creek Ski School in Colorado. Chalky skied, for the the first ever time, at age 26, late for someone aspiring to be become a 'top drawer' teacher, fulfilling his dream of becoming a ski instructor at the ripe old age of 31. His first profession was that of Police Officer, a 'bobby', for nine years - this occupation nurtured Chalky's reading of diverse personalities. Becoming a ski 'bum' in the mid seventies, Chalky seemed to lack the natural athletic ability that others seemed to possess. Only dedication led him, in 1984, to the New Zealand Ski Instructors' Alliance full certification. From 1985 to 1993, based in Les Arcs, France, Chalky worked as an independent instructor where he operated high intensity ski courses; still his greatest professional passion (Chalky now runs his 7 Secrets ski courses, based on the book). In 1995, he became a health and fitness instructor. He qualified through both the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Council for Exercise. Through the years, in relation to skiing, Chalky has become an adept public speaker and presenter. In 1988, in support of the Back-Up spinal injuries charity, Chalky completed his greatest athletic achievement - As a beginner cross country summer training roller skier, he travelled more than one thousand miles distance between the two extremities of mainland Britain; a 38 day journey - he was the first to ever accomplish that particular feat. Chalky's sense of humour is somewhat incorrigible; another major reason why his popularity with skiing clients remains undiminished.

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Editorial Reviews

This book provides great tips for improving skiing technique at all levels. I suggest taking notes or highlighting as you read it as it is quite detailed. The book provides exercises that help understand basic fundamentals such as balance and correct body positioning. Love the $100 bill trick! Anyone trying to learn any sport should read page 25. Deals with the rewards of enduring a learning curve. To me - the most important page in the book. Great reading for students and teachers alike. The fa

Amazon reviews - Micky Poage

The Force is with this book, oh yes...a recommendation that is never given lightly. Only a few ski-teachers have earned the exalted title of Ski Jedi. And with this book Chalky White joins the ranks. Buy it people, open it. Feel the warmth of the skiing knowledge contained within radiate from its pages. Savour it! This is the wisdom passed down through the ranks of ski-instructors to their own, yet distilled here for you in printed form. This is the book you will ever-after take with you to read

Amazon reviews - Dan Taylor

Best how to ski book I've ever read. Amazingly simple – Purchased the book " Chalky White's The 7 Secrets of Skiing " while on a skiing vacation to Colorado last month ( Feb., 2011 ). I just had a chance to read the first 4 secrets and applied them on the slopes the next day. It made it so much easier to ski well, and with confidence. Highly recommend the book to all skiers at all levels. Particularly good for people just beginning to ski. I wish a book like this could be written for golf

Amazon reviews - Milton Shlapak

Balanced Skiing Rocks, February 27, 2011 – We have been skiing with Chalky for years, and the book is an accurate summary of everything that we have learned from him. The book is so true to the essence of Chalky's dissection of the elements of skiing that I cannot help reading the book in his British accent! Every sentence of the book has helped my family to become better skiers. We intend to use the book as an off mountain preparation for every ski holiday. The plain language, great phot

Amazon reviews - Jody Ellant

Fascinating, technically accurate and, most importantly, a fun read (March 17, 2011)
As a PSIA level 2-certified alpine ski instructor, I find this book to be well-organized, fascinating, technically accurate and very thorough while, at the same time, easy and fun to read. Originally from the UK, Chalky is known throughout the ski instructing community worldwide as an incredible skier, a veteran colleague with impeccable credentials and an all-around nice guy. From what I've ga

Amazon reviews - Stephen Wood