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Welcome to Breakthrough On Skis III – The New Skis, my third video ski lesson, an in-depth exploration of the new generation of super-sidecut or shaped skis. Creating this video was almost as exciting as my own encounter with these remarkable new skis. I worked with a handful of great skiing friends–all of them, like me, absolutely smitten, totally converted and enthusiastic about these new skis. I asked my gifted cameraman, Edgar Boyles, to zoom in, closer than ever, on w… More >>
Breakthrough On Skis III, The New Skis
Not as good as the first two series, but still worth having. If you have the first two, this one is not necessay to view. Mostly a re-hash of the first two videos
Rating: 4 / 5
After watching the movie twice. I can safely say I would have rather simply purchased the first two. This movie makes many refrences to the first and second movies but fails to really provide any extra instructional details. The book however is a great read.
Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this video first and found the first five minutes of the video useful. But then I got got the first of the series and found it to be just incredible (I will be rating that video five stars). This video is first of all…boring. I almost fell asleep drinking a glass of wine about halfway through. I just found this video to be a mapping of the techniques in I & II to the shaped skiis. Basically, the techniques Tito speaks of don’t change from I & II but he stresses that the shaped ski is more responsive than the older skiis. Don’t waste your money on this one. I recommend the first in the series if you want to ski the groomed slopes and the second for bumps and powder.
Rating: 1 / 5
Within the opening frames of this relaxing but engrossing video, one is transported to both a new manner of teaching as well as just great basic instruction. This video acts a great teaching tool for everyone from green circle to double black diamond. You can review portions of the instruction all season and learn excellent technique over and over again.
Rating: 5 / 5
Lito Tejeda-Flores is by far the most intelligent, rational and non-irritating teacher of skiing to intermediates. Especially if you only ski a week or two a year, and can’t seem to make progress to your satisfaction, he will change all that. His book, “Breakthrough on Skis,” is a starting point. His first two videos are indispensable companions to it and lay out a very simple strategy for the graceful, less tiring, and ultimately addictively satisfying realization of skiing as it should be. If you currently make windshield-wiper turns, wobble like a weeble, and proceed through bumps at low speeed all the while wondering not if but when you’ll fall, take heart: they are solveable problems, you will see immediate improvement. Most worthy: you will see what you are trying to do, and the mystery will be replaced by the simple need to develop some new tools and then to enjoyably practice them for the rest of your life. BUT, the fact is that the new skis, which are hugely better than the olds ones, don’t change technique very much at all. They are simply easier to ski well on. Sorry, but if you own older skis you must throw them away, demo entry level “shaped skis,” and eventually buy a pair. Plan to demo this winter–a different brand each day. They will be shorter in length than previous–probably about as long as you are tall. That’s all there is to it, in reality. For a strong intermediate guy start with the equivalet of K24-brand skiis. For Women, the Rossis that are the most popular rentals. The skiis will turn much more easily than you are used to. If they chatter or are unstable when you go fast, you need to upgrade to the next skills level of demos. The implication of these remarks is that Lito’s new tape is the least necessary. All his ideas are promulgated in the earlier tapes. Alas, this one seems an advertisement for them, and it advocates the techniques of Harold Harb, who’s in it. But Harb’s elegant observation–that whatever you do to your unweighed ski, the weighted ski will follow–is really only a tip. You need the entire Tejeda-Flores course to change your skiing style and life. All in all, this tape is by no means essential. Lito seems to have been Aspenized, there is an advertising quality that is absolutely out of character from the easlier work. By the way, Lito’s book and the first two tapes make an excellent present for anyone you know who would like to be a better skiier. I have watched them both 100 times and never gotten tired. I’m not a ski instructor. You can buy thenm all for the price of one lesson at Vail. And remember, nobody can teach you this stuff–you have to teach yourself. Only when you have a question can anybody help you. Good luck. Tejeda-Flores is the master. And he skids his turns a little, which is hope or solace for us all.
Rating: 5 / 5