skiing

Presents a fitness program for skiing and snowboarding enthusiasts. Shows how training helps build strength, improve timing, and avoid injury. Offers step-by-step instructions for a year-round fitness program.

Surveys the history, equipment, techniques, and safety aspects of skiing, including snowplowing, sideslipping, and competing, and includes short biographies of top skiers and a time line.

Describes different kinds of skiing--cross-county, jumping, racing, freestyle, downhill--and the techniques, equipment, and terminology involved.

Introduces the techniques, equipment, rules, and safety requirements of skiing.

Profiles the life and career of Lindsey Vonn, a prominent newsmaker. Through quotes from Lindsey Vonn herself, her friends, and critics, readers learn how she views herself, as well as how others regard her.

An introduction to skiing and snowboarding that provides information on choosing the right equipment, mastering different styles of skiing, learning the basic techniques, and staying safe in the snow.

Provides information about many aspects of the skiing experience, discussing the history and different types of skiing, and exploring topics such as equipment, conditioning, snowboarding and other variations, planning a trip, resort activities, ski competitions, and injuries.

Contains twelve steps to learning Alpine skiing with keys to correct technique and common errors.

Illustrates the various styles of skiing, from cross-country to downhill, as well as kinds of equipment and clothing.

This is your guide to ESPNs X Games winter sports. Whether readers are thrill seekers themselves, or just admirers of boarders, bikers, and skaters, this title will have instant appeal. The text and action photos are enchanced with profiles of athletes and fact and stats sidebars.