| | |  | Ski Videos | Home » » Sofa Ski School - From Blue to Black Diamond | | | | | | | Description: | | Sofa Ski School - From Blue to Black Diamond is an instructional ski DVD for intermediate to expert skiers. An interactive application that brings 5 most effective lessons for ski improvement to your living room.
The DVD contains 84 minutes of quality ski instruction with lessons on the Main Ski Fundamentals, Carving, Skiing the Steeps and Short Turns, 14 additional drills for more advanced skiers and 3 reminder cards to take with you on the slopes.
The lessons are all kept as simple as possible, with the main focus on maximizing the chance of improvement for skiers of all levels! Sofa Ski School does not try to fix your skiing with some quick tips, but explains the main ski fundamentals in an intuitive and easy way and shows you the most effective drills for your personal ski improvement. / / Find 200+ reviews on www.SofaSkiSchool.com / / DVD ships from Austria and has an estimated delivery time of 3-6 business days with standard shipping to the US! No expedited shipping necessary! / / 100% money back guarantee | | | Features: | |
• Best Selling Ski Instructional for all levels, 8000+ copies sold
• 84 minutes of ski instruction, 3 laminated reminder cards
• Main Ski Fundamentals, Carving, Skiing the Steeps, Short Turns
• NTSC, Region Free, NO EXPEDITED shipping necessary:
• Delivery to the US: 3-6 business days w STANDARD SHIPPING!
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 17 reviews |
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11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 from blue to black diamonSep 25, 2008
By CA Dave
I started skiing late in life, and my 20 years of skiing on intermediate groomed runs left me with many bad habits. I tried everything to break thru to Black Diamond skiing, including $$$$ of lessons, and every instructional video and book ever made.
This one is superior by far to anything out there. It really did the trick, and I am now skiing blacks and double-backs with ease and confidence. The visuals are stunning, and the interactive format makes it very efficient to use.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
One of the best!Jun 03, 2009
By Timothy Forney
I bought this DVD a few months ago and found it to be one of the best ski instructional videos I have ever viewed. I must disagree strongly with the reviewer who thought the "visual demonstration" was bad as I found the visuals and overall quality to be very good. The DVD does have an odd menu style that can be difficult to understand at first but the instructional quality and content is well worth it. I will also note I E-mailed the author to ask a question and found him to be very friendly and willing to help with any ski related questions, just a great guy.If you are an intermediate skier or even a beginner who wants to learn how to carve effectively this is the video to get. There are some short preview clips of this DVD over on youtube that give a good representation of the DVD.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
This one is the bestJan 20, 2009
By Joe
Before seeing this DVD, I used to think the one by Lito Tejada-Flores was the best, but now I think this one is definitely better. A really simple and effective approach. Highly recommended to improve your skiing.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Simple but Detailed and ClearMay 06, 2011
By TTO Intl
I recommend this DVD to all skiers. It is by far the best ski instruction DVD with modern skis. The author puts emphasis on "facing the danger" to keep the upper body parallel to slopes all the time, prevent from swinging the upper body, and throw the body forward in order to smoothly place skis on a fall line before initiating a turn. It is exactly what I unconsciously do on a steep slope with bumps when I can successfully run down and no instructors have clearly explained the mechanics of throwing the body forward at the beginning of each turn for years of my experience on skiing. (Although the DVD does not cover skiing powder and bumps, all the skills discussed improve your capability of bump and powder skiing.) However, it is not for complete beginners. I think at least knowing the snowplough turn is a prerequisite to follow the DVD.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
This DVD turns an aged person to a confident skierApr 17, 2011
By Sherman Teng
Many of my friends felt surprised that I can ski at the age of 72. Actually, my first skiing was on December 29 of 2010, and now I am skiing Greens and Blues with ease and confidence. I also successfully skied Blacks in New England's Wachusetts and SundayRiver. I owe my achievements, partially, to SOFASKISCHOOL DVD and its instructor Klaus Mair.
Mr. Klaus very nicely summarizes skiing skills into three fundamentals: Find your balance by positioning your whole body forward; Use your outside ski; and Don't rotate your upper body. And the beginners' common mistakes are that they just do the opposite: Positioning backward, using inside ski, and rotating upper body to help making turns.
I feel lucky that I can guard against these easy committed mistakes from the very beginning of my ski career.
I like the many well-designed, very practical drills in this DVD. Especially helpful is the MAIN DRILL, which goes like this:
1. Have your hands in front of your body and touch your outside knee in the fall line. Come up in between turns.
2. Have the inside hands as far forward as possible and pointing down the hill. Hold this position until starting the next turn.
3.At the end of the turn bring your downhill hand next to the inside hand and move your hips forward, down the hill, into the next turn.
Mr. Klaus suggests to do this drill, and many other drills, without poles, so you can focus to your position and action.
I practiced this main drill and another one foot skiing drill almost each day . The one foot skiing drill: Lift inside ski in the traverse. These drills helped me a lot. However, I didn't fully realize their value until I skied the steeps. These two drills, in my experience, can well prepare you for skiing blacks.
Mr. Klaus repeatedly emphases one thing in the his lessons: FACING THE DANGER. I think this is the key point in skiing the steeps. Only when you don't feel scared you can up and forward quickly, and your skis followed to enter the fall line, and can shift your weight on your outside ski, and take the speed out.
I also want to mention that Mr. Klaus Mair is very friendly. I emailed some of my skiing pictures to him for correction. He responded very promptly and informatively. His instructional quality, both in his lessons and in his emails, is excellent.
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