The Handbooks of Sports Medicine and Science present basic clinical and scientific information in a clear style and format as related to specific sports events drawn from the Olympic Summer and Winter Games. Each handbook is written by a small team of authorities co-ordinated by…
"No one has captured the true essence of skiing--from the historical connections to the sensation of floating in powder snow to the hair-raising adventures--the way Anthony has. Once I started this book I couldn't put it down, unless you count the times I dropped it because I wa…
Writer and adventurer Leslie Anthony has spent his life on two planks, racing down hills, searching for the next perfect ride. His real baptism, however, began in the early nineties when Alaska emerged as the ski world's Next Big Thing. Steep faces and vast tracks of powder snow…
Writer, adventurer, and ski hound Leslie Anthonyhas spent his life on two planks, racing down hills, searching for the next perfect ride. His own discovery of skiing occurred just as Alaska was becoming the ski world's Next Big Thing. In the late eighties and early nineties, ski…
This is not another how-to-ski book; it's a book about how skiing works. It goes beyond simple, traditional advice, to present the science of ski technique and the mechanics of good skiing.