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Title: No-Fall Snowboarding: 7 Easy Steps to Safe and Fun Boarding
ISBN: 074326990X
Author:
Danny Martin
Publicate Date: 2005-11-01
Publish: 2005-11-01
List Price: $16.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Pay now or pay later!
You can get this book and do it the right way, or pay a "professional snowboard instructor" to watch you fall down the mountain. Just buy the book. This method really works!!! I just wish I'd found it earlier-- it would have saved me a lot of pain. To those who say that it seems too simplistic-- that's the whole point! It's easy to learn and it works!
There are great photos throughout to describe every stage of proper no-fall technique. It's well written. Best of all-- it really is no fall.
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2: Not concise
The whole technique is based on raising one shoulder and lowering the other. Why is this book so thick? I gave it a low rating because of this. All the other chapters are just filler, for instance a review of all the places the author have been snowboarding...show-off. Boring.
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3: Read the book, then decide
It's just amazing to me that people would actually rate a book without reading it! Blows me away! You can always tell an innovative method when the those representing the institutions feel threatened. Anyway this is a great book--fun,easy to read and to put into practice. I've given it to pros and beginners and they've all gotten something very new from it.
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4: Warning ! Vulgar language and a relentless focus on Zen and Metaphysics
After reading the entire book (except for the sections focusing on Zen and Metaphysics), here is my evaluation of the snowboarding portions of the book: This book could have been a winner, but unfortunately the author distracts and distorts his snowboard knowledge with unnecessary vulgar language and continual illusions to eastern religion. The author has a lot of snowboard experience and knowledge, but the vulgar language, the focus on Zen and the constant striving with mainstream snowboarding distract from learning the established terminology and techniques of snowboarding.
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5: May be ok for beginners
I initially picked up this book while I was snowboarding in Vail. I checked out the table of contents and quickly flipped to one of the latter chapters (maybe even the last). There I read a short bit about the difference between your right brain and your left brain and how that relates to your confidence snowboarding. Due to that little bit, I decided to give this book a shot. It seemed interesting.
Unfortunately, all the previous chapters are really geared towards beginners. Everything from the basic terms to how you can simulate the correct stance w/ a pillow (how to practice before ever being on the mountain).
However, I've been snowboarding for ~3 seasons and usually spend 15-20 days on the snow per season. So I have had some experience and know (more or less) what I'm doing. Not to mention, his technique is a little non-conventional. Kinda weird at first, but sorta starts to make sense as you read on.
For someone who's never snowboarded or someone who JUST started, this may be a good book to pick up. But I had a hard time accepting his concepts, mainly because I've developed my own based on feet pressure and utilizing the torsional flex of your board. I didn't thoroughly read the entire book, but he seems to focus primarily on using shoulder/upper body positions to control your board.
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