Esquire's First sports reader by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sports.
Publisher: New York,: A. S. Barnes
Published: 1945-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

day out is so simple—so simple I often wonder why I did not think of it before."

The great difficulty in making a turn of this type with any semblance of ease and grace is the primary requisite of more speed than the average student is capable of handling. The most serious drawback, however, and where Loosli commits a fatal blunder, is that he is not concerned with the "forward lean" at all, perhaps the most difficult element to pound into a pupil. Not only that, but Loosli purposely caters to the student's natural instinct to lean backwards; whereas later in the more advanced stages he expects the pupil suddenly to lean forward.

Then he goes on: "When the pupil has the down-up motion mastered and when he is loose and at home on the skis (this all the first day out on skis, mind you! O.L.) I bring in the shoulder swing." Here again Loosli instructs the pupil first to use the forward shoulder swing in the elementary turn as a helpful medium to facilitate the turn. But later on in his Christiania at higher speed he will demand from the same student a reverse shoulder action, instead of the previously emphasized forward motion, which is exactly the contrary of what he was taught at first.

But supposing the novice does eventually learn to make this elementary Open Christiania of Loosli's in towards the slope. What of it? He is still pointing with his skis in the direction he came from, and the object of a turn is evidently to change the skis into, or towards, the opposite direction. I presume that is where Mr. Loosli and his pupils "revert" to the kick turn as a most valuable help and necessity. That, undoubtedly, is a possibility and a way out of a dilemma. But is it satisfactory and practical?

Or does Loosli really want to convince u^ that he can make a novice skier steer his skis from a traverse into the direct line of descent, pick up speed faster than he can reach for his hat and then turn left and right in a series of Christianias?

In his recently published book Loosli exclaims that "ski schools have done nothing to influence racing technique but racing technique is crying for a change in the methods of the ski schools. Standardized ski instruction in short has done very little to keep up with the pace set by the competitive sport."

So far so good, but in an article in Shi News of January 9, 1942, in which Loosli defends himself against the violent attacks of a Swiss ski instructor he writes . differently and as follows:

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