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Don’t know what to get the skier who has everything? They’ve got the clothes, the gear, the gadgets, the season passes, they’ve even booked and paid for a ski clinic with NASTC already? Really? Well then, here’s some ideas:

SkiA Sweetspot Trainer
If you are not able to dedicate as much time as you would like to your dryland training, there is a tool that can help you ski better before you even click into your bindings. The SkiA sweetspot trainer is a balancing aid that will help you achieve better balance over your base of support (your feet). You clip the device onto your ski boots and forces you to find the optimum balance point as you stand, move around, tip and twist your feet. You find out very quickly what adjustments you have to make to not fall down and what muscles groups need to fire to assist in making and maintaining those adjustments. Check out the video link below “How to Use a SkiA Trainer” with Chris Fellows. http://youtu.be/wAVhaUyUJPA

Women’s Ski Day
Along with Coaltion Snow, we’re offering a Women-Only ski day at Sugar Bowl!
December 13, 2014 l Sugar Bowl Resort: Get your season on and celebrate International Women’s Ski Day! We are partnering with CoalitionSnow.com to help you fine tune your skiing skills before the season gets underway. Join this high-touch, high-impact all-mountain free-skiing clinics for intermediate to advanced skiers. Our instructors will do nothing short of improving your skills in a non-competitive and super fun environment. Only $75 secures your spot. Fee does not include lift tickets or food/drink. (But we know you have those four tickets from your Alpine/Squaw pass and now’s the time to cash one in.) Minimum 10 people required to run. Click on the link below to register. https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=544671d8e4b0664ae93f2c86

Total Skiing – THE book
If you consider yourself a serious student of the sport of skiing, this is a great resource. What type of skier are you? What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? How can you improve your skills and your downhill experience? Total Skiing was developed specifically to help you answer those questions.

Author/ski instructor Chris Fellows shares his proven pyramid program for assessing skills and creating your skiing profile. Step by step, you’ll identify exercises to enhance those skills and create a personal training program to improve functional movement, including stability and mobility, ski-specific fitness, essential ski techniques, and tactics for performance on all terrains.

Total Skiing also includes sample programs for each skier type that offers guidance from preseason to postseason with dry-land and on-snow drills for foundational, intermediate, and advanced performance solutions.

Whether you are looking to polish your skills, conquer the new terrain, or compete on circuit, Total Skiing is your total guide to exhilarating all-mountain skiing! Email NASTC for your copy, on sale now! ski@skinastc.com