The World Intellectual Property Organization examiner in Soeul, Korea has issued a non-binding opinion that RIH’s world-wide claim, on the use of gravity, to reseat a binding is patentable. Just one of 28 patents on ski gear filed, breakthrough KAM-HOLDZ Technology TM continues to expand the boundaries of skiing.
Right Brain or Left Brain
Clockwise or anti clockwise?
The Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic uses feeling
detail oriented "big picture" oriented
facts rule imagination rules
words and language symbols and images
present and past present and future
math and science philosophy & religion
acknowledges appreciates
can comprehend can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
knowing believes
order/pattern perception spatial perception
knows object name knows object function
reality based fantasy based
forms strategies presents possibilities
practical impetuous
safe risk taking
Thanks to the reader who forwarded Right Brain - Left Brain to us. Such Fun.
RIDE IN HARMONY TM Ski and snowboard lessons are taught in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, at Sunlight Mountain Resort. Through special arrangement with Ski Sunlight, lessons from RIDE the SNOW IN HARMONY TM will complement their traditional ski school, as an independent brand of instruction.
Coming to the Aspen, Vail vacinity, guests will be able to spend A Day In The Sun, tuning up with a ski or snowboard lesson, Ride the Snow In Harmony
® style.
Guests can:
Enhance athletic performance. You can’t get lessons from Ride The Snow In Harmony TM in Aspen and you can’t get it in Vail.
Save a buck.
Break up the trip to acclimate.
From the Eagle-Vail airport it’s normally just 25 minutes to Glenwood Springs on Highway 70, and 9 miles from there, outside Glenwood Springs to Sunlight. A natural stopover, .
School to Pool- 9 mi. to town. Go from the ski lesson to a dip in the Glenwood Springs Pool and its world famous natural hot springs.
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"WHEN CHEESE MATTERS"
... Is the tag line of the Cheese Shop in Aspen, Colorado. In a two page article for the Four Seasons Magazine, the in-house magazine of the luxury hotel chain.Christina Oxenberg of royal European lineage, and part time Aspenite, talked about her life and favorites here. As you might have guessed, The Cheese Shop is a favorite restauant for speciality foods. Mine too.
But she was kind enough to recognize the Ride In Harmony TM method, and yours truly, for excellence in ski instruction. "I think the best ski instructor in Aspen is Cary Thompson, and his personal method of instruction is Ride In Harmony," says Christina. In a magazine," that takes a truly international view of the trends and insiders’ views from around the globe," (the publishers note), we are eternally grateful.
Ride The Snow In Harmony (R) ski lessons can be booked in the Roaring Fork Valley, though not on Aspen Ski Company mountains as yet. Call 970-688-1414, or write lessons@skiinharmony.com.
Spend a "DAY IN THE SUN" with Cary on your way to Aspen. Start your winter vacation out right.
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NOW THE ACL
The ACL, or Anterior Cruciate Ligament, is a small ligament that is frequently injured in skiing, as in " I did my ACL". The health benefits of athletics outweigh the risks on a broad scale, but no wants injuries, and some things can be done to mitigate them.
The first event in a common scenario that leads to an ACL rupture, is that the turnside SMhand drops back and in, in a chain of events that sends a shock wave from the tail of the ski through the Anterior Cruciate Ligament. A second factor, but for another time, is the vertical alignment of the athlete.
The first three lessons of a Ride The Snow In Harmony ® playbook, teach the student to move the crucial hand and arm uphill and forward inside the arc of the turn. These are two.
The examples above are from the "Pole Tilting", and "Pointing" lessons. The first picture shows a skier entering the bottom third of the turn, beginning a pole swing to unwind and begin a new turn, but the leading relationship of the turnside sm hand is clear.
Though ACL injuries are caused by multiple factors, the simplest answers are usually the best, and garner the greatist benefit.
Play it safe. Build the foundation of your instruction upon the Fundamental Movement of Athletics sm, from RIDE IN HARMONY TM. Book a clinic for your ski and snowboard school. Liscenses may be available. Availability is limited.
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RESULTS NOT TYPICAL
Cecily in Mushroom Shoots, a run at Aspen Highlands in Colorado. She had been an intermediate. Results not typical. Photo from the ’07 file. Winter’s back.
free-RIDE IN HARMONY TM News Letter posted 12/7/07, updated 1/30/08.
RIH has filed for patents to mount slidable Telemark, and Alpine-Touring Bindings on skis, and to make all of the systems interchangeable.
Most ski companies have a version of a track or rail mounted alpine binding on the market, and if you have a pair of these in your garage, they may have just become more versatile. So if you were thinking of giving Tele a try, or only occasionally skin up the mountain to ski down, here is something to look forward to seeing in the shops.
Below on the left is a typical track mounted Alpine binding on a Volkl ski. On the right is a NEW HARMONY TM concept realized by Dave Durrance of Durrance Sports. A slidable telemark binding, hereon an adaptor, replaces the typical Alpine binding. RIDE IN HARMONY TM, NEW HARMONY TM, and Durrance have no connection to Volkl, Rottefella, or Marker so the field and future are open for developement.
Is this the stocking stuffer of the future? And what rental shops’ flagship brand wouldn’t be able to offer all three sports on one platform?
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APPAREL
New are the 3 Questions of Skiing - Tees
Learn to harmonise with directions and relationships, and dial into your animal spirit when you know the THREE QUESTIONS OF SKIING:
ADAPTIVE SKIING
Vance Wilson, Ride In Harmony sm’s , "Head Frog" in the adaptive pond, returns from a successful day on the slopes with a veteran of the Gulf War, during Challenge Aspen’s April ’05 event. Having had a career with the VA and a PSIA level 2 instructor, Vance is uniquely qualified to interpret concepts of harmony on snow.
Since that time, Vance has been developing adaptive applications of Ride In Harmonysm
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"KNOW YOUR GARDEN"-Hopi
THE CULTURE GARDENTM
RIDE IN HARMONYTM has had visits from over 20 countries in a recent week, and over 80 in the last year.
UNITED STATES
NORWAY
SWEDEN
FRANCE
UNITED KINGDOM
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
MEXICO
ROMANIA
CANADA
NETHERLANDS
PERU
AUSTRALIA
CHINA
BRAZIL
PHILIPPINES
CHILE
ISRAEL
GERMANY
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
INDIA
Juanma Juanma has a scuba diving company in Calpe, Spain.
The Spanish translation is posted. Beautifully written by Ximena Vera Torres and Juan Ma Del Rey, tell your Spanish speaking friends about it, or plan to enhance your (or their) language skills by reading the two versions of the Ride In Harmony sm side by side.
GNU:The Russian language versian has been posted as well. Look for a newsletter in Russian as well one day soon. Promices, promices.
In the works: Translations from the fastest growing ski country in the world, Korea, and from Japan as well. Don’t believe us? Check this out from Tomoko Tani.
See the new Summernet TM and Winternet TMcafes soon, or soon enough, the RIDE IN HARMONYTM social networks. Shopping, chat, socializing, and sharing photos from the beach and the hill.
We hope some of those 80 countries that have visited RIH in the last year share their stuff and stories with us.
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"KNOW YOUR WATER" - Hopi Indian
Wind, Wave, and AQUA FIRMA (sm)
"Science serving the spirit"
Wind, Wave, and AQUA FIRMA TM is RIDE IN HARMONY’s TMnatural science initiative.
With proposals submitted for geo-spacial mapping in Asia, and preliminary snow research in Ouganda (yes there is some), RIH, through its project partners, seeks to enrich knowledge while pursuing the practical path of athletics.
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UTE INDIAN CEREMOMIES
In The Land of Their Ancestors
Closing weekend of the ski and snowboard season in Aspen ’05, was celebrated at the base of Aspen Mountain on Saturday April 9, with the Ute Indians and Suzy "Chapstick" Chaffee, in what is now an Aspen tradition through the Aspen Ute Foundation. Photos of the Ute Indian program at Sunlight Mountain
The Snow
Resort were taken by Deanne Kessler for Ride^ In Harmony ®.
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FOR A SIMILAR PROGRAM NEXT YEAR, WITH THE FIRST PEOPLE OF YOUR AREA, CONTACT US, AND WITH OUR FRIENDS AT NATIVE VOICES FOUNDATION, WE’LL BEGIN TO ARRANGE A WEEK OR WEEKEND OF CELEBRATION AND SKIING.
Above: from Sunlight Mountain Resort: Daiwesa dances. His name means song in Hopi.
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There are three rivers to one ocean now at
Ride In Harmony TM:
Whether you are a traditional skier, a snowboarder or park and pipe free-rider, or think of yourself as lion bounding mountain, use your favorite url to open on the website.
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SWEDEN
FRANCE
UNITED KINGDOM
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
MEXICO
ROMANIA
CANADA
NETHERLANDS
PERU
AUSTRALIA
CHINA
BRAZIL
PHILIPPINES
CHILE
ISRAEL
GERMANY
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
INDIA
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