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. Lessons can be booked online, by emailing: lessons@rideinharmony.com,  and by phone: (970) 274-0365. Traditional lessons, are sold exclusively, at Sunlight ticket windows, and phone banks. 

Coming to Aspen or vacinity, for vacation, skiers, boarders, and other 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 will be able to:

• Enhance athletic performance
• Save a buck on lessons and lift tickets.
• Breakup the trip to or from the Eagle-Vail airport. We’re on the way, a natural stopover, outside Glenwood Springs.
• Lift Tickets are $15 for one day, on Jan 9, when Sunlights  traditional Ski and Snowboard School will offer free lessons.
• 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.

                                                    

                                                    "  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.

                                                                                                                                                                                   Fashion maven Christina Oxenberg and friend. 

      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 _SM hand 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.

 

                                        

                                                                                                                  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.

                                             CONTENTS

HER MAJESTY QUEEN NOOR OF JORDAN

                                                _{NEW HARMONY TM}

                                              Equipment Developements

 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?

                             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 Harmony_sm

"KNOW YOUR GARDEN"-Hopi

THE CULTURE GARDEN_TM



RIDE IN HARMONY_TM 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.

                                                              SKI IN HARMONY_®

あなたは今、広くどこまでも続く雪原をグルーミングしている。

まるでイルカが大海原を渡るように、そして鷹が大草原の上の青空を駆け抜けるように。まず手の平を、そして両足をなめらかな斜面に同時に滑らせていくのだ。ストックは軽やかに揺れ、雪面とエッジの上でバランスをとるあなたの足にブーツは心地よくフッィトしている。ハーモニーを滑り降りている自分の近くに感じられるものは、使い慣れた道具、そしてこの美しい山々、そしてあなた自身。切り裂かれる空気の中で、自分の潜在意識になにか野生動物のようなものが潜んでいたことに気づく。

             Tomoko

                     
                    

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 ®.

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.

There are three rivers to one ocean now at
Ride In Harmony sm:

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