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RIDE IN HARMONY TM
Founder Cary Thompson
We are featured in the:
FOUR SEASONS MAGAZINE ASPEN DAILY NEWS
"The best ski instructor in Aspen" " finds Sunlight"
... Christina Oxenberg relocates to Glenwood Springs
DENVER MAGAZINE SUPER HUMAN MAG
Unique, boutique, technique with Darin Schultz’s Snowbike
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"A TRUE SHORTCUT TO SKIING EFFICIENCY"
To: dfrey@aspendailynews.com
Dear Mr. Frey,
I read your piece about Cary Thompson’s move to Sunlight Ski Area with great interest. ...I do know that he’s got it right and that his instruction method works. I’m 63. I have been skiing since 1972. I originally learned to ski at Killington, Vt. as a fIve day wonder...Bottom line, I eventually became an advanced to discrete-expert skier... I also got into journalism and became a ski writer to support my habit. I’ve skied throughout California, the West and the Pacific Northwest. I even skied at Zermatt once. I made the switch to shorter parabolic skis and realized that they required a different technique. In March, 2007, I was skiing with a friend at Aspen and decided I needed some instruction on how to handle the new skis. As it happened, we were at Highlands that day and I drew Cary as my instructor. ... nobody else could keep up with us, so my group lesson turned into an all-day private class.
Cary totally transformed my skiing in one day! ...his technique is ridiculously simple: Look where you’re going and ...(ski with Cary’s technique: ed).... That is all there is to it. When you ski this way, you’re always centered on your skis; your butt and your upper body never lag behind them; you’re always in control. It works on the flats, it works on the steeps, it works in the bumps. It’s also virtually effortless.
I don’t know if Cary’s technique would have worked with the 205 cm Rossignols I used to ski on. Skiing on those, for me, was all about angulation -- keeping my upper body quiet with my torso and both hands always oriented to the fall line while my legs did all the work. Essentially, that was the way all the PSIA instructors taught me to ski. It worked, but it was tiring. It also took me many years and lessons to master. Cary’s teaching method offers a true shortcut to skiing proficiency. Maybe that’s why the PSIA doesn’t like it.
Steve Shender
Aptos, Calif.
Dear Mr. Frey,
My wife and I stayed in Aspen in the middle of February and I read
with interest your article about Cary Thompson. I had 3 days of
classes with Cary on Aspen Highlands a couple of years’ ago and he was
a remarkable instructor. So much so, that prior to arriving in Aspen
I had been in touch with Cary about taking some lessons with him and
was astonished to discover that he had left Highlands to go to Sunlight.
I headed to Sunlight and had a most fabulous day. Some of his
theories can be a little ’new age’ for my taste, but his methods
work. I persuaded my wife, a natural skeptic, to join us for a
lesson later in the week. She described the experience as her
"happiest day skiing" and it was apparent how much her skiing had
improved. Most importantly Cary built great confidence in her own
skiing.
I find it hard to believe that the ski company in Aspen has allowed
such a talented instructor leave, taking his hugely effective method
with him. We’ve been coming to Aspen from London for the last 5
years. I know that next year we will be spending much more of our
time at Sunlight rather than at Aspen.
With best regards,
Andrew Bowen
London
 RIDE IN HARMONY TM is a supplier of athletic instruction to America at participating ski and snowboard areas.
We offer lessons online and on-snow.
New Harmony TM equipment , has patents pending on slidable Telemark bindings for skis, and interchangeable binding systems, to make athletics fun and versatile as never before.
Kam-Holdz TM technology is the breakthrough behind the patents pending on telemark bindings that reseat with gravity assisted "RETURN TO CENTER FORCE", after a partial release to prevent injury from the torque of a fall. As our bindings in developement ,become popular for the measure of security they bring to new and crossover telemark athletes initially, they can be appreciated for enhanced ski or board performance of the design.
NEW April 17, 2009
PRECEDENCE
"When the ancients come riding on a mighty manitou wind."
from "Emerson, Truth, and a Medicine Wheel"
·Ride in Harmony TM and What Animal Are You? TM
Something which claims to be universal, and Ride In Harmony offers a universal explanation of motion, focused on moving in harmony with the energy from the Earth, should find in timelessness, a basis of significant, fundamental, and universal, ideas. We shouldn’t be the first, just the first to notice or use it in this way. Precedence we find in,
The Renaissance that was the "New Birth" of Classical art,
Derived from Greek art and statuary,
Which enschrined olympic athletes in motion.
Moving Hand from the Tao of Power
Chi Quong and the twist
Aikedo
...and in them we find cultural expressions of universal ideas, common to Ride In Harmony TM.
PRINCIPLES and TERMS
Contrapposto- Term from classical art and athletics. A snapshot of the body in motion has a twist in it. see also, Counterpoise.
Applied to skiing, a turnside SM motion of the hand (such as with a pole swing) creates a slight twist in the upper body which the feet follow. In snowboarding, a turnside SM twist of the upper body does the same.
Countenance- The facial expression from classical art which combined with counterpoise for the early mind-body experience. See: The David
Diatropism - Tendency for an organism to move into a right angle to a stimulus.
Fundamental Movement of Athletics sm - A motion of the wrist and arm that synchronizes the relationship with energy, to the direction of travel. ex: Pointing, Moving Hand.
Shaped Teaching sm - The Ride In Harmony TM teaching method; layering knowledge upon universal principles.
Turnside sm - Side, surface, or orientation medial to an axis of rotation. A service mark of Ride In Harmony TM.
Universal Sequence of Motion SM - A body in motion has a tendency to spiral to or from a right angle.
Universal Principle of the Concave and Convex
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