Ski technique is really quite simple. Forget the diagrams and contortions. Skiing is simply about mileage, fitness, attitude, and an ability to assess your surroundings. Told with a sense of humour, Simon Dewhurst offers radical ski technique that is not often mentioned in ski instruction manuals. He has broken down the technical stuff and rebuilt it so the explanations become lucid and simple. Simon Dewhurst has been a ski teacher for nearly fifty years and during this time has acquired a vast amount of knowledge about ski technique. He learnt his craft in Scandinavia, British Columbia and...
Ski technique is really quite simple. Forget the diagrams and contortions. Skiing is simply about mileage, fitness, attitude, and an ability to assess...
An intimate and fast moving memoir, sometimes laugh-out-loud, recalling Simon Dewhurst's privileged and eccentric upbringing in an upper-class English family after the last war. He has no time for misery and self-flagellation. Instead, the narrative glides seamlessly and predictably from one hilarious disaster to the next. His exploits as a soldier, ski teacher, film extra, actor and a cinema projectionist among other jobs, take us from London during the Swinging Sixties to Scandinavia, North America and finally to darkest Africa. The ingredients for the best memoirs are many - his are blue,...
An intimate and fast moving memoir, sometimes laugh-out-loud, recalling Simon Dewhurst's privileged and eccentric upbringing in an upper-class English...
