In the Denver Magazine this was said: about our unique, boutique, technique. By Claire Walter
Aspen Daily News - Ski Instructor finds Sunlight, by David Frey
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Journalists who have followed the sport for years and have personally applied the method to their own skiing, know how significant the improvement is compared to traditional instruction.
HAPPIEST DAY SKIING
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 AspenI 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 ownskiing.
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
Significant, Fundamental, Universal
About: The FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT OF ATHLETICS™
POINTING - Learn an easier way to ski and ride. Synchronize the direction of travel with the relationship to energy, with the FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT OF ATHLETICS(TM); a motion of the hand. It will BECOME a pole swing on skis, and twist to an edge on a snowboard.
Why is it called the Fundamental Movement of Athletics™ ? Because it synchronizes the direction of travel with the relationship to energy. From a right angle, and in the center of a functional range of motion, it is all that you have to do to ride or ski well.
Our symbol is derived from a painting of God on the Sistene Chapel ceiling, created during the Renaissance. The Renaissance was the "new birth" of Greek art and statuary, modeled upon Olympic athletes. The artistic style was derived from the Greek Olympic experience.
It applies now as it did then. Learn to recognize the motion, and apply it to skiing and riding.
About: Pole Tipping. The Best Exercise To Improve Your Skiing, was the RIH based teaching progression demonstrated and used to pass level two certification, for the Professional Ski Instructors of America exam. Along with Pointing, and Tail of The Dolphin™, RIH methods were later used to prepare for and pass full international ski instructor certification, and receive International, ISIA, certification as well. Tom Moher pointed out that pole tipping interrelates and trains both sides of the brain at the same time. If you know what one hand is doing, but the other flies around changing the relationship between the two, this will help you keep track, and train you in for an easy RIH poleswing.
About: The Universal Sequence of Motion™
Ride In Harmony™ - RIH™
"The Dance With Nature Is A Ride In Harmony™".
Ride The Snow In Harmony®
Branded method of instruction for skiers and snowboarders. Enhance athletic performance with concepts of harmony. Experience "the unbearable lightness of skiing".
WHAT ANIMAL ARE YOU?®
Dec 1996 to present
Inspiration from the animal world to enhance athletic instruction with concepts of harmony. WHAT ANIMAL ARE YOU?® Inspiration When You Ski
Ski In Harmony® Fly the skis with your hands. An easier way to ski.
Shaped Teaching™ Simplicity, Brevity, Clarity
2005 to present
RIH teaching method that layers knowledge upon universal principles. The result is an easier way to ski and ride.
ST ATS™ - Shaped Teachings Athletic Testing Service™
2005 to present
A scientific approach to the evaluation of athletics. The first abstract proposed is to test the effectiveness of teaching methods. Seen as a corollary to the Educational Testing Service or College Board.
KAM-HOLDZ™ Technology
With "Return to center force", our claim for a patent on the use of gravity, to reseat a binding, will make it easier than ever before to resume skiing. You and the equipment are the package.
Wind, Wave, and AQUA FIRMA™
Natural sciences research. "Science Serving The Spirit"
Mythical Beast of Crypto Science - opinion
The Ride In Harmony™ teaching method, Shaped Teaching™ is visually dominant. If one is blind, it is still spatially dominant. They are related. One example was gleened from a chair ride at Aspen Highlands with a teacher from Rifle, Co. who taught dyslexic kids.
Words with a "wr" in them also had a twist; possibly from the ambient first language (my take): wrench, wrestle, write, maybe wrong, and wrist, which is used to point, as RIH applies it.
We teach that that the lower body mimics or moves in harmony with the upper. That's hemispherical coordination, (part of the teaching method, I specifically got fired in Aspen for teaching). So the extension and roll of the wrist as one points, creates a contrapposto relationship, or counter, through the body, which works in harmony with the roll of the corresponding joint of the lower body at the ankle, for it to naturally twist in the direction you are traveling and pointing.
There are a number of ways to apply the phenomena, but that's the way the body works.
In Chinese iconography the counterpart is "Moving Hand" from the Tao of power.
The people firing me said they were representing PSIA, acting at it's members behest, and held past and current offices in it at the time, so it must be true, that they believe as they do, that there is a neurological fact called "upper and lower body separation". The mythical beast of
crypto-science.
No wonder then, with this type of thinking at the pinnacle of the industry, only 15-17 percent of people who start snowboarding and skiing continue.*
The content of instruction must rest on a firmer foundation than the egos of the people teaching it, or the numbers aren't going to get any better, any time soon.
The current methods of instruction offered by a central
body of belief don't offer relief from the hemmoraging of
clients, that your marketing departments, friends, neighbors, and family have introduced to skiing and snowboarding. And now they can't.
Ride In Harmony™ and Shaped Teaching™ does, or can in a coordinated effort.
Respectfully,
Cary Thompson
Note: This is not intended to malign the fine people who are members of these organizations.
Acknowledgements:
Certain people are associated with parts of this project. They triggered a thought, or their interest was the encouragement needed to focus on that part of the project.
This is the Ride In Harmony™ Ornstein edition - for Casey Ornstein, I was in Zele's coffee shop. trying to write the opening line of this website. "Follow your heart up the rivers and roads, to the place where all movement is in harmony with energy from the Earth", on a piece of wax paper. Casey saw me and offered help in the form of something more conventional, and didn't make fun of me too much. That was 4/17/2005. April 17 is a day often chosen for the likely birth of Christ.
Doc LeFrock suggested the Three Questions of Skiing be put on to tee shirts. They have been and copyrighted.
Dawn, the Synonym for Light lit up withthe mention of universals. So this part is for her and the Llamas she lives with.
