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 Patent Approved for Use of gravity

  
(Superbowl Sunday correction: the patent hasn't been granted, but what we have stated has been formally approved, and the patent granted may eventually be broader than stated below.)
 
   Ride In Harmony™   Founder, Cary Thompson , has a patent-pending that has been approved with 19 claims by the US Patent and Trademark Office, for telemark bindings used in free-heel skiing.  The Kam-Holdz™ technology,  operating like a shoulder or hip joint, features a partial release system which pivots back into place with a gravity assist, following a release during a fall.

Cary says he expects new free-heelers to welcome the security of a release system, and stay with it for the enhanced performance that the strategic placment brings to skiing. 

Experience the "Unbearable lightness of skiing", and patented "return to center force" of KAM-HOLDZ™ Technology.

 

 

 

                                                          

      
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

Vanina Walsh

 

14 year old Roxy Girl, Vanina Walsh blows it out of the water for us at Christmas.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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. Insights into ourselves.

 

 


 

 

 

 

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        Our ski and snowboard instruction, will not be taught at Sunlight Mountain Resort, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado during the 2011-12 Season, in favor of developing online instruction.
        While we regret Sunlights exclusive return to a method of instruction that historically retains around 16% of new riders and skiers over all,  we'd like to thank Tom Jankovsky,  former General Manager and county commissioner for the opportunity during the past three years to develop new business and retain old, in the spirit of cooperative economics. 
       Many of our clients have come from Aspen, Vail, and Snowmass,  England and various states in the US  to Sunlight over the years, for an enhanced method of instruction with us they could not receive elsewhere. 


 
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Update: 2011-12  RIDE IN HARMONY TM    Ski and snowboard lessons will not be taught at Sunlight Mountain Resort.  Online, digital, and some local delivery of information will replace our previous arrangement with Ski Sunlight.  ACL  Awareness Compliant™ lessons from RIDE the SNOW IN HARMONY™ will no longer be available as an independent brand of instruction, to complement their traditional ski school, .

 

                                                                        Lessons

 

For our ski and snowboard  lessons online, visit  www.skilesson.org.

Contact us by emailing: lessons@rideinharmony.com,  for travel ideas, club and ski school training around the world.  Ride In Harmony™ has trademarks registered in Russia, China, Japan, Spain in the EU as well as the US.

Phone:  (970) 274-0365.

                                                                              Directions:

Coming to the Aspen, Vail vacinity, guests will be able to spend A Day In The Sun, tuning up with an online 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.

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      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.


                                                              

                                                            Photo: Christina Oxenberg and Cary Thompson IV    

 

 

                                                                                         

                                                                 

                                                        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 turnsidesm 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 Athleticssm, 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.

 

 

 

 
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