ABOUT KENT'S CLINIC - SKI INSTRUCTION

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- Kent's Clinic DVD -

"Welcome to Kent's Clinic, where we explore different aspects of skiing, every Sunday morning here at the Taos Ski Valley on the eight o'clock chair. This is an instructor's only clinic, but we're inviting you to come along."

So begins Kent's clinic, a new ski instruction video DVD that takes an approach entirely different from anything you've seen before. Imagine heading up to the slopes before the lifts open, and learning ski improvement strategies from a top trainer who is also one of Taos Ski Valley's busiest instructors!

These clinics give you an exclusive inside look into ski techniqies being used by instructors at one of America's leading ski schools, and each episode shows you numerous ways to improve your skiing.

Whether you're looking for exercises that you can practice on the slopes, tips you can pass on to your friends, or just new ways to think about your own movement patterns, these videos have been designed to have something for everyone.

There are four separate clinics on the DVD, so it's like taking four separate lessons, each with different and valuable activities that will make you a better skier. Better yet, you have the luxury of looking at those four lessons over and over again. Check out the content pages for activity lists you can take with you on the slope.

Kent's clinics are genuine and voluntary. They're not staged or practiced for filming, and Kent has about 30 minutes to present and allow all clinic attendees to practice the focused skill before the lifts open at 9:00am. The viewer becomes a participant in an actual class that has a loyal following among TSV instructors.

Each clinic has been edited to about 12 minutes long and starts off with an introduction to the clinic's focus. Then Kent applies this idea to each skier level, describing and showing what guests are likely to be experiencing, and recommending a variety of tips and tricks that might help guests improve, no matter what their level.

"These clinic videos were originally meant for ski instructors, but offering them to the general public is ingenious because they really have something for everyone, no matter what level of skier you are." - Deb Armstrong

The beauty of these clinics is that they each take a common idea, like what's happening with the body's core, and present its application to each skier level: beginner, intermediate and advanced.

The advanced skier can learn from the fundamentals of correct beginner movements as much as the beginner can see how they will still be using their earliest movements when they become advanced skiers.

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Since every skier learns differently, including ski instructors, they will respond to different approaches, exercises and demonstrations. Instructors come to the clinics to arm themselves with new teaching tools, and it is the extensive "bag of tricks" that attracts so many Ernie Blake Ski School instructors to "Kent's Clinic" every weekend.

Kent McInnis

Kent McInnis is an instructor and instructor trainer at the Taos Ski Valley. He teaches all skier levels, from beginner to expert . He is a PSIA accredited trainer, and has taught skiing for over 30 years, 20 of which have been at the Taos Ski Valley. He also keeps his clients' skis tuned using The Beast tuning gear, which can be found on the products page of this site.

Fritz Eberle

Fritz is in his tenth season as an instructor at Taos, commuting from Albuquerque and teaching mostly weekends. He has an award winning media business called KeyVisionMedia.com in Albuquerque. Fritz produced, filmed and edited the Kent's Clinic Video DVD.

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