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| No-Fall Snowboarding: 7 Easy Steps to Safe and Fun Boarding | 
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Sales Rank: 347530
Category: Book
Author: Danny Martin
Publisher: Fireside
Studio: Fireside
Manufacturer: Fireside
Label: Fireside
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 074326990X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.939
EAN: 9780743269902
ASIN: 074326990X
Publication Date: November 1, 2005
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Product Description
Gain Without PainLearning to snowboard can be easy and painless -- with the right instruction. In this groundbreaking book, Danny Martin, the most sought-after snowboarding instructor today, teaches you how to snowboard in just three days -- and without falling. While the American Association of Snowboard Instructors tells its members, "Your students will fall," Danny Martin shows you that there can be gain without pain: he has single-handedly revolutionized the way the sport is taught, and in No-Fall Snowboarding he reveals his techniques. Firmly grounded in physical fitness and martial arts and designed so everyone -- beginners, skiers, even seasoned snowboarders--can practice at home, No-Fall Snowboarding will teach you how to: ? Learn proper snowboarding techniques long before hitting the mountain? Create balance with easy, specific body movements ? Find the perfect board, gear, places to board ? Get over bad habits ? Avoid typical twisting motions guaranteed to cause falling Filled with dozens of stunning photographs by renowned photographer Mark Seliger, No-Fall Snowboarding is the go-to guide for people of all ages and skill levels who want to learn America's fastest growing sport.
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 Pros and Cons October 9, 2008
I certainly agree reviewers should read the book. I've read No-Fall 3 times. To me, the real strengths of this book are the exercises and the stretches. I'm still doing at least one of these during every workout. But for me, as a beginner a few years ago, the book's technique of lifting and lowering shoulders just didn't work to initiate turns. I am not a physicist, but I am a professional scientist and the chapter that relates the author's visit to a physicist in search of an endorsement for his method was, to me, superficial and unconvincing. What got me linking turns successfully was 5 or 6 private lessons over 3 years and the realization that to turn you must move your weight over your edges. Admittedly, those lessons were a lot more expensive than Danny's book, but I really wanted to learn how to snowboard. Clearly No-fall has worked for some readers. My guess is that these readers have shifted weight over the correct edge while moving their shoulders as Martin describes. Perhaps the reason his method produces fewer falls is because the rider's weight moves only gradually (and inadvertently) from edge to edge since he doesn't emphasize or teach this side-to-side movement at all. It's definitely true that SUDDEN shifts in weight can cause falls. I liked this book except that Martin is waaay too full of himself and waaay too critical of his snowboard instructor colleagues. I learned things I value from this book, but NOT how to turn on a snowboard.
 Pay now or pay later! April 9, 2008
You can get this book and do it the right way, or pay a "professional snowboard instructor" to watch you fall down the mountain. Just buy the book. This method really works!!! I just wish I'd found it earlier-- it would have saved me a lot of pain. To those who say that it seems too simplistic-- that's the whole point! It's easy to learn and it works!
There are great photos throughout to describe every stage of proper no-fall technique. It's well written. Best of all-- it really is no fall.
 Not concise March 25, 2008
The whole technique is based on raising one shoulder and lowering the other. Why is this book so thick? I gave it a low rating because of this. All the other chapters are just filler, for instance a review of all the places the author have been snowboarding...show-off. Boring.
Read the book, then decide May 31, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
It's just amazing to me that people would actually rate a book without reading it! Blows me away! You can always tell an innovative method when the those representing the institutions feel threatened. Anyway this is a great book--fun,easy to read and to put into practice. I've given it to pros and beginners and they've all gotten something very new from it.
 Warning ! Vulgar language and a relentless focus on Zen and Metaphysics April 11, 2006
3 out of 16 found this review helpful
After reading the entire book (except for the sections focusing on Zen and Metaphysics), here is my evaluation of the snowboarding portions of the book: This book could have been a winner, but unfortunately the author distracts and distorts his snowboard knowledge with unnecessary vulgar language and continual illusions to eastern religion. The author has a lot of snowboard experience and knowledge, but the vulgar language, the focus on Zen and the constant striving with mainstream snowboarding distract from learning the established terminology and techniques of snowboarding.
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