Video: Adaptive Skiing

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A monoski is typically used for people to ski with when they have a disability. Learn about the basics of monoskiing with tips from an expert winter sports instructor in this free video.

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Hi, my name's Dave Schoeneck. I want to tell you a little bit about Wasatch Adaptive Sports and just adaptive skiing in general. I work a lot with the mono skis, but the thing about it is if there's a disability, people with so many different types of disabilities, whether they're physical, mental, can get up in the mountains and enjoy the beautiful mountain air, the skiing and do an awful lot of things that maybe at one point in their life they never thought they could do. I, I think the taking the lid off your thinking is important when it comes to disabilities and I've seen individuals do amazing things in a mono ski. Some Paralympic athletes are just absolutely amazing. They ski just like an able bodied person. There's different levels of mono skiing. We have individuals that have higher injuries and some with lower injuries. With the lower injuries, they have more abdominal muscles and they can do different things, and with higher injuries, we have to have more straps and restraints that hold them in there. But the bottom line is, no matter what injury it is, you can get out there and ski and have a great time doing it.

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Adaptive Skiing

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