Skiing With Spinal Cord Injuries: Turning

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Dave Shoeneck, and I'm talking about skiing with spinal cord injuries. It's a very subtle progression, we start them out just on a straight line with a lot of break on these outriggers. And that controls the speed. And then as time goes on and the individual gets comfortable with it, take a little break off of the outrigger and to initiate the turn, it's a very subtle opening of the outrigger and that will initiate the turn. It's not a bunch of leaning, eventually it will get to that when you get to individuals of Paralympic skill, which we have Muffy Davis and Chris Wadell that come up here quite a bit and they are amazing to watch. But again for the person who's never been on snow and never been on a mono ski it really can broaden your horizons. It's a ton of fun."