XC Ski School app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: WexWorks
First release : 05 Nov 2012
App size: 6.89 Mb
Learn how to cross country ski with a complete beginning video lesson from 20-year veteran ski instructor, Emily Wexler. Emily covers the equipment, how to go, stop, turn, fall and get up, and enjoy the entire resort. Her easy-going style helps first-time skiers learn to enjoy the snow and the beautiful outdoors.
Twenty one professionally filmed and edited video chapters cover how to go, stop and turn. Chapters are downloaded (not streamed) so they can be watched off-line out on the trails at the ski resort. Watch the lesson and practice each technique and, in about an hour, youll be ready for a ski around the resort.
Includes the following chapters:
Introduction
Can You Cross Country Ski?
Equipment
History of Cross Country Skiing
Posture
Eyes Ahead
Go for a Walk
Groomed Resorts
In The Tracks
Ski Poles
How to Fall
How to Get Up
Jogging
Wobbles
Straight Arms Go Faster
Getting In and Out of the Tracks
Stopping
Step Turns
Wedge Turns
Using the Ski Poles
Hill Climbing
Emilys lesson is designed for the average person with no prior skiing experience. By the end of the lesson you will be comfortable on the beginner trails at any cross country ski resort.
Latest reviews of XC Ski School app for iPhone and iPad
Not the same quality as the Ski School downhill skiing app. Video progress should be recorded, techniques should broken up into beginner, intermediate, and advanced, with more advanced techniques added. Finally, a bit more enthusiasm as well as a video of actual trail skiing would be nice. Great start!
If you only cross country ski once a year like me, this app makes it easy to remember what you need to know to be safe and have fun. It doesnt take the place of professional instruction, but is a handy, accessible trove of useful information. You have to download each video, so can take a while with a slow connection, and clips are very short, but still useful.
Poor information and terrible learning resource.
Does not even load with IOS 7