I would like to formally announce my partnership with Doug and Robby Trimble at SkiSunsetRanch. Earlier in my career I worked fulltime, coaching, traveling around the country giving clinics and skiing tournaments. After a life-changing event in 2005, I greatly reduced my availability to be on the road for coaching. Instead, I focused more on my own skiing and re-establishing my life, coaching some here and there, but nothing like previously.

I am now back where I began my skiing career on the West Coast of Northern California, settling in the Sacramento area. Now the timing and opportunity are right to resume coaching on a full time basis, while also focusing on training close to home.

I'm inviting everyone to come to Sunset Ranch and see what I'm so excited about. Take this opportunity to come experience the ultimate water-ski vacation with individualized coaching and skiing at Sunset Ranch, one of the best sites I've skied. It's one of the premier slalom facilities in the world, with it's surrounding of vineyards and location in sunny Northern California (just 30 minutes south of the Sacramento Airport).

Come ski the West Coast and learn about "west coast slalom". And when you ski with me we'll work on the techniques that I have used and developed for myself through my personal skiing experience, as well as that of a coach. Some of the things we'll work on are...
Learning about counter-rotation, and how it applies to both turns to get the most out of each side.
Learning about proper body alignment, to increase your power and balance.
Learning to control the handle, and learning to separate the edge-change from the release of the handle.
Skiing lighter for increased efficiency and timing management.

Each coaching session will be customized to fit your personal needs. All levels are welcome!
During your time at Sunset Ranch you'll also be able to learn more about, and ride the line of D3 skis including the new Z7 ST, along with trying-out my new T-Factor bindings due to come out this Spring.
Contact SkiSunsetRanch today to book your ultimate water-ski vacation and come ski with me!

 

 

Brand New! West Coast Slalom Visual Training Video

Take your Slalom training to the next level with focused mental practice.
Use the power of your mind to change and improve your slalom technique.
Improve your skiing faster and easier through Visualization Training...

This West Coast Slalom Visualization Training is a natural next step to Mike Suyderhoud’s ground breaking West Coast Slalom Advanced DVD. This training features the smooth and fluid West Coast Slalom technique of Terry Winter as a model. The DVD is designed to be a regular part of your weekly training regimen. Based on the psychological concept of modeling and incorporating the Shortcut Method visualization training, the DVD will help you improve your technique through neuromuscular patterning. By following the simple, yet effective outline for focused mental practice your body’s own mechanism for creating movement will help you change and improve your slalom technique. Listening to your favorite music while viewing the visualization sequences makes this an enjoyable process. It also creates an auditory link between the images on the DVD and the music.

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What this IS:
• A very simple but extremely effective TOOL for using your own body’s neuromuscular mechanism to improve or refine your slalom technique.
• A right brain based process for teaching the skill of visualizing and FEELING the movement pattern being modeled.

What this is NOT:
• A detailed analytical evaluation or study of technique or parts of technique (this was covered quite well in the West Coast Slalom Advanced DVD).
• An entertainment film.
• A left brain based cognitive analysis of movement.

How does this work?
This DVD tool uses the psychological concept of modeling as well as neuromuscular patterning to accelerate an athlete’s skill acquisition and refinement. The brain cannot tell the difference between focused mental practice and actual physical practice of an athletic skill set. Because of the highly repetitious nature of the images on the DVD, an athlete can get many more reps of a skill in a very short period of time. Watching Terry Winter’s West Coast technique gives your nervous system a smooth and efficient model for establishing new neuromuscular templates. The change in your technique will happen when you become an active participant in your visualization sessions. Learning to feel what the model is doing is the skill that makes this process work.

Why is music important?
Listening to your favorite music assists the process in two ways:
1. It activates the right side of your brain where movement control is centered,
2. It puts you in a relaxed and receptive state for viewing the images on the screen.

Why are there only two turns in the visualization sequence?
When an athlete performs a skill, it is nearly impossible to exactly duplicate the same movement sequence or technique. By using one example of a right turn and a left turn, your nervous system has a single model on which to focus and base the formation of new neuromuscular templates or movement patterns.