Word: aspenization
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...Kaye (HARVARD) d. Rick Fisher (F&M), 15-11, 15-4, 15-7; 3. Farokh Pandole (HARVARD) d. Steve Hopkins, 10-15, 15-10, 17-16, 15-8; 4. Jim Masland (HARVARD) d. Dave Rosen (F&M), 15-10, 15-8, 15-6; 5. Marty Clark (HARVARD) d. Al Aspen (F&M), 15-4, 15-9, 15-5; 6. Jeremy Fraiberg (HARVARD) d. Maurice Genser (F&M), 15-5, 18-17, 15-3; 7. Josh Horwitz (HARVARD) d. Dudley Nostrond (F&M), 15-6, 15-8, 15-6; 8. Paul Gardi (HARVARD) d. Bill Marvin...
...Braden has never met a sport he didn't like. He runs a ski college in Aspen, and has made volleyball and badminton instructional videotapes. Using high-speed cameras and computers, he has analyzed and critiqued the techniques of such star athletes as baseball's Reggie Jackson, pro-football quarterback Steve Grogan and Olympic stars Al Oerter (discus throw) and Edwin Moses (hurdles). In tennis, his coaching helped launch the careers of Tracy Austin, Eliot Teltscher and Jim Pugh (a mixed-doubles winner at Wimbledon this year...
Meanwhile, the Vic Braden Ski College is gearing up for its third full year at Aspen's Buttermilk Mountain. Braden's critical eye was cast on skiing several years ago, after he and Melody returned from a ski trip confused by the variety of teaching systems they had encountered. Some seemed logical; others made no sense...
What the sport needed, Braden decided, was some good research. With sponsorship from the Aspen Skiing Corp., he began interviewing skiers and instructors. "I started hearing some horror stories," he recalls. "Arrogant ; ski instructors got inexperienced people to the top of the mountain and said, 'If you want to have lunch with us, ski down.' " Braden was aghast. Even with good instructors, he says, "skiing is the most intimidating sport. It surfaces childhood fears faster than anything: fear of abandonment, fear of falling. People haven't fallen for 30 or 40 years, and now they're down in the snow...
These problems were limiting the appeal of skiing, he told the Aspen Skiing executives, but could be dealt with in a school "where people can come in to an unintimidating atmosphere, sit in a classroom and talk, work things through, and find out how people learn, just as we do at the tennis college." The company agreed and in 1987 signed him to a five-year contract. Ski magazine also likes his method, naming his Aspen school the best in the country this year...