Word: schnieder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then, like a bolt from the blue, came the news of Hannes Schnieder and his great Ski School at Arlberg. Here was somebody who had dared to throw tradition to the winds. He was developing a new technique; a sort of mongrel breed, half Swiss, half Norwegian. Schnieder declared, "I don't care how I get down a hill, so long as I reach the bottom standing up!" With the spread of this Arlberg method New England has become Ski-conscious. The interest and necessary nerve have been with us now for two winters, but, till just recently, there...
...thing. To tell somebody else how to do it is another. Mr. Proctor has handled his wording in remarkably clear fashion and supplemented with a number of line sketches, illustrating the essential features of all the well-known stops and turns. He has taken the same stand as Schnieder in declaring that he defends no particular technique. The little book was written to teach the fundamentals of practical skiing, and, in the way that Mr. Proctor describes the various styles, it is clear that he is a master-hand at all of them. His book should come as a boon...