Do Kristen Ulmer’s “Ski To Live” Clinics Make You a Better Skier?
By Steve Casimiro on March 8th, 2012
Nine years ago Ulmer punted on a pro free skiing career and turned instead to teaching the sport with an unconventional approach through Zen-based clinics called Ski to Live. Wall Street Journal reporter Brigid Mander took the seminar last winter at Alta and was alternately awed by Ulmer’s presence and perplexed by a curriculum that ignores the mechanics of skiing in favor of retraining the membrane. Students skied runs using different “voices” in their heads — the fearful one, the know it all, the angry one. Though skeptical, Mander came around…”The following day, I decided I was really enjoying ski camp.” She didn’t, however, say if it made her a better skier.
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If you drink the Kool aid you will THINK you’re a better skier. The woman is a fraud. She’s no more qualified to psychoanalyze you than your plumber. She took a couple of Zen classes, put her BS degree (not the one you get in college) to use and preys on skiers desperate for a a quick solution and a serious lack of self-esteem. If you’re a former addict, in love with her or just hate the idea of ski school but want to pretend like you’re doing something to improve then go ahead and throw away your money.