Skimetric Academy

After a slow start in St Anton and the usual get going problems, Skimetric in the second half of the season was getting busier by the week. The last four weeks were the busiest of the season which went to the last week of April. Again 99% of clients came recommended from past clients and there were lots of interesting cases. One such example is mentioned below. Dr. C. Wijnkamp-Becker is the medico who is in the helicopter for emergency mountain rescue. If your German is not so good, in short she says that: “My knocked knee position stopped me from carving well on the ski edges and gave constant pain on the medial side of both knees where the ligaments connect to the bone”. Since the day of Skimetric 22/1/09 allowed me a new dimension of skiing with good balance, power transition and consequent optimum edge grip as well as no more knee pain. ”Cornelia further commented that she uses now the entire body dynamic for skiing, is using less strength, skis better and believes that Skimetric would potentially help to reduce injuries from skiing.

Thanks to a recommendation from Australia the Doctor from the Austrian ski team came to St Anton between his morning visit in the Innsbruck Hospital and operating in the afternoon. It was great fun to ski and work with him and even so his boots were too big and there was not enough time to make a foot bed he was skiing better after the adjustments. The St Anton Ski School Director, who is also the head of the Austrian Ski Instruction Federation, arranged that Skimetric could do presentations to approx ½ of the 450 instructors. This resulted in some instructors doing the program including the chief instructor and several customer recommendations. One of the young instructors who was completing the final year of becoming a fully qualified Austrian Ski Instructor commented to the Head of the Austrian Ski Academy St.Christoph how much Skimetric had helped him and Skimetric consequently was invited for a one hour presentation to Instructors and Trainers at the Austrian Ski Academy which resulted in another 6 instructors doing a skimetric program with positive success.

Other Skimetric graduates included

• My previous bosses from Head/Tyrolia, Wintersteiger and Carrera.
• Australian ski racer, who eventually competed at this years Ski World Championship in France
• A very fit Spanish lady who works with Formula 1 marketing and skis “Formula 1 Speed”
• The wife of the Ski School Director, opinion leader in fashion and good skiing
• The owner of St Anton Reload Sports Massage who recommended skimetric in her studio
• The presenter of Arlberg TV who skis and looks very fast
• A South African lady who after one week of trying to get her new boots to fit came back for another holiday to St Anton to do the skimetric program and left very happy
• The husband of Dr Wijnkamp-Becker where we did apart from the ski boot also the mountaineering boot
• The German business man and professional speaker who was so happy that he wanted to have a Skimetric setup in his regular business shoes in order to have the same positive stance and powerful posture in front of his audience
• The Australian lady whose parents were guests on my European ski tour in the mid 70s
• The 145kg New York man who was struggling on the beginners slopes after he was an ok skier 20 years ago; we build a custom boot from the ground up and he skied so well that we wanted to enter him into the weekly instructor demonstrations
• The 82 year old baron from Argentina who will now continue to keep skiing and coming back to the Arlberg
• The Libyan oil man who can now turn left as well as right
• The Zuers ski instructor who I met for the first time at the Austrian Ski Instructor Race when I was 19
• The German couple who are both medical doctors who were so impressed with their improvements that they have requested a Skimetric presentation at a medical conference they are bringing to St Anton in January next year
• The Lech ski instructor with Asian background who has such strong bow-legs that his skiing capabilities were limited but completed the fully certified Austrian Ski Instructor examinations this year
• The Zuers Hotel owner who did the program and requested a Skimetric presentation for his guests which resulted in several bookings
• The President of Ski Austria, who is the world’s fastest over 60 year old ski racer whos comments and suggestions were greatly appreciated.

Most importantly I could learn more in my field of work and believe to have improved my skiing by” practising what I preach”. On the way forward I had the opportunity to use some revolutionary new ski designs and worked on some skimetric products for the future. The compression underwear made of Merino Wool will be available this season as well as the first of the Skimetric custom built black series skis. Hope you are coming to ski to the top of Mt.Hotham/Australia this season or to the beautiful Arlberg (St.Anton/Zuers/Lech)in Austria coming winter. Both places offer Skimetric. 

 Hallo Adalbert, ich möchte mich bei Dir für eine intensive und wunderschöne Skisaison bedanken. Bis zum 22.1.2009 war mein Skifahren von meiner x-Bein-Stellung und zwei grossen Problemen gekennzeichnet: 1. sauber auf meinen skikanten zu carven; 2. massiv gereizte Sehnenansätze beidseits an meinen Knieinnenseiten. Durch die Schuhkorrektur und Dein Skimetric-Coaching, um die verbesserte Physis auch in ein ausgewogenes Bewegungsmuster beim Skifahren umzusetzen, hat sich für mich ab dem 22.1.2009 eine völlig neue Skidimension eröffnet bei mittlerweile komplett abgeklungener Sehnenreizung an den Knieinnenseiten. Durch das Skimetric-Programm wird die physische Power der Körpergesamtheit, was nicht gleichzusetzen ist mit „grober Kraft“, optimal genutzt, um sie mit den Bewegungsmustern des Skifahrens zusammenfliessen zu lassen. Ich bin überzeugt, dass Skimetric somit nicht nur zu einer Verbesserung des individuellen Skifahrerischen-Könnens führt, sonderen auch eine optimale Verletzungsprophylaxe für den skisport darstellt.Viele Grüsse Cornelia Becker Fachärztin Anästhesiologie, Notfallmedizin, Moutain Medicine.

Lieber Herr Leibetseder. „Gut Ding braucht Weil“ ! Sind seit paar Tagen wieder in Buenos Aires gelandet. Da habe ich etwas mehr Zeit, um mein Versprechen Ihnen gegenueber einzuloesen.Dass ich dieses Jahr den Aufenthalt am Arlberg des schlechten Wetters wegen nicht so geniessen konnte wie gewohnt, muss ich Ihnen ja nicht berichten, da Sie ja auch da waren. Ich bin aber sehr froh, Ihre „Skimetric-Behandluing“ gut ueberstanden zu haben, das Resultat geniessen zu koennen und freu mich schon auf den kommenden Maerz, wo ich beabsichtige, wieder die Steilhaenge „unsicher“ zu machen und, dafuer selbst, sicherer und leichter fahren zu koennen. Die Schuhe wurden durch Ihren „Eingriff“ fuer meine Fuesse noch besser als ich sie vorher verspuerte. Also dann bis auf 2010 !.Und hier, auf der suedlichen Erdhalbkugel, ist nun auch Winter und freue ich mich schon, im August, nach meinem 83. Geburtstag, in „Las Lenias“ und im September in San Carlos de Bariloche wieder auf den „Brettln“ stehen zu koennen. Allerdings mit meinen hiesigen Schieschuhen, die Sie noch nicht verbessern konnten. Ich wuensche Ihnen weiterhin viel Erfolg in Ihrer Arbeit und verabschiede mich mit einem „Schie Heil“, Ihr Llewellyn Kast, Buenos Aires, Argentina.