If you find any of the balancing exercises too easy, try them with your eyes shut. Number (10) may not teach you the “jerked” Christiania, but is highly beneficial to the liver.
FOOTNOTES
[1]Unless, however, this horizontal grain runs very straight throughout the ski, the vertical arrangement is the better.
[2]If however with a very narrow ski a very wide-soled boot is worn, traversing a steep, hard slope becomes uncomfortable, as the projecting sole is then apt to catch in the crust and trip the runner.
[3]The Bilgeri binding, a development of the Lilienfeld, is lighter and less rigid.
[4]No wider a welt, however, than is absolutely necessary. See [note, p. 28].
[5]Sold as “griffe Norvégienne.”
[6]For the above method of herring-boning I am indebted, through Mr. Rickmers, to Herr Zdarsky.