This article is reprinted from The Professional Skier.
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Please see our copyright and disclaimer notice page. Because innovation and imagination are the keys to success in adaptive ski teaching, good instructors are constantly experimenting with ways to combine specialized equipment, teaching strategies, and techniques to best suit their students' learning needs. That said, however, it doesn't hurt to have a few fallbacks - those tried and true methods of eliciting proper movement from your students. In this article, I explore a few methods that many skilled adaptive instructors use to aid their students' skiing abilities. Rather than write about my favorites, I decided to ask some of the leaders in the field to share theirs, especially those methods that work well with beginners.