All copyrights apply. Please see our copyright and disclaimer notice page. After 10-plus years of teaching adaptive skiing and running a ski school for adaptive skiers, I can't really accept that distinction. I would like to propose an alternative perspective, one that may be more helpful in teaching in adaptive situations. Let's face it, strapping on long, slippery boards and riding them down snow-covered mountains is not exactly a natural human act.
Skiing is an exercise in adapting for everyone.
Skiing generally isn't defined in terms of the equipment. Among the factors that determine an individual's normality are body mechanics and equipment. No two skiers ski exactly the same, because their variables make them different. Some differences are just more obvious than others. I believe it isn't any more accurate to describe adaptive skiing as equipment oriented as it would be to describe normal skiing that way.