Chris Fellows

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  Take a look at the NASTC Portillo, Chile professional slide show by Cath Howard and ski tips by Chris Fellows on www.skinet.com.
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  . NASTC Director Chris Fellows just made a NEW NASTC Vision DVD with 10 more ski tips and great skiing.

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  Published on: 6/22/2007    Last Visited: 6/22/2007  

  NASTC Director Chris Fellows just made a NEW NASTC Vision DVD with 10 more ski tips and great skiing.This will be out very soon!
  
  Take a look at the NASTC Portillo, Chile professional slide show by Cath Howard and ski tips by Chris Fellows on www.skinet.com.

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  Published on: 1/9/2007    Last Visited: 6/6/2007  

  Our iPod tips and instruction by Chris Fellows of The North American Ski Training Center (www.skiNASTC.com) are a must-have for skiers looking to improve their skills.

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  Our iPod tips and instruction by Chris Fellows of The North American Ski Training Center (www.skiNASTC.com) are a must-have for skiers looking to improve their skills.

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  Published on: 3/8/2007    Last Visited: 3/18/2007  

  NASTC coach Chris Fellows instructs students on how to visualize a steep entrance at Sugar Bowl.
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  By Chris Fellows
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  Chris and his wife Jenny are the directors of Truckee's North American Training Center (NASTC), and Chris is a member of the PSIA National Demonstration Team.Chris will be writing a weekly column all winter.He can be reached at ski@skiNASTC.com or 582-4772.

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  Published on: 4/1/2007    Last Visited: 4/2/2007  

  "It's like a snowcone; all the good flavor is at the bottom," said Chris Fellows, director of Truckee's North American Ski Training Center (NASTC)."If the snow cone goes down three feet, you missed it,"
  
  Fellows said the variables that go into corn snow make it very hard to predict and very hard to master.The aspect of the sun, where it is in the sky, the pitch of the slope, what conditions were like in previous days and how deep the snow is are all factors in corn quality.
  
  "There's so many variables," Fellows said."One aspect can be turning and another can be frozen."
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  Fellows, who has skied all over the world with NASTC, says that the climate in the Sierra lends itself to corn snow better than almost anywhere.
  
  Deep snowbases that are allowed to sit in constant sunshine melting and freezing, make the corn here more abundant than nearly any other place on the planet.
  
  Regions like the Pacific Northwest get an incredible amount of snow, but the constant cloud cover doesn't create that rapid melt-freeze cycle.And in areas such as Colorado, it is sunny but rarely warm enough for the melting necessary before velvety corn forms.
  
  Fellows said it takes experience and the knowledge to know when, where and how long corn will be found.

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  North American Ski Training Center - Chris Fellows
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  NASTC is directed by fantastic ski trainer Chris Fellows.

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  Chris Fellows, a two time member of the PSIA National Alpine Team, provides the same all mountain tactical advice he uses to prepare his students and athletes for the most challenging conditions and terrain any mountain can offer up. Click on each photo below to view the video ski tip.
  
  Interview with Chris Fellows and 3 Powder Skiing Tips
  
  Airplane Turn video: Chris Fellows demonstrates "the airplane turn," often needed when skiing off-piste or in tricky situations.
  
  Ski the Spine video: Chris Fellows demonstrates balance on uneven terrain as he "skis the spine."
  
  Kick Turn video: Chris Fellows demonstrates how to use the "kick turn" to get in and around touch or unexpected terrain.
  
  Anchor Your Line video: Chris Fellows anchors himself at the top of a hairy line to check out the terrain and spot his line.
  
  Self Arrest video: Chris Fellows demonstrates the self arrest tactic, used for avoiding the treacherous "slide for life."
  
  Extension in the bumps video: Chris Fellows demonstrates the extension of the legs in bumps.
  
  TGIF video: Chris Fellows demonstrates how the tips go in first.
  
  Ski the Slough video: Chris Fellows demonstrates how to ski the slough that sometimes accumulates on steep terrain or with spring conditions.
  
  Carving Drill: Tuning Fork video: "Feel your skis' feedback," says instructor Chris Fellows.
  
  Skiing Bumps video: Chris Fellows demonstrates techniques to skiing the bumps.
  
  Need for Speed video: Chris Fellows demonstrates the "need for speed" when skiing deep or heavy snow.
  
  Railroad Turns video: Chris Fellows demonstrates the Railroad Track drill, great for making the most of your sidecut.

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  Published on: 1/2/2003    Last Visited: 3/12/2007  

  Chris Fellows and his family just returned from a weeklong trip to Canada's Whistler ski resort, and in January he's off to the Alps of St. Anton, Austria.This summer, he'll switch to the Southern Hemisphere where ski conditions at Portillo, in the Chilean Andes, should be excellent.
  
  Sporting expeditions to exotic alpine destinations are all in a day's work for Mr. Fellows, founder and owner of North American Ski Training Center in Truckee, Calif.The company offers intensive instruction to skiers who are discriminating and well-heeled -- each will pay $3,900 for the Austrian trip.Mr. Fellows often accompanies groups of 15 to 25 students to the 15 or so ski resorts in North and South America and Europe where he offers instruction.
  
  He started the company nine years ago so he could remain in Truckee, a historic mile-high town near the renowned ski resorts ringing Lake Tahoe, and keep doing the work that he loved.Teaching skiing, his career for more than a decade at the time, paid little and inevitably would have led to a desk job as a supervisor, he explains."This way I've got the best of both worlds," he says."It freed me up to do what I do best, which is to teach, coach and train people."
  
  Mountain towns are full of people who have started businesses so they could live in a place they love and do work they particularly enjoy.While some are like Mr. Fellows, who has lived and worked in alpine communities his entire career, most high-altitude lifestyle entrepreneurs are refugees from flatland jobs and homes.
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  Services, such as fly-fishing and mountaineering-guide operations, attract dedicated outdoorspeople -- although since the ski-area operators have their own ski schools, there are few independent instructors like Mr. Fellows.
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  Mr. Fellows agrees.While acknowledging that making a living as an alpine-ski-school owner requires energy, optimism and financial compromise, he sees little upside in becoming either a flatlander or an employee."How do you quantify quality of life?"he asks.

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  Published on: 3/11/2008    Last Visited: 3/12/2008  

  In this case the place was Bar 6 at Squaw Valley USA last week, and there were four students - five if you include me - sitting at separate tables and waiting for NASTC founder and lead instructor Chris Fellows to start telling us what we could expect the next four days to be like.
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  "Squaw Valley is a perfect playground, and the snow is perfect," Fellows said, warming his students up for the four days ahead of them.
  
  This was the All Conditions/All Terrain clinic - NASTC's "bread and butter" course, according to Fellows - and it was supposed to help all of us ski the impressive, and sometimes intimidating, terrain that Squaw Valley has to offer, hopefully better than when we first got here.
  
  I wasn't going to be able to ski with the group for the full four days of the clinic, but rather, just get a peak at how the athletes started out and finished up by joining them for the first and last days; however, I was still looking forward to skiing along and learning what I could.
  
  There is something amazing about watching really good skiers ski, and Chris Fellows and Kevin Mitchell - the other instructor for the four-day clinic - are nothing if not two of the best skiers you will ever see.
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  "The learning curve is a stair-step," Fellows said after the clinic was over.
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  This is definitely the boat I am in, and as we finish warming up on the slopes of Shirley and start working on drills designed to improve our balance and stance that first day, I feel as if I can hardly make a turn anymore - at least not the way Chris and Kevin are asking me to.
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  In contrast, Chris and Kevin amaze us all by arcing beautiful linked turns down the perfectly groomed slopes of Shirley, before announcing that it's time to take the drills into the bumps.
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  "We saw that people wanted to go off piste," Fellows said (again, after the course was over).
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  As Fellows says: "As a good coach, you've got to be able to create trust with your athletes; and that trust bond is going to make them receptive to change.
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  • All Conditions/All Terrain at Northstar-at-Tahoe, March 17-19 - Three days of training with national demo team members Chris and Kevin at one of Tahoe's premier resorts.
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  • Chris Fellows, NASTC Director and Trainer: Director and founder of the North American Ski Training Center (NASTC).

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