# The Basics of Cross-Country Skiing

Producer and director, Don Gazzaniga

Jerry Smeltzer and Skip Reedy of Squaw Valley explain the variety of special cross-country ski equipment including durable lightweight bindings, wax, boots, and curved-tip poles. They demonstrate techniques of glide walking, herringbone climb, snow plowing, step turning, and proper poling, emphasizing body positioning, balance, and control

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1975
- By: Concept Films, inc., Loomis, Calif
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/thebasicsofcrosscountryskiing)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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