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POLES for Balance & Mobility Video
Additional Information
MENU LAYOUT:
- Intro & Benefits
- Equipment
- Pole Class
- Tips & Exercises
Pole Class: (Chapters)
- Class Intro
- Straps
- Gloves
- Pole Length
- How to adjust
- Sitting & Standing
- Strap Progression
- Stand, Rest, Turn
- 2 Finger Swing for walking
- Walking Modifications
- Plant Push
- Arm Movement
- Progressive Learning Format
- Curbs
- Stairs
- Ramps
- Pole Care
Tips & Exercises
- Dr. Jerry Gerst – Injury Prevention
- Diane Kern, PT Exercises for Gait & Posture
- Balance Exercises
- Freezing
- Foot Drop
- Good Days
- Driveways
- Wet Terrain Tip
- Learning Tips
- Endurance Tips
- Caregiver Tips
1 Hour, 39 Minutes © 2008
Each section listed above is a chapter. You can easily scan through either the Pole Class or the Tips Section to review what you want to practice.
POLES for Hiking, Trekking & Walking video
Additional Information
MENU LAYOUT:
- Intro & Benefits
- Getting Started
- Pole Techniques
- Hiking Tips
Getting Started:
- Equipment
- 5 Terrain-Based Techniques: An overview for optimal use on differing terrain
Pole Techniques:
- This section includes more detail on the 5 terrain-based techniques, including drills & practice segments for learning how to improve your performance on the trail.
- Practice with this section will enable you to efficiently use upper body muscles to power uphill, reduce stress on knees, especially on downhill. Sections include practice segments, drills and progressive training.
- Once you learn the 5 techniques, you'll be able to work on TRANSITIONING seamlessly between techniques as you change terrain.
- Stairs & Obstacles – Progressive techniques to enhance your learning experience
- Nordic Walking and Snow Shoeing tips are included in the chapters
Hiking Tips:
- Terrain Tips (more on down hill techniques)
- Streams
- Bridges
- Posture Tips
- Safety Tips & Pole Care
- Muscle Memory
Expand your Hiking & Walking Horizons!
Original Music, Stunning Scenery
Top Notch Training
1 Hour, 46 Minutes © 2008
Watch each section individually. Review what you need to practice.
Classes & Field Seminars
Year-round classes in beautiful locations
People take a class for all kinds of reasons. Some want to take a trip of a lifetime; others want to maintain mobility; some want to just get outside more safely or continue hiking and maintain quality of life.
Top quality poles provided at each poles seminar so you can determine which model best fits you and will help you to achieve your hiking, walking, adventure or life goals.
Carefully choose the level that fits your abilities and needs. We offer Hiking classes at several levels, from basic skills to full day training including a practice hike. Mobility classes focus on helping people learn skills to keep them independent and moving.
Class Sizes are kept extremely small to ensure personal attention to your issues, goals and form.
Seminars offered thru Northern CA organizations that have remarkable facilities for learning these skills, include:
- East Bay Regional Park District (the largest park district in the nation)
- Point Reyes National Seashore
- National Parks
- Anza Borrego Desert State Park (plus other State & National Parks)
- City Agencies, Senior & Community Centers
- Muhammad Ali Parkinson’s Center (Phoenix, AZ)
"I feel much more stable and better able to look around to see a world larger than my footsteps.” Barbara, Berkeley
“Jayah has a way of capturing small things and turning them into "life things". Like the opportunity, when you shift gears (while hiking or otherwise), to remind yourself (without a tinge of criticism for having tightened up) to relax your shoulders and open up your chest, the better to breath. She seems to understand deeply that every little bit of changed behavior helps us to function better, and that we all respond better to a positive tone, whether from ourselves or others.” ~ Nancy B.
POLES For Hiking, Trekking & Walking DVD (Actual DVD)
$15.95
($5.00 shipping)
2 Hours of training, comprehensive training for hikers
Improve your performance on the Trail.
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