{"id":16564,"date":"2023-02-18T07:53:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T15:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=16564"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:19:01","slug":"taylors-latest-book-the-science-of-alpine-ski-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/taylors-latest-book-the-science-of-alpine-ski-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor&#8217;s Latest Book: The Science of Alpine Ski Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16566 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/SASR-book-cover-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m excited to announce the publication of my latest book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Science-of-Alpine-Ski-Racing\/Pritchard-Taylor\/p\/book\/9781032193496\"><em>The Science of Alpine Ski Racing<\/em><\/a> by Taylor &amp; Francis, a leading publisher of professional books and journals. This book was co-edited with <a href=\"https:\/\/pritchardperformance.com\/what-we-do\">Jimmy Pritchard<\/a> and written with some of the leading sport scientists in the world. It explores every aspect of alpine ski racing performance including conditioning, biomechanics, physiology, nutrition, injury prevention and rehabilitation, program planning, and, of course, mental training (written by yours truly).<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-12-sm col-md-12 col-lg-3 d-none d-lg-block px-0-md\">\n<div class=\"sidebar-item\">\n<nav class=\"make-me-sticky p-0\" aria-label=\"Product Navigation\">\n<div class=\"btn-group-vertical d-block sidebar-item px-lg-0 p-lg-3\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Book Description<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-12 col-lg-9\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-xl-8 book-materials\">\n<div id=\"productDescription\" class=\"description\">\n<p>Alpine skiing or downhill skiing is defined by six disciplines: Downhill, Super G, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Parallel, and Combined that test the athletes\u2019 technical abilities and speed. It has long been a popular sport with many national and international championships and is a mainstay of the Winter Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><i>The Science of Alpine Ski Racing<\/i>\u00a0is the first book to discuss the science, coaching, research, and training of elite to recreational alpine ski racers for optimal performance. This book brings together the complex physiological, biomechanical, and technical components of the sport in a practical manner with which coaches and researchers alike can adopt to elicit better performance outcomes for athletes. Literature of this kind has never been formally researched and published specifically for the sport of alpine ski racing making it both unique and a cornerstone to the discipline.<\/p>\n<p>Backed by cutting-edge research, the book provides practical guidance on preparing athletes for high performance and understanding the core tenets of sports science underpinning it striking a balance between the complex theoretical and practical components coaches and athletes must prepare for in alpine ski racing.<\/p>\n<p>Accessibly written and featuring contributions from world-leading experts, The Science of Alpine Ski Racing covers key topics of health, training, and high performance in the sport and will be vital reading for youth coaches, professional ski instructors, strength and conditioning coaches, and sports science staff associated with winter sports programs as well as applied researchers looking for a model to apply to other sports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Biomechanics: Matt R. Cross and Christian Raschner<\/p>\n<p>2. Physiology:\u00a0David Bacharach and Matt R. Cross<\/p>\n<p>3. Motor Learning and Skill Acquisition:\u00a0Stefan Lindinger, David Bacharach, and Jim Taylor<\/p>\n<p>4. Strength and Power Training:\u00a0James Pritchard and Matt R. Cross<\/p>\n<p>5. Endurance Training:\u00a0Carson Patterson<\/p>\n<p>6. Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation:\u00a0Matt Jordan J\u00f6rg Sporr\u00ed, and Jim Taylor<\/p>\n<p>7. Nutrition:\u00a0Makayla Meixner and David W. Bacharach<\/p>\n<p>8. Mental Training:\u00a0Jim Taylor and Karla Kubitz<\/p>\n<p>9. Program Design:\u00a0James Pritchard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to announce the publication of my latest book,\u00a0The Science of Alpine Ski Racing by Taylor &amp; Francis, a leading publisher of professional books and journals. This book was co-edited with Jimmy Pritchard and written with some of the leading sport scientists in the world. It explores every aspect of alpine ski racing performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1516,1517],"tags":[248,820,227,363,1454,1837],"class_list":["post-16564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ski-racing","category-sports","tag-alpine-ski-racing","tag-conditioning","tag-injury","tag-nutrition","tag-physiology","tag-sport-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18884,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564\/revisions\/18884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}