Book details

  • Genre:biography & autobiography
  • Sub-genre:Sports
  • Language:English
  • Pages:200
  • eBook ISBN:9798317856083

One-Track's Free Ride

Ch14-Free ride & 15-Last Dance w/Mary Jane)

Overview

Chapter 14 - 'Take a Free Ride'(yrs. '91-'93) & Chapter 15 - 'Last Dance with Mary Jane'(1994) from the 'One-Track Song-Man' book, (yrs. 1979-2007, publ. 2025).

Writer, rider and author Marc Romero's always musical top amputee skier story and happenings of being on the Winter Park, CO Disabled Ski Team '91-'94 after having been 'dropped' by the powerful #1 US Disabled Ski team of the early 90's who had too many great Men's stand-up 1-track racers(LW2's) already on the team and all who had trained and come up through Winter Park, CO...like World's #1 in 1-track Speed(DH&SG) and formerly using regular ski poles - Greg 'the Terminator' Mannino and World's #1 in Slalom - Monte Meier.

It was the BEST and 'toughest competition ever for one-track'(LW2) ski racing those 4 years after the apex and top event of the sport of 'Para Alpine'(for stand-up disabilities) which were the 1990 World Disabled Ski Championships/races at Winter Park, Colorado.....when Marc and Monte had been US 'D' teamers and fore-runners only on the world's #1 Winter Park, CO Disabled Ski Team AND one-track team.

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Description

Chapters 14 - 'Take a Free Ride'(yrs. '91-'92) & Chapter 15 - 'Last Dance with Mary Jane'(yrs. ''93-'94) from the 'One-Track Song-Man' book, (yrs. 1979-2007, publ. 2025).

Writer, rider and author Marc Romero's always musical and unbelievably TRUE story and happenings of being on the Winter Park, CO Disabled Ski Team '91-'94 after being 'dropped' by the powerful #1 US Disabled Ski team of the early 90's who had too many Men's stand-up 1-track racers(LW2's) already on the team....like World's #1 in 1-track Speed events(DH & SG)- Greg 'The Terminator' Mannino and World's #1 in Slalom - Monte Meier. It was the 'toughest competition ever for one-track'(LW2) those years directly after the apex and top event of the sport of 'disabled ski racing' which happened at the 1990 World Disabled Ski Championships at Winter Park, Colorado.....while Marc and Monte were US Team one-track 'D' Teamers and fore-runners only while being on the Winter Park Disabled Ski Team at those 1990's Worlds.

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About The Author

Marc is an above-knee amputee and mostly 'amped up' former 'One-track' ski racer, free rider and 'uni' unique writer. He also became a musical producer of videos and short stories, story-teller and school presenter to K-12 kids on our top amputee and 'Para Sports' stories and fellow athletes, and after having been on and off the powerful, huge and #1(back then) US Disabled Ski Team as well as #1 in the world US Men's 1-track team of the early 90's.

He kept trying to make it back to the US 'Paralympic' Alpine('Stand-up') Ski team while turning his one-track skiing focus, talents and ambition to Free-Skiing(like at Jackson Hole and A-Basin) and then to 'adaptive' ski flick/video making...and with sweet music syncs and on our ski planet's best and most evolutionary adaptive and amputee free-skiing and racing story lines and characters.

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