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Price: $2,500-$3,600 A monoski breaks down into four main components, says Jeff Goodman of Radventures, Inc., maker of Yetti brand monoskis.

I can't help but recruit my leg, stomach and back muscles in my efforts, but the monoski is unresponsive to my clandestine cheating-it's designed to navigate entirely by flowing movements initiated from the waist up.

At lower speeds, by simply looking down the hill and reaching with my outrigger, my shoulders and hips fall into their proper positions and I can entice the wily monoski to obey.

I am struggling, for the third time in quick succession, to right myself without using my legs, which are strapped irretrievably into a monoski.

A year later, with no instruction and a $2,000 monoski donated by the Friends of Middlebury Skiing alumni organization, he rediscovered his passion for competitive skiing and, in the process, invented modern monoski technique.