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Ski Points
Skiing Basics for Beginners - How to Avoid Falling on your Face on your First Try
Skiing is an exciting pastime that will give you an excuse to travel and meet friends as well as help you keep your body in tip top shape. If you’re considering taking up skiing as your newest hobby, here are a few tips to help you get started.
The Proper Positioning for Skiing
Positioning is extremely important when skiing. If you start out with a bad position, you’ll most likely end up with an equally bad fall. The best pose to have before skiing is to keep your feet slightly apart, with the distance between your feet equaling the width of your shoulders. Your skis, on the other hand, must form a V-shape.
As you move, you’ll have to slightly bend your lower body, starting from the waist, then your knees going down to your ankles. Make sure that your arms remain slightly outstretched and steady on your skis. It’s very important that pressure is evenly distributed to both of your feet.
Making a Turn
It will seem extremely difficult and scary to make a turn on your first attempt at skiing, but rest assured that this is a doable objective. The first thing you have to do is place your body in the basic position once more - feet slightly apart, your lower body bent slightly, and your arms spread widely – then slowly but firmly turning your feet to the direction you wish to take. Make sure that you still keep your eyes straight ahead and not down on your feet while make the turn. Once you’ve turned your feet successfully to the right direction, you’ll realize that your body has automatically done the same!
While it’s easy to make turns on slow and gentle slopes, it naturally becomes harder on steeper courses because of the amount of effort you need to exert to keep control of your body and your skis. Practice however will soon make you a pro at turning left and right.
Walking and Gliding
If there’s a short distance between you and your intended destination and you’d wish to cover it by walking rather than skiing, take your skis off and put your ski boots to work. It’s easier and safer that way.
To glide in your skis, on the other hand, all you have to do is assume the basic positioning once more. Relax your grip then let yourself go. Again, keep your eyes straight ahead and not at the snow beneath you!
How to Schuss
Schussing is a German term that’s now used to describe skiing downhill. It’s impossible that you won’t find a need to schuss if you’re determined to have skiing as your hobby. Thus, it’s better to start practicing now than having to learn it in an instant.
The first thing you should do is find an appropriate slope where you can practice schussing. If you’re at a skiing resort, any member of the staff or crew will surely point you out to appropriate practice areas for schussing. If you’re alone, however, just make sure that the slope you’ll be practicing on is relatively low, with gentle curves, and without any physical obstacles in your course.
Assume the basic position for skiing, with your skis pointed downwards. Make sure that you’re relaxed and confident before doing this. Don’t attempt to do this alone as much as possible during your first few tries. If you’re ready, let yourself go. Always keep your eyes straight ahead of you. Make sure that your skis and feet are moving in harmony as you go downhill.
Remember to keep the same amount of pressure for both feet or you’ll easily lose your balance. If there are small impediments in the course, use your hips, knees, and ankles to avoid or go around them. While schussing, try to find a position that’s most comfortable for you. The important thing is to stay relaxed!
Keeping Control of Your Speed
Just like when you learn driving or horseback riding, you’ll also have to know how to effectively step on the brakes and make a clean stop. To do so, you’ll have to assume the snow plough position once more. This will allow you to control your speed. If you wish to make a full stop, just turn your feet inwards while forming an inverted V.
Although there are certainly many benefits to enjoy when going skiing, keep in time that this is still a moderately dangerous hobby to pursue for any individual. If you have any past or present medical condition, be sure to inform your physician first about your intentions before trying out any slopes. Have fun skiing!
About the Author
The above article was written by Nicole Steffanson on behalf of Baby Gift Station, a Pet Gifts, Personalized Pet Gifts, Paw Prints Gifts for Pet Lovers and other pet gifts and baby gifts store.
What is a good kind of ski for me? (best answer points)?
I'm 16 about 5'7'' and I'm looking to buy a pair of skis. In previous years I just rented them at the resorts, since I didn't go super often, but I'm going to be going up alot more this year so I think it would be a good idea to get myself a pair of skis.
I skiied with size 140s last year which i liked and felt comfortable with, but im open to considering other sizes.i started doing tricks for the first time on rails and jumps which i really enjoyed, so im looking for a good ski that would be good for tricks and the terrain park, but also good for normal downhill slope skiing (i ski like the blues and black diamonds). any recommendations on a good alpine/trick ski? and whether it would be better for me to get shorter/longer skis?
oh and ive heard about "twin tips" which i heard are good. know anything about that?
thanks for your help in advance!
for 5' 7" I would think 140 is too small. I'd go up to at least a 150 or maybe even 160 depending on what kind of skiing you want to do. If your main purpose is to be doing tricks, you will want twin tips definitely, which will help with your switch (backwards) skiing, but keep in mind they will not ski too well on normal slopes. Finding this compromise in skis would be great, but is unfortunately impossible. I would try to get a short-ish ski, 155 would be right around where you need to be but if you have to go a few centimeters either way you'll be totally fine. Like I said, you could go plus or minus 5 cm from that, maybe even more.
As a final point, if you get skis which you plan to center mount (ie the bindings are right in the center of the ski, as opposed to closer to the back as usual), you'll want to go a little longer. Like 170ish. This may not be a great idea for your first pair of skis but it will definitely make switch skiing even smoother and easier. But the longer skis will be a little weird in terms of control
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