Archive for November, 2011
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Three Tips for Improving Your Skiing Balance
Skiing is a sport that requires different physical attributes: you’ve got to have endurance and agility, but you also always have to keep your balance. It doesn’t take rocket science to show that a sport involving two sliding skis down slippery snow will require a lot of balance. But what if you’ve always been a [...]
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Safety Concerns While Skiing
Skiing can be a fun and exhilarating sport, but those who have challenged themselves to master the slopes have encountered enough in their time to know that skiing can also be a risky and dangerous sport. This is particularly true if a skier is attempting to do more than they can handle. Skiing is fun, [...]
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What Do the Winter Games Do To Ski Resorts?
If you’ve been exploring the possibility of taking a family vacation – or even a private vacation – at one of the world’s most renowned ski resorts, you might have noticed some of the different characteristics these top resorts have in common. Many are situated in well-known mountain ranges like the Alps or the Rockies, [...]
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How to Begin Snowboarding
Whether your inspiration was the X Games or just a long time desire, snowboarding is an interesting way to have fun that’s totally different than skiing. It’s debatable that snowboarding is much harder than skiing because of the way you have to hold your legs to balance is not as natural as it is with [...]
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Eating for Skiing: Finding the Best Foods For Your Day-Long Skiing Adventures
When it’s cold outside, and you’re tackling hill after hill, swooshing and skilifting your way up and down the slopes, it can be easy to forget about some of your basic bodily functions. No, I’m not talking about the bathroom – I’m talking about your need for energy and nutrition. A day of skiing can [...]
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180s Quantum Vent Gloves and Metro Ear Warmers With Headphones Reviewed
One of the public relations people for 180s contacted me about reviewing a couple of their new products – their Quantum Vent Gloves and their Metro Ear Warmers. I associate 180s as those cool ear muffs that fold behind your head. I didn’t even know they made gloves until the company shipped a pair to [...]
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What are the Skiing Snow Conditions Like?
When you are planning a skiing trip usually the question that sits on the top of the priority list is what type of snow you will be dealing with. If you were going on a canoe trip you would want to know what the river was like and if you are headed golfing you would [...]
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A Weekend in Aspen: What Makes Skiing So Great?
If you’ve never been skiing in your life – and this applies especially for those of you in a more tropical climate – you might ask yourself why there is such emphasis on skiing, especially with people who seem to have a lot of money. “A weekend in Aspen” doesn’t sound fun to you; instead, [...]
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Why You Should Always Wear a Skiing Helmet on the Slopes
There’s a reason many people love to echo a popular sentiment, “safety first.” It’s because safety should come first! Even if you don’t think that you’ll run into any trouble, you should feel better on the ski hills knowing that you’re well-protected and that you’ve done what you can to minimize risk. You won’t always [...]
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What are the Best Weather Conditions For Skiing?
It’s ice-cold outside, and you want to remain physically active. The thought suddenly pops into your head: you could go skiing! But with the wind chill making weather conditions more severe, is that really such a great idea? In fact, what exactly is the best kind of weather to go skiing in exactly? You’re about [...]
