Archive for the ‘ski basics’ Category
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How to Fix Your Skiing Form
At some point during your introduction to skiing, you notice that your muscles adapt, your core gets stronger, and you no longer get sore after a good long day of skiing. But if you continue to have pains or soreness in areas that might not even include your muscles, you might want to think about [...]
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Why Do People Ski?
Let’s face it, there are a lot of hobbies out there that not everyone understands. There’s such an infinite variety that it would be impossible to list them all here, except to give a brief outline of some particular hobbies people enjoy: cricket, scrabble, hiking. But if you’ve ever looked at a tall, snowy mountain [...]
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How to Fuel Your Body for Skiing
If you plan on spending most of your day skiing – particularly when you’re on a skiing trip – it can be easy to forget to keep yourself fueled. After all, skiing can be exhilarating and fun, and somewhere in there we don’t remember that we’re exercising. When you’re burning more calories than usual, you [...]
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What Are the Different Types of Skiing?
You might wonder about the question posed in the title of this article. Isn’t it obvious, after all, what skiing is? You slap on a pair of skis, head downhill on a snowy slope or rope yourself to a boat on a lake and boom, you’re skiing. But there’s more to the winter sport of [...]
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To Ski or Not to Ski (Downhill)
Many of us, when we hear the word “ski,” simply imagine a type of skiing that is known as Alpine skiing. Alpine skiing refers to downhill skiing, the kind of skiing you undertake when going to a ski hill, not the type of skiing that occurs on flat environments like flat winter-land or even a [...]
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5 Tips to Take Your Child Skiing
While skiing is one of the most enjoyable experiences there is, it can also be fairly dangerous. So what do you do when you go to the ski resort with your family and you have a child? Well, you have more options than you think as there are plenty of things to do at a [...]
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What Type of Skier are You?
If you are into skiing then you should know what type of skier that you are. This is an important question because ski resorts label their slopes accordingly. Are you a beginner, an advanced skier, an expert, or the extreme skier? You might not think that it really matters but it does so that when [...]
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What Is Alpine Skiing (And How Do I Do It?)
What do you imagine when you hear the phrase “Alpine skiing?” Do you see flashes of the French and Swiss Alps, with professional skiers nearly falling down the slopes of mountains at near-suicidal angles? Well, you’re not too far off (though you might be thinking a little too dangerously about it), as Alpine skiing – [...]
