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Ski-Specific Exercises to Help Build the Right Muscles
Almost every skier – minus the truly devout – have to deal with the inevitability that living on a planet with a tilted axis brings: changing seasons. Even if you live further from the Equator than most, there’s a good chance that once spring and summer roll around, you’re left wondering where all of the [...]
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How to Ski With Your Whole Family
Between the ski boots, renting skis, assembling your layers of insulation from the cold, and making sure that you remain safe, skiing can sometimes feel like quite the involved hobby. So it’s understandable if some parents don’t even want to take their kids skiing very often – after all, if it’s that much trouble for [...]
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How to Avoid Skiing Knee Injuries
Skiing is one of the most fun, exhilarating, and active sports there is. The constant twisting and turning, stopping, starting, and cruising downhill can be a thrill, but it can also lead to some nasty injuries on the lower joints. In particular, you’ll have to make sure that you’re ready and prepared so that you [...]
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What to Wear When You Going Skiing
When you’re debating whether you should go skiing or not, it’s important to remember the harsh conditions that are often found at the slopes. You will definitely want to have multiple layers of clothing, and perhaps you will want to have a special kind of fabric for your clothing. What things should you absolutely remember [...]
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Five Steps to an Effective Ski Trip
As anyone who’s planned a vacation knows, a trip doesn’t all come together by itself. Instead, it takes careful planning, a reasonable amount of flexibility, and smart preparation to make a good trip happen. This is no less true when you’re planning a good ski or snowboarding trip with you and your family and/or friends. [...]
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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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Your Ski Trip Checklist
So you’ve decided to embrace the cooler temperatures of winter and head out on a skiing trip. Congratulations! It should make for a cool time. If you’ve never gone skiing before, however, you’re probably already starting to feel a little bit apprehensive about the whole thing. What kind of equipment will you need to bring? [...]
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How to Plan a Christmas Ski Trip
Christmas is rolling around, and for many people, that means snow is on the agenda. If you’re a skier, then this is exactly what you’ve been waiting for. But what if you want to plan a skiing trip around Christmastime for the entire family? They can be great fun – if you can pull it [...]
