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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 [...]
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Get Downhill (Without Freaking Out)
For many people who are taking on a ski hill for the first time, it can be intimidating to watch the ground fall beneath you on the way up a ski lift. Even if you don’t have a fear of heights, feeling that you’re not exactly prepared as a skier to fight the law [...]
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Do Some Spring Skiing
For many it seems like the winter fun has just begun and it is suddenly over, especially for skiers. The good news is that just because winter is over it doesn’t mean that you have to hang up the skis. A lot of ski resorts have extended hours through April offering longer hours and deep [...]
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Protect Those Knees While Skiing
Unfortunately many people that adore skiing are unable to join in the fun because they have suffered a knee injury in the past. However, today there are many very effective knee braces on the market today that are of special interest to the avid skier. These braces are designed to accommodate your particular injury level, [...]
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How Many Types of Skiing are There?
Snow Skiing originated over 5000 years ago in the Nordic regions of the planet. Initially invented as a method of transportation over the arctic snows, it evolved over the centuries through technological advancements and innovations in equipment. Currently, there are many skiing categories, and imagination is the only limitation of what creative skiers may invent [...]
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Are You a Ski Lover or Hater?
Skiing is sometimes known as a “love it or hate it” sport – while some people love the idea of briskly sweeping down the slopes, others find the equipment awkward and the movements difficult. So which is it? And what kind of skier are you – the person who can really develop a [...]
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Learn the Four Distinct Ski Terrains
You already know by now that intermediate and advanced skiing isn’t always about form and technique, but about attitude and preparation. As you learn to ski and gain your “skier’s legs,” you’ll start finding that the challenge isn’t the skiing anymore; it’s finding a new challenge! But with an outdoor sport like skiing, [...]
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Hitting the Slopes in Style: A Guide to Skiing Like Yourself
To novices, the ski slope is a dangerous thing. It’s too tall, too steep, and too full of white stuff to be considered anything close to safe. In reality, we know that skiing can be a fun, thrilling, even relaxing adventure that people of a wide range of ages can enjoy.
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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 [...]
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Do Women Need Special Skiing Equipment?
Skiing is a sport that both men and women can enjoy, but when it comes to the equipment you use, there are certain physical attributes men and women don’t share. If you’re a woman and you want to optimize your skiing performance, it will help not to ignore these differences. But what exactly [...]
