Skiing and Getting Ready for the Trip of Your Life!

Skiing is a combination of physical and mental endurance, your body’s resilience to the cold, and even your ruggedness. You also have to master the various techniques and abilities that you will need in order to ski particular sections of a run or piste. Below are 10 tips to help you improve your skiing.

1 – Check Your Equipment

Always make sure you have everything you need, or that you have arranged to get everything you need. Consider where and how you will be skiing and be sure that you have the appropriate equipment for the course you choose. The wrong gear might not only make your run more difficult but could put you in danger.

2 – Get Fit

Skiing is very physical and you will be using muscles that you don’t use when sat behind your desk at work. Practice your stance, hit the gym, go walking, and take up running in advance of your skiing holiday.

3 – Perfect Your Stance

Your stance is essential to your skiing performance. Remember that nobody’s looking and ensure that you can stand, bend, lean, and generally perform all of the necessary motions before you get on the plane.

4 – Work On Your Balance

Balance is critical. If you don’t have balance, you are falling over. It can be difficult to practice balance at home, but you can head to a local ski slope, snow park, or dry ski centre to master your balance.

5 – Consider Lessons

If you’re going on a skiing holiday and have never skied before then you will find that you spend a lot of your time on the floor, or taking lessons. Consider taking lessons locally so that you at least have a good understanding of the basics when you arrive.

6 – Drink Water

Drink plenty of water. The body will sweat a lot while skiing and as you become dehydrated, you will not only lose physical sharpness but mental agility too. Your performance will suffer.

7 – Sleep Well

Choose the best ski accomodation. The body also reacts sluggishly if you are not well rested. Avoid the temptation to stay up drinking until 2 in the morning, and get some rest, ready to hit the lifts early and fully alert.

8 – Eat

The body needs vitamins too. You will find it easier to combat the cold, use your muscles, and think straight, if you have eaten a proper meal. Consider hot breakfasts, and take energy snack bars to stock up while you’re on the piste.

9 – Look Where You Want To Go

When skiing look where you want to go and your body and skis will naturally follow this line. If you look straight ahead then this is where you are going to go, so look where you want to turn.

10 – Practice, Practice, Practice…

The body and the brain become more skilled at something, the more they practice. Don’t sit out the first couple of days and do sign up to practice at your local ski slope before heading out.

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