Beginners

Learning to ski. All the Basics Indoors!

For a lot of novice skiers, the very idea of going on a skiing holiday is just terrifying. It's not just the thought of sliding down a real mountainside, but having to learn to ski whilst out there. To add to that whinter holidays are often so short that you do not want to spend all of the time going to a ski school, but rather enjoy most of it with your frinds and family.

Today modern technologies offer a lot of ways to get prepared to a skiing holiday in advance. There are dry ski slopes and indoor snow centres, but the problem is they don't effectively simulate the feeling of being on a real slope. Those ski centers usually have very short slopes and tiny elevation drop that prevents you from experiencing the real skiing. Usially with a dozen of turns the track is over and you have to take the lift up again. Essentially you spend all of you time just stading in the queues than skiing.

By using a ski simulator, you can effectively learn how to ski or snowboard before ever touching down on the real thing, easily skipping the time you waste on ski lifts. SkyTec Interacive ski and snowboard simulator offers is a fully realistic simulation of the G-forces alpine skiers experience on the real slope. As such, ski simulators are a much better way of learning to ski before embarking on your first skiing holiday.

No fear of the sheer slope! Training on the SkyTec Interative simulator can immediately help you feel how the position of knees and body and the pressure applied to the ski influence the strain experienced. The carving technique can be practiced from the very first lesson!

Nothing will compare to skiing on the real slope, but for the beginner using a ski simulator can make a tremendous difference to build-up confidence and to ensure the best possible time on the next skiing holidays.

Even few lessons on the SkyTec Interactive ski and snowboard trainer will allow any person to feel much more confident on the slope and quickly achieve progress in technique.

 

The Dictionary of Skier and Snowboarder

Parallel turn

The parallel turn in alpine skiing is a method for turning. It is based on the idea of rolling the ski onto one edge, allowing it to bend into an arc. The ski then follows the arc shape and turns,...

Carve turn

A carve turn is a skiing term, used to refer to a turning technique in which the ski shifts to one side or the other on its edges. In this case, the ski turns itself and is driven by the...

Stem turn

The stem technique in skiing is a method for turning the skier. It is usually credited to the Austrian Mathias Zdarsky who developed it in the 1890s. Its variations gradually replaced the telemark technique in Alpine skiing. The technique involves stemming...

Stem Christie turn

The stem Christie is a technique in skiing for turning. It is a refinement of the basic stem technique where, prior to the turn, the uphill ski is stemmed (tail skidded outward) from being parallel with the downhill ski to...

Snowplough turn

The snowplough turn (or snowplow turn) is a ski braking and turning technique taught to beginners. The front tips of the skis are brought together and the tails pushed wide apart, with the knees rolled inwards slightly. By applying pressure...

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