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Learning the right way to improve your skiing posture, balance and stability will help reduce the risk of skiing injuries and steadily improve your skiing skills. Wear the correct and appropriate ski equipment to ensure the best protection during the training process.
In winter skiing, to enjoy freely or to grow your skiing skills, keeping your body balanced and stable is essential to improve your skiing skills. Balance and stability is the most practical and basic skill, understand this skill, in skiing can better control their body balance and stability. It is easy to complete a variety of movements on the slope and enjoy the infinite fun of skiing.
If you’ve ever felt the wobble and instability of going down a slope, the feeling of panic and helplessness comes over you and you end up skiing down the slope in a panic; this is the problem of not having the balance before skiing.
In this article, we’ll explore these tips with you, so let’s get reading!
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Start with your body
In fact, whether you are an inexperienced beginner skier or a veteran with some experience, good physical condition is a prerequisite for improving your skiing skills. To improve your body’s balance and stability, the following core training methods are available.
Exercise the core muscle groups
The purpose of strengthening the core muscle groups is to provide adequate power and support while skiing. The more developed the muscle groups are, the more adequate power they will have while skiing and the more control they will have over skiing. It is usually possible to train your muscle groups in the following ways, such as sit-ups and flat supports, which are a relatively simple way to improve physical function.
Start with a simple balance
From balancing off a snowboarding or skiing to balancing with your equipment on, it is best to train without a board to begin with. From not using the board to being fully equipped; from shallow to deep is the key to mastering this balance skill. You can usually improve your balance by standing on one foot, swaying back and forth, standing upright, etc. The same method is used when you are equipped with a board.
Good Cardio
Skiing in the high altitude cold environment, oxygen is relatively thin; excellent lung capacity can help your body, in such an environment to provide enough oxygen, well adapted to the cold climate. The usual way to train cardio slope running is a good way to improve endurance and cardio.
Stress reaction ability
The dynamic environment changes at high speed when skiing requires a strong stress reaction ability, and a timely response when an unexpected situation arises. Often, good muscle training can also improve the body’s stress response. In most cases, we avoid the source of danger signals by anticipating them.
Proper skiing posture and technique
Posture: Knees slightly bent. Keep your eyes naturally flat in the distance and do not stare at the tip of your snowboard. Keep your weight forward, not backward, and press your lower legs forward against your ski boots. Hold your poles forward with ski gloves, elbows slightly bent. Beginners should not put their gloves inside the rope sleeve of the pole handle.
Deceleration techniques: There are two snowboard shapes for skiing, beginners use the figure of eight, also known as the wedge shape. Deceleration of the foot force point is in the inner heel of the feet, chest and abdomen, is to ensure that the center of gravity forward. Learning to progress quickly will already be a lot easier in parallel form. In addition, unless it is on flat ground, beginners do not let the snowboard parallel forward, to always keep the figure of eight, to accelerate when some inward, to slow down when some outward release, always pay attention not to let the speed too fast. When stopping, slow down first, do not pursue a quick stop.
Turning skills: turning needs to be achieved with the help of the body’s steering. The body will turn to the right if it leans to the left, and turn to the left if it leans to the right.
Skating skills
Straight down skiing method: that is, straight-line gliding, feet on skis, facing the direction of the upcoming glide stand, the upper and lower skis must be kept parallel, the distance between the two boards and shoulders and knees to maintain the same width, the upper body and knees slightly forward, both arms naturally dropping slightly forward bending, two hands holding the staff naturally placed on the front side of the thighs, the tip of the staff is placed on the back side of the body below 30 ~ 40 cm from the ground, before and after a slight figure of eight, the arms when starting to slide Forward bend up, and then force the staff tip to support the ground behind the board on both sides, and begin to slide. When sliding down the two snowboards to give force must be even, glide when the eyes look ahead, the body relaxed do not be nervous.
Braking techniques
Lateral stay method: The upper body stands naturally, the distance between the two boards is the same width as the shoulders, jump equally on the vertical line in the downward direction, the outside of the top foot and the inside of the bottom foot stomp on the ground.
Plow stay method: first double cane support to the side of the body downhill direction (distance more than the front half of the snowboard, slightly wider than the shoulder). When the snow poles hold up to generate reaction force, and then the original horizontal side of the snowboard gradually move into a plow-style state. Upper body leaning forward, two knees inward, two boards inside the edge of the force carved the field, the snow cane can be released.
Snow surface walking skills: on flat ground, you can walk straight, that is, the skis and the direction of travel to keep parallel. And on steeper slopes, you need to step sideways like a crab. For beginners, it is best to take off the skis and then reload them in a more gentle place. Before taking off or reloading your skis, adjust them to a position perpendicular to the piste so they don’t slide down the hill on their own while you’re taking them off.
The key factor to maintain body balance
Balance is a key factor in skiing, it applies to the whole process of skiing, maintaining a good balance to be able to manipulate the snowboarding or skiing, which is a prerequisite for skiing. Bending the knees and controlling the center of gravity are key factors in this process. The balancing process requires bending the knees to control the body’s center of gravity in order to slowly find a sense of balance.
The correct preparatory position is the key to a good start. At the start, find a flat piece of snow and get into the right position. Place your skis shoulder-width apart, with your weight in the middle of the arches of your feet, feet slightly bent, back straight and relaxed, arms bent and arms straightened to the front of your skis, at the same height as your waist, to maintain your balance. Hold this position, relax your body and repeat several times. Take a few steps forward or sideways, lean forward, put your calves against your ski shoes, then lean back and feel the weight of your body pressed against the back of your skis, then stand up straight and repeat a few times, at this time you can also do something like wrapping your knees around, squatting your body, shifting your weight to your front toes and these actions to get used to the feeling of putting on your ski shoes and boards.
Put on the ski shoes, board, the initial adaptation can stand, walk, squatting, should find a little slope of the snow, start to learn to slide, then you should pay attention to the body’s center of gravity to move forward, two boards to keep parallel, to set down so far, then we see the skid marks are two parallel straight line, repeat the practice several times.
Preparation for skiing
Skiing Equipment:Skiing Equipment is an integral part of skiing. Choose the right skis, ski boots, ski clothing and other accessories to ensure their comfort and safety while skiing.
Choosing a location:The difficulty of the various terrains on the ski resorts varies, and you need to have a basic knowledge of the various signs on the slopes. Choosing a skiing location that suits your current skiing skills can reduce the risk of injury. Also in the terrain that suits you, there is more conducive to finding balance and stability. Be aware of the “mushrooms” and some frozen snow on the ski slopes, which can affect your balance when skiing.
Exercise warm-up: Before any exercise requires a simple warm-up, skiing such high-intensity exercise is even more so; no warm-up before exercise is like an engine that has been cooled for a long time, suddenly being rushed to start, which will bring a lot of damage, to the engine simple warm-up can be good to keep the engine running for a long time. A simple stretch or jog before skiing can help your body adapt to skiing more quickly.
How to improve skiing skills and body balance
—Becoming an intermediate skier
Take instruction: Taking instruction is one of the fastest techniques to improve, and the most efficient. An experienced ski instructor, which can give you professional guidance and advice, can help you improve your skiing skills while helping you to reduce the number of times you hit the wall. Not only that, but a professional instructor can also help you correct your posture and technique, allowing you to reach a higher level of skiing.
Strengthen your basic skills: Solid basic skills are essential for steady improvement. Find your most suitable way of skiing by practicing hard on these basic skills of straight line, gliding, turning and sprinting. Repeated practice will not only improve proficiency and confidence, but will enable you to face the slope with confidence and maintain a calm mind to cope even when out of control, which is undoubtedly the greatest for improvement.
Practice diligently: often to practice skiing, practice balance, can greatly improve the balance and skiing skills, the process can also mention the body’s muscle groups and cardiorespiratory function.
Keep trying:Keep trying can bring you unexpected gains, try skiing new methods, new techniques can give you a new perspective, or perhaps even a small breakthrough.
After-ski care and maintenance
There are several things that need your attention after intense skiing.
1, diet: Excessive sweating can lead to the loss of salt and water in your body. After skiing, you need to replenish water in time, and in case of conditions, it is recommended to drink sports drinks to keep the body from losing a lot of salt and water. Also need to consume some high protein and high fiber food, in order to get timely nutritional supplements after the loss of energy.
2, appropriate relaxation: skiing will make most of the body’s muscles in a highly tense state, appropriate stretching or other such as massage, to let the muscle relaxation, which allows you to recover as soon as possible, to reduce muscle soreness the next day.
3, adequate rest: rest is the most beneficial way to relieve fatigue, need to give the body enough time to recover.
4, maintenance equipment: spend some time, simply clean your snow equipment and equipment, can let you in the next day when skiing to maintain a good condition.
Final thoughts
Mastering the balance and stability of the body when skiing requires a variety of considerations, not thinking that training, training, training, while repeatedly training, but also pay attention to the way of training, training experience summary, the combination of work and rest to keep the body in good condition at all times; this is a correct and can steadily improve the idea.
FAQ
How far forward do you need to plan to look?
It will need to vary depending on snow conditions, terrain and visibility, but in general you don’t want to underestimate your skiing skills. 20-30 meters may be good when skiing. It will help your posture and overall stance (and balance) to look forward a bit. When you are looking for your right hand position at rest, find something in the distance while looking straight ahead. Once you have this awareness, you can implement it while skiing, so your hands are always in line of sight making the front/back of the ski
Weight perfectly even or slightly forward?
Moving slightly forward at the beginning of a turn is ideal, but moving slightly backward as the turn passes the apex will help.
How easy is it to understand the correction to improve ski posture?
- Turn the turn with your poles.
- Make sure your elbows are never behind your shoulders.
- Don’t stress about it.
What should I do if I feel like I’m losing my balance?
In any case the first thing is always to stay calm, do not panic or try to stop; losing balance is when the center of gravity is off, bend your knees to be able to control your body better, if you know the direction of the center of gravity off, adjust in the opposite direction and try to regain the center of gravity, of course this is the best case. That bad situation, can not find the center of gravity again, then in order to be safe, you need to ski as far as possible to a safe area, such as the sides of the snow pile or fence, they can reduce most of the damage suffered; if you can not avoid the imminent fall, it is best to get rid of the skis, let yourself fall to the side, to avoid falling forward and roll down the slope.
