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Tips on Taking Care of your Ski Equipment

By: Janice Windsor

Here are my tips on how to get ready for the first ski trip of the year.

A Pair of Skis:
A good pair of skis will have sharp edges freshly filed, as well as having had the bottoms of the skis freshly waxed. The wax is to help cut down friction between the skis and the snow. This will allow you to o faster. Filing the edges makes them sharp so that if you hit a patch of ice while turning you will not fall or risk injury. You should also have the bindings adjusted for any weight changes during the year. Ski bindings are designed to release incase of a fall, but if the yare adjusted for a lighter person they could come off at the wrong time, and if they are adjusted for a heavy person you could hurt yourself.

Boots:
Even if your feet have stopped growing you still need to check your boots ever year, and every few years you should replace the foam inserts I your boots to make sure your boots are comfortable and fit properly. Improperly fitting boots can cause a broken ankle or at least some nasty blisters that could ruin your skit trip and hurt for days.

Skiing with Polls:
For the most part unless you are a beginner if you are skiing at a resort you don’t really need ski polls. Most people only use them because I was how they were taught to ski, but if you are going to have them you need to have the right ones. A ski pole should go from the plastic ring above the bottom to just above the waist so that when the tip is in the ground and your hand is on the handle your arm is bent at the elbow with the lower arm straight out. Also every year the tip should be taken and sharpened when you have your skis sharpened and waxed you can bring the polls as well.

Hands, Head and Eyes
Keeping warm and dry is important to your health, so making sure your hands and head are covered is important. By alloying your hands to get wet and cold you could damage your hands and possibly get frostbite. A hat should cover your entire head and be made from a warm material to help keep the heat from escaping. If you are skiing an have no eye protection how will you be able to see where you are going. At the very least you must have a pair of sunglasses, but proper ski goggles are best just because they wrap all the way around your eyes and are pulled close to make sure no wind gets in your eyes allowing you to keep your eyes open at any speeds or weather conditions.

Thermal Underwear:
Thermal Underwear is made from two ply cotton with a box weave texture to help trap the body heat and deflect cold air from passing to the body.

Pants and Jacket:
Ski pants and jackets are designed to keep the wind out and will stop water from penetrating in case you should fall and get covered in snow.

Here are my tips on how to get ready for the first ski trip of the year.

A Pair of Skis:
A good pair of skis will have sharp edges freshly filed, as well as having had the bottoms of the skis freshly waxed. The wax is to help cut down friction between the skis and the snow. This will allow you to o faster. Filing the edges makes them sharp so that if you hit a patch of ice while turning you will not fall or risk injury. You should also have the bindings adjusted for any weight changes during the year. Ski bindings are designed to release incase of a fall, but if the yare adjusted for a lighter person they could come off at the wrong time, and if they are adjusted for a heavy person you could hurt yourself.

Boots:
Even if your feet have stopped growing you still need to check your boots ever year, and every few years you should replace the foam inserts I your boots to make sure your boots are comfortable and fit properly. Improperly fitting boots can cause a broken ankle or at least some nasty blisters that could ruin your skit trip and hurt for days.

Skiing with Polls:
For the most part unless you are a beginner if you are skiing at a resort you don’t really need ski polls. Most people only use them because I was how they were taught to ski, but if you are going to have them you need to have the right ones. A ski pole should go from the plastic ring above the bottom to just above the waist so that when the tip is in the ground and your hand is on the handle your arm is bent at the elbow with the lower arm straight out. Also every year the tip should be taken and sharpened when you have your skis sharpened and waxed you can bring the polls as well.

Hands, Head and Eyes
Keeping warm and dry is important to your health, so making sure your hands and head are covered is important. By alloying your hands to get wet and cold you could damage your hands and possibly get frostbite. A hat should cover your entire head and be made from a warm material to help keep the heat from escaping. If you are skiing an have no eye protection how will you be able to see where you are going. At the very least you must have a pair of sunglasses, but proper ski goggles are best just because they wrap all the way around your eyes and are pulled close to make sure no wind gets in your eyes allowing you to keep your eyes open at any speeds or weather conditions.

Thermal Underwear:
Thermal Underwear is made from two ply cotton with a box weave texture to help trap the body heat and deflect cold air from passing to the body.

Pants and Jacket:
Ski pants and jackets are designed to keep the wind out and will stop water from penetrating in case you should fall and get covered in snow.

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Janice Windsor has two loves in her life. The first is online casino gambling and the other is skiing. In the casino she likes roulette and on the slops she loves the expert trails to get her blood pumping.

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