The ski season is going to start and skiers and snowboarders are more than excited to hit the slope.Don't short down your season by trying new thing in your first day and finally hurt yourself.I recommend that you do what you feel easy to do.Give to yourself a time recover from this long time without to ski.If you are the first one on the steepest run and rushing down , you will probably be the first one to end his season.Here are the way I do to prevent to injure myself at the beginning of the season and keep myself secure until the end.
Another season of skiing is at our door.Are you ready to hit the slope and make your first mark on the snow.Every season I do pretty much the same ritual at the beginning of the season which is approximate 110 days of skiing.The first day I go to ski, I warm up myself doing sample tasks on a easy green run.Yes even pro do that, I'm not shopping for the best line in the powder the first day even if I'm tempted to do it and believe me is hard to resist. Ok sometime I will make a detour but safely to be sure that I have fun from the beginning to the end.
First thing I will do when I start by fist slope of the day is moving my feet in the same time I'm skiing down. I move them forward and backward together, I do cross country move which mean one foot behind one foot forward and swithching. I concentrate all my warm up on my ankle and my lower body at the beginning. It is easier to wake up the smalls joints firt and going to bigger at the end. I play with my feet close together like the old school style and I do turn too with a wide space between my feet.Steping up hill like skating and others sample exercice that I'm used to do.Actually I play with my stance and balance. I try to find this feeling I had last season to be in control. Once I did this few little exercices between few turn.I give myself few options.If you don't know any exercices or want to learn how to do it properly to get them effective I suggest that you ask ski instructor or a snowboard instructor. You can find some at www.skiproconnect.com
The first one normally will be to stay in the green run if I have new equipment and don't feel comfortable or if I want to play with more challenging drills. The second option will be to do pretty much the same drill in more difficult pistwhich will be marked blue.
Like this my muscle,body and my mind are already use with the tasks, I just put variant in my accomplishment.Normally I go for this option cause I don't want to spend all my first day in a green slope and making thousand of exercices.The variants can be from increasing the speed, to do it as slowy as possible, exagerating the task with bigger movement.
Most of the time, my first day on ski of the season, is never more than 3 hours. I just go for test drive and coming the day after and do a full day.It sure that if you have just few day of vacation and you want to enjoy your skiing time you can go for the full day but I recommend that you take it easy, cause your vacation can be shorter too.Have a great season.
