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Skiing tips for beginners (snowboard)

Skiing tips for beginners:

1. How to choose ski boots and how to walk in them. To choose than they wear shoes half to one snow boots, because skiing for a period of time after the foot congestion slightly rise, wear the usual just boots will be very uncomfortable, skiing to wear thick cotton socks, choose up to one is also more appropriate, if you think the snow boots are too big, you can then be a pair of cotton socks, wear again on the foot, so that the size of the foot is also more comfortable.

After wearing snow boots, the ankle fixed walking is very uncomfortable, wearing snow boots to walk the trick is to use the heel of the first to the ground, so walk more comfortable, and for beginners full of ice and snow steps are more dangerous (especially down the steps), the tip is to turn ninety degrees sideways, the front foot down a step, the back foot in the front foot after the pan followed by the next step (do not exceed the front foot), so that the horizontal shift away from the danger of walking down the steps or steep slopes. steps or steep slopes.

2. How to put on your snowboard after putting on your boots. The center of the snowboard has a fixture to fix the boots on the snowboard, the front end of the fixture has a groove and the front end of the boots protrudes just right, the back end of the fixture has a mechanical lock which is usually raised and lowered by pressure and locked horizontally, so you can put on the snowboard and put on the boots. Lateral lock, wear snowboard method is to put the snowboard parallel on both sides of the body (both hands take snow poles to maintain balance), one foot front "kick" into the groove, heel force step down the back end of the machine lock, so that the boots are fixed in the fixture, the same way to put on the other foot.

3. Adaptation exercises after putting on the snowboard. After putting on the snowboard and the usual walking there are two differences, one is the weight of the snowboard is not adapted to, and the second is due to the long length of the snowboard, the feet of the front and back of the movement is relatively free, the left and right movement is very inconvenient. Adaptation method is to make a complete lifting walking practice, with snow poles to help maintain balance, lifting the left foot, until the snowboard completely off the ground and then forward flexion, and then down, until the left foot landed on the ground and stood steadily, lifting the right foot, and then also to wait until the snowboard is completely off the ground, and then step forward to complete the forward movement. Similarly, do the adaptive drill of moving your left foot left and your right foot following the pan to practice the panning stride. After practicing these two adaptive steps, try to jump with both feet, the power from small to large, through the jump to fully feel the weight of the snowboard and let the legs to adapt, the whole adaptive exercises do not need to be too long, usually three to five minutes is already enough.

4. Turning after putting on a snowboard. Just put on the snowboard people often turn to somersaults, this is because the snowboard is longer a foot turn, the end of the snowboard on the other snowboard, the solution is to turn the foot to turn a relatively small angle, such as 15 degrees or so, so that the two snowboards will not want to stack, the other foot to turn the same angle, so that the two feet are parallel, and then turn the foot and then turn the foot to turn 15 degrees, the back of the foot to follow the same action to do to the angle of the turn. The same action will be done until the angle of turn is achieved. Simply put, it is usually a turn in place of the action, broken down into several times to turn in place.

5. Take off the snowboard. Snow boots stepped into the fixtures off after two ways, one is to fall boots and fixtures of the torque over the raft value (generally 7 pounds, beginners easy to some of the bottom) will automatically detach, which is to protect the leg joints will not fall to the process of injury in the key technology. Second, the skier manually disengaged. The outer end of the fixture in the snow boots will automatically lift after stepping into, artificial detachment method is to use the snow poles point pressure fixture outer end lifting parts, so that the lateral lock unlock, to achieve the purpose of the snow boots detachment, the process is just the opposite of stepping into the boots of the process of the snow. Putting on and detaching the snowboard needs to be practiced 6 to 8 times.

6. Fall protection exercises. As the saying goes, "before learning to fight, first learn to be beaten" used in learning to ski is "before learning to ski, first learn to fall" in fact, not first learn to fall, but first learn how to protect themselves in the fall. The key to wrestling, first, before you fall, you need to remove the snow poles from your side to prevent injuries from falling on the poles. Second, to fall to the side, the left side of the right side can be, depending on the scene, is not to fall forward or backward, so as to maximize the protection of themselves. Thirdly, fall with your arms tucked in front of your chest, a standard protective stance.

These three should be practiced over and over again, carefully experienced, generally practiced in place to the left three times, and then practiced to the right three times, you can initially grasp the essentials.

7. Standing up after a fall. Falling on skis and then standing up independently is impossible for anyone. In general, there are four states of snowboarding after a fall:

(1) Both snowboards are thrown away, so it is very dry, and you can stand up directly.

(2) both feet are not thrown off, remember the previous thrown out of the snow poles, should not be far from you, step by step a handprint, climb over to get the snow poles, with the snow poles pointing to the root of the rear feet of the mechanism, one by one off the snowboard, and then stand up.

(3) Left foot snowboard fall fly, right foot snowboard still again. The way to stand up is to use the heel of the left foot without a snowboard to press the right heel of the right foot by the snowboard mechanism to take off the right foot snowboard. Then stand up in style.

(4) The right snowboard is thrown off and the left snowboard remains. The method is the same as 3, but the left and right foot movements are exchanged. Once you have mastered the above, you will be able to stand up in style in any situation.

8. The final straight-line descent. Choose a longer gentle slope, put on the skis, the body slightly squatting, the average weight of the feet, so that the two skis to keep parallel to the slope directly down the slide, this slide show accelerated state. This stage is mainly practiced in keeping the skis parallel sliding how to maintain the center of gravity of the body, that is, to do in the glide without trespassing down. Once you have achieved your goal, you will have mastered the technique of sliding downhill in a straight line. Then you should learn the plowing technique, in the same place, the back of the two skis will be pushed outward, showing the shape of an inside eight, the two feet average burden weight, with the inner edge of the two snowboards stuck in the snow face down the slope straight line skating. The greater the angle of the two skis forming the figure of eight, the greater the resistance, the slower the glide, and vice versa, beginners can use this technique for deceleration and stopping in the descent. The main feature of this stage is to control the acceleration in the descent to a constant speed movement, and then in a descent will be the two technical action alternately, repeated practice, until mastery.