Before you buy skiing, decide where you are going to ride them, and what is your level of training. This sports equipment can be divided into three types: for beginners, advanced riders and for athletes. How to choose skiing, the sales assistant will tell you. For example, the first option is mild; such skis are more sensitive to bumps, cushion and glide perfectly on soft snow. But professional and athletic - more rigid and not so easy to manage, but their advantage lies in the ability to move on icy or hard surfaces. Skis for beginners are still divided into these subcategories: women, juniors and children.
How to choose alpine skiing for carving
Carving is driving on a slope that is well prepared artificially. Basically, we can observe such roads at ski resorts. Carving equipment has a middle part with a width of about 6 cm. When cornering, the load goes evenly on both skis. For comparison: in sports, almost the entire load comes when turning on one external ski. By the way, the advantage of carving skis is that they keep perfectly on shallow snow and make it easy to enter the turn on a soft slope. Their length should be slightly
less than the height of the owner (approximately 100-200 mm). Their stability directly depends on this.
How to choose alpine skiing for freeride
Freeride is an off-piste ride. This variety of slopes on mountain slopes covered with deep loose snow requires a high level of training and endurance. Freeride skis have a fairly wide middle part (from 8 to 11 cm). When choosing this type of equipment, experts recommend focusing on your height: a vertically placed ski should be only a couple of centimeters higher.
Universal Alpine Skiing
Universal skis give you the opportunity to ride on a specially equipped slope, as well as on unprepared virgin snow covered with loose snow. Usually the width of their middle part is about 68-80 mm. How to choose a ski length?
It should be 10 cm smaller than the owner’s height.
Alpine skiing
The peculiarity of sports skis is that they enable athletes and professionals to go through difficult and unusual tracks at maximum speed and with heavy loads. Such skis are divided into several types according to the types of slopes: for slalom, freestyle, skiross. Fans and novice raiders are recommended to pick up equipment from another category.
How to choose a ski size
All types and types of skis mainly differ in the width of the front (toe), middle (waist) and back (heel) parts, as well as the stiffness and radius of the side cut. For hard slopes, narrow skis are usually chosen. They go perfectly along a hilly road and are easy to turn over. Wider specimens are good for a soft slope. But the widest ones were specially invented for freeriding. Alpine skis, which have a wide heel and toe, are good for carving, as they are great for downhill on artificial prepared slopes. Skis with a medium wide part are needed for off-piste skiing. The radius of the arcs that the skier performs when descending the slope directly depends on the side cut of the ski. The larger the radius of the cut, the smaller the radius of the arcs, and vice versa.
How to choose skiing depending on the design
All skiing is divided into three main types by design. The first - a sandwich - is distinguished by multi-layer filling of different materials, each of which performs its function. The top and bottom layers usually provide rigidity. The second - cap - is a hard top layer, which is the "foundation" for all the others that are attached to it. The third is a box: the core of the ski is wrapped with material on all sides, providing torsional rigidity. It helps prevent longitudinal ski twisting and vibration. That provides excellent handling and good traction.