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Skiing question
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| Trancealot |
I never went skiing before and now I am going this weekend with my GF. What should I bring or wear to make skiing comfortable and what type of level or hill.
My preference is learn some down hill but not too steep like double diamonds that I heard about :eek: |
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| Demoted |
| Wear rollerskates. |
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| Floorfiller |
| if you've never been skiing take a half day class in the morning and then go out the second half... |
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| Ygrene |
DO NOT I repeat DO NOT wear anything camoflauge or anything Carhartt! People will lol at you from the chairlift as you ski down the hill and say "n00b!' :p
Best advice for clothing: Your outer clothing shouldn't be cotton. As it is your first time, you will probably fall alot and jeans, sweatpants, sweatshirts will get wet very easily and soak thru and make for an overall bad experience. I would suggest either buying a pair of inexpensive ski pants or at least wearing like a nylon warm-up pant as your outer layer. Your inner layer is completely up to, depending on how cold/warm it will be.
Have fun! |
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| Ygrene |
p.s. - if this is your first time skiing, I'd honestly stay on the 'green' slopes untill you are 100% comfortable with snow-plowing, making turns, and stopping yourself.
Otherwise you risk injury to yourself and the other skiiers around you. And believe me, people will get ty fast if they can see you are over your head and endangering other people.
Again, have fun! |
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| stren |
why don't you take a snowboard ?
you won't break your legs on snowboard
though you can break your neck |
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| darklox |
First...wear layers
Wear a thin tshirt or somethin, then a somewhat thin longsleeve on top of that, then a soak through jacket. You will sweat...so layering is the way to go.
Pants...wear ski pants or some kind of swooshies or somethin....if you fall, you dont want to be wearing jeans and have them soak.
As people said, do the green hills first...maybe even do the bunny hill that they use for teaching.
Keep your knees bent and together, and keep the skis straight. make sure to akways move the skiis together, and not just turn with one or the other. |
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| dartman |
| Try to track down some ski pants. Don't wear jeans. You're going to fall alot, ski pants will do a decent job of keeping you dry. Gloves and a hat are important and wear some layers (as mentioned above). Have fun and good luck. Once you learn how to snow plow you'll be all set. |
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| medinaM5 |
| just snowboard...easily to control one board instead of two sticks....along with two poles...and when going up the chairlift, you can gather a good amount of snow off of your board and huck it at the skiiers and lol at them |
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| kid nyce |
make sure you get legit snowpants, don't wear no adidas windbreakers, they'll ice up and freeze and add about 40lbs to you. also, tuck your shirts in, you don't need a ring of ice hangin from the bottom of your shirt
i would suggest knee pads as you'll be falling alot. i'd say go with volleyball knee pads or some you find in a duane reade, eckerd, cvs in the knee support section. after kneeling on your knee all day, it becomes quite raw so you wanna safe guard from that
and while your at DR, eckerd, cvs i suggest you pick up some epson salt to help with the soreness. other than that the essentials are music, weed, alcohol, and i guess a lift ticket!
ride on - go big or go home!
and ygrene, i got camo gear and no one laffs at me!!! |
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| Ygrene |
| quote: | Originally posted by medinaM5
just snowboard...easily to control one board instead of two sticks....along with two poles...and when going up the chairlift, you can gather a good amount of snow off of your board and huck it at the skiiers and lol at them |
Boarding FTW. |
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| Slylee |
i've hit the slopes many times...PM me for any questions.
*edit* oh u mean actually SKIING? nevermind. |
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