We are engaged in extreme sports: how to choose mountain skiing
Before you buy a ski,where you are going to ride them, and what your level of training. This sports equipment can be divided into three types: for beginners, advanced riders and for athletes. How to choose mountain skiing, you will tell the seller-consultant. For example, the first option is soft; such skis are more sensitive to irregularities, amortize and perfectly slip on soft snow. But professional and sports are more rigid and not so easy to manage, but their advantage lies in the ability to move around icy or hard surfaces. Skis for beginners are still divided into subcategories: women's, junior and children's.
How to choose mountain skiing for carving
How to choose skiing for freeride
Freeride is off-piste skiing. This kind of descents on mountain slopes covered with deep loose snow, requires a large level of training and endurance. Skiing for freeride is quite a wide middle part (from 8 to 11 cm). Experts recommend that when choosing this type of inventory to focus on their growth: the vertically placed ski should be only a couple of centimeters higher.
Universal skiing
Universal skis give you the opportunity to rideas on a specially equipped slope, and on unprepared virgin soil, covered with loose snow. Usually the width of their middle part is about 68-80 mm. How to choose the length of skis?
Sports mountain skiing
Feature of sports skis is that they givepossibility for athletes and professionals to go through complex and unusual routes at maximum speed and with high loads. Such skis are divided into several types by the types of descents: for slalom, freestyle, skicross. Lovers and novice raiders are recommended to select inventory from another category.
How to choose the size of skis
All types and types of skis are mostly differentthe width of the front (sock), the middle (waist) and the rear (heel) part, as well as the stiffness and radius of the side cutout. For hard slopes, narrow skis are usually chosen. They are excellent along the hilly highway and light in the perekantovke. Broader specimens are good for a soft slope. But for the freeride specially invented the most extensive. Skiing, which has a wide heel and sock, is good for carving, as they are great for descent on artificial prepared slopes. Skis with an average wide part are needed for skiing on off-piste descents. The radius of the arcs that a mountain skier performs when he descends the slope directly depends on the side cut of the skis. The larger the cutout radius, the smaller the arc radius, and vice versa.