| If you have never been out snow skiing before it | | | | advanced skier. Learning how to sideslip your skis is |
| can be a little intimidating. If you are not sure how to | | | | important because it will allow you to get down |
| snow ski, one thing that you can do is take some | | | | steep grades without falling. To sideslip your skis you |
| beginning lessons, but you can also follow these | | | | will need to turn your skis so that they are |
| useful tips to help make your first trip out to the | | | | perpendicular to the hill. |
| slopes a successful one. | | | | You want to put your arms out in front of you, |
| The first thing that you need to think about as a | | | | mainly for balance, and you are going to want to put |
| beginning skier is whether you want to rent your | | | | all of your weight on the instep of your boot that is |
| equipment or purchase it. Most people recommend | | | | closest to the bottom of the hill. With your weight |
| renting your ski equipment the first few times that | | | | placed properly you are going to want to roll your |
| you go out because you don't know how well you | | | | feet and ankles down the hill, your skis should be |
| will like it. If it turns out that you love snow skiing | | | | sliding downhill, but still remaining perpendicular to the |
| and you are a natural at it, then you can go buy | | | | hill. When you want to stop all you have to do is dig |
| some good ski equipment, but until then it wouldn't | | | | the edge of your ski into the snow and shift your |
| be good investment. | | | | weight to the inside foot. |
| Not only do you need to have the proper equipment | | | | Another useful tip is learning how to control your |
| you will also want to wear the proper clothes. When | | | | speed and how to stop on the skis. The key to |
| snow skiing you will want to wear some ski bibs, a | | | | controlling how fast you are going is how far your |
| ski jacket and gloves, the ski bibs and ski jacket | | | | skis are wedged apart, the bigger your wedge the |
| need to go over your original layer of warm clothing, | | | | slower you go, you will eventually stop if you make |
| two pairs of socks are also good to cushion your | | | | the wedge big enough. By keeping your skis parallel |
| feet and keep them warm. A ski mask can also | | | | to each other, you will pick up speed the fastest, but |
| come in handy, as do ski goggles. | | | | you can always slow yourself down by using the |
| Something else that you need to learn to do is | | | | wedge. |
| sideslip your skis; this will even come in handy as an | | | | |