We are engaged in extreme sports: how to choose mountain skiing

Before you buy a ski, determine 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 a skiing for carving

Carving is called skating on the slope, which is well prepared by artificial means. In general, we can observe such roads at ski resorts. The carving equipment has an average width of about 6 cm. When the turn is made on the edges, the load is uniformly applied to both skis. For comparison: in sports copies almost all the load goes when turning on one external ski. By the way, plus carving skis is that they perfectly adhere to shallow snow and make it possible to easily enter the turn on a soft slope. Their length should be slightly less than the owner's growth (by about 100-200 mm). This directly affects their stability.

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 broad 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 ride 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? It should be 10 cm less than the owner's height.

Sports mountain skiing

The peculiarity of sport skis is that they enable athletes and professionals to go through complex and unusual trails at maximum speed and with high loads. Such skis are divided into several types of descents: for slalom, freestyle, skicross. Fans and novice raiders are recommended to select inventory from another category.

How to choose the size of skis

All types and types of skis basically differ in the width of the front (sock), middle (waist) and back (heel) parts, as well as in rigidity and radius of the side cutout. For hard slopes, narrow skis are usually chosen. They perfectly go along a bumpy track and light in perekantovke. Wider 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 the 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.

How to choose mountain skiing depending on the design

All mountain skis are divided into three basic types. The first - a sandwich - differs multilayered filling from different materials, each of which fulfills its function. The upper and lower 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 around the material, providing torsional rigidity. It helps prevent longitudinal twisting of the ski and vibration. That provides excellent control and good grip with the track.