Five mistakes skiers make

98% of skiers make the same basic mistakes. They are simple to get rid of if you know about them and work at NOT doing them!

1. Looking at skis. You ski with feet not eyes. Do you look at feet when you walk!

2.Rotate body to turn. Shoulders and torso "force" the skis to turn.

3. Lean back. There is a direct relationship between speed while skiing and pressure on tails for all beginner skiers!

4. Turn to stop or slow down. If you know anything about driving a car in winter, you NEVER brake at a turn! Before a turn or curve yes,,,,never during a turn. In skiing you must learn to use hill to help you set speed.

5. Go to top of ski resort right away. I have been skiing for some time and I always do 1 or 2 "easy" runs with boots not buckled, just to feel the snow.Allow skis to get to know the snow!

6. Let friends, "experts", just about anybody tell you how to ski!!! Two things a husband should never, but never do with wife; teach her how to drive and teach her how to ski!
Get an instructor! Experts might ski well but do they know how to convey their skills without you feel like a moron?

7.This is a male promblem!!!
99% of male skiers "muscle" their skiing. They use their large ( and not so large) muscles to "tell" the ski where to go and do! The symptoms of this are; sore back, sore thights know as "burning thighs", knees barely able to go up stairs ( and this is only after 5 hours of skiing!!!

8. This is female problem.
( actually several ladies)
- insisting to ski with husband boyfriend who is several competency levels above! Skiing holiday means enjoying yourself. There is no contract imposing you to ski with someone who is much better than you! If your husband ismuch better skier, he will not learn on beginner slopes and you will not enjoy the "expert'" runs.

-insisting to use top level skis or boots
Try driving a Porsche 911( I mean a 911 track) in traffic!
-thinking that speed means loss of control

-staying on beginner runs only

-starting to ski at 10 AM ( the best skiing is at 8 AM)

9.Tightening ski boots too much. Many skiers feel that the lack of ski contol is due to "loose" boots so.....

10.Equating wax=speed, thus never waxing skis or sharpening edges. Only dull knives cause cuts,,,so it is with poorly tuned skis. A well tuned ski helps the beginner flow while skiing! A well sharpened ski edges helps skier set edges carefully, softly, easily !

Hope you enjoyed these few observations and errors that I made over the years!

Yeah good tips. Most of them i have got past but there are still a few that i do!!! mainly going to the top of the resort with my eagerness to ski long and fast at the beginning of a holiday!!

Cheers for the advice :D

God this made me smile!!! It has taken me 4 years to get up to my hubbys standard...and yes , he did try to teach me how to go that extra step and yes I could have divorced him there and then!! Much more satisfying finding new buddies at your level and having fun!!