Skiing Technique, warming up and streching.

Thanks so much for the replies so far :D It's all been so much help

My warm up is occassionaly a few back rotations in the chalet, but the basic warm up is walking up about 95 steps with ski boots on and carrying skis to the main cable car lift. Plus doing up ski boots gives a good hamstring stretch and lower back stretch.

I agree with Tropicana, walking up a zillion steps carrying ski gear is a very good warm up :D

Last holiday I made a point of refusing to use the lift in the apartment block and walking down the four floors to the ski locker room, and then also refusing the lift in the gondola station and walking up those stairs as well wearing ski boots and carrying skis.

The other thing I try and do is get to the gondola station as soon as it opens so I'm not standing about in a queue in the cold. And then we usually have about 20 minutes spare before the lesson to either sit in a nice warm restaurant and drink hot chocolate or go for a warm-up run. And, in any case, the instructors usually take us down an easy run to begin with, as a warm up.

Ally

My Warm up consists of strong coffee,some toast and a hip flask :wink:

Ian Wickham wrote:My Warm up consists of strong coffee,some toast and a hip flask :wink:

You should carry two hip flasks, one on each side, so not to get unbalanced :mrgreen:

I am with the majority in that i feel that the trek to the slope in a pair of very heavy boots and carrying the planks warms me up sufficiently ...best of luck with your project but remember to do a spell check ..streching ...stretching

...also i tend to stretch at the end of the day so I am not stiff for the next days skiing.

Daved,
That's a good point about the weight. I know my ski boots weigh 5 Kg, although I don't know about the skis but they feel pretty heavy to me, especially when I have to carry them upright, like up the gondola steps. I can carry skis over my shoulder like a sack of corn for miles no problem, but vertically I find much harder.

Ally