Powder Skiing


by Peter Emerson - Date: 2007-01-25 - Word Count: 346 Share This!

Cold conditions and seasons of snow have made humans more ingenious and have made them design some of the most challenging and dangerous sports. One of them is skiing, where people talk to the air while zooming down dangerously steep slopes on a pair of long, flat runners, with nothing between them and injury other than their skills and the snow. Skiing was invented to facilitate travel, but has today become one of the most popular forms of winter recreation.

Skiing can be done in a variety of styles, under numerous different conditions. All these have varying difficulty levels and require certain precision as well as risk-taking capacity. Of all the types of skiing, perhaps the most difficult is to ski in freshly fallen snow that has not had the time to pack and attach itself to the ground. Fresh snow on the ground is called powder and thus this type of skiing is also known as powder skiing. As it is fresh, powder melts easily and gives no particular traction to skiers and so to ski on it is tricky and requires lighter moves and stricter balance than skiing on packed slopes. People who have a general love for skiing especially enjoy powder skiing as it allows freer movement and larger scope for speed. However, most people take time to master powder skiing as it presents a lot of problems to the amateurs.

One of the most common problems associated with powder skiing is the tendency of the ski boots to dive in to the snow and stall the skiers or even throw them off. This occurs because the snow is loosely arranged and easily gets displaced by the skiers and stuck between the shoes and the skis. Diving can be prevented by using skies that are not very stiff and by avoiding too much forward bending. As the snow is unevenly packed, the legs tend to get off balance and skiers find it tough to move both feet in tandem. This is generally a problem associated with inappropriate alignment and skiers must address it as such.


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