1. Equipment
The first step is of course to choose a pair of snow boots that fit your feet. If you are renting snow boots, you can ask the waiter to recommend which pair is best for you. Be sure not to squeeze your feet to prevent the tips of your toes from touching the front of the boots when you bend forward during skiing. The upper part of the boot should hug your ankle tightly.
Put on your snow boots, bring your skis, and take your poles to the ski resort. The exterior of some ski equipment can be sharp, so wear gloves when handling them to prevent scratches.
2. Practice
First, feel the feeling of walking. Walking on the snow looks like a robot. Next, you can try to turn in a circle, remembering not to cross the two skis, otherwise you will end up on all fours. In fact, it is relatively easy to maintain balance on flat ground. Just relax and let nature take its course. Many slips and falls are caused by excessive tension.
3. Climbing on snow
After you can move freely on flat ground, you need to start learning to climb hills. After we can maintain balance on the slope, we can try lateral pedaling, that is, both feet alternately exchange the center of gravity and pedal sideways up the mountain, walking sideways like a crab. Hold the snowball fight with both hands and naturally point on both sides of the body to help maintain balance, and slowly climb up.
4. Straight descent
After mastering the basics, you can try to plummet. First, with the help of the snowball fight, adjust your body so that the boards are parallel and shoulder-width apart, and your knees lean forward naturally. Use the front tibia of your calf to hold the front of your snow boots, lean your body weight forward, and slowly collect the snow. The weight of your body will cause you to slowly slide down until you reach flat ground, where you will naturally slow down and stop.
As you slide down, the speed becomes faster and faster. Don’t panic at this time. Just relax and let your body’s center of gravity lean forward, so that you can control yourself from falling while sliding.
5. Braking
It is very important to learn to brake, otherwise it will only move but not stop, which will be bad. Braking means that when sliding down a slope, you only need to push the tails of the two skis outwards, slowly bring the heads of the skis closer together, and place the skis into an inward figure, allowing the inner sides of the skis to contact the snow, creating resistance to stop.