Getting to Know Ski Terrain

Series Summary

Snow skiing may very well be the best sport in the world. Anyone that has skied, whether they would ski again or not, can at least attest to the exhilaration of racing down the mountain. Under control or even out of control, skiing is a blast for almost all ages. Even for beginners skiing can be fun - albeit somewhat painful. Those painful times of skiing do not just exist when your start skiing however; whenever a skier decides to progress in skiing ability it is a challenging and often uncomfortable task. Nevertheless, it is not enough to keep us off the slopes, and in fact the better instruction a skier has the more easy the transition from beginning skiing to advanced skiing.

In this free video series, our expert will explore more advanced snow skiing tricks. If you've got the basics down it may be time to move on to more difficult tricks. Learn how to do a 180, 360 and 720 snow skiing trick. Get tips on how to lip slide a rail, do outside switch ups and rail pop switches. You will also learn how to do an outside and inside 720 off a rail. IF you are interested in learning advanced snow skiing tricks, let our expert show you everything you need to know.

Video Transcript

"Okay, so when you are ready to actually step foot inside of a terrain park and venture out from the regular ski runs there are a few things that you want to keep in mind just because there are people doing tricks around you, there are people at different skill levels. First and foremost you want to have safety when doing tricks and when being in the terrain park. So when you are at the top of the terrain park and people are waiting to go you want to make sure that you respect that and not cut people off, not cheat people out of like, if they have been waiting there for a while let them drop first. Don't cruise up and then just go because it is kind of a respect system. They will look out for you if you look out for them. You also want to make sure when you are hitting jumps and doing rails that there is nobody in the landing when you are doing it. You can do this by either having a friend with you and having them spot the jump to make sure that the landings are clear or you can make sure that the person who went before you looks like they rode away and you will be able to see them after the jump to see if they actually did ride away. If you see someone go off of a jump and they don't come back up again chances are they fell and they got hurt. So it is probably a good idea to check on them too so that someone and tell ski patrol if they actually are hurt and just so if you go off the jump and you are doing a trick or even if you are just hitting it it is really hard to stop yourself. Actually it is impossible to stop yourself while you are in the air and you don't want to hit people because it is just going to make so that they get more hurt than they already are and you get hurt as well. So proper terrain park etiquette and looking out for each other is really important when you are in the terrain park."