Adaptive Skiing: Built-In Skins

Video Transcript

"Besides these skis being a great piece of adaptive equipment because of their shorter length and wider bottoms, these are great pieces of adaptive equipment to use for anybody, whether you have a disability or not. These are ideal for people with disabilities that might just need a little bit of extra balance support. Something that's not quite as slippery as regular Nordic skis, or something that's not quite as cumbersome as snow shoes because of the width and just the size and weight of the snow shoes. And another ideal feature of these skis are on the bottom here they have their built-in skins, so it makes them a lot less slippery than regular Nordic skis, so your participant is less likely to slip and fall or do the splits, and you have--it provides a lot more control to, using these skins. You get more control going both up and downhill."