SCS Let's Go Skiing!
SCS Let's Go Skiing!
Welcome to Skiing! This page will contain links to national ski reports, resort Homepage Links, first hand information from the slopes, helpful tips and tricks, and product reviews..
Brief Background About Myself.
I started skiing relatively late in life for most skiers (20). At that time I was in college so between school expenses, girls and beer I didn't have much money so I figured out the only way I was going to be able to keep skiing was to work at a resort. The university I went to was based in a ski town so I had my choice of 4 mountians at which to work. I decided working all night making snow wasn't for me so since I had a background in teaching children I started teaching them to ski. Within 2 years I had put in over 100 days of skiing and who knows how many hours of teaching(adults & children.) I continued to teach for the next 9 years working at several resorts as an instructor and a member of ski school management. At present I am not teaching regularly but continue to hold Level II certification with Professional Ski Instructors of America.
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Tips
Probably one of the most common mistakes made by skiers beginner to advance is taking their skis from a nice warm condo and throwing them down onto ice cold snow. If the ski hasn't been properly waxed, and even if it has, the warm ski will melt the snow and form an ice patch on the base of the ski. Even after scraping the ice off this patch may continue to form on the ski. There are two cures for this problem. (1) When taking warm skis outside lay them across a railing or hold them apart until they get a chance to cool off. (2) Always carry a small piece of wax with you. Although not a wax job, rubbing a block of hard wax on the base of a ski can make a sticky ski free up.
Product Reviews
Next years equipment is going to include some major departures for some manufacturers. Ess will be introducing a new mid priced line, Rossignol will sell it's First HourGlass ski, and Salomon's ProLink binding with forward-falling release functions will hit the market.
Ess
Ess has long had a dedicated follwoing among it's users with it's VAR ( a ski flex adjusting and binding positioning) system. Ess however has long been missing out on the mid priced market so this year will introduce a new line called ESStatiX. This line will have two models one made for adults while the other while have a lower adjustment setting for lighter adults and juniors. It is Ess's hope that the mid priced line will be able to develope a customer base that will then move to it's higher line models.
If you've never skied ESS then your missing out. The combination of a Flex plate with ESS's ability to move from 3cm forward to 3 cm backward from center make it a dream to ski. By positioning yourself diferently on the ski you can adjust how the ski will perform making it more of a GS or more of a slalom. ESS also boast the abilty to allow the ski to flex normally by not having the binding mounted directly to the ski. The binding itself rest on a track allowing the ski to flex under the boot instead of having a dead spot underfoot.
Kneissl
From Big Foot to a new halfpipe ski Kneissl has done more with ski shapes than anybody else. This year the you will see a new capped Big Foot and two new GS skis with super-sidecuts. The famous White Star SL will come out with a ture slalom sidecut where as the all moutian MS1 is similar to the GS racer with a more moderate sidecut and softer flex.
Boots
For the most part boot manufacturers will thin their lines and change some names but overall there is little to be excited about. Salomon battling less than thrilling reviews of it's Pepto colored Integral line will introduce a new prolink series. Raichle has come out of bankruptcy trimming the fat out of their line of boots. Gone are many of the colors and most of the lower end boots including all the traditional rear entry lines instead they will offer a more conventional overlap design. Others like Nordica have little change except in the name of their top line boots or Heirling's adapting of Salomon's Integral design. Dachstein on the other hand will continue working to improve their overlap boots with a design change of the V Line and liner modifications of other models.
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