don't risk skiing too early. If you ski before it's healed and land badly it can break again, worse. It's not worth risking it for an extra week skiing. The doctors tend to exaggerate how long it'll take to heal though.
Anyone any tips on how to ride them and do rails. I'm not so good yet. Anyone ever tried making one by taking the trucks off a skateboard. I can't afford to get a proper one.
It helps if the the skis have a slight tip at the tail- like the salomon carves or similar. I can land switch on salomon carves but taking off switch is pretty hard on steep jumps.
if you don't pop do you get any air? Sounds like you just ski over them. To pop just do exactly the same as jumping on the ground. If you want more height I find it helps to bring my knees up and try to grab safety- it helps me pop harder.
Either Mike Wilsons Handplant thing or the huge wallride stall thing up a baseball cage in exact science. Not sure of the skier (probably one of the phils) but it was pretty cool.
I saw this advert somewhere for this indoor skaetboard thing that Pros use to train for balance and pop. It's laike two balls or jack things with a flat board. It had varying amounts of balls to make it harder and you could tricks and stuff. Not sure what it's called. Hope that helps but I...
If you don't want to go skiing check out the new ski game under downloads on the helly hansen website. It's a bit of a waste of time but kinda fun too.