Helpful skiing tips that you may not know...

Most resorts charge $.25 for a cup of hot water. That combined with a $.35 packet of ramen noodles and some hotsauce from the condiment bar makes a great lunch for $.60
 
To warm hands pretend that you are dribbling a basketball with both hands, it looks rediculious but works every time for me
 
Eating your lunch doesn't only involve your mouth while your eating it. While you are skiing for a bit after your fingers will be cold. The blood is going to your stomach, helping it be digested. After you eat do some windmills or swing your hands/feet around. You'll have a better time on the first chair after lunch. Some insightful wisdom by my old man.
 
skinny calves? if you're a twig like me, my full tilts leave about a half inch of gap between the front of my shins. To avoid discomfort and shinbang, find a pair of equally matched socks ( I use my sisters pink fuzzy ones because they are so comfortable ) put the socks on your shins before you strap up, voile! filled the gap.

Make friends with employees, they'll hook you up if you're nice.

put your phone as close to your body as possible to keep it warm. In cold temps your battery can't properly function and will shut off.
 
I shave all the hair off my feet once ski season starts. The hair rubs the entire day while on the slope and can get annoying and uncomfortable. Only helps if u got hairy feet though haha
 
same haha.

best excuse for sleeping all day...

"nope, i have to go back to sleep, did it wrong, i was supposed to sleep on the right side of my face, not my left.... see you in 6 hours"
 
Most likely common sense to most, but bring your skis inside after a day of skiing and wipe them down. Then before you go to bed wipe them down again. Cold skis sweat when they get warm and nothing sucks more then rusty skis.
 
If you have a gap between your ankle and liner, put the power strap on first around the liner though not to boot. Then just buckle it like normal. Helped me a lot.
 
To warm fingers quickly: stad up straight. Put arms striaght by side. Bent wrists 90 degrees so hands are pointing away from body. Move shoulders up and down. If done right, you should feel blood being pumped to your fingers. Works for me every time.
 
Never do static streching before any sport related activity, it does't lower your chances of getting injured. Warming and non-static stretching, however, does help preventing injuries! Stretching after excercise also does't reduce the risk of injury; technically, if your muscles and antagonist muscles (for exemple Biceps and triceps or quadriceps and iscios) are of equivalent strengh, you should not get injuried. This, on the other hand, will prevent you from increasing your flexibility (since you're not stretching: duh!) so if you think you need flexibility for any other activity, strech before (stretching before reduces your muscles strengh by 10-20%). Also, drinking enough water prevents dehyddratation, which increases the risks of injuries and muscle cramps (and everyone knows that sucks).

As soon as you get injuried (muscle/ligaments/etc. wise, this doesn't apply to broken bones, put some ice (or even better, if you can, submerge the injuried part in ice cold water) on it for 15 minutes. This will reduce inflammation and will drastically reduce your recovery time. Never put hot packs on injuried muscles within the first 48 hrs of the injury, this will increase inflammation and thus make recovery time much much much longer!

Eating proteins right after you're done with your ski day will decrease immensily your muscles recovery time (you'll get less sore). Eating within 30 mins after the exercice is the optimal time, otherwise, the sooner the better. You'll also need some carbs for your body to effectively use the proteins (gellybeans or any fruit/veggie will do fine, they are easily transformable carbs).

Never attempt intense stuff when you're tired, this is the best thing to do to get injuried. This is because your muscles are tired and don't protect your ligaments as good (can someone say broken ACL's?). When your muscles are fresh, they will protect your ligaments more effectively.

Alcohol dehydrates the body, wich increases the chances of injuries and cramps. This only applies if you do some hardcore stuff, plus drink some water with your beer/vodka/rhum and you can get drunk and not get injuried (pro tip for ya drunkies). Being drunk also makes your muscles more relaxed, this decreases the intensity of injuries (true story, that is why drunk drivers usually get less hurt that the people they hit)

If any of you are skeptical, I can link to the PubMed atricles.

TL: DR? Well fuck you and get injuried, suck a fat one and don't progress.

 
1) When I fill up my hydration pack I usually only fill it up half way, screw on the cap, flip it upside down and suck out all of the air before I put it in my pack. This makes you pack lighter, makes the water not swish around and makes it a lower profile

2) I took a nasty fall mountain biking this summer and gashed up my arm pretty bad. I probably should have had a first aid kit but I didn't. I filled up my camelbak with air and leaned against a rock to push the water out of the nozzle and spray my wound. I don't know how this is useful for for skiing, maybe you could spray your buddies with water or something.

3) Whenever my nose is stuffed up I like to bring chili ramen and red tabasco with me. It's really delicious and it clears me right up.
 
Kinco gloves are cheap, and you can put sno-seal on them your self, but Flylow makes pretty much the same gloves and sno-seals them then triple bakes them. They are more expensive ($30) but they probably do a better job with the sno-seal than you will and supporting them somehow supports me because they are a Colorado business. they are called the Tough Guy glove, Ridge Glove, and Oven Mitt. Some people even think that kinco makes the gloves for Flylow, but still, better sno-seal.
 
Sorry for dub post, but...

Someone posted on this thread somewhere about the benefits of chicken broth and how it effects your body or some thing. Well with that in mind, I like to fill my thermos with egg drop soup for after I ski. It has the benefits of chicken broth and protein from the eggs. And its delicious. Here's a recipe...
http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-egg-159379
 
don't know if this is already on here, but if you are standing and shrug then drop your shoulders, it shoots blood to your hands, which warms them up, its crazy

i bet you're trying it
 
If you have wet ski boots/gloves, stuff them with newspaper when you get home, if they're soaking change the paper after 3/4 hours, they'll always be dry in the morning. With gloves I guess stuffing a thin roll of paper in each finger would be better, but I've never needed that.

 
this is kind of a dumb one but you never know what will might help someone out. when you are hiking walking or breathing heavily. tuck your facemask under you chin away from you mouth. this way the moisture from your breathing wont get you face mask wet and cause it to freeze.
 
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