Learning to Ski, newschool rocks

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Demonic69

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Hi Guys.

I'm completely new to skiing and hope to have a few lessons to get the hang of it then heading off to Austria in March to have a go at the real thing.

I've experience ice-skating and roller-blading so at least I can hopefully pizza my way down :D

Just a few questions about Newschool skiing as it's tough to get my head around all the different parts of skiing at once.

What're the best type of ski's for a beginner? I intend to go for twin-tips but width length and carve are a bit of a mystery. I'm 6' tall and quite weighty :D

Any help appreciated.
 
learn to ski well before you start park, you will regret it if you dont. balance and style will come much easier.
 
Head out to a ski shop right now and see if they have any old skis from last year. they'll set you up with boots, bindings, etc.

Or you can rent skis for the season, some shops have this deal and i wood def. go for tht if your a new skier.

stay out of the park. most freeskiers have been skiing for more than 2-3 years before they start park
 
ding ding ding! But your best bet is to go to a shop and have them help you out. It's much better to have someone help you pick out gear in person than on the internet.
 
i could see how some things i say may be questionable, but this is a fact, twin tips are not the skis to learn how to ski "Correctly" with. you develope bad habbits.
 
i would not recomend learning on a true-twin like the line chronic or some thing, but as far as a twin tip teaching you bad habbits i can not agree as long as you mount your bindings at a more traditional point on the ski. the best way not to learn bad habbits is to have an some one with no (or more realisticly few) bad habbits teach you. it doesnt matter if you have the fattest centermount twins or your uncles old straight 210's if you learn how to ski buy watching "Joe cork 5" and his buddies in the park your gunna pick up bad habbits
 
get some good all around skis that arn't necissarily twin tips but if you get a twin tip do more of like the public enemy or a karma type... something that will be good all mountain and get last years version then head out and start on groomers work ur way threw the bumps and trees and after uve gotten comfertable in these places hit the park.... if u start in the park u will look like a complete fag wit no style and thats what is killing freeskiing right now.
 
i agree with above, the best way not to get bad habits is to have someone without bad habits teach you. i speak from experience. i picked up quirks in my style from the people who taught me, and when i watch myself on film i'm always like "fuck. i look like a retard when i do that." get a ski that can go all over the mountain, nothing park specific, because trust me, you'll learn so much more outside the park than you will inside. skiing off piste, or even just all over the mountain, is so different than skiing inside the park, and what it teaches you is valuable everywhere. don't limit yourself to groomers, take runs through the trees and over the moguls when you feel confident. and most of all, push yourself. don't be afraid. when you're learning to ski, there aren't a whole lotta things that can hurt you that badly, so just go for it; trust your instincts, know your limits, and as a backup, have someone experienced there to know your limits with you.

oh, and don't be afraid to fall and make a fool of yourself, because it holds you back a whooole lot.
 
if youre over 6'0, get somthing at least over 178 in length. a soft park ski will be good for small jumps and medium speed. two very popular park skis i recomend are the salomon teneighty, and the rossignol scratch. when you get the bindings mounted, do not get them center mounted. us newschoolers generally prefer their bindings farther foreward than the adverage skier because it helps with spins, rail balance, and switch skiing. however, a center mounted ski is much harder to ski on fresh snow. the new scratch has two options of where to mount the bindings. one is close to the center and it is labeled "modern". the other is further back and it is labeled "traditional". you want your first ski to be mounted "traditional", further back on the ski. do not get a big powder ski as your first ski. they are great in powder but they are less responsive on groomed runs, which is probably what you will be learning on.
 
after saying this, most twins these days are designed to be mounted center or near center, now any ski can be mounted anywhere, but you will not get the right performance out of it. and with todays modern begginers equipment that you could lease from a shop for a year, its really a question of why not learn on the right skis that are intended for the skiing you will be doing. theres a reason twin tips are classified for level 3 skiers.
 
yea id get a older pair of skis or a used pair from a ski swap perhaps. Your best bet it to learn to ski well then go to the park, it will all be easyer then.......

also, good to have you aboard
 
almost the same situation here, although I got to ski a whole day last year and loved it (used to snowboard). Unfortunaly it's a bit late for getting good deals on gear, spring time has the best prices. I got brand new 1080 boots, 182 foils, and axial 120's all for $500. Right now i'd probly recomend going for used gear. And that's about all I can tell you because I'm learnin too
 
Thanks for all your help guys.

Sadly I'm in the UK and the scene's still pretty tiny.

I think I'll stick to rental at the min but I wanna push myself enough in just a week on the groomers and off-piste (I think I'll avoid Park for the min) to take away some good experiences.

Good thing about the UK is Flights to Austria are ony £40 (About $80us) and Chalet's are pretty cheap.

Hopefully the Mrs will get into it too then we can say goodbye to boring beach-hols.

Gonna learn at an indoor real-snow place with a decent instructor so I get a good base before I teach myself bad habits :D
 
But in the past I have seen a lot of skiing schools using older twintips for their learners, also older people had them on.

Maybe cos they are softer?
 
alrite dude where abouts you ski?definately the thing to do is learn on your snowdome/xscape or any dry ski slope. youl enjoy it more when you get out there if you do it that way!
 
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