{"id":4527,"date":"2016-08-22T13:49:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T12:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skiinluxury.com\/blog\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2016-09-21T14:10:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:10:53","slug":"back-on-skis-%c2%admaking-the-most-of-your-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skiinluxury.com\/blog\/back-on-skis-%c2%admaking-the-most-of-your-first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on Skis -\u00ad Making the Most of Your First Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSqueezing yourself back into your ski outfit and those ski boots, let alone trying to\u00a0remember how to ski on the first day of your holiday can be a bit of a challenge, and we all\u00a0want to try to avoid that Elvis-\u00adleg feeling when you get back to the chalet, but, planned\u00a0right, the first day back can work in your favour if you use it as an active warm up day.<\/p>\n

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Think of skiing, just like any sport, so that when you restart, you warm up all your muscles\u00a0and start reminding them of the movements that they need to make when you\u2019re skiing\u00a0down the mountain!<\/p>\n

Breaking it down, these movements include extension and flexion of the ankles, knees and\u00a0hips, good balance both fore-\u00adaft and also laterally and ensuring you engage your core.\u00a0So, what better way to spend your first few runs, sticking to relatively easy terrain, practising some drills to help these basic movements:<\/p>\n

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Try basic parallel turning at slow speeds first, whilst exaggerating the bending and stretching movements of your leg joints, making sure that you turn your feet continuously\u00a0and smoothly all the way round the turn. If you want to start making this a litIle more\u00a0challenging, try the same movements with your boots undone (power strap included!). When this feels comfortable, try it on steeper slopes and\/or at higher speeds.<\/p>\n

Next, try to exaggerate your fore-\u00adaft balance during this same turn, tipping forward over the\u00a0front of your skis at the start of the turn and rock back over the tails at the end of the turn,\u00a0eventually finding the comfortable forward-\u00adto-\u00admiddle position that always should be your\u00a0base position for good skiing. Remember that your upper body should always be at just in\u00a0front of 90 degrees to the slope angle.<\/p>\n

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Finally, you can start to have some fun with some balance exercises; try skiing (and turning!)\u00a0on one leg, first try turning just on the outer leg each time, and then when you have that\u00a0one nailed, try turning on the inside leg only. If you want to take it one stage further, try\u00a0leaving one ski at the bottom of a run (try this on a short run first!), changing the ski over to\u00a0the other leg half way down. Chair and bubble lifts are best for this; I would leave the t-\u00adbars til later in the week!<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget that the first day back skiing you are probably a good mile or so higher than where you are used to living, so take it easy, so try and drink plenty of water in-\u00adbetween\u00a0those well deserved gluhweins at the end of the day!<\/p>\n

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With thanks for this blog to\u00a0Matterhorn Diamonds<\/a>,\u00a0a highly reputable ski school in Zermatt.\u00a0Offering freeride, freestyle, telemark, and both adult and children’s ski lessons with instruction in English, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.<\/p>\n

If you are interested to ski with Matterhorn Diamonds this year in Zermatt then take a browse through our luxury chalets in Zermatt <\/a>or drop us an email <\/a>to discuss your requirements in more detail or call us on +44 (0)1202 203650.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Squeezing yourself back into your ski outfit and those ski boots, let alone trying to remember how to ski on the first day of your holiday can be a bit of a challenge, and we all want to try … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"yoast_head":"\nBack on Skis - Matterhorn Diamonds ski tips and skiing technique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Back on Skis - Matterhorn Diamonds ski school in Zermatt give Ski In Luxury readers their ski technique tips to get back on skis at the start of the season.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skiinluxury.com\/blog\/back-on-skis-\u00admaking-the-most-of-your-first-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Back on Skis - 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