How To Ski and How Not To

The steering effect, in theory, increases with the edging until it reaches its maximum when the ski is edged to a right angle. What happens in practice is that though the edging...

I need hardly say that if you merely wish to alter your course and not to stop yourself, you can finish the turn at any point. You either wait until the outer, weighted ski is p...

In the preparatory stemming or steering the weight is for a moment more equally distributed on both skis than I have intended the beginner to suspect from the previous direction...

It depends almost entirely on the angle of the jumper's body on landing as to whether he shall fall or keep his balance, and that angle depends absolutely on the way he makes th...

Hold the sticks in each hand, and use them just as before, no matter how steep the slope. If the slope be very steep, the stick on the uphill side can be held shorter, but the t...

As soon as you have acquired a moderate proficiency in the various manoeuvres that have been described, you should have little difficulty in getting through a run quickly and co...

A few English runners have learnt a good system of ski-ing; but these have generally had bad teachers--Swiss guides, very likely, who, though first-rate runners themselves, had...

The heel-strap should be bent first _downwards_ and then backwards on each side of the ski, so that the side of it which is uppermost within the cavity of the ski becomes outerm...

You must, as I have said, hold the lower foot exactly below the upper one, because in that position you can push along the stemming ski with least effort, and most quickly throw...

_Downhill Turn to the Left._--In this use of the swing the skis are held as before, and weighted in much the same way, but there are one or two points to be noticed.

_Straight-running._--As you begin to slide, place yourself in the position of Plates XIV. and XV., which is the normal one for running downhill--skis held in contact, so that th...

Suppose, for instance, you are traversing to the right at a gentle gradient, and wish to turn uphill in this way. You are in the normal position, left foot weighted, and right f...

If after taking all possible pains to learn any manoeuvre you still find a difficulty in doing it, try the effect of imagining yourself rather a desperate fellow--a careless, sk...