How about my skiing levels? --Teaching you how to evalaute your skiing levels

 

The winters on Earth seem to be getting shorter and shorter, leaving skiers with a shorter and shorter ski season. This winter, let's catch up the skiing chance! Remember how about your skiing levels last winter?

This year, we are going to help yourself to find a good positioning of your skiing levels, to understand your limits clearly and the how to make progress, to make the skiing in this winter to be more valuable.

But no matter which skiing levels you are in, it is always make sense to spend sometime to prepare a pair of comfortable ski socks for yourself. To make the feet feel better, the features of warm keeping and wick moisture are must needed.

This article will introduce you in detail the performance of different skiing levelss, and explain you the necessity of knowing your skiing levels, help you know how to make progress.

I. The need to recognize skiing levels
II. Recognize what skiing levels you are at

I. Recognizing the need for skiing levels

It must be said that although skiing is becoming more and more popular, people are still not aware of their skiing levels. Most people go skiing with friends, and although they have a great time skiing, they are always confused about what progess to work towards.
Knowing your skiing levels allows you to customize realistic training schedule, target on excising the specific action.

Everyone has a heart of challenge, which is highly encouraged. But not everyone's skiing levels is suitable for any ski area, and this is often the cause of danger. Therefore, a proper understanding of your skiing levels and knowing what kind of venue is suitable for you is the most important prerequisite for skiing.

II. Recognize your skiing levels

The Beginner Stage

The beginner stage is a stage that every skier has to go through. I believe everyone has a lot of unforgettable memories at this stage. The beginner's stage is a necessary path, but it is the easiest stage to pass.

A generalization for first-time skiers.
I had never skied before.
I can stand, walk, climb and glide.
I can do a glide wedge, slow down, and stop.
I can make slight turns.

A beginner skier is generally someone who has never skied at a ski resort before, or has only had a few easy skiing sessions in the past.

The first important thing for skiers who are in the newer stage of the skiing levels is to understand and get familiar with the ski equipment and know how to attach the skis. Then get into the ski resort to feel the skiing atmosphere, try to make your body feel comfortable on the slopes and integrate into the environment better.

After that, you need to learn the most basic skills, such as: how to stand so you don't slip, how to stop so you don't fall, how to pull your skis until they are parallel, how to use your body strength to make your skis go further downhill, how to glide in a straight line on a gentle slope, and then use the edges of your skis to control your speed and make wedge turns in both directions and be able to control your body to stop.

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If you are at this stage of the skiing levels, then you can move on to the next stage, the skills which the next level of skiing described, is what you train and work towards at the higher levels; the same goes for all the skiers who is in the other skiing levels.

The Novice Stage

Most beginners can enter the novice level II stage after 2-3 days of serious practice. Those skiing at the novice level can ski back-to-back turns at moderate speeds on the blue trails, and although not yet proficient enough in balancing, turning and stopping on demand, so as the speed and direction control, they are already more confident and have more fun on the slopes than beginners, and are able to execute wedge turns and slight direction changes with confidence, and gradually get into the groove of skiing.

At the same time, you will begin to be introduced to stretching up and bending down, gradually gaining the essence of skiing as you go along.

The Third Level Skier

After going through the novice stage, you are now at the third stage where you are no longer a novice. You are currently in between the novice and the higher intermediate level. At this stage, it is important to consolidate the basic skills of skiing to be able to build a firm foundation for progressing to the next skiing levels stage.

Overview of the third skiing levels:
Familiarity with round wedge turns.
Self-control of speed and direction easily.
Proficiency in the use of get up and down.

When your skiing levels come to the Stage 3, you can stop at random on green terrain trails and be able to hit round wedge turns easily, turn and control speed on nursery slopes by connecting to a snowplow, and make spontaneous turns depending on the terrain.

Also able to go through the green slides naturally.

Being familiar with get up and down movements.

Most importantly, at this stage you will be more fluid than a novice, your body will be obviously more responsive in skiing, you will unconsciously bend and extend your legs, and learn to control speed and direction on the slope.

However, you will still need the company of a coach at this stage.

The Fourth Level Skier

At this skiing level you are already very familiar with blue and green trails, you are able to make relaxed turns on such trails at a moderate speed, and you are also able to link the turn with control of your body, such as putting your skis together at the end of the turn, but you are not yet at the stage of raising up your speed, because you are afraid of losing control of your skiing and so you do not dare to try to raise your speed easily.

But you are doing a great job in the turn in this skiing levels, challenging smaller sized wedge turns at every turn.

As you become more proficient at skiing, you have more energy to develop actions such as flexion and extension. You explore more control of these two movements and enhance the turns. Slowly you gain more confidence and become more balanced on the outside ski.

The Fifth Level Skier

At this skiing levels you have gained confidence on the blue trails and now you are looking to develop parallel turns. You are skiing smoothly without wedges on a perfectly parallel base. Now at this stage you can start to work on advanced wedge turns and use the inner bar as a timed stabilizer to touch and keep yourself stable by using the spreader bar in both turns. Nonetheless, you will still be cautious on the trails.

The Level Sixth Skier

At this skiing levels, you'll find yourself are skiing parallelly most of the time, but you can also handling different terrain and snow conditions easily, whether it's regular blue trails, green trails, or steep, narrow, icy trails, everything give you excitement and joy. With snowplows being used less and less, now that you're using poles, you'll still be slightly lacking in confidence and nervousness about skiing in very treacherous terrain, but that won't stop you from progressing to the next level.

The Seventh level skier

By this skiing levels you have entered the ranks of advanced skiers. You are now skiing at a level that gives you enough confidence on the red trails and can descend parallelly and turn on controlled descents.

While you're not quite ready for cross-country skiing (the marked colored trails are more of a safety zone for you), you've already experienced the thrill of the black trails on the slopes. While the overly steep and icy slopes can take a bit of the skiing style out of you, you can still get the moves down in one fell swoop.

You are no longer satisfied with your current skiing levels, you begin to pursue more perfect moves, carefully carving each descent and turn angle, striving to get the details to be the best. This state brings a whole new vision for you, just like you are moving into the new skiing world.

The Eighth Level Skier

You have gained a lot from each previous carving of your moves. You are now able to make clean, beautiful, natural and unsculpted moves, where every frame stands up to infinite zoom and watch carefully.
You have mastered all terrain, confidently using semi-coherent techniques to descend steep hills, big hills and free-riding terrain.
Besides, at this skiing levels, you'll also be able to give lessons to your friends who are just starting to ski, with exercises that demonstrate how to control pressure and how to rotate. You can change turn shapes and mix rhythmic short and long radius turns at will.

The Ninth Level Skier

"I wouldn't hesitate to ski anywhere if there was elevator service."
You're already at the expert level compared with skiers in , having mastered all the techniques and have quite mature skills, you're probably looking for backcountry terrain guides for remote areas and some of the steepest and narrowest ski lines.
You have developed your own unique style of skiing slowly and others will turn around when you ski past.
You have also competed in mogul, freestyle, national championship or FIS level alpine racing and much more...

We have highlighted in the above the need to know your skiing levels and what to do to check your skiing levels, we hope you find it helpful. Cheers in advance to your skiing progress this winter!