Do you ever wonder if the skis instructors are using make any difference to their skiing?
Category - Ski Equipment
Have you booked your ski holiday? If you have, then be sure to hire your skis and ski boots in advance, too. Of course, you may already have your own kit. But if you don’t, and you leave the business...
How many of you think in detail about the biomechanics of skiing? I can’t be the only one out there who analyses every turn, watching the ripping skiers from the chair-lift, trying to break...
There are many ways to spend time in the mountains but there are few that beat the pleasure of a day spent gliding through fresh powder. The cares and worries of everyday life are left behind for a...
The 2013-14 was a little slow out of the starting blocks, but the snow is finally here. This is the time of the season when many people get back on their skis after 10 or 12 months off and just hope...
What’s the most versatile ski of the 2013-2014 season? Right now, amongst ski testers on both sides of the Atlantic, there’s an uncommon degree of consensus on that subject. It’s the Rossignol Soul 7...
To understand just how much ski equipment has changed over the past 100 years I’m heading – terrifyingly out of control – down an Italian glacier on a pair of antique eight-foot wooden planks at...
Want to know what’s the best off-piste ski of the 2012-2013 season? According to Ross McCloy – Ski Equipment Buyer at Snow+Rock – it’s probably the Rossignol Squad 7. McCloy has the utterly...
Buying skis (or indeed any ski equipment) can be a daunting experience, and is a topic we are often asked about. No wonder: these are incredibly technical pieces of equipment, and you can’t be...
Do you find yourself over-tightening your ski boots to the point of agony? Does this do nothing to stop your feet slopping around as you struggle down the hill, out-of-control? Maybe you just need...