Blogs Posts in Skiing category; 289 blog posts

Skiing Exercises for Recreational Skiers

If you exercise often, you'll begin to build your strength and enhance your endurance in the muscle groups used in downhill skiing. You'll be preparing yourself for the rigors of skiing in the expert zones where both staying power and explo [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Skiing: Kostelic prevails

Kostelic, who had surgery on his right knee only five weeks ago, maintained his first-leg lead for a two-run time of one minute, 40.34 seconds on the Jungfrau course to record the 10th victory of his career. "I was nervous because I've [...]

Posted On : Jan, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

With cardboard cutouts as main characters, Cheap Ski Movie s...

Jack Turner attended a Warren Miller movie screening with his son a few years back, certain the teenager would be mesmerized by skiers plunging through thigh-deep powder at picturesque locales. Ten minutes into the film, he received a text [...]

Posted On : Jan, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

Alpine skiing-Olympic champion Paerson suffers injury

Olympic champion Anja Paerson of Sweden was forced out of a World Cup slalom in Flachau on Tuesday after hurting her left knee as she straddled a gate in the first run. The 2004 and 2005 World Cup winner was treated on the side of the piste [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

British skiers warned to go easy on Christmas cheer

"Don't catch your death!" Britons taking to the slopes of the French Alps this Christmas are being warned that mixing drink and skiing can be a deadly cocktail. Some 700,000 Britons travel annually to France for winter sports but [...]

Posted On : Dec, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Italy's Blardone wins giant slalom on home snow

His compatriot Davide Simoncelli came second but Manfred Moelgg, who had made up an Italian 1-2-3 after the first run, could only finish fifth overall following a lackluster second leg. France's Cyprien Richard produced a superb second run [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Austria's Raich wins France World Cup super combi

Benjamin Raich of Austria won a World Cup super-combined race in Val d'Isère, France on Friday, while Michael Janyk of Whistler, B.C., was 35th. Raich, the former overall World Cup champion, had a combined time of two minutes 7.71 se [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Alpine skiing-Kucera describes gruesome crash as a bummer

Canada's downhill world champion John Kucera described the gruesome crash that ended his Olympic dream as a "bit of a bummer" on Thursday but vowed to be back on his feet to cheer his team mates in Vancouver. "Being able to c [...]

Posted On : Dec, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

Skiing drama on screen in Dynasty

Enjoy the excitement of skiing as Warren Miller's Dynasty hits the big screen at the Cowichan Theatre Saturday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m.This is the 60th annual ski and snowboard film from Warren Miller Entertainment and it uncovers the past, prese [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Screw turkey Tons of deals for skiing and riding on Thanksgi...

While most of the Front Range areas have already opened, Thanksgiving week will see several of Colorado's major destination ski resorts start turning their lifts.There are plenty of events and deals available for those looking to get outsid [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Skiing: Herbst rules in Levi

The Olympic silver medallist, who now has six slalom wins to his name, achieved. His victory in a combined time of one minute and 49.79 seconds. The 31-year-old was in fourth place after the first run but found the speed to upstage riva [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Learning to ski off-piste in Chamonix

'What we're looking for," says Mark Gear, head coach of All Mountain Performance, "is skiing without boundaries". Mark embodies ambition: he started his skiing career handing out boots at Beckton Alps, east London's old dry s [...]

Posted On : Nov, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

Skiing in your own private Idaho

We had the valley beneath Thompson Peak entirely to ourselves. A broad trench, snow-lined and walled with puckered granite, it dropped out of the heart of the Sawtooth range from a high col far above the timber line. Led by Brian a bearded [...]

Posted On : Nov, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

Fun beginner's skiing course in Morzine

I have never wanted to go skiing. As a child, it passed me by (too expensive). As an adult, everything about it put me off I would be cold and wet, I wouldn't be able to do it, I would have to spend a fortune on equipment and lug it about, [...]