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How to choose a pair of skis, top ski manufacturers, and information on men's, women's, and children's skis.
Skis: Buying Guide
Choosing the right skis for you depends on a number of factors, such as your age/gender, skiing ability, or regional location. Here's more about buying, choosing, and maintaining skis.
Ski Reviews
What's new this ski season, including new and noteworthy skis for the 2011/2012 season, plus exclusive comments from the top ski manufacturers.
Types of Snow Skis
Information on the various of types of snow skis, including alpine, telemark, reverse camber, twin tip, telemark, and cross country skis.
2011-2012 Skis
The Rocker ski technology is growing every stronger and is now evident in every manufacturers line-up of skis for the 2011-12 season. Here's what's new in skis for 2011-2012.
How to Choose the Right Ski
When life was simple and skiers wore stretch pants or jeans to ski in, we only had to choose between three basic types of skis, all based on racing. However, now that we are enjoying the engineering marvels of the shaped ski, the focus of ski design has become more complex.
Skis - How to Select Skis
Here's information on how to select the best skis for you, including how to select skis that match your ability level, your goals, and your terrain preference.
Ski Selecting Tools
Use ski selecting tools that ski manufacturers, like Atomic or Elan, provide to help you choose what kind of skis are right for you.
Sizing and Buying Junior Skis
Just as sure as kids outgrow their clothes, they are going to outgrow skis. The questions parents have today are the same questions parents asked when skiing first became a family sport. What size skis should we buy for our children and can we just pass them down to the next pair of little ones?
Buying Skis Online
There are a growing number of web sites where skis are for sale at prices that can vary across the Internet. A lot of the difference in prices is due to the popularity of certain model skis that are designed for specific snow conditions.
How to Sharpen Your Ski Edges
Normal groomed hardpack can dull out your edges enough so that a daily diamond stone wipe is really a good habit to get into. The diamond stone will take out any burrs. Then, at least once a week file the side edges with an edge tuning tool. Here's how to sharpen your ski edges.
How to Store Skis
How and where to store skis off-season.
Pre-Season Ski Tune Up
A pre-season ski tune up can do wonders for your skis, refreshing skis so they're ready to excel into a new season. Read how professionals at Alpine Ski Shop in Saratoga Springs, NY tune up skis and prepare them for a new season.
Rocker Skis
The rocker ski is here to stay, just as the shaped ski took over all design. Why, because it makes for easier skiing and a easier learning curve.
The Rocker Ski Revolution
An interview with Lee Quaglia, owner of two time SKI Magazine's New England Shop of the Year, Aspen East Ski Shop in Killington Vermont wherein we discussed rocker skis in general and how K2 has implemented the rocker technology.
Wagner Custom Skis
Wagner custom skis are designed based on your age, weight, height, skill level, type of terrain you ski and how often, your binding type, the brand of model of your current skis and how you feel about, them and the subjective and very useful "What are you looking for?"
2010 / 2011 Men's Skis
No hype. The new 2010-2011 skis are exciting. Boasting new technological advancements, the latest collection of alpine skis represent some of the finest advances in skis found in years. In fact, the group of test team members I worked with - testing dozens and dozens of new skis - all were very impressed by the new designs.
2009/2010 Skis
The top 2009/10 skis including men's, women's, expert, performance, and powder skis. Guest Author Tony Crespi reviews the top men's skis and Guest Author Wendy Clinch reviews women's skis for the 09/10 season.