In 1896, Austrian Zhasi Ji invented a way to a sled in a certain angle into the snow slope to control downhill speed. The early 20th century Austrian Schneider Zha Siji the invention according to the development of a new turning and braking skills.

Since then, the increasingly popular sport of skiing. The campaign into China relatively late, in 1996 years ago, involved in the sport was just a professional athlete and the Beijing embassy trading company ski enthusiasts. Now, according to statistics from related departments in each of the ski to experience the feelings of the number of skiing has reached tens of thousands of passengers, but also showed an upward trend year after year.

Kind

Can be divided into three types: Alpine, Nordic and freestyle.

Alpine-style: skiing is the downhill ski along the snow slope movement, whose name is derived from the downhill movement derived from the Alps, including a variety of techniques and movements, of which there are three basic actions: straight down, across, and turns .

Nordic-style: skiing, including a cross-country skiing and ski jumping, the origin of the name is because of this movement originated in the Nordic countries. Cross-country skiing is the most popular ski mode, while the ski jumps were somewhat like a flying trapeze, requires extraordinary courage and superb skills.

Freestyle: Freestyle skiing is actually a kind of stunt performers, performers from the steep and bumpy downhill snow slope down, after performing at the same time had to jump, kick, and even thrilling somersaults and other stunts.

Site selection

Beginners must first away from the short, flat slope of a small practice on the venue. After repeated practice and then gradually increase the distance a long, steep slope and speed the transition of the site. Wherever he went skiing, we must resort to the quality of the hard and soft snow, and an understanding of whether the flat, be aware of.

Equipment

There are ski equipment, ski, pole, boots, and fixed devices, ski boots, ski equipment, helmet-shaped hat, colored mirror, wind and mirrors. There is usually ski equipment rental, visitors may wish to rent.

Security and self-protection

1, ready to glide downward, before sliding the direction of observation about the situation, it is best that no one or a few people in front of dropped lines in order to avoid because of their poor self-control collisions of others.

2, learners, in taxiing time, once was dangerous, want to stop they can not stop himself, one of the most simple way is to fall on either side of the left and right upper body can be.

3, sliding in when it fell, it shall promptly stood up and continued to slide, or immediately went to ski off the edge of skis as soon as possible to avoid being struck latecomers.