Preparing on a dry slope for your skiing holiday

There are lots of things that you will need to bear in mind when preparing for a ski holiday: warm clothes, passports, lift passes and even sun cream (yes for those that haven’t skied before you need sun cream as the light from the sun reflects off snow and can actually be extremely intense at higher altitudes). However, more important than all of those things is that you yourself are physically and emotionally prepared for the endeavours that you will be facing on your holiday. If you are new to skiing you will need all the help you can get and whether you are snowboarding or skiing it is likely to be a completely new experience and not being able to practice in advance is pretty horrific in this scenario as you could take days to get into the swing of things once you are finally there.

One of the ways in which you can get yourself geared up and ready to get on the slopes as soon as you get on holiday would be to have some sort of practice at home or somewhere nearby. Generally you aren’t going to see much snow or many hills that would act as slopes in England even at the peak of season, but this is not your best option anyway. Something that I would very highly rate and suggest as the perfect place to get prepared for a skiing or snowboarding holiday would be at a dry ski slope. They are outdoor and there are plenty of them dotted all over the country, and so if you feel that you could greatly or even partially benefit from a bit of practice when it comes to your skiing technique a dry slope is the place to be.

On this particular course you should be able to learn how to do basic manoeuvres such as turning, going from side to side, going directly forwards and braking as well. All of these things should be picked up relatively quickly within a few sessions, but this still begs the question as to why a dry ski slope could be in any way relevant when you are looking at going for the real thing. This is something that you should be pondering as dry slopes are obviously going to be different to snow slopes.

Dry slopes have more resistance and therefore it is actually easier to ski or snowboard on real snow. Since you are more likely to fall over on dry slopes and it is more difficult to do things you can probably imagine that it is actually good training as it makes snow slopes look easy, and you would be correct in thinking this. There is nothing more reassuring than doing something harder than your actual job in holiday in order to learn how to do it, and whilst there are several options when it comes to snow slopes for practice I would say that a dry slope is better.

Make sure if you are looking for a skiing holiday after dry slope practice that you consider AlpineSports as they have a lovely chalet in Meribel available for booking.