skiing
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Snow skiing is a very fun sport to try and learn how to do. Once you are pretty good at it you might be able to go into a tournament or ski for money.
But first the basics, to start skiing you need to have warm gear, two skis, special boots for skiing, and two pegs to help you to steer and help keep balance. When you have those you are just about ready to start to ski. There are tons of places to ski, there could be hills around your house or it could just be on a mountain, but the most common place there is to ski is the slopes at lodges and snow resorts. There is something called a lift, the lift is the thing that will get you up the hill/slope the easiest. There are two kinds of lifts, one kind of lift is the pull lift, this lift will take you up the hill by you holding onto a special cord with a disc at the end, the other kind if lift is a bench lift, this lift takes you up to the top by you sitting on it, (this lift is mostly used for the really big lifts) it can hold two people, that is the average for most lifts. Once you are at the top of the hill you are ready to try to start to ski, when you start going down you want to make sure that your knees are bent slightly and you keep your feet straight or else you will fall and hurt yourself. As you are going down the hill, you don't want to go straight down the hill because then you will loose control. You want to weave back and forth from side to side, and that will make you have a nice ride down the hill...