If you bring your skis into a shop to get the bases and edges tuned and say nothing, they may likely use 1 degree edge bevels on both the sides and base. It’s kind of a shop default for routine […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Let’s talk about ski stance. Is there one correct stance? What is your preferred stance? For most of us OGs, we learned decades ago to ski with our skis so close together that our boots were touching. Then came a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

One of the advantages of the after market Booster Straps for ski boots is the ability to custom place them. Ideally, this is where they can actually cinch the top of the boot liner as opposed to just the hard […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(PRINTABLE / FOLDABLE POCKET GUIDE BELOW) Sometimes Keystone Resort seems to fall in the shadow of its nearby sister resort of Breckenridge. But it would be a huge mistake to underestimate this resort for many reasons. It has a total […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(PRINTABLE / FOLDABLE POCKET GUIDE BELOW) You have the resort and you have the town. It’s the two together that make Breckenridge one of North America’s quintessential ski communities. And the draw is undeniable, as in two rather dubious distinctions. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Where is this place? We must be getting close. Eyes anxiously scan the steep canyon walls for any sign of a ski lift. It’s barely dawn and six of us are driving up the snow covered back road snaking out of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Unless you’re planning to just cruise groomers all day, you may find that your skiing consists mostly of high output bursts punctuated with short rest intervals. To this end, interval training of any kind may have greater crossover benefits than […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
DSJ has suggested some good preseason conditioning exercises to include the obvious like spinning, box jumping, and jump roping, but also some lesser known like walking backwards on a treadmill at full ramp angle. Again, we’d like to add something […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A note for you senior skiers (sorry, that means all of us 40+). Exercise recovery time increases noticeably as we age. The editorial staff here at DSJ has found that our own recovery time is now greater than 24 hours after a day of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In our previous blog, “What Ever Happened to Moguls?”, we discussed the unfortunate and rather perplexing demise of moguls as they pertain to the modern ski scene. Could this issue be a symptom of a larger problem? That being the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…