20 September, 2009 (14:55) | General | By: WeekendWarrior
Taking skiing lessons is the topic for this part of our learn to ski guide. It will take about a week of lessons from a professional ski instructor at a ski school, but by the end of that week, you will have learned to ski correctly. Once you have learned the basics, you will have [...]
Tags: outdoors, skiing, skiing lessons, sports
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15 September, 2009 (19:14) | General | By: WeekendWarrior
What it is, who it attracts and where to go are topics for this part of our how to surf guide. The sport of surfing involves a surfboard (usually a polyurethane foam core with a fiberglass shell), and you on that board paddling into the surf, looking to catch a wave on its way to [...]
Tags: outdoors, sports, surfing
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14 September, 2009 (20:51) | General | By: WeekendWarrior
What to expect whilst skydiving is the focus of this installment of our go skydiving guide. In skydiving, a jumper exits an airplane at heights of 10,000-18,000 feet (3,050-5,500 m) and moves through the air – downwards and horizontally – before opening a parachute.
Tags: Extreme, Skydiving, sports
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14 September, 2009 (20:51) | General | By: WeekendWarrior
Tandem jumping is the focus of this installment of our go skydiving guide. In tandem jumping – a popular way to start skydiving – a beginner jumper and an instructor are attached together by a harness. They exit the plane and descend together, remaining attached throughout.
Tags: outdoors, Skydiving, sports
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8 September, 2009 (19:47) | General | By: WeekendWarrior
We look at riding waves in this installment of our how to surf guide. The first part of learning how to surf is knowing what waves are right for you. With much smaller ones you may get stuck in the water due to a lack of power or be unable to remain standing up. Depending [...]
Tags: how to surf, sports, surfing
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21 July, 2009 (06:24) | General | By: WeekendWarrior
Denver area ski rentals can be found close to any Denver ski resorts. This is sometimes the best option for skiers as lugging loads of heavy equipment for hundreds of miles is not great fun. Colorado is the one state in the US where the skiing season begins a little earlier and it is also [...]
Tags: denver, recreation, resort, ski, sports, travel
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20 July, 2009 (06:40) | General | By: WeekendWarrior
Denver ski resorts are amongst the best in the world. Vail and Aspen are probably the most famous of these, but there are many more. If in the area you can find everything you need, whether you are into snowboarding, you just want to get started in skiing or you are an expert skiing. There [...]
Tags: denver, recreation, resort, ski, sports, travel
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13 July, 2009 (06:43) | General | By: WeekendWarrior
The Heavenly Ski Resort is one of the most popular resorts in the United States. Located at Lake Tahoe, on the California-Nevada border and offers four base facilities. This resort stretches out over a massive 4,800 acres!It has 30 lifts and a whopping 97 runs.
Tags: aspen, heavenly, ski, sports, travel, vacation
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13 July, 2009 (06:43) | General | By: WeekendWarrior
Aspen Colorado ski resorts are amongst the oldest and most popular in the region, the most well known one had been on Ajax Mountain. It was established back in 1947 with what at the time was the longest ski lift in the world. Another nearby ski resort is the Aspen Highlands.
Tags: aspen, colorado, ski, sports, travel, vacation
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22 May, 2009 (23:20) | General | By: WeekendWarrior
The popularity of sport is now absolutely massive. There is much greater coverage of sport on TV, more participants, vastly increased sport choice and a whole heap more money in the industry. unfortunately, this money isn’t really seen so much at the base level of the sports and so most of the time we need [...]
Tags: accessories, cheap, equipment, gear, money, sports
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