The best sports that are played only in winter season, vary from snowmobiling, alpine skiing, snow kiting, tele mark skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, ice swimming, and ice skating. You do need to put on some proper outdoor outfits to play these kind of sports. These sports use to have to wait for the snow to fall, not anymore since there are places that provide artificial snow in order for these sports to begin. Which these artificial ice and snow makes it more flexible. Winter sports are no longer a problem to be played whether snow is here or not. Just like other tournaments, this also has its own tournament. This definitely is not different from the others.
Here are the different types of winter sports that people would love to do:
- Skiing and Snowboarding – this is the most common and famous sports for people who really love snow. They go to a particular area just to experience the real kind of skiing and snowboarding experience.
- Tele mark Skiing – this is a downhill sports that only fastens your toes with the boots. This is the kind of winter spots that lets you feel your feet closer to the snow when the sliding begins. This is a free-heeled type of winter sports.
- Another kind of winter sports is cross country skiing which lets you travel long distance areas by snow but the skis are more narrower that makes it different from the other skis. There are 2 kinds of this skiing: classic means gliding forward and freestyle which is more like skating.
- Ice Skating – the most famous and common right next to skiing is ice skating. In here, you need safety gears as you might slide and fall down. Be protected always and bring all the necessary gears and equipment is needed for safety. You can learn the basic ice-skating through ice hockey, skates, and figure skating as well.
- Ice swimming – an outdoor activity that allows you swimming in in open water or in unheated pools. This would require the water to be 5 C or 41 F for the ice swimming competitions.
- Snow Kiting – This is where people uses kite power glide on snow. This is the same as the water based kiteboarding. This is the most common dangerous sports of all. However, due to its risky kind of activity, people love it more since it is a different kind of adventure.
- Snowmobiling –this is where you use a very huge kind of machine where you drive in an open trail. Here you can have 2 people together in one vehicle, which is safer to have. This is powered with two engines that is why it’s fast moving
To whatever kind of winter sports you may want to engage yourself in, always remember to take precautionary measures in all sports. Since all of these are, all outdoors and nobody can guess what are the odds may bring. Always be extra careful and use proper safety gears.