Sports equipment - boots, skis and poles take at the box office. His staff will gladly help you find all for your individual standards - foot size, height and weight. Pay particular attention to the shoes - they do not have to be a wide and hang out on the leg. If they are at the same time will be a little long, one and a half - two centimeters are acceptable. After zastegnete them, try to walk, if too tight - loosen the fastening clips. On the foot and lower leg boots should sit tight, but do not squeeze them.
Take the money and arrange the first lessons with an instructor - friends, even if they ride very well, are unlikely to be patient and available to explain to you the first principles of riding. Normally for the first time is quite enough to pay school hours. Received during this time you will be able to work skills then independently. As a rule, lacking one or two sessions with an instructor to have to learn how to go down the slope. The instructor is also quite powerful, which will help you avoid injuries and learn to fall and get up on skis, and fall - are inevitable.
Wear skiing, standing across the slope, holding them parallel to each other. To be strapped to the shoes, it is enough to put a sock in the shoe mount and pin heel until it clicks. Take a stick in hand, pass the palm of your hand in the loop. Expand skiing down the slope, put them triangle connecting ski socks and feet wide apart.
Legs slightly bent, resting them in the shin boot, push sticks and slide. To slow down - move the knees, flat skis will be on the inner edge, and stop skiing. This horse is called "plow". To turn on skis - just tilt the body in the direction of rotation and transfer weight on the ski, which is closer to the slope. Exit of the corner, aligning along the ski slope and putting the body straight.