"From the body's perspective, roller skiing is skiing. Your skeletal muscles, heart, balance sensors, and motor cortex can't tell the difference between skiing on snow or roller skiing because they are responding to exactly the same demands. Better yet, you feel like a skier, which is a wonderful thing when the ground is bare. Roller skiing is the perfect specificity for your body and your brain."

For every British based Nordic skier the hardest thing to come to terms with is that Britain just isn’t ever going to get the snow in the same quantities and consistency that Scandinavians, Central Europeans and North Americans take for granted. Thankfully Britain is pretty well placed in the age of low cost air travel to take advantage of the best skiing that all these regions have to offer and with Rollerskiing the British Nordic skier is able to arrive in the perfect mental and physical condition on snow ready to take advantage of their precious few days on the white stuff!

Rollerskiing is not hugely dissimilar to rollerblading. The skis themselves are around 70cm in length with two large wheels on each end. The boots and bindings are the same as those used on snow and the poles are only different in that they have a more resilient carbide tip than those used on snow.

Rollerskiing is the perfect introduction to the Nordic snow sports as well as fantastic cross training for any endurance based sport. Nordic skiing is widely recognised as the most effective full body workout and exercises each major muscle group without the impact associated with running and other endurance sports. Rollerskiing also builds balance and coordination and can help those preparing for Alpine skiing, given the specificity of the muscle groups it exercises.