monoski

At the age of 10, he started skiing, with a custom designed monoski.

The monoski is wide enough to attach both boots to a single ski.

My specialised equipment for the powder has always been a monoski.

The monoski is produced by a half dozen companies worldwide in limited quantities.

It is similar to a snowboard or monoski in that both feet are attached to the same board.

"I wanted to do things on a monoski that it wasn't designed for yet," Walker said in a telephone interview.

After several years skiing in a monoski he had purchased, Bramble decided to design and build his own.

Another device called a monoski is used mainly by people with limited use (or absence) of the lower extremities.

His favorite sport is alpine skiing in monoski.

The term monoski may refer to either of two unrelated pieces of ski equipment.

As alpine ski technology has advanced, so has monoski technology.

By the middle of the decade, the technology had migrated to Canada, and on both continents the modern monoski began to emerge.

A monoski, also known as a sit-ski, consists of a molded seat mounted on a metal frame.

Monoskiing is a snow sport that uses monoski.

In para-Alpine skiing, the skier uses a monoski, which is required to have breaks on both sides of the ski.

More common in use during a brief boom in the 1980s, today the monoski is used by only a few thousand enthusiasts worldwide.

She competes in Paralympic alpine skiing, in the sitting category, using a monoski.

Kevin Bramble (born 1972), disabled ski racer, freeskier and monoski designer/builder.

Founder of 'Team Monoski'

In one particular race Alain attempted to race against Hansi by using his revolutionary new monoski.

The ultimate surface area available in skis is obtained by combining two skis and adding the space that normally exists between them - i.e. the monoski.

Monoskiing is still practiced by a reasonably large enthusiast community, especially in powder, where the wider waist of the monoski, compared to traditional skis, provides greater flotation.

Surfer Mike Doyle promoted the monoski in the early 1970s, after which monoskiing's relative popularity slowly increased, but the interest eventually waned in favor of snowboarding.

He competed using a monoski - a specially fitted chair over a single ski that includes seat belts and other strapping, as well as a suspension device to minimize wear and tear on the skier's body.

Sgt Brennan was able to ski in a seat that is attached via a bracket and spring to a monoski and with the aid of two poles each with small skis on the end for support and balance.