Jahorina ski rental

Note:

• Children – skis up to 130 cm in height
• Set – skis, boots, and poles
• Rental of ski and snowboard equipment only with documents (ID card or passport)
• You can deposit rented ski equipment at the ski rental after skiing
• The ski rental includes booking for the Jahorina Prestige ski school

We also provide servicing for skis and snowboards.

The new range of ski and snowboard equipment includes the latest models of skis, snowboard boards, boots, helmets, and other equipment from HEAD. Our professional team at the ski rental carefully maintains and adjusts the ski equipment to ensure your safety and comfort on the icy ski slopes.

In addition to renting ski & snowboard equipment, you can also book ski school or ski instructors in advance at our ski rental.

The Ski School Jahorina Prestige, is unique for its expertise and experience in teaching skiing techniques. Regardless of your skill level, our ski school, through years of experience and training, creates the best training program to meet your needs and goals so that you can become independent in skiing on all ski slopes in the shortest possible time. All ski training programs vary from individual skiing lessons, group skiing lessons, snowboarding lessons, family packages for children and adults. Jahorina Prestige is the leading ski school on Mount Jahorina! Our school offers top-notch skiing and snowboarding training for children and adults under the guidance of licensed and experienced ski instructors.

Ski Equipment Rental with us is a simple and quick process. Our friendly staff is at your disposal to help you choose the right equipment according to your level, experience, and skiing abilities. All you need to do is come to our location, select the desired equipment, and you’re ready for an unforgettable day on the slopes.

For all guests staying in our apartments, we aim to make your vacation as pleasant and enjoyable as possible, and skiing as safe as possible. Therefore, we have made an effort to provide skiing on the latest models of HEAD skis and the most comfortable new boots of various flexes (boot hardness, which we need to pay special attention to, as the boots should not be too soft or too hard), modern boot and boot drying and disinfection machines, machines for maintenance and servicing, ski equipment waxing machines, and regular disinfection of protective helmets.

We value your time and strive to provide you not only with quality equipment but also with fast and efficient service. Our mission is to ensure that your skiing experience on Jahorina is filled with joy and excitement, without worrying about equipment.

Ski rental PRESTIGE is located on the ground floor of the Olympic House Poljice Jahorina, next to the Beosport sports equipment boutique, across from the children’s lift and beginner’s area Poljice, on the main street below the Vučko apartment hotel, across from the Termag hotel, below the webcam which is at the following link – Webcam Poljice

Book your skiing equipment in advance and ensure a worry-free experience on the slopes. Jahorina Prestige is your partner for ski equipment rental you can always rely on –

When renting ski & snowboard equipment at our ski rental, our ski instructors Jahorina Prestige ski school will assist you in choosing the appropriate ski & snowboard equipment and dressing.

Skiing lessons with ski instructors is the best way to start your skiing career or improve your existing skiing level. Licensed skiing instructors at Jahorina are competent, educated, and highly experienced for the job and know the easiest way to achieve a certain level of skiing knowledge. Ski & snowboard instructors from the Jahorina Prestige school possess properly certified licenses for skiing training.

Unfortunately, many skiers do not attend skiing school but think that by watching videos or studying literature, they can learn to ski on their own. Similarly, many guests have friends who already ski, so the logical solution is “a friend will show me a few things.” Unfortunately, neither the first nor the second method is good. It often happens that friends who claim to be excellent skiers, and look like that to you, are not. Moreover, even good skiers who have good technique sometimes find it difficult to convey knowledge.

Skiing is a sport where mistakes come at a high cost (injuries, which can sometimes be fatal), and worst of all, once you learn something incorrectly, it’s very difficult to correct. It’s definitely easier and much cheaper to start off on the right path, and let’s not forget that skiing with proper technique is much easier, resulting in less fatigue if done correctly.

Servicing and Repairing Ski Equipment at Jahorina

Every skier or snowboarder wants well-serviced equipment. Frequently asked questions in the service industry are: “How are skis or boards serviced?” The real question should be: “What does a good service actually do for my skis or snowboard?” A complete ski equipment service includes: base grinding, edge tuning, waxing, binding mounting on the board, binding adjustment, binding mounting, pole adjustment, base filling. You can have a complete service of your skis and board done at our partner ski & snowboard rentals.

What is included in ski equipment?

Ski boots, skis with bindings, ski pants and jacket, optionally a jumpsuit (which has not proven practical), ski poles, gloves, hat or helmet (children up to 12 years old must wear a protective helmet at ski resorts), ski goggles (against wind, snow, fog), sunglasses (with UV protection due to strong sunlight reflection), face cream with a high protection factor of 15-30, underwear, and optional chocolate. In the beginning, you need appropriate, tested, and serviced equipment and a ski instructor.

What and for whom to buy or rent ski equipment?

For every beginner skier, especially for children under 15, we recommend renting basic ski equipment (ski boots, skis with bindings, and ski poles) from one of the ski services that have appropriate and quality equipment. As for ski jackets and pants, hats, gloves, goggles, and cream, you can buy or borrow them from friends because this equipment is not rented.

Ski Boots

First and foremost, children who are growing need to choose appropriate ski boots and skis for the upcoming ski season, rather than choosing or buying larger ones in the hope that they will last for several years. Ski boots should not be too small because they cause blisters, numbness, and feet get cold quickly in such boots.

An even bigger problem is overly large ski boots because the foot in such a boot has too much space, so the foot does not transfer a certain movement to the boot, and through it to the ski binding and ski, skiing progress is difficult, and there is a greater risk of ankle and shin injury. Because of all of the above, rent or buy only ski boots of the appropriate size for your child.

For adult beginners, we also advise renting equipment, while those who have decided to ski more than 20 days in one ski season are recommended to buy ski boots, and skis can be rented (for the whole season) or purchased as desired. The inner part of the new ski boot will shape slightly to your foot, so that ski boot will be comfortable for you in a few days, and for hygienic reasons, you will not wear boots that have already been used by several dozen skiers.

When it comes to buying new ski boots for beginners and less skilled skiers, look for the manufacturer’s catalog in the ski equipment store, and later ski, and according to the manufacturer’s recommendation, buy the appropriate ski boot. In some higher quality and specialized shops and services, you can also rely on the recommendation of the seller or service technician.

If you are a beginner or a less skilled skier, buy boots with a Flex Index of 50–70, a skier with moderate skiing knowledge 70–90, and very good skiers, instructors, and skiing demonstrators should buy ski boots with a Flex Index of 90–120. There are also stiffer boots with an index of 130–140 and 150, but boots of such characteristics are recommended only for competitors.

Why is the flex index so important for ski boots?

With ski boots, similar to skis, the manufacturer (e.g., Boot Manufacturers: ATOMIC, SALOMON, NORDICA, LANGE, HEAD, TEHNICA…) is not as important as the hardness. You can quickly find out the quality, and usually the price of boots based on the flex index. Here, use a little cunning or our small advice, it is much cheaper to buy ski boots, and especially skis, from last year’s or the year before’s model because the price will drop by up to 50%, and besides the color and some minor nuances, there is no significant change because every manufacturer changes the external appearance of ski boots and skis every year to sell them more easily (read more expensively).

When buying and trying on new ski boots, be persistent and take enough time to buy the right boots because you stand and ski in them for 6, 7, and more hours a day, so in our opinion, ski boots are the most important part of ski equipment.

How to try on ski boots?

When you decide on a boot model, it’s not certain that particular model will be the most suitable for you. Each ski boot consists of a hard plastic outer part and a softer inner part. Remove the inner part from the outer shell of the boot and put it on your foot like a sock. In a position where the foot is pulled back as far as possible, in front of the toes, you should have an additional space of 10–20 mm.

After the inner part fits, put it back into the outer shell and try on the complete boot. Regardless of whether the ski boot has two, three, or four buckles, it should not cause any discomfort. You should always be able to move your toes freely in it, and when you tighten the boot with the buckles, the movement of the heel of the foot upwards (relative to the boot) should be minimal (the movement is similar to trying to take your foot out of the boot, which should not be possible).

Don’t forget! Don’t rush when choosing, trying on, and buying new ski boots. Once you have bought ski boots, later corrections, but in a very small form and only on the lateral side of the foot, are possible only in very high-quality ski services where they will widen the outer part of the boot or make boot fitting. It happens that beginners and very weak skiers immediately want to buy extremely high-quality ski equipment.

This is certainly not our recommendation, and the main reason is as follows: softer ski boots with a flex index of 50–70 are recommended for beginners and weaker skiers precisely because this group of future skiers initially has very uncoordinated movements and many unnecessary reactions that the soft boot, especially the ski, does not accept simultaneously, but with a delay, acting as a shock absorber.

The problem arises when a beginner buys stiff boots and skis, so his numerous involuntary movements are immediately transferred to the skis and their reactions to the snow. On the other hand, good skiers have difficulty skiing with soft boots and skis because such boots and skis do not transmit fine commands and foot movements with enough quality or speed, so good skiers with poor equipment find it very difficult to progress towards even better skiing skills.

Skis

Every manufacturer changes models or at least colors of their ski herds every year, but there have been no revolutionary changes in ski design since about 10 years ago, with the great expansion of shaped (which means their width at the tip and tail is greater than at the waist) or carving skis. Today, we all ski on more or less shaped skis, harder or softer, with more or less of that legendary and always awe-inspiring radius, about which 10 skiing experts would give at least 15 answers on what is the optimal radius for an average skier, a beginner, an expert skier, or a ski instructor and demonstrator.

We will again give some of our recommendations to at least somewhat guide you (some of you who are just entering this wonderful sport) in the basics of ski equipment and reduce the confusion of shapes, colors, manufacturers, prices, and everything else that awaits you when buying, renting, and servicing ski equipment.

Regarding ski stiffness, both in torsion and flex, almost all manufacturers have unified. Lower quality skis, priced and in terms of stiffness, usually have some designation like 3, 4, 5, 6; medium stiffness skis are 7, 8; and high stiffness skis are 9, 10; while some manufacturers also have skis labeled 11 and 12. A higher number in this designation usually means that higher quality materials are incorporated into the ski (such as wooden core, carbon, kevlar, anti-vibration materials), whereas many children’s skis and lower quality skis have some foam or cheaper materials injected or molded into them.

Today, compared to old models, a quality ski is required to be somewhat softer in flex but stiff in torsion to ensure that both the middle and the tail of the ski pass through the turn at the same place as the tip of the ski, so that tracks are left behind in the form of rails. The basic division of skis by shaping would be approximately as follows:

• Skis with a very small radius up to 10 m fall into the category of extremely shaped or fun carving skis,
• radii from 11, 12, 13 meters fall into the area of slalom skis and turns,
• 14 to 20 meters into the area of skiing on all trails and terrains, allround,
• and 21–30 into the group of skis intended for performing long or giant slalom turns.

In recent years, there has been an exceptionally high interest (and we can say a negative trend) in skis that fall into the slalom category, so many skiers (especially the better ones) buy and use skis with a length of 165 cm and a radius of about 12 meters and high quality and stiffness 10–12. These skis are intended for making short slalom turns and have proven to be very good on steep and icy slopes where the skier makes turns with a small radius.

These skis are certainly not optimal for recreational skiing of some giant slalom turn, parallel turn from the slope, and especially not good for deep and soft snow because they are short and have a small surface area, so they sink deep below the snow surface.

There are people who love fast riding, giant slalom turns, and many of them do not want to fully switch to carving or shaped skis, so they still ride skis 190 cm or longer with a radius of 25, 30 meters, and more. But there are very few skiers like that.

Our recommendation is to ski, and in that direction to buy or rent skis intended for all terrains and all skiing techniques. Regardless of the manufacturer, these are allround skis and for men they are 170-180 cm long with a radius of 14–18 meters, for women from 160-170 cm or the length of the ski is their body height or up to 10 cm shorter, with a radius of 13-17 meters, while beginners can use skis up to 10 cm shorter.

With skis that have a radius of 16–17 meters, we will easily perform turns of a medium radius, and similarly, without any major problems, shorten turns to 12–13 meters and extend them to 20–22 meters and more. With such skis, we will easily handle both steeper and gentler slopes, soft snow, off-piste, and icy surfaces on the slope. We don’t advocate for slalom skis of 165 cm or giant slalom skis of 190 cm, but it’s best to use skis around 175 cm with a radius of 16–17 meters. Of course, this is just our recommendation, and in the end, you will decide for yourself which length and radius of skis to buy.

You have often noticed how the binding is raised relative to the ski or how there is a certain plate under the binding. Excellent skiers on shaped skis would find it very difficult to ski today if there were no plate or raised binding. The plate helps us in several segments. It raises the ski boot from the snow surface so that in a turn, in lateral movement, the boot does not catch on the snow, it raises the projection of the knee where we extend the lever so that we need a little less power, and the plates are usually made of some anti-vibration material so the plate has several good and one negative characteristic.

That is, in a way, it extends the lower leg, creating conditions for greater forces and a higher risk of knee injury. So!!! Use your head – use the plate! (but make sure that the total height from the sliding surface to the bottom of the ski boot in the binding is not more than 50–55 mm). Of course, manufacturers introduce some new features of skis, plates, bindings every year, but there haven’t been any major revolutions in the past few years. There is a lot of testing, some things are copied from other manufacturers, colors change a bit…

Recommendation – weaker skiers and beginners should buy cheaper and softer skis. Just like with shoes, their softness will forgive some mistakes, and when they learn the basics, they will upgrade to better equipment.
Ski Bindings
Ski bindings can be divided into three main categories:

1. Children’s bindings
2. Adults
3. Competitive

Of course, just like manufacturers recommend, we suggest children’s bindings for children, adult bindings for adults, and racing bindings for competitors. Never use racing bindings if you’re not actually competing, because racing bindings are equipped with extremely strong springs that release the jaws of the binding only under significant pressure. This could lead to the binding not releasing the boot during a fall, potentially causing injury to the skier’s leg.

Adjusting Bindings and Setting Binding Release Values

TIP – We kindly ask you to leave the adjustment and setting of bindings to the experts at the ski service to ensure that the bindings are properly and accurately mounted on the skis. In better ski services, there is a device that determines the binding release values based on your personal data (age, skiing ability, height, weight, width of the tibia, etc.) and tests the release of the ski boot from the bindings.

The following parameters can serve as information for you, but please do not rely solely on them. Each newer binding has a certain scale on the front and rear parts of the binding:

• Children’s bindings from about 0.75–4.5 and 2-7
• Adult bindings 3–9, 4-12, 6-14
• Racing bindings 9-16, 10-17, 14-20

If you are a good skier, in excellent physical condition, then divide your body weight by 10 and that value corresponds to the binding release value. For women, children, and weaker skiers, divide your body weight by 10 and subtract an additional 15–20% from that value.

Example: a woman or child weighing 50 kg
50 : 10 = 5–20% = 4 on the binding scale.
Personally, we believe it is better for the binding to release prematurely or occasionally unnecessarily than a moment too late.
Once again – this is just an approximate guideline, not advice for adjusting the binding release values yourself.

Ski Poles

After deciding on the color, manufacturer, and price of ski poles, you just need to determine the length. Take the ski pole, turn it upside down with the grip facing downward, grasp it below the baskets, and lean it against the floor. If your upper arm and forearm form a 90⁰ angle, you have chosen the appropriate length for the poles.

Gloves

• Mandatory, warm, preferably leather or made of another moisture-proof material,
• protect you from cold and injury in case of a fall,
• whatever the skiing conditions, gloves are mandatory, and do not even think about skiing without them.

Protective Eyewear (Goggles)

• Ski goggles, which protect you from snow and wind,
• darkened sunglasses with UV protection – mandatory for sunny weather.

Ski Suit

• One-piece or two-piece, as you prefer, (recommendation – two-piece),
• lightweight, warm, we recommend higher quality materials (Gore-Tex).

Beanie

• Mandatory, protects from cold and in case of a fall.

Helmet

• Mandatory for children up to 14 years old, adults – as you choose.

Sunscreen

• When it’s sunny on the snow, use sunscreen with high protection factors (20-30), because the reflection of sunlight from the snow can cause severe burns.

Tips for buying ski equipment, more details and descriptions on the following link – Purchase of ski equipment

I.T ( Hopnakop.rs )

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