There's around a million regular skiers in the UK alone who travel every year out of the country to enjoy a sport that's highly addictive.

Most of those skiers have been many times before and 80% of them travel between Christmas and the February half-term school holidays.

That leaves the rest of the year barren, with little chance for regular practice and use of the key muscle groups that skiers require for perfecting technique. As the months dwindle away, the body forgets some of the subtle movements learnt from the winter before.

But there's a solution to those overly light evenings, the summer heat and endless barbeques that skiers find hard to take at best and painful in the extreme.

This is the SkiA Sweetspot Ski Trainer.

You can continue training your balance and ski technique throughout the summer months whilst also helping to tone important muscle areas key to getting the most out of your ski holiday.

Research shows that regular and repetitive practice of a skill seriously enhances the learning curve – especially with physical and sporting activities. It's obvious, but spending an hour a day practising something new, for twenty four days, would produce far better results than spending a straight twenty four hours doing the same thing.

With the SkiA Sweetspot Ski Trainer, just ten minutes of regular practice every few days through the summer would produce positive results.

Hugh Monney, Director of the BASS (British Alpine Ski Schools) network explains. 'When you practice a physical skill regularly, the body takes the opportunity to change its physiology. The wiring of the central nervous system changes, and the muscles adjust their coordination, to produce better results, more consistently'.

Developing these 'motor skills' is often called muscle memory and it's a term most people are familiar with if they drive a car, ride a bike or use a computer keyboard. But skiing has a highly complex set of muscle memory requirements and the SkiA trainer is the perfect tool to help master these.

Alfons Schmid, Head Coach of the Benni Raich Race Centre in Austria recently said 'the SkiA Sweetspot Trainer is a great training aid to train balance on ski boots'. This kind of endorsement from such a well-respected organisation is just one of many that recognises the powerful aid that the trainer can provide skiers of all levels.

About the SkiA Sweetspot Ski Trainer

• SkiA Sweetspot Ski Trainer
  • The SkiA Sweetspot Trainer is available at £45.00 / pair RRP
  • All skier levels, from beginner to expert can benefit from the SkiA Sweetspot Trainer
  • Compatible with any brand of Alpine ski boot
  • It's available online at > www.skia.com as well as many reputable snowsports retailers
  • Recently endorsed by the German Ski Instructors Association (DSLV)
  • Other endorsements for SkiA can be found online here > What People Say