1.   Nordic skis are longer, narrower and lighter than Alpine skis.

2.   Since then, jet skis have been restricted in dozens of areas.

3.   The earliest skis were crude, consisting of short boards covered in fur skins.

4.   The new skis were certainly an adequate redress for the lost snowboard.

5.   Back then, skis were as long as your fingertips when you lifted your hand over your head.

6.   Alberto Tomba was on edge, and his skis were nowhere in sight.

7.   But are the skis too good to be true?

8.   But power skis are fun and certainly have a place on the water with other boats if operated safely.

9.   But they agree with other equipment analysts that shape skis are too new to be responsible for the current spate of knee injuries.

10.   Certainly skis were useless.