Although not wearing protective gear when extreme skiing can reduce the burden on equipment, it will also increase the risk of injury. If you choose not to wear protective gear, the following methods can help reduce the chance of injury: 1. **Improve skiing skills**: - **Professional training**: Take professional skiing courses to learn advanced sliding techniques and control methods to improve your ability to adapt to the skiing environment. - **Balance and coordination**: Enhance body coordination through balance training, which helps to maintain stability in complex terrain. 2. **Choose the right ski slope**: - **Understand the difficulty of the ski slope**: Choose a ski slope that matches your skills and avoid routes that are too steep or technically demanding. - **Familiar with the terrain**: Understand the skiing route in advance and avoid potential dangerous areas such as rocks, trees or cliff edges. 3. **Pay attention to the weather and environment**: - **Ski in good weather**: Choose skiing when the weather is clear and visibility is high to reduce accidents caused by poor visibility. - **Understand the snow conditions**: Understand the snow quality and snow surface conditions of the day, such as frozen snow, wet snow or powder snow, to adjust the skiing strategy. 4. **Control the speed of skiing**: - **Reasonable control**: Avoid skiing too fast, keep it within the speed range that you can control, so as to respond to emergencies in time. - **Gradually increase the speed**: As your skills improve, gradually increase the speed of skiing to avoid instability caused by sudden acceleration. 5. **Maintain physical strength and avoid fatigue**: - **Reasonable rest**: Arrange enough rest time, avoid long-term continuous skiing, and maintain good physical strength and reaction ability. - **Good physical fitness**: Enhance muscle strength and endurance through physical training, and improve stability during skiing. 6. **Travel with a partner**: - **Travel with a partner with experienced partners**: Ski with each other and take care of each other, so that you can provide timely help in case of accidents. - **Communication plan**: Prepare a skiing plan and emergency contact information in advance to ensure that you can contact each other quickly when needed. 7. **Learn safe falling skills**: - **Correct falling**: Learn how to fall safely to reduce the risk of injury, such as keeping your body relaxed as much as possible and avoiding direct contact with the ground with your hands and head. - **Avoid violent collisions**: When you lose balance, try to fall sideways or backward to reduce the impact on your joints and head. 8. **Stay focused and avoid distractions**: - **Focus**: Stay highly focused during the skiing process, and promptly detect and respond to environmental changes. - **Avoid distractions**: Avoid using mobile phones or other distracting items to ensure full concentration on skiing. **Warm Tips**: Although the above methods can reduce the risk of injury to a certain extent, wearing appropriate protective gear (such as helmets, knee pads, wrist guards, etc.) is still an important measure to ensure safety. It is recommended that you consider wearing necessary protective equipment when conditions permit to maximize your own safety.