If you don’t speak Dutch, we can tell you that the Ski Mojo is helping Rich to ski stronger and ski longer, while Luus is struggling towards the end of the day.

Rich has a secret: His Ski Mojo

Luus can’t believe that Rich is so fit and wants to keep skiing, when he’s “completely done”, which leads Rich to admit that he’s “sort of cheating” as he’s wearing a Ski Mojo under his ski pants.

We don’t think this will happen to you if you mention you’re wearing a Ski Mojo, but Luus asks Rich to show him by taking down his ski pants to show him his secret!

“It allows me to ski all day without tiring me out!”

Rich shows Luus how the Ski Mojo can help your skiing. It won’t make you a better skier, he tells him, but it will save you energy, which means that even though he has been blasting around the slopes all day, he still has plenty of energy left.

“It can be used on any ski boot” says Rich, and “if I put my pants back on you can’t see anything”.

He shows Luus how it’s attached to the back of his ski boot and then adjusted according to your weight.

Several knee operations and no cruciate ligaments

“I’m 55 and I think I am a good skier but my right knee is in really bad shape  and what the Ski Mojo does is it actuall makes me stronger and reduces the vibrations that put a strain on my knee when I ski.”

Rich has had several operations on my right knee and has no cruciate ligaments anymore. Yet the Ski Mojo means he can do everything!

“By everything, I mean I can ski fast on piste; I can ski deep; I can ski moguls. I can actually get away with it everywhere so I’m very happy!”

Rich first heard about the Ski Mojo a while ago, but it was only when he heard that it was banned from racing by FIS that he started to think it was really interesting. If it can give someone an unfair advantage in a race, then it sounded perfect for an advantage in everyday skiing.

Buy your Ski Mojo

You can buy your Ski Mojo today at www.ski-mojo.co.uk

You can try the Ski Mojo in the UK at some of indoor snow slopes, but there are several opportunities to test in the Alps this autumn (November 2022).

Val Thorens

As the highest ski resort in Europe, it’s no surprise that Val Thorens opens before most other resorts. You can find the Ski Mojo team in the brand village at the ‘Grand Premiere’ opening weekend on 19-20 November and try the Ski Mojo for free.

Alternatively, you can test the Ski Mojo at any time via our partners at Zenith Sport or Intersport Cheval Blanc.

Val d’Isere

The following weekend – from 26-27 November – the ‘Premieres Traces’ event in Val d’Isere is your location to try the Ski Mojo.

Test the Ski Mojo in the UK

There are also four indoor snow slopes where you can trial the Ski Mojo in the UK:

• The Snow Centre (Hemel Hempstead)
• Chill Factore (Manchester)
• Snozone (Castleford)
• Snow Factor (Glasgow)

If you’d like to try a Ski Mojo at one of these centres, then please contact us and we will put you in contact with the local Ski Mojo re-seller to arrange a trial.

Brian Richardson skiing at Braehead in Glasgow in his Ski Mojo

National Snow Show, Birmingham NEC, 15-16 October

You can also visit our stand at the National Snow Show at the Birmingham NEC next month. We expect to be very busy over the weekend and will be operating on a first-come, first-served basis.

This is an opportunity to buy your Ski Mojo and have it fitted for you on location by its inventor, Martin Hannaford.

Alternatively, if you’d like to buy your Ski Mojo online and fit it yourself then we will have a special discount code available to visitors to our stand.

Robert first heard about the Ski Mojo three years ago, when he was ‘only’ 70 years old:

“Since then my knees have got much worse to the point I could only make one or two runs a day. So I researched Ski-Mojo and decided that it would be of benefit to my daily skiing.”

Robert regularly updated his progress via Instagram on Day 2:

“I have been skiing so long with a bum knee that I compensated form to avoid pain. Now I am slowly having my muscle memory kick in. Carving and short radius turns were all done pain free.”

By Day 3, Robert was reporting his “best day so far”:

“I was re-learning my skier stance. I am still feeling some joint pain as I torque in my turns. The pain is manageable due to the lift that Ski Mojo provided”

Shortly afterwards, Robert admitted that he was “angry with himself” at delaying three years between hearing about the Ski Mojo and actually buying it:

“I wasted three years and my skiing suffered during that period”

That’s great to read, Robert. Welcome to the Ski Mojo family!

Take a tour around Europe and see where some of our happy customers live and what they have to say:

You can also watch all of these videos below:

You can find out more about how to buy a Ski Mojo on our website.

Scientific study in Italy

In 2011, we were approached by two Italian academics, who wanted to study exactly how the Ski Mojo helps skiers.

Nicola Petrone, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Padova and Gabriele De Bettio, from DolomitiCert Laboratories conducted a study of skiers in Longarone, Italy, to measure the effect of the Ski Mojo.

Testing EMG activity variations

Their aim was to evaluate the muscular activity patterns of a skier while using a Ski Mojo. Their final report was the snappily titled ‘Evaluation of muscular EMG activity variations wearing ski-mojo on a skiing treadmill’.

EMG stands for ‘electromyography’, a procedure to assess the health of muscles and the nerve cells that control them.

Tested on a skiing treadmill

The format of the study was a series of tests performed on a skiing treadmill (similar to the one at Chelski). The treadmill was made of a synthetic snow surface, soaked by water to allow easy friction. The tests were performed at a speed of 22 km/h on a slope of 30°.

Two styles of turned tested

An experienced male skier was asked to ski in two different styles: narrow slalom turns (Slalom) and wide slalom turns (Gigante).

The skier was wearing a Ski Mojo for the first time and skied in both styles outlined above, but with the Ski Mojo activated for one set, and switched off for the second set. EMG signals were analysed and averaged over a series of ten turns.

Muscle activity measured

The average activity on five dominant leg muscles across each turn cycle were plotted and are shown below. The red lines indicate skiing with the Ski Mojo switched on, and the black lines are activity with the device switched off (click on the images to see a larger version):

Muscle activity lower when Ski Mojo activated

What the EMG results demonstrate is that muscle activation was consistently lower when the Ski Mojo was activated and switched on.

The tests performed with the Ski Mojo activated consistently showed a reduction in muscle activation levels on the five principal leg muscles,

‘Reducing fatigue’

The report concluded that, although the tests were performed on a single skier, “the positive effects of Ski Mojo in reducing fatigue are likely to be statistically confirmed by further ongoing tests.”

So, there we have it, scientific proof that the Ski Mojo helps you ski stronger and ski longer by reducing fatigue!