Tips on shooting skiing?

What kind of camera are you using?
If you have an SLR, manual focus will be a breeze, but it definitely won't be as easy with a point and shoot. Either way, if you set it properly, it will always be where you want it to be. If you're having problems with focus, you do not want a wide open iris. The smaller the iris, the wider your depth of field.

A high shutter speed will be very important. #1 because it will be very bright if the sun's out. #2 because it will prevent motion blur of the subject.

The best thing you can do is get to know your camera. Take lots of pictures of different things in different lighting situations. This will give you a feel for how to set your camera properly. Then when you hit the slopes this winter, you'll be ready to go.

it is basically getting the angle setting to raw and burst. You should first find the angle. As soon as the skier hits the kicker or the rail Hold down the shutter release button. for cool shots hold it in place with a tripod and film the sequence. This is if you have a slr prefeibly a dslr.

an open aperture would give you shallow depth of field..so you're less likely to get the skier in focus. if you're using an SLR, it most likely has the autofocus function (i can't remember what its called) where you can keep the focus on the skier by focusing and keeping the shutter button held down half way while you follow the skier with the camera.

if you DO have a slr or dslr, you shoudl be looking for lens that have quick AF, it saves you a lot of focus, but you should still be able to manually do some, to get a bit more control of your DoF

Sorry, not sure why i said open aperture, it was pretty late at night i made this. So use something like F18 or just play about i guess.

I ghuess most of it is trial and error.
I have D40x btw

choose the frame carefully, and try to get close to the subject. faces are more interesting than backs/feet/other parts of the body, unless it ads to the picture to have one of the other parts of the body as the focus of the picture, and if your background is relevant to the picture, keep it in focus. otherwise, it usually looks better if its out of focus.

I don't know too much about the technical/camera side of things, but to get a skiing photo, it always helps if the picture would be interesting without the skier in it. It's important to think ahead so you will have an idea of where the skier will be in your photo so you can have the camera focussed and ready  to snap the shot at the right moment. I don't like to use a flash most of the time, except for at night and certain situations, because I find it creates an ugly glare and eats the battery, so in my opinion it's better to just try and hold the camera really steady then use the flash. I haven't used a tripod, but that might be good too. from a composition point of view, a lot of the time it's good if you don't have your subject (the skier) directly in the middle of the picture, but closer to one of teh corners or edges, or just slightly off center. I've always heard that you should 'think in thirds' but I'm not 100% sure what that even means. Good luck, I hope this advice helps you a little, and don't forget to post your photos on NS so we can all see them ;)

^the think in thirds thing is basically this: think about splitting your frame up into thirds with verticle lines. you wan tyour subject to be on one of those lines (or close to it). its really interesting actually, if you put peices of tape over a tv (representing the lines cutting the frame into thrids) and watch a movie, 90% of the time, the subject(s) fall on those lines. the same thing goes for making verticle lines on the frame. it helps you get the subject out of the middle of the frame, but not too far out of it

use the longest focal length possible so 300 mm to 500mm try using auto focus and focus and burst like hell. Keep and apeture of about 5 not because of light because it will keep your Field of view in focus. Try auto focus for certain angles. If you are facing him like he is coming to you or away from you use auto focus. but if it is dead on 90 degree shot you can get away with auto focus