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That was very funny Dids - thanks :)
That instructor must have been mad to let them on the chair lift when they were all still so wobbly and out of control!
It's is generally a matter of technique. If technique is good you take it from blues to reds and then to blacks. But the steeper it gets the less forgiving the slope is of poor technique - like turning with the body instead of with skis and not using thighs to steer but relying on feet, whereas on blues you can get away with anything. The same goes for off-piste. Good piste form can be taken off-piste, but you get exposed very quickly if piste form is not of a very good standard.
Yes, I can relate to, and understand, that point too!
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Started by Sharonbeas in Beginning Skiing 26-Feb-2013 - 57 Replies
Huwcyn
reply to 'learning to ski' posted Feb-2013
I agree with you too Tony. It is pretty much my philosophy - give anything a go once. At my age howwever, one has to start using reason as my body can't take the punishment. I am quite fit, but I had to srop out of the ski school with people who had skied for around twice as long as I had, because the speed they were going down the reds meant that I was punishing m knee, and thus being quite sore by the end of the day. Bett, I thought, to limit the challenges, and getthrough to the end of the week. If I ever get to the stage where I might be confident to try a black run, I won't shy from giving it a go. If my joints don't get any worse than now, that is.
Bant a ni!
Huwcyn
reply to 'learning to ski' posted Feb-2013
If I try a black, it might be with an instructor in tow, on a one-to-one basis.
Bant a ni!
Dids1
reply to 'learning to ski' posted Feb-2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85AHvpGTkdU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Apologies to all those who've seen this a hundred times, but for me this encompasses what learning to ski is all about.
I watch every now and then when I need a real laugh.
Stick with it, get some lessons and enjoy.
X
Apologies to all those who've seen this a hundred times, but for me this encompasses what learning to ski is all about.
I watch every now and then when I need a real laugh.
Stick with it, get some lessons and enjoy.
X
Innsbrucker
reply to 'learning to ski' posted Feb-2013
Sharonbeas (OP) , maybe you were hoping that learning to ski well was something you pick up in a few hours. It is not. If friends tell you it was that way for them, they are probably not as good as they pretend. Most of us take years. As a late starter, after 7 years I look around at teenagers who live in a ski resort and who started as toddlers and I know that the chances of me ever being as good as them after a lifetime's practice are close to zero. I can still enjoy being in the mountains. It is journey not a destination... Lessons and practice (and spending an entire season skiing, and doing ski gymnastics every day starting late summer annually, and become a great inline skater) will all speed up the process.
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AllyG
reply to 'learning to ski' posted Feb-2013
Dids1 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85AHvpGTkdU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Apologies to all those who've seen this a hundred times, but for me this encompasses what learning to ski is all about.
I watch every now and then when I need a real laugh.
Stick with it, get some lessons and enjoy.
X
That was very funny Dids - thanks :)
That instructor must have been mad to let them on the chair lift when they were all still so wobbly and out of control!
Tony_H
reply to 'learning to ski' posted Feb-2013
That programme has legendery status among myself and a good personal friend
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New and improved me
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Verbier_ski_bum
reply to 'learning to ski' posted Feb-2013
Tony_H wrote:Lynn_D wrote:Ranchero_1979 wrote: And most of us will never get there, we will enjoy our skiing but no cheers from the chair lifts.
I think that's the most important point – it's meant to be fun, for everybody. Not everyone is destined to be the next Lindsey Vonn.
As long as we can enjoy what we are skiing, be that blue runs, extreme off piste or somewhere in the middle and can do so without killing ourselves or anyone else, then does anything else really matter?
I'll never be a great skier and accept that. I can't really carve my skis in one direction due to a hip injury and no amount of lessons will change that. Moguls are still my nemesis but I hope to get the hang of them one day.
My philosophy is to try to be as good as I can be at doing what I love. I can do no more than that. -)
I think you've hit it on the head there. Problem is, at what level do you decide to plateau off at and decide you're happy to stick at?
It could be easy blues bumbling around a small area low down and missing out on all those fantastic sights higher up, in which case you'd never become a confident red run skier. And what about that first black......do you never do it and stay on reds, or have a go and try to conquer?
Moguls - you and me both, but I have a go and try my hardest as well, but I haven't yet been able to ski down with soft knees at top speed like you see some people doing. But I'm sure as hell going to keep trying.
And when do you decide to venture off piste for the first time? Or dont you?
I think this confirms that much of what you end up doing is all about a state of mind. You often can when you dont think you can, and have to literally be thrown in at the deep end to find out sometimes.
It's is generally a matter of technique. If technique is good you take it from blues to reds and then to blacks. But the steeper it gets the less forgiving the slope is of poor technique - like turning with the body instead of with skis and not using thighs to steer but relying on feet, whereas on blues you can get away with anything. The same goes for off-piste. Good piste form can be taken off-piste, but you get exposed very quickly if piste form is not of a very good standard.
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Huwcyn
reply to 'learning to ski' posted Feb-2013
verbier_ski_bum wrote:
It's is generally a matter of technique. If technique is good you take it from blues to reds and then to blacks. But the steeper it gets the less forgiving the slope is of poor technique - like turning with the body instead of with skis and not using thighs to steer but relying on feet, whereas on blues you can get away with anything. The same goes for off-piste. Good piste form can be taken off-piste, but you get exposed very quickly if piste form is not of a very good standard.
Yes, I can relate to, and understand, that point too!
Bant a ni!
Topic last updated on 22-December-2013 at 19:46