fear of speed when learning parallel sking

PS having started the thread, just to report:

I tried my relatively newer (2003) skis, 170cm 1.6 radius, and the problem has largely cleared up. It was a combination of following advice from here, practice, and different skis. They turn so much easier than my mid-1990s staightish 180cm 'carvers.' Yesterday at Seefeld I found I could wedeln, as slow as you like, down the blues and reds, albeit without great style, and even managed the same in parts of a somewhat icy black I entered by mistake (and got down it without falling, which is just as well as a guy who did fall slid all the way down...).

I must have looked safer, too, as it was the first time my GF led me on some simple exercises in powder and between trees alongside the piste. It was a great day.

The one thing the older skis do better, to the limited extent I can judge, is they feel more stable when schussing. Not sure yet whether I can transfer this progress back to the straighter skis.

Thanks everyone! :-)

Thanks for letting us know Innsbrucker, that's great news. Well done :thumbup:

Ally