J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Huwcyn

AllyG wrote:

For herself, as long as she's happy ski-ing and enjoying herself I don't think it matters how fast she skis or whether she prefers to stay on green/blue runs. But I can see it being a problem if you want to ski together. The only thing I can suggest is that you ski together for part of the day on easy blues and you amuse yourself by ski-ing backwards, on one ski etc. I mean it's much easier for a good skier to ski slowly on an easy slope than for a nervous slow skier to ski faster on slopes they're not happy on.
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Thanks Ally. It is not so much a matter of her being happy at where she is - I think she really wants to progress. She might be happy if she got to the stage where she can do a complete blue run form top to bottom.

Also, I am not up to the standard of pulling 360s etc yet either!! Your right though, it might give her a laugh if I tried - seeing me so much on myback!! :lol:

Certainly some of what you say strikes a chord. I do encourage her a lot - in a constructive way without being overbearing, mind. There seems to be a general theme appearing in the replies - private lessons - so if I can persuade her to give one more season of downhill a go, perhaps booking a few hours private lessons might help.

Well, thank you all for taking the interest to reply, and to give some very welcome advice. It would indeed be great if she can accept that she may take longer than 'normal?' to reach a particular goal, and possibly she should consider that it may take her longer to achieve a material gain in skill - after all, she is a teacher, and she is used to seeing children display the same characteristics i.e make a marked step up in achievement after stalling for some time leading up to it.

Has anyone got any tips on how I can get my 52 yr old partner to feel more confident at speed? She will be on her fourth trip this winter, and should have got to the stage where she was doing parallel turns last year. Her problem was that her speed was too slow to execute turns properly, and this was due to confidence issues. She has been going to dry slopes over the summer, but is still struggling with getting her speed up. She is now getting disillusioned, and is talking of switching to cross-country this year - something I'd prefer her not to do, because it would mean that we could not meet up during the day. Being selfish, I'm looking to improve further this year, and don't fancy having a break in my development to join her in learning cross-country.

I would appreciate any advice.

Iceman wrote:

Huwcyn wrote:Got ours to Innsbruck next Feb booked! Seefeld here we come.Happy days!

Hope they have snow ;)

I have faith, mun!t's patience to wait that's going to be short )

Got ours to Innsbruck next Feb booked! Seefeld here we come.Happy days!

Thanks for your reply

Such a nice film. Everything looking lovely, and I am so jealous. I wish I could have taken my family skiing when they were young, and I wish I could now take my grandchildren - but alas!