J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

davidmpires wrote:Last Thursday I went to the gym with a friend that's studying to become a personal trainer, he was explaining me all the excercises and demostrating before i tried them myself, of the personal trainers came over saw us, and chat to us for a bit, then my friend asked him if he was teaching the exercises correctly, and if they would be suitable for me, The instructor answer all questions and then left.

We are talking about one of the most expensive gyms in London where they charge £500 for you to have a personal trainer for 3 months on top of a £140 monthly memebership.

On sunday me and my other half went to my local gym and after our induction we were doing some exercises and I was ghelping and explaining what i'd learn last thursday with my friend.

In neither of the situations i was aproached by any member of staff telling me that i'm not allowed to teach. That guy was just being an idiot.

Say for instance that i'm a great friend of pavelski and he tells me that if I travel to US we will drive to the mountains and he will teach me free of charge. Is this a crime? Is it a crime to know an instructor and get help from him, because you feel more confident with a familiar face?

Outdoors is different.

You're overlooking that we're talking about a snowplough here, the first and most basic ski technique and the absolute minimum requirement for someone to be able to move around a modest slope. The indoor slopes require a minimum standard of skiing, it's not like a real mountain where there's some space, indoors there's just a single slope and all abilities have to use it. Having a couple of people doing follow me snow ploughs is so very, very obviously dangerous for everyone concerned.

Suzi Pilling wrote:Hi

I love this site and enjoy all the topics and conversation. I've downhill skied for years and still enjoy it, even though I've had nerves in my feet removed from injury.

Because of this I have branched out into skijoring, has anybody else on this site tried this and could start a conversation.

25 cm of snow has already fallen at the top of Val Cenis. Yipeeee

never tried but I'm interested. What do you do? With dogs or horses?

goff wrote:In France they use ESF for lessons some hate them,i casnnot fault them pushed every day.

I understand that the Club Med job is a good number for the ESF guys and they make more money so competition is apparently fierce, it's said that Club Med get the very best instructors as a result. I've never heard anyone complain so it might be true )

Daisy wrote:Been let down by tour operator so now looking to get flights to Geneva or Innsbruck for New Year.

Can anyone recommend any nice resorts or hotels for families - not too long a transfer 90min max.

Thanks

I'd probably go to Austria and Innsbruck personally, Austria really does Xmas / New Year holidays so well. There's so many to chose from, we used to go to Lech and Stuben for the holidays when we lived in Germany and the Stubai sometimes with friends.

oh, 88mm Black Diamond Voodoos

So much talk about fat skis, but how fat do we all ski? What's the fattest pair you're using? Is it all hype?

We all need chains sometimes, we've two 4WD's and both used chains last winter, once in utterly insane conditions breaking out of Arolla in a three day snow storm and the other time to get off the drive in reverse. On the one hand that's out of a whole season but on the other hand if it's really bad then we often don't really need to go anywhere urgently.

You'll not get fined for not having chains as such, there's no law saying you must have chains but there are roads where they are obligatory according to conditions, the police will be checking on entry, If somehow you got onto a road like that evading the checkpoints and were caught later it's possible the police might have some penalty. You're not going to be randomly stopped on a normal day and asked to prove you've got them though.

All that said, I'd get them personally, like everyone says you might well need them just to get in and out of the resort and you might find yourself staying somewhere just off the main drag where you might need chains. Also, driving on snow and ice is a bit scary at first, you need to learn to relax when the car does let go of grip sometimes and just let it slide until you get traction again, with chains you'll find it all easier. Obergurgl is a fair drive up from the autobahn as well, not excessive but long enough in bad conditions without chains.

Winter tyres are the first real sign of winter, when you put them on it feels pretty close :D

Trencher wrote:

ise wrote:.

Incidentally, "Good Samaritan" legally generally means some US laws and has no legal basis in the UK. Instead some common law applies regarding necessity which it's too late at night for me to explain now )

Leaving aside the French version of requiring "good Samaritan" intervention, we are really talking about feeling free to assist someone without fear of repercussions. In the the US many States have enacted laws which limit or void any liability a passerby might incur by intervening in a situation to help someone in distress. These laws were designed to make clear to the public that they should not feel inhibited by liability concerns when they are able to help another in distress.

Trencher

I see you've taken the Google instant expert course there, much better than all that time consuming, boring, hard work that real training and qualifications takes )

Good Samaritan is entirely irrelevant to this, it's something you mentioned and no one else. The Google course, as they so often are, has missed a few salient points, chiefly, the reason that states of the US enacted those laws was the oppressive state of tort laws in the US, the main reason there's not one in the UK is that tort laws are not yet that oppressive and common law serves well. Whether there's a French one is entirely irrelevant unless this is some sort of competition to name places with such laws?

You're quite right that it's reasonable for people to give each feedback on their skiing, more than that, it's normal, expected and fun, it would be a miserable day on these indoor slopes if you didn't, but the OP made it quite clear he was doing follow me snow plough coaching and also gave us to understand he wasn't able to stop properly. That's obviously not on.

You also seem to have overlooked the fact these places are covered in CCTV nowadays and in the event of an accident that coverage can be used to prove the slope operator was negligent. On this day what's going to be on that coverage is a guy snowploughing with someone following him, show it to 100 skiers and they will all say that's a lesson.