J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Daved,
That's an amazing amount of weight you've lost! When I'm on a diet I can never lose more than about 2 lbs per week.

Well done! :thumbup:

Do you think maybe you should give yourself a rest before trying to lose any more, and just try to stabilize your weight?

pavelski wrote:AllyG

And old is she?

Pavel

Hi Pavel,
She was 9 when we went on our first family ski holiday, and now she is 19. She has had lessons every year so I know quite a bit about kids and ski lessons!

When my daughter was young I used to write the apartment number, name, and address on a piece of paper and put it in her pocket together with the piste map - in case she got lost. She didn't used to have her own key because they don't usually give out enough keys for everyone to have one.

These days, now that she's grown up, the main problem is to get her up in the morning and try to persuade her to eat some breakfast. And then it's up to her if she's forgotten her lift pass/door key or whatever. In fact, that's how I know it takes an hour to ski from Courchevel 1650 to 1550 if you're not a very good skier because she phoned me when we were in 1650 to say she'd left the key in the apartment and she had to wait a whole hour in the ski locker room for us to turn up and let her in!

Hi Pavel,
I have no idea how a young male instructor should cope with this scenario, especially if the young girl is incapable of sorting out her own clothing in the toilets and needs help.

I have been in this situation myself, helping a friend's young son in the toilet (with buttons etc.), and it does feel a little strange! With your own kids you don't think twice about it. And, naturally, I brought him into the Ladies, but perhaps a male ski instructor wouldn't be very happy bringing a young girl into the Mens (and I don't suppose her parents would be that pleased either, when they heard about it!).

brooksy wrote:
Perhaps women could use the helmet as a potty in an emergency :shock:

Sorry Brooksy, I'm afraid your idea's a wash-out. My helmet has vent holes :lol:

Seriously though, I should think the biggest problem would be ski-ing with very young children. I remember when mine were, say, 4 years old and I knew the exact location of every public toilet in town because there was bound to be a 'crisis' when we were out shopping.

For some reason, at that age they often deny they need to go when you're actually at a toilet and then announce that they're desperate some time later.

When I was at Meribel in January there was a poor dad in this predicament with a very young son who decided to go off-piste into the trees in search of privacy and ended up in powder up to his neck and had to be rescued by his dad!

In any case I should imagine that doing it behind a tree is bad for the alpine ecological balance, and hence frowned upon.

I think possibly men aged over 50 may have more of a problem searching for a loo in a hurry whilst ski-ing, as I have observed that a great number of them (neighbours, friends and family) seem to need to empty their bladders more frequently than normal - presumably due to benign prostatic hypertrophy.

I've never had a problem myself with finding, or using, a toilet on the ski slopes when I need one (apart from the minor embarassment experienced when being forced to use the mens because the ladies is closed). And I just leave my helmet etc. in the restaurant whilst I'm in the toilet and so far no-one has nicked anything (mind you my stuff is pretty cheap and not really worth nicking).

Maybe Ian should start a new thread on 'how to get your bowels fit for ski-ing' so that we can all 'go' first thing in the morning and no-one will be 'caught short' on the ski slopes any more :wink:

I do remember discussing toilet subjects on here before, and someone suggested using a gadget known as the 'Whiz Freedom'on ski holidays:

http://www.whizproducts.co.uk/en/whiz_freedom_faqs.aspx#faq-10