J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Pablo Escobar

I think that smiley is meant to be one for jealousy, Trencher corrected me once and he is right!!

Admin: If you read this can we get a grinning face that aint green for WIckham? Ta

:D Which one? There are so many?! So confusing/1!?! :?: on3n1122eea1

Are you in the UK?

I'll pm you to keep this on topic :lol:

I never really liked dry slopes.

Book lessons with English speaking ski schools or ski schools run by someone out of the UK/learn in North America :wink:

I don't like 1000 steps myself (if that's what it was) and would probably never give it to a class... it is a tricky one to explain. An exercise has to be effective and you have to know why you are doing it :lol:

A good instructor will try and touch all bases for all the different types of learner, I don't remember them all but it should be explained for those who listen, described for those who feel and demonstrated for those who watch.

You don't have to jump when you go over a jump, if you watch world cup racers they generally try and absorb as much of the jump as possible in order to keep the skis on the snow for the maximum amount of time.

I like the sound of the challenge, I think everyone can learn it is just finding out how you do it. Another thing that may help you is video feedback so you can see for yourself how you look when you are skiing. :lol:

You have provoked some of my biggest posts ever here, had I put this effort in to the essay I was meant to be writing I would be on to a winner.

Yeh, you don't wanna go near those!!! Just stick to what you know.

Green, Blue, Red, Black.

There are the fabled Pink slopes too but you can usually avoid those. Just be careful out there.

AllyG-comment related to hardly surprised any of us learnt to ski at all.

The point is that when the instructor was teaching you he probably didn't talk about weighting and pressure and whatever else but let you figure out some things naturally for yourself and give you some drills to help you along the way! As soon as you start breaking it down like this unless you really want to get in to it it is pretty unnecessary!