J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Pablo Escobar

AllyG wrote:Well, I am very glad to hear it Pablo, although I'm not too sure I like the way you qualified it with 'to the point where it has stopped me ski-ing'.

I was ski-ing last holiday with someone with cracked ribs, and my instructor happily told me he'd skied several times with a sprained ankle, and my other instructor told me someone had crashed into her once and broken her wrist, but she still skied with it in plaster.

I am beginning to wonder if maybe I should switch to something less dangerous, like swimming with sharks, or sky-diving or something, especially if people are going to appear out of the blue and crash into me and carve me up, like poor Bandit.

Ally

bandit wrote:

Pablo Escobar wrote:

I have joked if you are going to hit someone make it someone bigger than you, not only will they cushion your fall they are not going to be hurt as much. 15 stone of Ian Wickham :wink: vs 4 stone of Young Child would not be a pretty out come.

Perhaps the woman that ran into me in Val Thorens Jan 2005 had been to one of your classes. She hit me hard enough to break my collarbone with me still standing. Once inertia took hold, I exited my skis in an upwards direction and was only vaguely conscious by the time I pancaked back on the slope.

That little bit of target practice took away 16 weeks of my life, and killed plenty of nerve endings in my shoulder.

As the bones knit into a different position, I will never look anything other than a freak in a swimming cozzy.

AllyG wrote:I've had 6 ski instructors in 3 holidays, and only one of them has told us anything about the right of way ski code, so maybe quite a few people don't know what it is, except that I have even seen it written on a piste map somewhere (in French unfortunately!).

I also think that, unofficially any way, very young children have right of way, especially if they're in a lesson. Imagine how awful it would be to flatten a 4 year old on their first ski holiday! I always try to keep right out of their way.