J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Snapzzz

I would also be interested to see what people suggest as i am looking for a long weekend next year.

I was just thinking the same thing.

"cherry tomatoes and a bar of milka"......com'on dude, thats a girls lunch.....If you are gonna do choc then at least make it a Yorkie!

AllyG wrote:
How did your daughter's instructor 'pretty much' abandon her? Did he ring you for you to come and collect her or what?

Well. We were all split up as we are all at different levels. I was off up the mountain with my intermediate group, my wife was with her beginners and Megan was with the kids beginners. Just by pure luck my wife's group happened to pass by a lower lift station and my wife saw Megan stood there all alone crying. Obviously she rushed over to find out what the problem was and she found that Megan was all alone after the group had caught the lift and the instructor failed to notice that she was not put on the lift with them.
You know how much of a scramble it can be to get on those lifts if there are crowds don't you? Especially when there are tons of kids that have no manners!
Poor old Megan had no clue what to do as she hadn't embarked this chairlift before. She didn't know how to get on or what to expect at the other end. Thank god really she didn't just hop on because if the class had then left the top she would have been up the mountain alone.

We had words with instructor but as Megan was so upset we just called a halt to the class for her and let her play in the snow and mess on her skis at her own pace.

AllyG wrote:
I guess it depends on your daughter's temperament, and naturally I don't know her. But I think myself the most important thing is for her to get her confidence back and start to really enjoy ski-ing. In the video I think she's doing a great job, ski-ing very carefully and under control. But she still looks a bit anxious.

yes, she still is a little anxious and i have had words with her mother about this very subject.
I believe that confidence will come from pushing slowly beyond her current limits so that she realises she can progress but her mum drills caution into her and i find that counter productive.

AllyG wrote:
If you can afford it and she's willing I'd continue with the snow dome lessons for a bit. And I'd aim for getting her to relax, feel confident, and enjoy herself. Once she's reached that point I'm pretty sure she'll progress really fast whatever method she's taught with.

I think that is what i will do.
My plan now is to let her have a few more sessions finding her own feet and becoming expert at what she has learn't so far and then come october'ish sign her up for some more advanced lessons.
I truly wish that she would join the club but she is very shy.......

Thanks Trencher, that was pretty much what i was thinking. However i am wondering if it will be worth trying to achieve this here in the UK.
Do you think its possible to learn well on a slope >200m?
The frustrating part is having to spend half your lesson on the lifts back up.

I would love to get her up to a level similar to me so we could take private lessons abroad as a family and not have her split from us again.

You hungry Brucie??

My daughter is 10 and i am wondering how hard to push her before we go away again next year.

She took three days worth of lessons in Andorra but fell behind in her group and became a little upset so she quit the class. To be fair to her the instructor pretty much abandoned her and we found her crying, alone at the bottom of a lift after the class had departed.
She is ten but not particularly 'street wise' and does miss her parents when we are not around, it was a bad experience for her.

Anyway, since we returned she has had three hour lessons at Tamworth and can now ski.

I would like to see her confident at speed and be able to Ski parallel before we go to the Alps in January.

So my question is this:

Do i just take her for fun times and let her progress at her own pace? I pretty much started to go parallel without instruction as it felt natural.....should this develop for her too?

Or do i pay for more (expensive) lessons at the snowdome?

Do you think there is a limit to what can be learned on a short track indoors?


Here is a short video of her in action, which incidentally was shot, edited and posted on the new iPhone4 !!!! An awesome tool.

Thanks again Ally, that site is really useful....kinda answers my questions.

Ta

Thanks Ally, i think some are easier to guess at than others.
Your explanation of VT is pretty much what i would have guessed at.

Brucie, its hard to understand what you mean.

Do you mean like Teen ya and plan ya with the 'ya' sounding like the way way you teach infants the letter Y?