J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Thanks Dids and OldAndy :D

Perhaps I should add that my husband has gained a lot from this website as well - peace and quiet to watch snooker/darts/football etc. on telly or read the Farmers Weekly whilst I'm typing away and limiting my ski-ing obsession to the internet :lol:

1. Friends :D :D :D :D

It's great to be able to 'talk' to people who are also obsessed with ski-ing.

2. Practical advice - like Bandit told me where to get my lovely new ski boots.

3. Practise at staying on topic - thanks to Admin whizzing around his flock like an axe-wielding sheep dog :lol:

4. I've managed to gradually improve my communication skills - learning how to be more diplomatic etc. and form part of the on-line community.

5. Fun - some people on here can be brilliantly amusing at times :lol:

6. Support - like when I broke my toe in my ski boot and everyone was so nice about it :D

7. An encyclopaedic knowledge (if I could remember it all, that is) on a vast spread of subjects connected with ski-ing. And if I can't exactly remember the details I can always look them up using the search facility.

8. Satisfaction at helping others with their queries when I happen to know the answer, or can make a useful comment.

9. The realization that we all vary greatly in our approach to ski-ing and life in general - so some of us prefer chalets to self-catering etc. etc. and there is generally no 'right' answer to this sort of thing. We all express our views but in the end it is up to the individual to make their own choice.

10. How to exercise patience and tolerance on-line - like when some poor innocent newbie comes up with a question that has already been asked about a million times.

What about everyone else? What do you reckon you have gained from this website?

Ally

Snapzzz wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

dixie dean wrote:Thanks everyone for your comments - Mrs Dean has managed to get down to 2 Kgs overweight. So all the electrical items are going in my ski jacket pockets!

:lol:

Thats the way to do it! My hand luggage usually has Mrs H's hairdryer and straighteners in.

They drive you nuts don't they? I think i could get away without a hairbrush.

If it was me I'd just be happy I still had any hair left to use straighteners/hairbrush/hair dryers on :wink:

Snapzzz wrote:

AllyG wrote:
I think it would be a very good idea if you could afford to pay for one of her friends to come with you on holiday, especially if they ski worse than she does.

I have actually thought about that many times but Mrs Snapzzz, understandably, believes its a huge responsibility taking some one else child abroad and putting them in a potentially dangerous environment. I would definitely do it though if we could find the right friend.

Jon

Snapzzz,
How about her doing a course in a snow dome then, with a friend? My daughter's school just happened to go ski-ing on a dry slope for a day after the Bulgaria holiday, and she was very much encouraged because she and a friend were by far the best skiers in the class (because the rest of them hadn't been ski-ing) and were praised etc. by the teacher who was amazed how good they were. It is all relative.

Ally

Hi Snapzzz,
I agree with everyoone else on this one. I don't think it matters at all how fast your daughter skis, or whether she's still snow-ploughing, as long as she's having fun. It's not like school, where they pretty much HAVE to learn the three 'R's.

My younger daughter started ski-ing when she was 9 and had a bad experience with a Bulgarian lady ski instructor who was really cross with Britain and decided to take it out on the kids. So I was just glad that she agreed to try again and go on another ski holiday the following year. And I'm sure she was still snow-ploughing on her third ski holiday. I can remember looking out of the hotel window and seeing her in her children's group lesson going down a red run - all of them doing snow-plough turns in a snake following their Austrian lady instructor (who was a brilliant instructor and really great with the kids).

And by the next holiday she was doing parallel turns and there was no obvious change between the snow-plough and the parallel - I think the instructor just made the turns gradually tighter until they were all ski-ing parallel.

And now, SHE is the one getting impatient with ME because I'm ski-ing too slowly for HER. She's quite happy going off-piste and ski-ing powder up to her waist, whereas I get all nervous if the powder is any more than about 6 inches deep.

I think it would be a very good idea if you could afford to pay for one of her friends to come with you on holiday, especially if they ski worse than she does. Ski-ing with someone who skies worse than you do yourself is a great confidence booster! It would be her turn then to say 'hurry up, can't you go any faster?' and things like that. And if they'd go in group lessons together then you could have time off to ski fast.

Anyway, best of luck with finding a solution to this :D

Ally

I think you will find you naturally ski faster the more you ski - sort of like learning to drive - as you become more confident and skilful you will find yourself ski-ing faster.

What made me start to ski much faster was being in a fast moving group lesson high on a mountain somewhere when I had no idea where I was or how to get back 'home'. I discovered then that I was more afraid of being left behind and getting lost than I was of ski-ing fast :lol:

Ally

OldAndy wrote:

tin pot wrote:

Anybody got any tips for dry slope skiing?

(The boy loved it)

Sit in the bar and watch the boy :thumbup:

I totally agree with OldAndy on this one. I reckon dry slopes are dangerous. They offered me a free hour on my local dry slope when I bought my helmet but I decided to give it a miss.

Our local dry slope has watering points all over it and some of them aren't working so you go whoosh! until you hit the dry section of the mat and nearly catapult over the front of your skis. And bits of the mat have come up so you're likely to get your skis trapped in the mat and go crash! Plus, the skis and boots they hire out are really in a pretty bad state.

Of course, your dry slope may not be as bad as our one.

But if you insist on going on the dry slope I'd advise you not to use your poles as that was how I broke my shoulder. And you go faster and get a smoother run if you do it when it's raining.

Ally

I'm glad the staff won their case :D