J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by davidmpires

I still have an holiday booked for Alpe D'Huez that I'll be cancelling soon.

Fly out from gatwick 11th April back on the 18th

Yeah maybe you are right, I think I'll book a week for the end of next year in a lovely place maybe that way she will enjoy it a lot more.

She's recovering ok, but she's quite annoyed with the fact that she didn't got her money back. I'm hopping to talk to the instructor on Saturday when I have my next lesson. I are not going down the layer route, I'm more p'ed off at the centre owner than the actual instructor.

I'll have to see how it goes on saturday, so far she doesn't want to hear me talking about skiing and I have change my holiday already maybe next year she would like to give it a go on the Realli Ski, on that simulator it is impossible to fall.

Thanks for your support guys.

So far we are amending the holidays and will not be skiing next year. Maybe she will have a go at the realli ski one day. But for now there's no skiing for her.

I can understand, I play bass and do it as a hobby, and I'd be terrified if I wasn't able to play anymore, so I can understand she being afraid of hurting herself and not being able to work in what she likes and studied so hard.

I'll be having my skiing lessons as usual, just won't be as exciting as she won't be there with me and we don't have anything to look forward.

ise wrote:

davidmpires wrote:Just to try and answer to some questions and clarify some things. I've never said at any point that it was the instructors fault.

The accident was...

10 minutes into the lesson, step up to half the slope ski to the midlle turn around facing the bottom of the slope, start to ski down....CRASH>>>>> and she was sitting on her bottom.

I have spoken to the dry slope owner and he's reluctant in giving her the money back, he even charge her for her first lesson although she fell off 10 minutes into it.

Just to clarify I'm not the kind of person that goes off trying to get compensation out of everything in life, this was bad luck and I was looking for some info.

Update: She was concerned that her wrist was permanently damaged and that she may had to face surgery, turns out she will need to wear the plaster for 4 weeks and then she will be able to return to work.

thank goodness it's not going to be a long term problem!

I'm surprised at the slope, that's not good business although I suppose times are hard.

Yeah Ise we are glad and works out fairly ok, because during xams and NYE everyone runs away from dentists :-)

Oh I have some ski clothing never used with the tags still on, I'll be doing a separate post for that. But I can say that we have 2 DARE2Be jackets, 2 googles, 2 pairs of salopettes. pm me if you are interested.

I'll post some pics over the weekend.

Dorset Boy wrote:It's tough luck on the lady concerned, but a fall is an accident and could happen to anyone. It would be very difficult to prove negligence for a broken wrist, but easier for an incorrectly adjusted binding causing an injury.

With regards to potential loss of earnings, as a dentist the lady will be quite well paid (or should I say very well paid!!!). As a well educated person she should have had the foresight to put in place protection of her earnings in the event of incapacity knowing that her ability to earn could be affected by a relatively minor injury.

Sorry, but not much sympathy here regarding potential action against the instructor, although plenty of sympathy for the hurt the accident has caused.

I never said she needed protection on her income and I never mentioned any action agaisnt the instructor, the only reason i've mentioned her profession was so I can highlight the effect on her work, she could be a painter, or a typist, it would affet them in equal way.

Just to try and answer to some questions and clarify some things. I've never said at any point that it was the instructors fault.

The accident was...

10 minutes into the lesson, step up to half the slope ski to the midlle turn around facing the bottom of the slope, start to ski down....CRASH>>>>> and she was sitting on her bottom.

I have spoken to the dry slope owner and he's reluctant in giving her the money back, he even charge her for her first lesson although she fell off 10 minutes into it.

Just to clarify I'm not the kind of person that goes off trying to get compensation out of everything in life, this was bad luck and I was looking for some info.

Update: She was concerned that her wrist was permanently damaged and that she may had to face surgery, turns out she will need to wear the plaster for 4 weeks and then she will be able to return to work.

Me and my OH went to a dry slope for the first time last Saturday, unfortunately on her first run she fell over and broke her wrist in two places. :( I carried on with my lesson and fell over too without hurting myself. At the time the instructor wanted her to carry on the lesson and because she felt that she could recover quickly we have booked a private lesson for next saturday morning so she could catch up, and then she would join in the course later in the day. However yesterday afternoon her wrist showed some bruising and we decided to go the hospital where she got an x-ray taken and her arm plastered, and will now be imobilized for 6 weeks at least, she's now put off skiing for life, and very concern that it might affect her ability to work, she's a dentist and her work is all done with her right hand (the one she broke).

I'll be using the money we didn't spent on the dry slope on lessons for me although I have already cancelled my holidays and we are trying to change it to a summer holiday. If i didn't use the money the dry slope would charge me 15% on cancellation fees.

Now we have an issue and I'l like if someone could help, she fell over on her first run on her first lesson while we were with the instructor. The disclaimer below can be found on the dry slope booklet, but I'm assuming that the instructor has some sort of insurance to cover her hospital fees and so on...am I right in thinking that?

"......Accepts no claim for injuries whilst on the centre facilities..."

Where I can accept this the case if you are using the recreational facilities I disagree that this is the case if you are learning.

Any opinions please?