J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

I am back home now, and very pleased that I did all those exercises. I didn't have any problems with my legs at all - they didn't even ache during the lessons, and I had masses of energy for climbing gondola stairs carrying skis etc.

So, everyone yet to go, I suggest you keep going with whatever particular exercise program suits you :D

Ally

Thanks Bandit :D
I was actually afraid to try digging my skis into the snow, in case they didn't come off and I broke my ankle. I remembered someone wrote on here once about how skis only come off if the pressure is applied in the right direction, and I wasn't at all sure that they'd come off. I seemed to be going very fast, and my instructor was no help at all - I shouted that I'd fallen over and he just got out of the way.

Maybe I need to practise this standard technique of yours in case it happens to me again and I don't have my skis on.

Ally

Betty,
I will write something about this in my report on Courchevel. I don't want to get told off for wibbling off piste and hogging other people's threads my first day back :D

Ally

Eljay wrote:

AllyG wrote:The only trouble I have ever had peeing, was in the dark at the side of the road when I couldn't see where it was going and I wet my shoes, and another time in the dark when I accidentally squatted on an ants nest and got trillions of ants in my pants :lol:Ally

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Welcome back Ally

Hi Eljay,
Thanks for noticing I was back :D

I'm glad someone appreciates my particular style of wibble :lol:

I think the cardboard throw-away version sounds more hygienic. It's just a pity the men don't have one like that as well :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ally

bandit wrote:There is a proven self arrest technique which has been in existence for many years. It is routinely taught to skiers who take higher level and off piste instruction.

And it is?

Snapzz,
Design me a decent breaking system then, please, and I will test it for you next time I'm ski-ing. It was a very strange sensation totally being unable to stop, and I don't think I'd have been able to use an ice axe - some sort of anchor might have been better ?

Ally

Ian,
With group lessons I don't think there is any choice of instructor (unless of course there are two identical groups). As it was they had amalgamated several of the performance groups together because they didn't have enough people for each group, so that although I was supposed to be in a slalom lesson and my daughter in an off piste lesson, we were in the same lesson with 3 French people who'd been put into the English speaking lesson, plus several other English people.

Ally

I think a parachute could be very useful for when you fall on your back on a steep slope and you can't stop. This happened to me last week, and I have no idea about how it happened. Suddenly I was on my back with my skis and legs in the air and hurtling down a steep slope. I was afraid to try putting my legs down in case I twisted my leg and ditto for my arms. Eventually I came to a stop totally unharmed and still with my skis on.

I also saw someone else hurtling down an extremely steep off piste mogul slope on their back (from the chair lift) and they were clearly totally unable to stop and they went a very long way like that and were still in fact moving when they went out of sight.

Either of us could have hit someone else and caused a serious collison. A parachute breaking system of some sort would have been great.

Ally