J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

You mean I am now a toblerone :shock:

Ally

Well done for managing to stay fit all year.

I'm afraid I'm not as well disciplined as you, and I'm currently fat and unfit, and I've got a lot of work to do on myself before February.

Nelly - I was thinking the same as you - this thread should really have been re-titled 'getting fat for ski-ing' (on wine and chocolate).

Ally

Scarlet Fez,
I have skied Kaprun once, but only as a day outing away from Zell am See, so I don't know anything about apres ski there.

We went right up to the top in the gondola, and skied in the glacial bowl area. Up there, it looked all quite easy blue runs, but it was a bit scary because it was all white, with nothing to focus on, except thin black lines (the lifts) and a few people. Also, I believe it can get very windy and cold up there and they have to shut the gondola if it's too windy. We waited in Zell for the right weather before we went, and made sure it was nice and sunny and no wind.

Also, I got mild altitude sickness, and felt quite tipsy, because the gondola climbs from a fairly low altitude straight up to a very high one, and I didn't have time to adjust to it. But I still managed to ski (very carefully!).

I hope your niece has a great time snowboarding there,

Ally

Thanks everyone for your comments on how to walk downstairs in ski boots.

Maybe it would be worth buying an old pair of ski boots just so I can practise this at home )

I will try the duck stance on my heels.

And for anyone that doesn't know this - from my point of view it doesn't really matter how many pairs of ski boots I wreck by doing them up wrong/undoing them too often etc. because I hire a different pair of boots each time :-)

But I might have a go at doing them up Bandit's style, and see how I get on. And if I get a chance this next holiday, I'm going to try ski-ing with all the buckles undone, to see how I get on.

Ally

Shamp00,
I'm glad you've decided what to do about your boot problem.

I think we've all learnt something. According to Bandit I'm supposed to be doing my boots up starting at the top, not the bottom, and according to Trencher I'm not supposed to be slackening them off to walk to the toilet.

Does anyone know how some people manage to walk downstairs with their boots facing forwards? I always have to turn mine sideways, and I hold everyone up.

Ally

Thanks Nelly,
It looks really beautiful,

Ally

I hired a pair of boots once, where I couldn't even do up the top buckle unless I forced it. So I skied like that. The instructor wasn't very happy about it, but I skied no worse than usual. These days, I'd have taken them back and changed them, but I was a novice then.

I guess we all have different shaped feet, and different boots, and we all do the best we can to get our feet to fit comfortably in our boots and still be able to ski okay.

I'm fairly sure Bandit said recently that they'd all skied with their clips undone, in a lesson, as an exercise, and managed fine.

Ally

Pablo,

When I first put them on I have them pretty slack, so that I can walk to the lifts.

Before I ski I do mine up as tight as I can, without forcing them. And if my shin hurts, I slacken the relevant clip off.

The other thing I do - and I don't know if it's right or not - is I do the whole boot up loosely starting from the bottom, and then I go back and do it again, because I have found that somehow tightening the top of the boot makes the bottom clips go slack.

And, as I said before, I tighten them up again after the first run, as one of my instructors once taught me to do.

And I slacken them right off for lunch, and walking to the toilet etc.

Ally