Messages posted by : andymol2
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You may benefit from a private lesson - worked well for my wife who had the misfortune to do her ACL at the end of her first week's skiing & hit a psychological wall when it gets steep after that. Group lessons didn't help but some one to one work with a good instructor helped her get over that.
You may well find that, as a more experinced skier, you may well be fine after a while. I suspect you've developed an appreciation that falling can hurt which seems to be absent in some. It's like a car crash - you become much more aware of the dangers posed by the road conditions and other drivers. Too many ski like they have no appreciation of danger (that's OK until they hurt someone else) and some are over cautious. For a while you'll be in the latter category. The ideal is somewhere in the middle - you'll know when you are there as you've sampled both ends of the spectrum. |
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Cash points are not a problem in Sauze.
I tend to take some Euros but get cash out of the machine. Usually the exchange rate is "bank rates" rather than "tourist rates" when taking money out of cash points. Most accounts charge a transaction fee so it's better to take out larger sums in preference to repeated small withdrawals. Some cards are better - we tend to use my wife's Nationwide card as this doesn't charge us. (Unlike my Clydesdale account). |
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Judging by the jam on the snow motorway heading towards Mont Blanc as we headed back from Courmayeur you'd be lucky to reach either very quickly.
Courmayeur is lovely although the skiing is a bit limited. Fine for a long weekend but an intermediate would ski it out fairly quickly. Andy |
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Personally I'd use the pain killers you've got & go for it.
Unless the pain is so bad that you can't ski you might as well go for it - resting won't help your back. |
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I upset an Austrian youth last year who thought it cool to light up in the bubble in spite of non-smoking signs.
Looked back at me smugly when I pointed to the no smoking notice. Looked less smug when I flicked it out of his mouth! |
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I guess it depends who the airline see as their target traveller. If you are flying into say Chamberry in Feb then it's probably simpler to factor in the cost of hold baggage and probably ski carriage into the basic ticket price.
A certain airline that claims 10kg of cabin baggage is ample and then applies additional charges for hold luggage & further for ski's are a pain on a flight that is 90% skiers/snowboarders. That's why I don't use R***air for skiing. On long haul flights or to non-ski destinations paying for ski carriage is reasonable as the ski carriage is the minority. BA have a long history of forgetting who their target market is. Swapping a lot of their planes to cater for business class travellers just as the business class market slumped was just one example. I suspect that many will no longer see BA as a competitively priced airline for skiers when you add another £80 to an already high ticket price. |
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Both feet makes a back problem relatively less likely - particularly if it's most of the feet. (Different parts of the feet are supplied by different nerve roots and it's therefore unlikely a scan will identify a discrete cause in the back itself)
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Wear the Donjoy - the pads will reduce the brusing but that will get better. The brace will protect the repaired ligament and have been shown to reduce the risk of repeat injury measurably. Additionally if the knee is still unstable it should reduce the fore-aft movement & reduce the scuffing of the joint cartilage.. I presume it's a short ski style brace that you can wear with a snowboard boot - Donjoy do specific ACL/PCL braces that can be worn with ski/motorcross boots (I'm presumaing snowboard boots are a similar length to ski boots). Pads can be worn over these - I recall they do make them to fit the brace or you could do a Heath Robinson with kneeling pads. |
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