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BASI LEVEL 1
Started by User in Ski Technique, 48 Replies
Strangely enough, even if you try googling 'foragonal' all you get is what we've said here - so maybe this particular ski instructors course made up the word themselves!

Ally
Paragliding in Neiderau - Funny!
Started by User in Austria, 22 Replies
Ellistine,
Watching it, I was really worried something was about to go horribly wrong. Your new wife must be very brave - well done.

That's one holiday activity definitely off my list!

Ally
BASI LEVEL 1
Started by User in Ski Technique, 48 Replies
Ian,
This instructor was female, that's why I said 'she',

Ally

BASI LEVEL 1
Started by User in Ski Technique, 48 Replies
Ise,
The problem is, I've found, that you don't get a choice of instructor (for group lessons I mean), so you have to work with the one that you're given. And none of them seem to appreciate my argumentative style (surprise surprise!).

I can remember once, I told the instructor in a lesson, that you push the snow with your skis when you turn (in answer to one of her questions), and she laughed at me, and said no you don't. I thought to myself, well, where do all the moguls come from if you don't push the snow, but I didn't say anything because I don't like people laughing at me.

Ally
Scotland 08/09
Started by User in Scotland, 198 Replies
Pablo,
I hope there is plenty of snow, and you have a great weekend,

Ally
Feeling sorry for myself
Started by User in Ski Chatter, 63 Replies
Rose,
you mean, you've got to work when you're ill with chicken pox? How awful.
Poor you.

Ally
Feeling sorry for myself
Started by User in Ski Chatter, 63 Replies
Rose,
What a dreadful thing! You mean I might still catch it after not getting it for all these years ...

How horrible to be labelled as a 'carrier', someone like 'Typhoid Mary' in the U.S. in 1900, except that chicken pox isn't nearly as bad as typhoid.

Ally
Feeling sorry for myself
Started by User in Ski Chatter, 63 Replies
Rose,
How selfish! Suppose us mothers behaved like that, and left our little darlings to fend for themselves when they were ill, in case we caught it.

I don't ever remember having chickenpox myself, and my mother neither remembered or kept notes concerning her own children (typical G.P. I believe), but my whole class went down with it when I was 11 and I didn't get it. Both my kids have had it as well, and I never caught it. So maybe I have had it - either that or I have some amazing natural resistance to chickenpox.

I think people do generally only get it once, although they can get it several times.

Anyway, I hope you feel better soon,

Ally