Messages posted by : AllyG
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Hi,
I found this on the internet. It gives holiday dates for next year as well, if you scroll down, Ally http://about-france.com/school-holidays.htm |
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Thanks Gaz,
It's a pleasure to meet you, Ally |
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Gaz,
Would the same apply to me (a strange voice from behind) very politely saying that I wished to overtake you on the right/left? Naturally I don't want to frighten beginners into falling over, but I do have to get past somehow! Ally |
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Hi SkiNH09,
Welcome back. I wrote out a very long detailed reply, only the computer swallowed it, but basically it amounted to what Tony has just said. The first instructor I had, as an adult in ski lessons (I learnt to ski as a child), was very old school, and he kept all of us on green and blue runs for several days, although we were all already doing parallel turns, because he said we were not in the correct 'mid-position'. He said that we would be unable to progress properly on the steep runs until we had the fundamentals correct. It was frustrating to be kept on the easy runs, but I think he had a point. Eventually, he was satisfied with us, and he took us down some red runs, and then a black run. I think you need to spend a lot of time on easy runs doing ski school exercises, and you really need someone else to look at what you're doing and check your position, ideally a ski instructor. That book I mentioned has some of these exercises in it. Even if Trencher is right, and there is a problem with your boots, or legs, I'm sure you will have missed out on some basic techniques - e.g. pole planting. I understand perfectly now why you find it harder on the less steep slopes -as you said, it's because you're jumping the turns on the steep slopes, which means you can jump both feet together and you don't trip over your uphill ski. I know it's a bit depressing to be told you need to go back to the beginning, but you should progress really fast, and somewhere along the way you will correct whatever fault it is in your technique which is causing your problem with moving the weight off your uphill ski. Ally |
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Bandit,
As soon as I read that first post by Snow Time, I thought it was a disguised ad by that store, but I wasn't sure, so I thought I'd better keep my mouth shut. If you are genuine, Snow Time, then I'm sorry, but I have a very suspicious mind. Ally |
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Kevin,
I don't like those really narrow blue 'roads' either, and they tend to get quite icy. Sometimes the red runs lead into these, and the good skiers can't help ski-ing down them, and it can be very difficult safely overtaking wobbly, erratic, learners. If your teacher has whizzed past them, you have no option but to overtake, or hold up the whole lesson. I usually say, in French and English, that I wish to overtake and which side, and then I go past, but I'm always a bit worried that the learners are going to suddenly swerve into me. I used to go down them in a snow plough, and keep to the side so that other people could overtake, but I suppose if you're boarding you don't have that option (I don't know anything about boarding). Ally |
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Thank you very much Brandyaitch,
that's most encouraging. Your son obviously still thinks a lot of you. You must have been a great Mum. Ally |
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I'm afraid I never got to La Thuile,
We just crossed the border post and then turned around and went back, because we didn't have time. In fact I went to the same point twice, in morning and afternoon lessons. It's only really all those drag lifts that put me off La Rosiere. Apart from anything else, they put oil all over your ski trousers. My daughter has white trousers, and I couldn't quite wash it all off. Apart from that, it's a very nice place - much smaller and quieter than Val Thorens. And we managed to find a cheap apartment in Les Bouqetins residence, which backs on to the forest, and is only a few yards from the ski school meeting place in the main village. Ally |
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