J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by EmmaEvs

:oops: :lol: since this post came up I've seen this guy's name a few times.....

Listen to the other two Broom :D I just thought it was some random bloke in a snowdome :lol:

Hucking :lol: yeah :lol: I had to look it up :roll:

Why not 8) :lol:

Just a quick update on that book you recommended Alistair...

Got it on Saturday and am more than half way through. It's making an awful lot of sense. :D Plenty of time before first ski of the season to get through it a couple more times too.

I'm 'two thumbs happy'! :lol:

There are people with far more experience on here than me who can answer your question better, but my personal view is 'no'. I wouldn't take a black for the first time off the strength of an indoor red slope lesson. But for context, I am pretty cautious anyway and not someone who is happy to chuck themselves down anything without a second thought.

There are other reasons, but off the top of my head it's not just the grading of the runs. Snow conditions on the day play a big part. I have been down a steepish red in icy conditions and been told by my instructor that it was more difficult than a black on a good day. I'm not experienced enough to judge snow conditions that well myself. :oops: Also run gradings seem to be broad at best and completely unreliable at worst :evil: , so which black do you pick for your first one? Indoor slopes can't equip you to judge these scenarios IMHO. :D

Hey thanks Alistair. I've just found that book. Looks like just the ticket! Am going to order it now. :D

Sounds fab. Yes, been to Herbert's place twice before. Can't wait to go back :D I will pass on your regards if he sits/stands still for long enough! OH will be very pleased the lifts are open on NY's day. I'll let him know later on :D

Just thought I'd share my experience as a terrified skiier :-D

I'll try to keep it as short as poss...

First ski hol 2 seasons ago. No fear at first. Joyo. Then after a couple of days I had a very small fall which twisted my knee. Not badly, I could still ski etc, but I do have numerous old injuries from previous sports which are waiting like gremlins to be reawakened! Also on the same hol, before we'd progressed to the top of the (blue) slope, I got off the button a little higher than we had with the instructor and encountered some contours I wasn't expecting. Freaked out and froze. Friends somehow managed to get me on a red before we left, which almost reduced me to tears, although I got down it (eventually) without incident.

Following year, Kitzbuhel. New boots not adjusted quite right which made my leg muscles kill. Within the week my confidence suffered so badly that I wasn't able to get down an easy blue which I had done relatively comfortably earlier in the week. Went down more runs on my backside than on my skis much to everyone's amusement (which was a relief).

I was becoming really really frustrated and dying to just relax and enjoy skiing.

Booked a second hol last year back to our first resort. Got 4 x 1hour private lessons with a cracking instructor. He realised quickly that it was a confidence issue and reassured me that he would prefer to stay on easier slops longer than to move to steeper slopes too quickly ("veeery important"). I built up a lot of trust in him, and by the end of the week was disappointed that the snow was not good enough for him to take me down a short black. BUT also by the end of the week I was using the red which nearly reduced me to tears on the previous year, for warming up on, by myself. I should point out that I was far more relaxed with him than without him, and still got the eeby jeebies on runs which I KNEW I could do, but was on my own.

For context, I did gymnastics for many years and rode a motorbike also for a good few years, so you can imagine how humiliating it is to be paralysed by fear. Can't explain it.

One good instructor is making the difference for me. So much so that I'm planning more lessons with him this year (fingers crossed he's available).

BTW through all this my OH was fearless. Technique not as good as mine (according to the inst), he fell often but still totally fearless. Natch. :evil:

Make of it all what you will.... :lol:

Dave Mac wrote:Thats a good shout about the Dianne, it's a good place, and great people.
So that is £300 for the Dianne, HB, £96 for the lufthansa to Munich, if still available. Train/taxi =£57.
Total = £453.
Think I will cancel Scheffau!
New Year in Niederau is fabulous. Because it is a hanging valley, (caused of course by the famous dragon), the fireworks are seen for 360 degress on the mountain tops.
There is a more expensive choice of transfer, door to door, with Four Seasons.

Please tell me more!!! We've booked the Harfenwirt for New Years (price = :oops: umm... you could have got two of your hols to one of us). BUT so looking forward to it. What can we expect? Do they keep the gondola open for us to get up the mountain for the fireworks? Are the lifts open on New Year's Day?