Messages posted by : docsquid
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Hi, this is my first posting, but I hope it helps. I had just learned to do snowplough turns on skis when I had a bad road traffic accident which messed up my knee. I couldn't snowplough any more, so I had to find another way to to get past this stage and learn to ski. I used Snowblades, and they were excellent - the snowplough position on them is less extreme and I was skiing parallel on them very quickly. I had some lessons knowing that the intention was to move to longer skis, so learning carving and other turning techniques, and how to use poles. I then did my own version of ski evolutif - moving from 99's to 120's and now onto 147's without any difficulty whatsoever (I'm pretty short, so 147's are up to my nose). Snowblades are excellent for learning edge/carving techniques, but not so good for learning skidding/sliding techniques of turning as applied to longer skis. Nevertheless, I couldn't have learned to ski at all without starting on Snowblades because I'd not have got past the snowplough stage. I have now had two ski holidays of two weeks each, and can do reds, some blacks, some bumps and a bit of powder, all parallel. Lessons really helped, and I'd highly recommend a good instructor to get technique right, whichever way you go (blades to skis or skis to blades).
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