Messages posted by : jaycraig
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I think this is a case of having to be there to have seen it for yourself,but i do take your point regarding how it may have looked to this member of staff.
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just to remind you of this original post ise i did not at any point say it was a follow me lesson we were mearly comparing technique and generally disgussing form. I also at no point said neither one of us,as you have said a few times could not do the most basic of ski manouvers the snow plough i just said she was not the most confident of skiers this is not to say she cant ski it just means she is more cautious than the average person on the slope.This incident occured after we had already come down from the top of the slope (as indicated in my original post) thus proving we both must be at least half as competent as the next guy on the slope as we hit no one on the way down linked turns successfully and stopped safely at the bottom. |
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hi ise
all that you said in your thread i absoloutly agree with but i think you misunderstood what i was saying,my fault i have read my thread back and not really explained myself well. She can link turns,stop etc but we just noticed i have a much wider stance stopping than she did and she copied to see if that was better or more comfortable.It is true however she had not been skiing for a while and just needed some brushing up on technique so in hindsight maybe she should have gone and had a lesson.I just got pi"?!d off with the attitued of the member of staff who was obviously having a bad day! |
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I am hopeing someone can resolve an issue i had today.I went to the chill factore today to get a little practice in for my canada ski holiday in december. When we got there and booked ourselves in for 3 hours of skiing but as my wife not the most confident of skiers we decided to have a quick practice linking turns and stopping etc before going on the drag lift to top of the hill in the interest of safety. We were then informed that only people in ski school were allowed to use the nursery slope so she had to practice this at the bottom of the main slope which was no problem. As things went well and she felt confident about her technique we went to the top of the hill and skied down with no problems but at the bottom we got talking about technique and i started to demonstrate the way i do a snowplough and she copied,then next thing we knew a member of staff was rushing over to us shouting STOP STOP!. She said i was not allowed to teach as i am not a qualified instructor which is fair enough however when you are trying to make someones life slightly easier by showing them a more effective way of doing something i dont strictly speaking think this qualifies as teaching as she has skied before and was just brushing up a little. After i tried to put this point across although she never actually said so she seemed to be implying i was breaking the law by 'teaching'. I was wondering whether this is the case or have i miss understood and just been caught out by some manic member of staff determined to uphold the company rules of the chill factore?
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I went into work today with the usual monday morning blues expecting the usual boring day at the grind stone but today turned out to be a very special day!
I am a carpet fitter so turned up at the house i was to install the floorcovering in and everything went as normal with the usual greetings and then left to get on with the job. After about and hour my customer said he was going to the shop and would make coffee on his return.When he came back he must have spotted my copy of last years where to ski and snowboard i keep in the front of my van for inspiration when days are particularly difficult (some turn to the bible I turn to ski literature!!!) He called my collegue an i into the lounge for our coffee and infront of us he had laid out hundreds of ski photos and at least a dozen piste maps and said i noticed you like to ski so thought you may like a look threw these! After what i thought had been 20 minutes it was time to sadly return to work and finish the job and i looked at my watch to discover we had been sat talking skiing for closer to an hour! My point being why does time seem to go twice as quick whilst having anything to do with skiing yet work time generally seems to slow right down to the pace of a snail on a normal monday morning |
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up until one month ago i was booked on a flight from gatwick to montreal for my ski holiday to mont tremblant at new year with zoom but they cancelled the flight on the particular day we wanted to go so we were transfered to british airways.
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we have got the manx grand prix going on over here so that is exciting to watch also i am starting to learn to drive hgv's on saturday
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And now for we’re all friends I think it’s time to talk about …
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its a shameful secret of mine! I am a scooter fan!!! :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
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