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I'm very much in support of getting some instruction. Like many sports and activities, there's some stuff you just wont pick up intuitively. Getting a good grounding in the basics is what's going to keep you safe and unharmed.
Even on the easiest runs, conditions can turn rough and tricky if the weather isn't/hasn't been good. A return to those basics means you can safely pick your way down a mountain and save yourself from an injury or a long dismal hike down the hill in ski boots. I've seen plenty of people who have been told they don't need lessons because their "mates" will look after them end up with breaks or screwed up knees/joints because they and their friends overestimated their abilities. For the sake of a few lessons, it isn't worth it to ruin a holiday.One thing always worth remembering though. If you get onto a tough section of piste and want to pick your way down carefully, always finish your move on a turn facing onto the piste. There's nothing more demoralising than being stopped on a hard, icy, rocky steep slope and having to start your next move with a turn.
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I'm orf skiing again at the end of Feb, it's my second time - and although I wasn't too shabby the first time; could ski reasonably well by the end of my first week, got down a couple of red's no problem (although one I was mainly side-slipping my way through ice!).
I've decided to go for some more lessons while I'm out there for two main reasons; 1: Because more lessons can't be a bad thing, and while I'm a competent beginner (if I do say so myself) - it's always nice to improve your technique, and 2: Because it allows my GF and her family to bugger off to do some skipant-wetting black runs and do some off-piste action without muggin's holding them back.
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Can confirm in Verbier it is absolutely dumping. At least 20-25 today and another 30 due overnight, gonna be some fun tree runs tomorrow! It has also been super windy up high, so very dangerous anywhere over 2000m, only 2 lifts were open in resort today. Should settle by the weekend though.
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snow here in Tahoe is fantastic. Had some major dumps, been racing through the tree's (but on a snowboard tbh).
as for teach, I on/off teach people that I know. It's a damn sight easier to do in person than putting comments on a website! I could not fathom how to diagnose difficulties online rather than on the slope :)
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Bit of a long haul at short notice. Might see about heading up to the Dales to try out the new skis though.
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I haven't skiied since 2006, Grindelwald.. My heart sinks when another season comes/goes.
Best instructor I ever had was in Zell am Ziller, Austria 1993.
He had us skiing off piste all week, with our boots unbuckled
To improve our technique keeping ski tips up and heels down
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Which reminds me that it was Wengen downhill this week!
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Made it down an icy Hundschopf a week after the race at the end of my first week skiing.
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And even more interesting it seems that I moved to London in 1995 and not as I always seemed to remember in 1994. Tomba seems to have won the Wengen slalom in 95 and there was no race in 94, and I saw that in Wengen the winter the year I moved to London in the summer.
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Well done Ludwig.. also this from Schilthorn/Piz Gloria
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Just had a Google of this Vallee Blanche business. Looks great fun, but it's just my second time skiing, so don't know if I'll be capable. Will keep on the lessons and take a view from the instructors.
Last year I did lessons every morning and skied with gf in the afternoon. Highly recommended, as she skies every year and I'd caught up by the end of the week. Really helps with getting the technique down.