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Well it is........I want to be able to do my little white skis justice esp. as I have had a little go on them now. I'm not used to finding that I can't do something as well as I want to, esp. as I now know how to ski (more or less) in my mind. I expect in time I'll be able to - I just hope it doesn't take too long.
Does anyone else try to do anything that frustrates them in the same way? Is it wrong to have expectations of yourself, and how do you know if you are setting yourself unattainable goals.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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roga, whereas in golf... practice makes inherant swing problems get worse 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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slikedges, I don't think its a technique issue or even a true question in that sense - its just a frame of mind........frustration.......yes that's what it is..........frustration
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| roga wrote: |
| Practice makes perfect Megamum |
I always think of practice makes permanent, practice bad stuff it's permanently bad, practice good stuff it's permanently good.
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Megamum, It's the same no matter what your standard, as your knowledge increases, you realise there's so much more to learn.
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Megamum, dont worry. It is a feeling we all carry.
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Megamum, It's practice and more practice to make your body do what your mind wants it to do. The miles under your skis as an instructor told me a long time ago.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Megamum, FWIW, lessons with an instructor and mileage on your own. It's what I try to do.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Megamum, People who know far better than me are telling you the same things I did last Thursday. No substitute for Km and lessons!
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And the solution to Km is a lottery win, and emigration to Switzerland.........think I'm going to be frustrated a while yet. I know the snowdome is within striking distance, as if a dry slope, but I can't help thinking that the money I'd spend at such places could be saved to go towards real trips to the mountains........def. Frustration!! It's a good word.
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You know it makes sense.
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"It's frustrating to not be able to ski as well as I want to..... "
And that feeling will never go away; as you get better, you just want more 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Just a mo, that's close to a definition of an addiction!
the more you get it, the more you want it, so it must be true.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Megamum, skiing frustrates me in a purely aesthetic sense in that I can do exactly what I would like to be able to do, but to ski with the aggression of Bodé Miller and the style of say, Anja Pearson, is proving to be decidedly difficult!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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not that I am anywhere near being as good as Sir Miller..
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I get very frustrated by not being able to ski as well as I want to. If anything, that frustration has grown the more skiing experience I gain. Happily the frustration motivates me to do a little bit better rather than making me want to stop, so it's not really a big problem other than challenging me to keep my head sorted when I ski.
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Megamum, Think the other way round - learn to enjoy any skiing. It isn't something you have to do. It is a leisure pursuit. There is no one true goal you have to hit. If it becomes something that is a chore and that you feel you are not doing well enough, you need to do something else.
Otherwise get lessons, plenty of them, and from more than one instructor at more than one hill. And ski with lots of other people. Eat a germknodel, have Tartiflette on a French Terrace. Don't let your inner parent's critical appraisal spoil it. You are still a relative beginner. Fall, have fun...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Megamum wrote: |
Does anyone else try to do anything that frustrates them in the same way? Is it wrong to have expectations of yourself, and how do you know if you are setting yourself unattainable goals. |
No, but I too am impatient with myself, and want to improve on skis far faster than I am able to. However, I teach a physical/mental skill - one that I have been learning since the age of 11, and am pretty good at. To me it's easy - 2nd nature, to my learners it sure isn't and I find myself counsellng them about having patience with themselves, espcially adults who are frustrated when youngsters learn faster (sound familiar?)
What is very useful is that two of my learners are skiers who, while not experts, are at least competent "social skiers" able to tackle most pistes with confidence. We went to Tignes together last April and it was very interesting to have the tables turned; instead of me being the expert and advising them to relax, they were saying the same to me!
Oh, the skill I teach? Church bell ringing. There is far, far more to it than the uninitiated realises, I can assure you. It takes a good number of lessons just to be able to handle a single bell safely and independently and then comes the learning to ring it with good timing, and after that there is an infinite number of methods to learn (something like patterns/tunes) and skill/endurance challenges to take part in (peals & quarter peals). After almost 40 years, I am still learning (because I choose to) and have not run out of challenges yet.
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germknodel!!
Never heard of it - lets hope its not a wind up when I order it and out comes a side order of bulls whotsits!! 
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Megamum, not a wind-up, good eating dessert for lunch, but only if you're planning a siesta afterwards 
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stoatsbrother, very true. I can't really remember being frustrated, just motivated to improve. I enjoy any time I get on skiing. Over the past couple of years I've become a bit obsessed with skiing and am just glad enough that I can go out, however rarely it is, and cut up as many snowboarders as possible.
And germknodel is disgusting
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Twenty days min per season, 30-50 to make leaps. Lessons every chair ride provides all the examples in good and bad techniques a rider needs.
Not 100% true but very close, course I'm 8 days in and still just building legs and waiting for snow without a following warmup and rain on snow event.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Megamum, I go to lessons every week, practice every time I can't be bothered with the housework i.e pretty often and I still have that feeling. I think the goals I have are a bit unrealistic for my age and fitness - I love germknodel which doesn't help with the weight issue  and I think I started too late to get to the level I want. I agree with stoatsbrother, on this one, you have to try to keep things in perspective and just enjoy !!
p.s It's a huge sweet dumpling covered in poppy seeds
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Megamum, I get frustrated all of the time. Frustrated that my skiing sometimes still falls apart on piste. Frustrated when I can't ski as well as I did the day before.
If you saw me ski then you probably wouldn't understand what I was dissatisfied with. But it's all relative.
I know a top level British ski instructor who wouldn't wear his badge for a couple of weeks last year because he was didn't think he was skiing "at the level".
I think frustration is good. It means you want to get better. Follow the good advice above. But if you're really hooked then you'll find the frustration doesn't necessarily go away.
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You know it makes sense.
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Megamum, I'm with stoatsbrother, here - enjoy the skiing you do. By all means take lessons and improve, but I think there are some things you just have to accept that you may not be able to do as well as you would like for a number of reasons.
I would like to be a better cyclist and ride road races but have to accept I'm just the wrong build - But I still enjoy the cycling I do
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Megamum, Two thruths;
Everyone thinks that they should ski better. Some more than others !
Everyone skis better than they think they do.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Megamum wrote: |
Well it is........I want to be able to do my little white skis justice esp. as I have had a little go on them now. I'm not used to finding that I can't do something as well as I want to, esp. as I now know how to ski (more or less) in my mind. I expect in time I'll be able to - I just hope it doesn't take too long.
Does anyone else try to do anything that frustrates them in the same way? Is it wrong to have expectations of yourself, and how do you know if you are setting yourself unattainable goals. |
It is all about practice.
Ski for roughly 20 - 30 weeks and your body will soon ski like your head.
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JT, I don't think I got down quite what I meant.....which is, when I see a mate having a bad day on their skis - it usually doesn't look much different to how they normally ski.. hence the comment.
What I didn't mean was how people describe their abilities, especially in the bar on an internet forum. 
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rob@rar, I have exactly the opposite problem. I feel like I am skiing like Hermann Maier and then realise that people are laughing and pointing at me.
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Chris Bish,
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FAQ
) 'weight forward, you eejit ... don't bloody-well sit down, weight on the downhill ski, watch the shoulders! or NO! NO! Noooo!' etc. etc. I get really cross with myself for not doing it the way I know it's supposed to be done. Other times, I've had a bit of a discreet sniffle on a chairlift with pure frustration, which is not to be recommended while wearing goggles I might add. Then I get cross with myself for being such an impatient two-year-old. But I'm too stubborn to give up and then the next run down it clicks and the buzz is fantastic and I think I'm the bees knees. Nobody knows (apart from MrRibena - who can ski grrrr) that I go through all this stuff, so I decided rather than worry about the men in white coats that lots of others must go through it too.
My last instructor looked at me in disbelief when I told him why I was in a heap on the piste, sitting back, he said if you know what's wrong don't do it. 
Bless him he was French, he looked like he had fallen out of glossy magazine, most of the women were swooning, I think I was cramping his style a bit. 
