 Poster: A snowHead
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Just after a bit of advice please. After a very successful first trip my 5 1/2 son loves skiing and wants to go to Castleford a few times in the summer. He'll have no trouble with the slope, was happily doing the steeper blues in Canada.
But he's never used a poma drag lift, it was all magic carpets and chairs. TBH its been a while since I've used one! How hard is it for kids to learn to use the poma and is it something we could show. We could book a lesson but it seems a bit overkill when we just want an hour together to fill a rainy afternoon!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Should be fine.
We have children younger than that using the fast poma at Yad Moss without problems. It is usually the adults that struggle 
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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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He'll learn to use it quickly no problem. Those indoor pomas are so slow, the biggest issue will be his boredom!
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after two goes my 4 year old grand-daughter was going up "no hands". It'll be no problem at all.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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ask a lift attendant to help him on his first few goes, but keep skis straight, and hold onto the pole, don't get distracted by the other skiers, and never sit down, just place between legs. If he falls, let go of the lift and try roll out of the way quickly. Usually they get it first time, but you get the odd one not heavy enough or just stops concentrating and lets the skis turn.
At hemel we have a small detached one to practice and to demo with before putting them on the lift, they might have one at castleford.
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I'd be a little careful how you approach the staff, whilst some can be accommodating, some obey the usual letter of the law in most fridges which along the lines of.
All slope users not under official instruction must be capable of turning, stopping and to use the lifts unaided.
I've been behind children and adults both in lessons and not who clearly can't use them, some folk can get a little whine'y about being held up by someone who takes a dozen attempts to get on the lift and whilst I'm not one of them I can to a degree understand the frustration when paying for X hours slope time only to have 10 minutes wasted standing in a queue because little or big jonny or jill can't use a poma without falling off in the first couple of seconds.
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Hemel fridge has a fast and slow lift, the former clearly marked "for experienced skiers" or words to that effect. If I queue behind a kid who can't use the slow, well, that was my misjudgement in choosing that queue. If I'm behind a kid who is failing to catch the fast, over and over again, that is annoying. I'm paying for coaching as well as the slope time.
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My now seven year old was using the Pomas at four before she'd even seen a mountain. Granted, she needed a bit of help at first, but at Hemel at least there is always someone there to help them get on (the non-experienced lift, obviously!)
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| Little Martin wrote: |
ask a lift attendant to help him on his first few goes, but keep skis straight, and hold onto the pole, don't get distracted by the other skiers, and never sit down, just place between legs. If he falls, let go of the lift and try roll out of the way quickly. Usually they get it first time, but you get the odd one not heavy enough or just stops concentrating and lets the skis turn.
At hemel we have a small detached one to practice and to demo with before putting them on the lift, they might have one at castleford. |
My OH, reading over my shoulder and who used to ski at Cas, is saying that the lifties there are very good, just ask them to help and they'll even slow the lift down if needed and that they do have a practice poma too 
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If he's nervous, why not ride together a few times? He'll get a bit of a feel for it that way.
Get him to stand either side of one of your legs and then you ride the lift as normal. Did this with our little lad on his first few rides at Hemel.
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