 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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Or they may not want me skiing with them
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They will as long as you're paying, @v1cky24.
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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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@Origen,  #truestory
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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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A few weeks ago @Jonny996 had a fantastic post but I've forgotten which thread it was or I would have found it and quoted verbatim.
But basically about the pleasure of skiing with a son/daughter, the mixture of disappointment and satisfaction of a child surpassing you on the slope. And the sort of bonding that happens while doing it, helping him/her learning lessons of life and maturing.
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It’s inevitable just be proud that you’ve inspired them to acquire a life skill that hopefully they’ll pass on to future generations. In the meantime enjoy one of the few sports that a family can do together regardless of age. I’m the wrong side of 60 and have decided to teach myself to telemark hoping it will inspire my children to realise it’s never too late to develop a new skill….
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the reality is he’s just way more ballsy, more talented and able to head down a hill without worrying about self-preservation too much
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i.e. younger.......
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Physical ability might peak mid 20s. Fearlessness peaks pre-teens. Technique could be a lot later, but when we parents love skiing we (pay to) teach our children far better than we received ourselves, so they are much better at a time of life they can benefit the most. And with responsibility increasing, so does self preservation. I first went skiing aged 16; when my daughter was 16, she was better than I am 40 years and hundreds of hours of lessons later.
Face it, the facts are against us. You can delay them if you have the money and time to go for a week of private tuition without them (something they probably won’t have for years). Otherwise, console yourself with the fact that you never have to find “six-seven” even remotely amusing.
Well done for being a great parent  .
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@v1cky24,
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I need to up my game.
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This.
Skied a couple of years ago with a chum who is perfectly technically competent but previously not terribly aggressive. Some years since we skied with her and in the intervening period she's been skiing with her teenage son.
Quite a difference in speed!! Completely upped her game.
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@v1cky24,
I'm envious, my eldest daughter doesn't ski anymore, her twin is a very slow & cautious skier, my youngest daughter (18 ) showed promise, carving really well & winning all the ski school races at 11, now she just wants to pootle around & find a bar 
At 60, I'm still hitting the moguls & offpiste
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I don’t think this has been so bad for me but it has for my OH. My stepson and I started skiing at the same time - he was 6, I was 30. My OH had been skiing for many years before that. My skiing developed much quicker for the first couple of years. Jnr developed much slower initially. My OH basically looked after both of us when we weren’t in lessons. Within 5 years, that had shifted massively and Jnr had the best technique out of all of us. A year later he took one ski off, carried it on his shoulder and skied down a red run with just one ski on then swapped around to ski the next with the other leg. We knew at the point we had no chance!
Now, Jnr is still way above our standard but now he’s had 100s of hours of race training and instructs. My OH is a better skier than she was but is just much more cautious. I’m a decent-ish skier but have clearly not developed like Jnr has.
He still loves to ski with us though. Mainly to tell us what we’re doing wrong, to encourage me to do stuff I’m too old for and as @Origen says for the free lunch!
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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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Kids will never beat the family credit card to the restaurant
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@Jonny996,
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You know it makes sense.
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@tangowaggon, your experience is not unusual, I'm sure. By no means all the younger generation are keen to become really good skiers (especially if it means having lessons). But starting at 4 is definitely better than starting at 40.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| @tangowaggon, your experience is not unusual, I'm sure. By no means all the younger generation are keen to become really good skiers (especially if it means having lessons). But starting at 4 is definitely better than starting at 40. |
My three girls, all started at 3, I was 21 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Though - on second thoughts - starting at 40 perhaps means one appreciates it more, and can savour all the landmarks and achievements along the way. And not take the wonder of it all, and the beauty of the mountains, for granted. My health has stopped me skiing but the whole journey has enriched my life immeasurably and I'm very happy about it all. My favourite thing this week has been watching a video of my hitherto very cautious and slow grand-daughter whizzing down in the sunshine (on decent snow in a low altitude resort!). But I never thought "I wish that I could still do that". I've done it!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Daughter was just 3 when she was on ski’s
Wife was better than me from slope 1 ( Val Thorens 1999)
Daughter passed me when she was about 7 ( born in 2006) took her a few more years after to reel in the wife
Now she’s better than all the people we have skied with
Proud
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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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my kids all different - all grown up now. Younger boy, more athletic, and braver, than most. But not competitive. Hardly ever had any lessons but hung out with instructors when he did a season working in Val d'Isere. Now very good (no problem skiing down from the top of the Grand Motte to Val d'Isere with only one ski, swapping legs occasionally). Other boy, not so athletic or brave. But more competitive; doesn't like not to be good at things. So when both boys tried snowboarding as teenagers, when already competent skiers, he just couldn't cope with "looking like a beginner again" whereas his little brother wasn't bothered and became a good snowboarder. Youngest girl, well coordinated, more amenable to lessons, started at 4, good technical skier but constrained by anxiety, especially when skiing with her kids. All totally different. Thankfully! Only my daughter followed me into sailing - and as a Senior Instructor has well surpassed my skills.
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Just slow down & stop at every place for a vin chaud. Its a different type of holdiay.
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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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yes, indeed. It doesn't have to be about technical prowess. But the vin chauds (or hot chocolates or whatever) get very expensive for a family. Our lot mostly had to go back to our accommodation for that sort of thing.
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Next goal for me is; they pay for my ski holiday.
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@Orange200,
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Never let kids overtake you on the slopes.
They just think you're an old loser.
Stay fit. Stay strong. Hit the gym.
If they start catching up, ski faster.
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predictable, or what? Some folks are really insecure, I guess.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I’m just happy that someone as good as my eldest is willing to come out skiing with me.
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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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| Next goal for me is; they pay for my ski holiday. |
I just look at it as I’m spending their inheritance taking them skiing.
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Would you expect at 55 to be able to run faster than a 20 something ?
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You know it makes sense.
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@Whitegold, I like this.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@robs1, No, definitely not. I’m only 42 though
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Poster: A snowHead
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I’m taking this as .. I need to go skiing on my own and be better. snowheads bash maybe?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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We took our granddaughter skiing when she was 9 (12 years ago). She only had a few lessons at Castleford, to plough turn level, then a few sessions skiing with me. She is very sporty so took to it well. Unfortunately, the first morning in Kitzbuhel was a nightmare as she was petrified of falling off the mountain. After lunch much the same (tears and falling), so I decided kill or cure. I headed to a very steep black piste. The first 20 metres, more tears and falling/sitting down. She managed to stay upright on her skis for the last 400 metres. At the bottom she looked back up the slope and asked if she had just skied that. That was it, nothing phased her after that. at the top of every piste her question was "is it pizza or chips grandad". At the end of the week we had never skied so far or for so long each day, usually racing to get to the last lifts. If she fell, the bigger the better.
She came with us again at 15, and was even more mad on skis, sometimes I had to back off when trying to catch her up (I was a young 54 year old then). She still loved a mega wipe out as well.
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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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| Jonny996 wrote: |
| Orange200 wrote: |
| Next goal for me is; they pay for my ski holiday. |
I just look at it as I’m spending their inheritance taking them skiing. |
You may have just vastly improved my next few skiing holidays. I thank you.
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I am also in the same boat. My daughter got lost week the bronze badget and my son makes competitiion courses with ESF
Not only i cannot follow them (8 and 10) but since they skiing they Help me (Board) on the Flats
Imagine an 8 year girl dragging an 51 old boarder
A couple of years ago i lost my son in Les menuires
He was too fast for me and i didnt see where He turnend
That was a Schock for bot of us and since this Minute we give a meeting point as far down as we can see and they wait for me
However i am really proud
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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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Currently on holiday with my two children and their five teenage offspring. They all ski faster than me, except for my son who now prefers a board, but only my daughter looks like a good skier. I wish they would have lessons.
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Daughter no 4 spent a solid 10 mins yesterday critiquing my skiing, very solid stuff. She identified my trend of locking out my inside leg, blocking me from having sufficent inner ski edge angle, while understanding well that this may be caused by poor mobility and a knee issue. It was a top to bottom dressing down, which brought in lack of attention to ski fitness, poor basic and underlying movement patterns, and a general "old people are rubbish, but you can maybe improve a little" theme. Daughters no 3+4 passed me out roughly 5 years ago, both raced, one teaches, the other one is getting herself set for her swiss ski "cours aspirant". I couldn't be happier they are both way better than me now, I get free lessons, a solid dose of humility, along side targets to try and keep skiing the things they want to ski, the way they ski them (the 2nd part of that is the hardest). I was better than them off piste for a while, but thats long gone now as well, all I'm left leading the way at is ski touring, cause they dont. This is the natural order of events, if they weren't beating the cr4p out of me by now, I'd be mega disappointed given they all started as zygotes.....I can still hang with daughers no 1 and 2 thank god, they started later..
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Mine were about 12 when they left me behind.
Ironically one of them is now a patroller and has to regularly have words with me about going too fast
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I love your stories.
I suppose natural order of things when you spent money time and effort into getting them to ski.
The obvious answer for me is to have some more tuition I suppose, and try and be in the best shape possible
My daughter would definitely like to spend more of her life skiing than we do. I’m glad she is inspired, I’m sure she’ll make it happen!
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Be proud, very proud as I am. It's a natural circle of life and you've given them the gift of skiing. Two of mine are qualified instructors, the other two are multiple year seasonaires. It's a joke when we all ski together and I'm not a bad skier.
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I laughed at the story of the child telling the parent they are not paying attention!
"how does it feel" would have been my quick response.
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