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Finding your ski legs: what do you do?
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

saxabar, that's what yer get for using a tea-tray instead of a pair of ski's Wink
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

I have to say, sat on the first lift of the season, I'm positively twitching with anticipation, and far too excited to feel nervous.
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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?

rob@rar, ....Know the feeling well. On the first run after 8 months I feel like an absolute beginer and the skis won't behave and go where I tell them to. My answer is that on the first run of the season I pretend I am an absolute beginer and try to remember my first skiing lessons. I pick an easy green run and do some slow stem turns while concentrating hard on getting the technique right. After 10 minutes of this my skiing and my confidence improves dramatically from abismal to my usual level of mediocrity.
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OverTheHill, welcome to snowHeads Smile
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

each time back on snow, even indoors I find it hard to get out of snowplough for the first 2 runs. Confidence starts to return gradually and by the afternoon I start being ambitious again!
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I do about 45 mns on dry slope a couple of weeks before I go. A few excercises, etc, just to refresh the brain.

Then I find it only takes about 2 hours on snow and I'm pretty much back to normal.
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 Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...

It's not that some people forget how to ski, it's their fear or lack of confidence that affects them when they hit the real slopes.


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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!

hey, I get the fear every time but the the sound of my boots snapping into the skis is one of my favourite sounds in the world (a cork coming out of a bottle is another btw) so counteracts the stomach butterflies a little. I found the EOSB did wonders for my confidence last year, despite a small wobbly, so have my fingers crossed I'll be in a better place this season.
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I get hyped up at the thought of going skiing, going into a ski shop (must remember to leave the wallet at home rolling eyes), watching ski films etc etc - in a way that prepares me...

This season, think we've got a couple dry slope trips before we go out, mainly cos a couple of mates haven't skied for about 7 or 8 years! With one never having skied on real snow before, but if you can ski on dry slope, you can ski on anything!

By the time we're out in resort I always seem to get worried that I won't be able ski, after a couple of blue and "easy" red runs, taking my time for the first hour or so, I usually get back into it and am back to my previous (rubbish Very Happy) ability and it's all good!
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