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Tignes, 10 Jan ish week - lessons
 Poster: A snowHead
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Need advice on what to do re lessons this year.

This will be my 2nd week in winter, after 1 week in Summer and 1 ski in a day course (made level 5 at MK...)

Skiing wise, enjoyed Reds and steep wide blues in La Rosiere last year. Loathed a couple of the flatter narrow blues.

Skied 1 black last year. Very short/straight and made it down with no splats (and about 2 turns) rest of time sideslipping in slightly nervous fashion - might have had something to do with colour of piste poles and nearly being taken out by man (on behind/back) and his skis which descended on me from above - skis ran over back of mine, he passed in front of me by not very much. Then got a bit more nervous about crowded pistes, although I can stop very efficiently from my fastest speed.

Group I'm with isn't quite my level - either lots better - happiest with blacks/moguls or first week skiers and just me in between. OH probably wants some freedom to go off and do blacks and moguls and some off piste.

Would I be better with a couple of private lessons (1 or 2 x 2 hrs at most - not enough money for more given exchange rates!) or doing ski school. French or English instruction is fine - my French is fluent and I've only really learned skiing in French. Recommendations very welcome...

Ski school (ESF class 1) was a bit boring last time - I just sort of skied around in the instructor's tracks - could do most of the exercises already and was at the top end of the class, but the instructor I had on the last day was much better, and solved my inability to sideslip with any pace/fluency in about 1 minute (by grabbing my hips and positioning them so I could flatten my skis to the slope!

Sorry for the long post

Thanks

R
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Randomsabreur, I've had lessons (private and shared with one other) recently with Evolution in Tignes - great tuition and focussed on exactly what I wanted to improve upon balanced with what I needed to change. very good at explainign what I needed to do.
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Thanks!

Really not sure what level I'd be - from what I think I can do, I'm much higher than the number of weeks skiing - or is La Rosiere more generous in its classifications so what would be a red in La Ros would be a Blue in tignes?
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Randomsabreur, don't know the answer to that one, never been to L Ros. Go private if you can, then you will get tailored tuition to your level.
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Randomsabreur, try sending Stewart Woodward a pm, highly recommended by many. Good luck and send me a pm if you don`t have luck with Stewart. Cool maybe see you for a drinkie afterwards. Madeye-Smiley
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Thanks all!

Have now decided to go for ESF ski school for 5 days (Mon to Fri) mostly to give OH a chance to go and have some fun on "interesting" (his description) or "scary" (my description) stuff with the other experienced skiers in the mornings. We will meet up for lunch and afternoon fun. Hopefully he will find me some nice stuff to play on, with limited moguls and no icy pistes with cliffs next to them.

That way we both get a good holiday, and I get to improve my French and have the social element of ski school.

I could have got 1 or 2 private lessons within our budget, but that would have left my OH shepherding me on blues/reds and maybe easy blacks while his experienced skier friends do "interesting" blacks and off piste fun and the less experienced skiers are in ski school. Given my slight nervousness with chairlifts (don't like heights) I wouldn't be up to skiing much on my own so ski school works as "babysitting" for me while he goes off and plays (and explores to find nice non-scary stuff for the afternoon!
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Randomsabreur, too late, sorry I would have also sugested Evolution They teach a really fast advancing way. I saw all the poor esf groups snowploughing everywhere, very boring.

I'm sure this time you will have fun and if you have time and money do some private lessons with evolution I strongly recommend them. I am skiing in les gets this year unfortunately they do not operate there, otherwise I would stretch my budget for a couple of hours.

I googled evolution they have a good website.
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