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Has anyone had a carving lesson at the chill factore? Would you recommend?
I would class myself towards an intermediate skier, allthough I don't know what classes you as a beginner/inter/expert? I can ski down blues and reds but now want to develop techniques to improve my skiing. I've been watching a few carving video lessons, and tried it out at the chill factore, tried pole planting and I think I'm doing the right things with my legs, wondering if a lesson would help before I go away, then I have a week to put it into practice.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You might change your mind about lessons at CF when you check the cost of them. I know I would
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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 had a look the other day, I think it was around 45quid for 1hr 50mins.
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I'd wait and have lesson(s) in the mountains then practise. £45 would buy you an hour private lesson.
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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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If you have a good instructor then yes they would be able to help with your technical development. If you don't have a good instructor the chances of improving will obviously be a bit lower.
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ask on here for recommendations for an instructor in the area you are going, book a couple of hours one on one for the first day.
plenty of time to practice afterwards, wont spend more than half your very expensive lesson waiting behind beginers falling off a drag lift as you would at CF.
Last edited by After all it is free  on Thu 3-03-11 0:05; edited 1 time in total
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£45 would buy you an hour private lesson.
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It would buy you 1.5 hours in off peak weeks in a smaller resort.
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sellerselectrical, for £45 worth a pop if you fancy it IMO. You might find that there are not (m)any others booked on it anyway.
I have a fair bit of experience at CFe as my son skis there regularly, there are some excellent instructors/coaches there. OK so £45 would buy you a 1- 1.5 hour private lesson in a resort but at least at CFe it would a very focussed lesson with a native english speaker.
I don't think you would 'waste half your lesson there behind beginners falling off the drag lift' either 
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