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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Sorry, I think she is too old to learn. The group most likely to be injured on the hill are + 40 females with little experience. Breakages take much longer to heal and learning is tough.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Frosty the Snowman, and who pooped in your slippers this morning
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Masque, she is 62, not particularly fit. Things break veru easily at that age and take so much longer to fix. I remember how physically demanding and painfull it was learning to ski - Why bother at that age.
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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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To defend FtS, there's no way I would have taken up skiing from scratch at 62. I thought about learning to board at that age and dismissed it out of hand for much the same reasons he gives. From what CSJ says, her mum's fitness and mine are probably much the same (though I have yet to get back to full hill-walking fitness ).
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Masque, as Pedantica says - Skiing and learning to ski are 2 entirely different things. I may also be clouded by the incredible number of tumbles I took while learning to ski. When we were young we would often laugh when falling; at 62 it is something you want to avoid.
I mean no disrespect at all, but am just trying to put forward what I consider a valid and different perspective on this thread.
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She's 62, not fit as a flea by any means, but not a couch potato.
She had a lesson at Xscape and quit half way through.
She fell over a lot because her legs wouldn't do the snowplough when she was trying to make them do it. She hit her head a few times, trying to avoid falling on her left elbow, which was recently wired together after she smashed it falling on concrete. |
She has a great weakness/vulnerability on her left side and an inability to snowplough suggests stiffness in hips and/or knees.
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Frosty the Snowman, kit, teaching and technique, all have surely progressed since you learnt. just look at BBC documentary thread in Piste and while Little Miss Punishment says she wouldn't start now she still puts herself in harms way on off-piste training with plenty of falls and not just from lunkheads like me. CSJ says that her mum's always been active and It's down to her to choose her pursuits but I guess you look at life a wee bit differently than I do . . . You sound like my grandad, 'e wur a dour aud booger too
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It's true I don't mind falling. (Getting up is another matter....) And I'm a champion snowplougher.
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CSJ did say her mum wanted to learn to ski. I'd 100% agree that nobody (at any age) should be persuaded to ski against their will, but if a basically fit person wants to have a go, at 62, I'd not discourage them. A friend of mine started at 66 last year, three private 1.5 hour lessons with a hand-picked instructor. She didn't exactly make startling progress but she enjoyed it and liked the instructor, and it was well worth it. But she only skied in the lesson - I did discourage any suggestion that she had a session with me - I recognised the skill it had taken to keep her safe and enjoying herself.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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crazy_skier_jules,
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You tell my mum you can't start new things at 62 and she'll go and start them just to spite you
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Job done in that case!
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You know it makes sense.
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Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
Masque, she is 62, not particularly fit. Things break very easily at that age and take so much longer to fix. I remember how physically demanding and painfull it was learning to ski - Why bother at that age. |
I had my first trip/lessons in 2007 aged 59 - I don't think I found it any harder than others in the group lessons
'Why bother ?' - PSB 2012 was my 10th trip - I have years to catch up on
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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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codyaitch, it's that sort of statement that gives me confidence - I did wonder if I had started too late at age 40.
FWIW I don't think CSJ's mum is too old to learn at 62, but perhaps she would benefit from these shorter skis and a sympathetic instructor.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Yes blades are a good idea in this situation.
They are easier than skis and good fun too. Just for your mum to be aware that the technique is different. The main thing being that on blades you stand on two feet much more than on skis which is more about standing on your outside foot.
You can adapt to this very quickly. If she tries to stand on one foot she will experience "Disco Leg" as the lighter ski is so light that it becomes very wobbly. Get her to think more of 50/50% (same weight under both feet) and she'll be away.
Just to note that going on blades isn't great for your skiing technique so probably to book a lesson if she decides to get the 'big boys' out later in the holiday.
Also honing in on the connection between brain and specific parts of the body and training that mechanism will help things go more smoothly... but that's a big ol' subject!
She is very welcome to have a chat with me about her skiing... as I run ski courses specifically for women, who usually come to me with issues such as your mums.
Have a great time... and yes easy slopes are the way forward (for now.)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Please make sure any blades have release bindings as the older ones only had fixed bindings. If you fall they must release otherwise your leg breaks through just above the boot top - seen it happen unfortunately.
Good luck to your Mum. I first put on skis in my mid 30's and I'm now an OAP skiing 6-7 weeks a season.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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crazy_skier_jules, I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to help out with skis - am laid up with an injury after a collision on piste. I hope your trip goes well.
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From a former Couch Potato -
My wife pressed me to try cross country groomed trail skiing just after my 60'th birthday. Slower speeds seemed more reasonable... until...
the cross country trails melted away toward the end of the season following my 64th birthday and I suggested we try a downhill (Alpine) lesson.
We're now mid-way through our second downhill season and having a great time. We're not going to be racing the GS but are able to ski intermediate (Blue) runs and are starting to explore the easier black diamond runs.
If your mom spends time on the easy slopes and adds a lesson from time-to-time to enhance her progress she'll do fine.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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crazy_skier_jules, my two cents worth.
1. As somebody mentioned earlier the older you get and especially females can find it harder to form a snowplough
2. The nursey slope indoors is steep compared to what she would learn on abroad using the beginner area with a travelator. ( pick the resort having researched the beginner area)
3. The size of the snowlough will be a hell of a lot smaller abroad due to the gentle slope, I love indoor slopes but you have to look at the amount of space available to learn and the fear factor. You are taught about plough breaking in the domes which means a tentative skier will make a big wedge to control speed.
4. the smaller snow plough will assist in any event as she progresses to plough parallel
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