 Poster: A snowHead
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I usually fall over regularly once every 2 or 3 days… if it’s a powder day this may increase to 2 or 3 times a day+
I think it is good to fall so you know how to and not hurt yourself while doing so…
I haven’t fallen for 20+ days now… and I think I’m changing how I ski so as not to do things that may make me fall….which I hate…
Need a powder day to get me right….
Does anyone else have issues about falling?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| II wrote: |
| Does anyone else have issues about falling? |
Yes my daughter falls over far less than me. She only fell once in ADH last month and that was when I knocked her over 
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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 do, terribly. Apart from my terrible technique and dodgy spine it's the biggest thing that holds me back in skiing* and is totally counter productive.
*Well, that and my skis, plus my boots don't fit 100%, and I'm not positive my jacket is quite technical enough.
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It's not the falling that's the problem its the landing on the rocks that hurts. 
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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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The day you stop falling over is the day you've stopped pushing your skiing forwards to new levels!
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I used to fall over once or twice each day of skiing. Except my skiing never got to any other level but the same one as the year before.
Then I took a couple of clinics and privates, during which I fell over no more often than my "usual"...
Since then, I don't fall over much, maybe once or twice a season. And I've been skiing a lot of the terrain I used to only side slip, or not even get close.
While falling should be accepted as part of learning, there's nothing to be proud of about the falling over part. It's at best a byproduct of learning but definitely not an indication of learning! The number of falls is not proportional to learning. And then you get to the kind of terrain where one must NOT falling over!
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Pedantica, You called 
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Peter Lunn, still skiing at 97, " “felt ashamed if I spent a day without falling. It meant I hadn’t been trying hard enough." He captained the British skiing team at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Pedantica, To be fair the PSB was mostly zero visibilty and deep very cut up snow, awful conditions.
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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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Claude B, aw, thanks for making excuses for me.
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Pedantica, I was making excuses for me, god knows how many times I went over 
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You know it makes sense.
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Claude B, yeah, but you didn't bleat for someone else to pick you up, did you now? As I say, it's not the falling that bothers me particularly, I'm just crap at getting up again. Maybe I should have some getting up lessons?
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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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It was a pleasure
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Poster: A snowHead
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Claude B,
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Lessons in getting up again! how wrong does that sound on so many levels! 
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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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| II wrote: |
| Does anyone else have issues about falling? |
Yep, hate it.
Thinking back though, I think you were following behind me & Helen in a claggy Ciste Gully about 3 winters back when I wiped out on some slab that had slipped in off the West Wall. I've since changed to Tech bindings, and their limited release consequences mean I now take much more care to look out for unexpected lumps.
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The day you stop falling over is the day you've stopped pushing your skiing forwards to new levels!
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+1
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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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I rarely fall. Obvioulsy I'm not trying hard enough - I hate falling over!
Saying that, I managed a majestic tumble in Saalbach on a silly traverse, we all fell over!
Chasseur has photographic evidence
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If you don't fall over you're not trying hard enough
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| robapplegate wrote: |
| If you don't fall over you're not trying hard enough |
Exactly, sure every now and again you'll hurt yourself, but hey, that's part of the game. When I'm skiing for myself (as opposed to teaching) I'll fall multiple times per day, embrace it!
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If you don't fall over you're not trying hard enough
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I am VERY guilty of this, can go a whole season without falling on piste!! think this saying may have an age limit though...
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dulcamara, So what's the age limit then? Interesting that you say "on piste", so I presume you're happy to fall off piste?
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| robapplegate wrote: |
| If you don't fall over you're not trying hard enough |
As you progress there will be pitches where falling over really is not a good idea.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| robapplegate wrote: |
| dulcamara, So what's the age limit then? Interesting that you say "on piste", so I presume you're happy to fall off piste? |
Maybe off piste is more of a challenge, hence falling more.
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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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| achilles wrote: |
| robapplegate wrote: |
| If you don't fall over you're not trying hard enough |
As you progress there will be pitches where falling over really is not a good idea. |
True, so don't push yourself too hard there then, I don't know anyone who's so 'core they exclusively ski no fall zones.
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| robapplegate wrote: |
| If you don't fall over you're not trying hard enough |
Yes
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You know it makes sense.
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| achilles wrote: |
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As you progress there will be pitches where falling over really is not a good idea. |
Also Yes.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I fall all the time off-piste, generally happier to do silly things off-piste because it doesn't hurt as much, also we have to factor in the ever embarassing quick stop and super slow motion, down-hill face-plant
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So what's the age limit then?
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mum's 58, she fell once last month, slowly on ice, bruise was impressive to say the least (in her defence a guy did slide into the back of her) Of course the amount you are willing to fall changes for different people at different ages but Iknow a lot of people who dont want to fall at all and are more than happy cruising around and staying upright fora whole holiday, at this point the skiing progression is to make it safer not more exciting
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Poster: A snowHead
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I now fall pretty seldom and I think the answer is that I now focus on skiing things better rather than skiing slopes at the edge of my ability. Having small children also keeps me to red runs, but I fear they will be forcing me on to blacks soon.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I don't mind falling on snow, it's the stairs down to the toilets that scare me.
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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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prometheus, 
The answer is to take up snowboarding, no problem in those boots
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robapplegate,
Naaah , don't think so . I'll fit a pee valve like on my dive drysuit, that'll be interesting on the chairlift. 
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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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| prometheus wrote: |
| I don't mind falling on snow, it's the stairs down to the toilets that scare me. |
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One of my favorites is the one where you're in low viz, come to a stop, put your pole in and promptly trip over it because you hadn't actually stopped at all, classic!
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tangowaggon,
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It's not just me then!!!!!!!
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Absolutely! And ime, those falls are always heavy, 'deadweight' ones, because there's somehow no advance warning that you're going to fall.
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lol
). However, to make up for the lack of falls, Ive devised a neat trick of stopping my fall with my head in all circumstances! I always make sure I win 'best fall of the week' to make the OH feel better!
I also do this side sliding in lift queues
