When to go from Beginner rental skis to the next level?

caron-a wrote:I've got an agreement with my boys - perfect skiing and then they can learn to board.

they're paralleling down blacks now, they've got a week of lessons in tignes at easter, one more holiday without lessons (which they hate) and then they can learn to board.

they won't like being a beginner again. all part of the plan :twisted:

Was discussing boarding with Jan, a couple of weeks ago. He is an A1 skier, but is an inquistive sort. So he had hired boarding gear, gone up the gondola, boarded down the mountain, and taken the gear back. His verdict, ~ he said he felt claustraphobic.

That's a pretty good description of why I packed it in very early in a lesson years ago. It was an odd feeling of being attached to something without being able to move legs independently.

caron-a wrote:I've got an agreement with my boys - perfect skiing and then they can learn to board.

they're paralleling down blacks now, they've got a week of lessons in tignes at easter, one more holiday without lessons (which they hate) and then they can learn to board.

they won't like being a beginner again. all part of the plan :twisted:

My Son, aged 27 had his first ever winter holiday last week, courtesy of me, 'cos we couldnt go. He had a boarder taster session, the verdict: No way, too dangerous, if I damage myself then I am s*****d for work, but god is'nt the apre ski good. Would go again just for that. So not another convert.

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Light, grippy, easy to use and a sporty intermediates dream ski.

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