Ski School

Dont know whether this counts but I remember in 1999 when I first started dry slope skiing I had a funny experience.
You may be able to modify it to suit.

Anyway, never tried skiing before and didnt realise that you ideally needed lessons before you could go out on your own on the slopes.
Took a young lady to a dry slope in kent somewhere and the person behind the counter asked me if I had skied before and I said no. She said that I would need lessons.
Anyway after some old bullcrap about meaning I hadnt skied on dryslopes but had skied on snow before, she said okay and let my in.
Being the complete showoff that I was and still am to some extent, I took the button lift all the way to the top and hammered it down the slope at god knows what speed.
At the bottom I done snow plough and caught a piece of the matting that was sticking up which caused me to look rather like a tumble weed in a hurricane.
The only thing stopped me was the door opening to the ski hire room.
Landing with one leg in and one leg out, the manager of the slopes towered over me saying 'are you sure you have skied before' before asking me to return my skis.
Spent the next hour watching the girl I took out skiing.
Great day out and I ripped a hole in the ass of my jeans.

I came back from skiing and proudly said to my dad, "I got an award for the most improved skier"....he replied, "that does not mean much - you might have been really bad to start!!". I was....

Day 1/2: We were all taught how to snowplough, learnt to go in a snake down a run that had a slight slope on it....apart from me. I started at the top and managed to go straight down the hill wiping out 2 lines of the 'snake'

Later in week: all going down a slightly steeper slope. Instructor at the bottom waving his pole indicating for us to come (Is this an international thing they are taught?!), I started off. Felt confident. Great. Then the speed came, my legs stopped working. Managed to wipe out the rest of the class that were standing on the edge of the piste!

By the end of the week I could do a whole run without taking out some of or all of the class - hence most improved skier!!

there is also the story about a girl that got a bit friendly with the ski instructor during apres ski....but I swore I would never tell that story. What happens on tour, stays on tour....

:D