Ski Instruction next time or not????

Ian Wickham wrote:Only you can answer that question by looking at other skiers around you and make the comparison where you stand ability wise

Definitely don't look at the skiers around you as 80% of them are rubbish.

In my opinion, you should continue lessons and ideally you want to be doing more than one week a year but I understand that may not be possible. If you can do 2 weeks I would do lessons for the first and use the second to improve on your own by practicing what you have learned.

Just to add to Pablo's post, if you can manage 2, (or more!), consecutive weeks, then there are multiple benefits to be claimed over 2 separate weeks.

Assuming you set it up right, ~ confidence, capability, balance, knowledge will all improve. Balance is a tangible, and it is an enabler for the other benefits.

Pablo Escobar wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:Only you can answer that question by looking at other skiers around you and make the comparison where you stand ability wise

Definitely don't look at the skiers around you as 80% of them are rubbish.

In my opinion, you should continue lessons and ideally you want to be doing more than one week a year but I understand that may not be possible. If you can do 2 weeks I would do lessons for the first and use the second to improve on your own by practicing what you have learned.

Why not look at other people skiing ? 80% are rubbish ? depends where you ski I suppose !!!!

Ian Wickham wrote:

Why not look at other people skiing ? 80% are rubbish ? depends where you ski I suppose !!!!

How do you know they are not rubbish skiers?

bandit wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

Why not look at other people skiing ? 80% are rubbish ? depends where you ski I suppose !!!!

How do you know they are not rubbish skiers?

You would make the comparison to your own skiing

Ian,
When you said 'You would make the comparison with your own ski-ing' - that's exactly what I was thinking, and I reached the rather depressing conclusion that the more one improves, the more 'rubbish' one is surrounded by :wink:

I guess, to an Olympic level skier, we are all 'rubbish', but to a complete beginner we'd look pretty good.

And, when I ski past some poor person 'stuck' on a tricky bit of a red or black slope, I admit I feel a bit smug, but I don't think they're a 'rubbish' skier, I just think to myself 'that was me last year, or the year before ...'.

And, I am very grateful when another, more competent skier comes to help me out when I've fallen and lost my skis. I hope they are not thinking I am another piece of 'rubbish' littering the slope.

I suppose it depends if Pablo is talking about skiers who have been ski-ing for years, think they're really great, but have a number of bad habits they don't know about, or whether he's talking about skiers who are simply at a lower skill level than ourselves because they haven't had as much practice/lessons. I would agree that it wouldn't be a good idea trying to learn from the former, and probably a beginner wouldn't notice their mistakes.

Anyway, on a more cheerful note, Pablo and Dave Mac have now told us to go and have 2 consecutive weeks ski holiday instead of one - sounds pretty good to me :D

Ally

We all have limitations of what we can achieve e.g. I will never be able to ski with my skis together as my bandy legs will not allow me to do this, no matter what the others say they
All look and make comparisons between them selves and other skiers, what else do you do on a chair lift for two or three minutes.

AllyG wrote:I suppose it depends if Pablo is talking about skiers who have been ski-ing for years, think they're really great, but have a number of bad habits they don't know about

This^

I know I have plenty of bad habits too, I just can't afford lessons to fix them ;)