Skiing Etiquette

pablo - start taking hrt lol and grow your own end of problemo

I must have been very fortunate because where ever I've been someone has stopped very quickly and helped me to retrieve poles, skis, sunglasses etc. - luckily I have only had small tumbles and not hurt myself, and more importantly have never taken anyone else out with me. (Well only my daughter (then 20!) once, and she just stood there watching me slide very slowly in to her!)

Perhaps ski schools should teach people how to fall over - I think sometimes people career out of control and causes damage to themselves and others as they are afraid of falling instead of committimg to a safe tumble early on in the process.

With more and more skiiers on the pistes dare I also suggest some form of test and licence system?!

shazzo wrote:
I must have been very fortunate because where ever I've been someone has stopped very quickly and helped me to retrieve poles, skis, sunglasses etc. - luckily I have only had small tumbles and not hurt myself, and more importantly have never taken anyone else out with me. (Well only my daughter (then 20!) once, and she just stood there watching me slide very slowly in to her!)

Perhaps ski schools should teach people how to fall over - I think sometimes people career out of control and causes damage to themselves and others as they are afraid of falling instead of committimg to a safe tumble early on in the process.

With more and more skiiers on the pistes dare I also suggest some form of test and licence system?!

They should definitely be held accountable, I just think people don't know, they go skiing once a year and thats that, I still think etiquette should be taught in ski school, although ise has said that it is, it wasn't when I was first taught.
I can give you examples in everyday life of a person fainting on the way to work and people just stepping over him not wanting to get involved, I guess people just don't care any more about their fellow man :cry: :cry:

Ian Wickham wrote:
They should definitely be held accountable, I just think people don't know, they go skiing once a year and thats that, I still think etiquette should be taught in ski school, although ise has said that it is, it wasn't when I was first taught.

How many weeks of lessons did you take?

ise wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:
They should definitely be held accountable, I just think people don't know, they go skiing once a year and thats that, I still think etiquette should be taught in ski school, although ise has said that it is, it wasn't when I was first taught.

How many weeks of lessons did you take?

I'm adding up, about six weeks if memory serves

Ian Wickham wrote:

ise wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:
They should definitely be held accountable, I just think people don't know, they go skiing once a year and thats that, I still think etiquette should be taught in ski school, although ise has said that it is, it wasn't when I was first taught.

How many weeks of lessons did you take?

I'm adding up, about six weeks if memory serves

that ought to have been enough time for it to come up :D

I'm just a bit conscious that some of the people who complain this should be covered in lessons only stuck it for a week which isn't long enough for this to be covered.

ise wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

ise wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:
They should definitely be held accountable, I just think people don't know, they go skiing once a year and thats that, I still think etiquette should be taught in ski school, although ise has said that it is, it wasn't when I was first taught.

How many weeks of lessons did you take?

I'm adding up, about six weeks if memory serves

that ought to have been enough time for it to come up :D

I'm just a bit conscious that some of the people who complain this should be covered in lessons only stuck it for a week which isn't long enough for this to be covered.

I have had lessons on and off over a quite a long period of time, I guess the last week of lessons was 2001 Valmorel, an excellent instructor I might add, so I guess what I am trying to say is that they may have added Etiquette to the lessons since 2001.
They have not started covering it with the kids, I Emailed the older ones a copy of the FIS ski rules two years ago.

I can't remember how I learned about "the rules", but presumably it was in lessons. To me though, a lot of it, is just common sense and common courtesy.