Day One Taha Taha had initially learned to ski in Austria but had mostly skied in Kazakhstan – so this[…]
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St Foy – from scratch
Day 1 A fine winter’s day in St Foy – warm in the direct sunlight, no wind and very few[…]
Read more1st Winter Run
Decided to start running again despite the inevitable washing load that each run generates – with four or five layers[…]
Read moreSkiing fitness…
Bit of a lull in the teaching just now – late January being a very quiet period with few people[…]
Read moreFrost – chaos
Car windscreen – this morning! Just having written yesterday about chaos theory and the infinite variation that it generates, I[…]
Read moreThe Emperor’s New Colthes -Part 2
Why is standard ski instruction completely wrong? Why are the instructions back to front? Why can practically no-one see this[…]
Read moreEilidh & Jon
Eilidh understood what she was trying to achieve from her previous work, but was not managing to get rid of[…]
Read moreEilidh
Discussing Eilidh’s skiing prior to the lesson it was apparent that she had skied for a number of years but[…]
Read moreJon, Duncan
I asked Jon what he wanted the objective of our group session to be and he stated that although he[…]
Read moreRoyal Navy at Tignes
Today Tignes hosted the first of several days of Royal Navy championships. I was enlisted by Tignes to spend the[…]
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