January 2020 - Ski Instruction

Alp 2020 day 3

Breakthrough day today! Yesterday’s work was clearly coming through from the start today. First run (blue piste) was assisted, second[…]

Today was just too cold for standing around and working on exercises. (-17°C at the top of the Tovière with[…]

Big day for Alp today – lift pass and off to Val d’Isère. I’m not sure which of us ended[…]

Riding up the Gondola this morning with Nil, aiming for whatever sunshine could squeeze through the thin clouds, I asked[…]

This is Alp’s 2nd ski holiday – last year being the first time. Learning without a snowplough last year, at[…]

Tony had done well during the previous three days, understanding all the aspects of technique and body management that we[…]

Video later in the session – working on using the downhill ski to rise up out of the turn –[…]

Today was not a day for being stuck on a short training run – the weather cleared and the pistes[…]

The first video clip is Tony before we started to work on the technique. In summary the following issues are[…]

…and then there were two! All the ladies have vanished already! Fair enough – Appy’s daughter has a mild gastro[…]