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James & Ted’s Excellent Adventure – day 3

Ted confesses that he sometimes overthinks things – but that James compensates for this by underthinking things. James, I must[…]

PivotToday we had an introduction to “Pivot” – full explanations and demos are found here: http://madeinmountains.com/pivo/ The goal was just[…]

James very politely and without fuss makes it clear he doesn’t want to listen to my yapping on about physics[…]

Ted has started studying physics but James hasn’t – until today! To be fair though we called it “The Invisible[…]

When asked how to make a turn on skis Charlie answered “Transfer of weight – toward the uphill ski”. He’s[…]

Our session began on the flattest ground that was available working on skating principles and how to use the feet[…]

SkatingLizzy was a complete beginner and had zero skating experience. Immediately after familiarising Lizzy with the skis the first task[…]

Karen was asked the fatal question : “What do you do to start a turn?” Response?… guess! If somebody asked[…]

My first question was “Tell me one thing that comes to mind that you have to do to make a[…]

Everything we covered today can be found at this link: http://madeinmountains.com/beginners/ There’s not too much for me to write today[…]