Beginner Skier Archives - Page 13 of 17 - Ski Instruction : Val d'Isere, Tignes, Les Arcs, La Plagne

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Mark started out this session completely under the tyranny of an uncontrollable snowplough and unable to skate – so there[…]

First day on a piste – skiing parallel. With only one 3.5 hr session planned I felt it necessary to[…]

Issy and Layla had a very vague understanding of what to do to make a turn – even when referring[…]

Today we revised “dynamics” and that brought positive responses from everyone. …so much so that we had several runs off[…]

Julie can ski and here’s the proof – using gentle dynamics. The modified “dynamic” version of the snowplough wasn’t working[…]

Some impressive skiing today from the team! We worked on “Pivot” (demo video below) so as to bring the skis[…]

Today was just putting into practise the technical things that were learned yesterday – plus the familiarisation with chairlifts, button[…]

Everyone had skied once before – but probably 3 years ago – so we were definitely in for a wobbly[…]

Today – sticky snow and a couple of colds but everyone was up for it. Warm up run then straight[…]

We took a lot of shortcuts today with the group not being complete beginners. Most of the work was ironing[…]