Beginner Skier Archives - Page 13 of 18 - Ski Instruction : Val d'Isere, Tignes, Les Arcs, La Plagne

Sally, Bethany, Steve day 1

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[…]

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

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[…]