Today it was a good decision to cross over into Les Arcs 2000 via the Transarc lift up to 2600m[…]
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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[…]
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PivotToday we had an introduction to “Pivot” – full explanations and demos are found here: http://madeinmountains.com/pivo/ The goal was just[…]
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James very politely and without fuss makes it clear he doesn’t want to listen to my yapping on about physics[…]
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Ted has started studying physics but James hasn’t – until today! To be fair though we called it “The Invisible[…]
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When asked how to make a turn on skis Charlie answered “Transfer of weight – toward the uphill ski”. He’s[…]
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Our session began on the flattest ground that was available working on skating principles and how to use the feet[…]
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SkatingLizzy was a complete beginner and had zero skating experience. Immediately after familiarising Lizzy with the skis the first task[…]
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Karen was asked the fatal question : “What do you do to start a turn?” Response?… guess! If somebody asked[…]
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My first question was “Tell me one thing that comes to mind that you have to do to make a[…]
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