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Today we began with a focus on “strategy” – how to get down a difficult or potentially dangerous slope. Traversing,[…]

Yasmin’s initial video shows the use of stemming (plough), “balancing” over the outside ski in the turn (body remaining completely[…]

Talking to John or our way up the gondola I was already very clear where his difficulties in progressing with[…]

Majd was frightened by the beginner’s slope so he really needed much more time playing with skis on flat terrain[…]

M wobbled around for a while this morning then discreetly retired. He was frightened to slide on his own and[…]

M and Emir were working on basic preparatory skills and were a bit tired from their travelling so we only[…]

LucindaDoing very well considering there is a physical problem affecting the left hip. In the skiing it shows up as[…]

TalaTala was a bit nervous today after yesterday’s descent from the restaurant. Just a few runs on the easy green[…]

Tala (and later Darine) worked through exercises for understanding the basics of dynamics – “moving the centre of mass”. The[…]

Top of the blog page there are menu button that go to fixed information pages that describe most of the[…]