After our warm up run Avni immediately had a pertinent question regarding the technique she is learning. The question was[…]
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Avni Day 1
Avni had one run to warm up and get used to sliding after a 2 year break from skiing. It[…]
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Derin’s first ever off-piste experience! The crashes are all a perfectly normal part of it. Her use of dynamics –[…]
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No photography today. The conditions – snow and weather combined were probably slightly overwhelming for any 10 year old. All[…]
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Today was another non-stop trip to Le Fornet but we managed a little bit more technical work along the way.[…]
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Today Derin skied her first black run – an icy Face de Bellevarde. She managed without any difficulty. I’d been[…]
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Work and play today! Derin actually allowed me to train her in technique – in exchange for a little bit[…]
Read moreAlp Day 6
Today was all about getting Alp onto some far longer suitable runs that would provide far more opportunity for feedback[…]
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Quite an impressive amount of skiing today from Derin. We started with a non-stop descent from the Grande Motte chair,[…]
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Today was mainly reinforcing and consolidating progress. Notably we returned to the blue piste several times (instead of the usual[…]
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