One Week

The first week is over

The week was made up of four days of lessons covering the basics of correct balance in skiing. Balance is made up of four components; laterial, vertical, fore-aft and rotational. move too far out of balance in one of the directions and you can't easily move in one of the others. So we did a series of execises to try and feel the limits of these movements and feel how different movements affect the ability to ski.

Injury list so far is one badly twisted knee and a dislocated shoulder(not as bad as it sounds).

We were split into three groups of skiers (8,8 and 7 people) and two groups of five boarders (5 and 5 people). One boarder, Laurie, because of her shoulder had some private lessons in order to build up her confidence again.

Each week we will get a different instructor and this week he was Jeff (nicknamed Skippy apparently) and he took us for the four days.

for Friday and the rest of the weekend we are expected to revise what we have done in the week and take a rest so as not to get too worn out.

We got a DVD and a text book so lots of useful info