James Hart wrote:
Jim Hutton wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:45:06 -0000, "MoonMan"
wrote:

Chris Wilburn wrote:

My question is do you ever forget how to ski?? Is it like riding
a bike were once you have mastered it you really never forget or
will I have to start from the beginning. I am guessing the answer
will be somewhere in between.


I would suggest spending an hour or so at your local dry slope or
SnowDome/zone. this should at least start to bring your unused
skiing reflexes back. you don't lose them they just have to be used.

From my massive experience of livigno (1 day last year) I would say
you should have a great time.

I would seriously recommend NOT going to the dry-slope (snow dome
may be better, I don't know).

It is the received wisdom that some dry-slope before you go back to
skiing is a good idea, and for years I did this. I found that
despite this it took at least a morning to even feel comfortable on
snow, let alone be back to last year's standard.

I assumed that this was the best I could do, until one year due to
circumstances I couldn't do any dry-slope. The difference was
amazing
- I felt at home on the snow immediately, and was skiing with my
usual over-confidence within an hour.

Has anyone else found this ?

I too find it takes a few runs on snow after running on plastic to
get a real 'feel' back but I know I feel a lot more confident after
getting a few hours on plastic under my belt before doing the real
thing. I've got no direct comparison but next weekend about half our
group hasn't skiied since last year whereas the other half will have
had a couple of hours on the dry slope. It will be interesting to see
the difference between the 2 groups.

in my experience it is the change back to plastic from snow that is more
difficult. I teach and race on plastic and i find that the first run on snow
is wonderfull your skis run so much more easily, but the first run back on
plastic is horrible as you have to cope with "Sticky Ice" as my coach
described it on monday when several of us had just returned from a week on
snow.

I do find the plastic is bad for your skiing attidude very strange, ok it's
not snow, but it's better than nothing!


--
Chris *:-)

Downhill Good, Uphill BAD!

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