Skiing!

Reply 20

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Its not hard, but takes a while to get good, I dont really skate like that, I use a longboard, which is SO much nicer to ride, no tricks to bother about, nothing, just an easy ride! (and more space for feet, bag etc :biggrin:

Reply 21

superkillball

1

I went for skiing this xmas. It was great.

Reply 22

Road Racer

Yeah skiing & snowboardin is amazing, especially when theres not tooo many people, so its kinda just you and the mountains. Its like total peace and total lunacy at the same time. Can be quite dangerous though so take it easy! Going this year on the 10th of Feb.

Reply 23

username24944

tbh in my experience of skiing, and I have been since I was 7, works about to like 12+ or so times.

Best place for skiing is Austria, the people are so nice and it’s always good fun. Canada is quite good but in Whistler there are a lot of boards (they annoy the heck out of, taking all the top layer of snow of the slope). France is well a bad idea, the French think they know everything about skiing. Did not have fun at all. Italy is ok if you can put up with the loud Italians, and Switzerland is quite nice.

If you have ice skated before you’re on the way to be able to skiing, but skiing is defiantly the more difficult of the two.

For me it’s the most fun of all sports, a tad on the expensive side, but well worth it. So keen in-fact that I want to take a year out after Uni to become a ski instructor.

If you haven’t tried it yet, I would recommend it.

Reply 24

Road Racer

pumpkin7

skiing is fun... hold onto your poles when you are going up the mountain on a chair lift... you drop em, and you have to ski down without one, and if it is your first time, it really knocks your confidence... :O

Haha the first time I went I was going up on the chair lift and approaching the first of two jump off points (I was going to the second) and this weird french lady at the platform who works there starts shouting something at me in French, im like thinking wtf is her problem? and then suddenly *crack* my pole which was dangling down a little hit the platform and bent/cracked. She didnt even do anything, just goes "VOILA!" and I carried on to the top of the mountains with only one pole. Luckily my friend was with me who had been skiing a lot and as that was the first time I had ever even put skis on took the one pole and gave me two hehe.

Reply 25

lil_sweetie

1

Skiing is super duper uber fun! I love it! Go every year with my family, we used to go a lot in France but now mainly in USA. La Plagne in France was my favourite place though! It's such a fun sport, it's great exercise and you don't get tired at all doing it!

Reply 26

djk_99

13

I just went skiing for the first time in Canada this xmas. I found it a bit harder than I was told, theres a lot of skill in learning. Definitely get an instructor, there is no way you can learn on your own. Be prepared for aching knees, ankles, thighs as they are spending all day in a position you are not used to. I found that after 4-5 hours skiing in the morning I was fed up, and we did other stuff in the afternoons. But it was fun and I would like to go again and learn a bit more!

Reply 27

hanadeka2002

I've been skiing in Tremblant.It is lovely there-such a nice place(plus there was a cool clothes shop called 'Brainstorm' or something where I spent all my money...oops)....

Aww it was just gorgeous!

I've also been to Banff and Whistler,both of which are gorgeous,especially Banff IMO.

Reply 28

PinkPigeon

13

Skiing is great but you have to be pretty 'hardcore' to make a good holiday with friends out of it- as in, unless you're someone who is bounding with energy, you don't always feel like doing an awaful lot after a day on the slopes, it does tire you out! But, you're young so I'm sure you can do it!
Also, I found skiing so much more enjoyable to learn than snowboarding- once you've got the hang of it, I'm sure snowboarding it great but when I tried to learn I ended up with concussion and had to stay off the slops for the rest of the holiday (4 days!)
But skiing, you can pick it up fairly quickly and have a great time, it's fun!

Reply 29

Sophdoph

1

It's awesome, but get lessons if you haven't done it before. Have lessons at home on a dry slope then in resort, you'll progress much better and it'll be safe and fun :smile:

Austria is fantastic with good ski schools, reliable snow and friendly people. Andorra is supposed to be good for cheap hols too.

Reply 30

G.A.K

OP

4

Thanks guys! Really helpful! Does anybody know of any useful websites to book and any details of costs etc?
Many thanks!
Btw I can iceskate as everybody was mentioning, and I adore it, that's why I think I'd like skiing! :smile:

Reply 31

HighlyEvolved

1

Can anyone advise me which insurance company to use for my ski trip? Ive been looking but some, ie Norwich Union, but they dont seem to cover injry, only stuff like loss of hire equipment. Tesco doesnt look too bad.

Reply 32

PinkPigeon

13

edmj000

Can anyone advise me which insurance company to use for my ski trip? Ive been looking but some, ie Norwich Union, but they dont seem to cover injry, only stuff like loss of hire equipment. Tesco doesnt look too bad.

I don't know any specific companies, but check that they cover airlifts...you'd be surprised how many dont!

Skiing!

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