Hi All,
We are off to Arinsal on Sunday for the second year with Neilson and I need some advice on what level lessons we should take.
Neilson seemed to split people into beginners, intermediate and advanced and my wife and I don't seem to fit into any of these. Last year my wife and I both did different advanced beginners lessons (which do not seem to be listed by Neilson although they exist).
This will be my fourth year skiing and, at the end of last time, I could parallel turn on a good day but, outside lessons, tended to lose confidence on some of the steeper blue runs and degenerate into snow-ploughing. I want to get more confidence in parallel turns and be able to do blue runs properly, I have no wish to be pushed onto red runs yet.
My wife missed a year a couple of years ago, due to a knee injury (not while we were skiing), so is still doing stem turns and is very lacking in confidence. She did a slightly less advanced beginners course than I did last year and found it difficult to keep up with some of the group (the instructor did not seem to make allowances for the slower ones in the group). She dropped out of her group and did have a couple of private lessons, shared with a friend, but did not really progress much. She really needs to get her confidence back or this will be her last year skiing.
Any advice on what groups each of us should aim for would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Richard
We are off to Arinsal on Sunday for the second year with Neilson and I need some advice on what level lessons we should take.
Neilson seemed to split people into beginners, intermediate and advanced and my wife and I don't seem to fit into any of these. Last year my wife and I both did different advanced beginners lessons (which do not seem to be listed by Neilson although they exist).
This will be my fourth year skiing and, at the end of last time, I could parallel turn on a good day but, outside lessons, tended to lose confidence on some of the steeper blue runs and degenerate into snow-ploughing. I want to get more confidence in parallel turns and be able to do blue runs properly, I have no wish to be pushed onto red runs yet.
My wife missed a year a couple of years ago, due to a knee injury (not while we were skiing), so is still doing stem turns and is very lacking in confidence. She did a slightly less advanced beginners course than I did last year and found it difficult to keep up with some of the group (the instructor did not seem to make allowances for the slower ones in the group). She dropped out of her group and did have a couple of private lessons, shared with a friend, but did not really progress much. She really needs to get her confidence back or this will be her last year skiing.
Any advice on what groups each of us should aim for would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Richard