Chamonix training session 1 - attempting to snowboard
01/03/06 day 5
Didn’t break anything yet. Today's slope was beautiful with trees on either side. The trees provided good contrast with the snow, which allowed me to roughly see the direction in which the slope was going.
I went up the poma lift no problem for the first 4 times, the 5th time I was feeling like a pro, I reached out for the pomo all by myself. However my legs just packed in and I had to let go quarter of the way up!
Today was also the day I committed one of the most horrific falls which every snowboarder dreads...I caught an edge!!! It feels a bit like whiplash, not fun.
Soon after another incident occurs, I was on my edge and going across the slope and had picked up some speed. I was waiting for Keith to give me the signal so I could turn on to my other edge and traverse across the other way. However my earpiece went quiet and then I heard someone who did not have the hardcore rugged Scottish tones of Keith, it was a French woman (or possibly Spanish) saying something in her sweet accent but obviously unrelated to my plight! I was getting faster and faster, no Keith, and a French/ Spanish woman in my ear!!! Out of desperation I make the decision to turn. Straight after my turn I hear Keith in my ear calling me a tree hugger as I had just come quite close to the only tree that was in the middle of the slope we were riding on!
28/02/06 day 4
Still not broke anything yet. Eventually was eligible to use the poma lift!!! Yippee!!! However, not too sure why I am so excited as it was quite a painful experience. I fell off and had only travelled about 40 feet up the slope!
26/02/06 & 27/02/06 day 2 & day 3
Didn’t break anything yet, apart from sweat. I'm not yet ready to go up the poma lift so have to resort to a hike up the beginner's' slope every time.
--poma lift is basically a pole, the top end of which is attached to a cable and the bottom has a plastic plate attached to it. You place the plate between your legs and squeeze your thighs and you get pulled up the slope--
Biggest problem when I snowboard is that when I attempt to turn, my board just ends up sliding straight down the fall line as apposed to carving across the slope.
--Fall line is the route a ball would take if dropped on the slope--
Didn’t break anything yet. Today's slope was beautiful with trees on either side. The trees provided good contrast with the snow, which allowed me to roughly see the direction in which the slope was going.
I went up the poma lift no problem for the first 4 times, the 5th time I was feeling like a pro, I reached out for the pomo all by myself. However my legs just packed in and I had to let go quarter of the way up!
Today was also the day I committed one of the most horrific falls which every snowboarder dreads...I caught an edge!!! It feels a bit like whiplash, not fun.
Soon after another incident occurs, I was on my edge and going across the slope and had picked up some speed. I was waiting for Keith to give me the signal so I could turn on to my other edge and traverse across the other way. However my earpiece went quiet and then I heard someone who did not have the hardcore rugged Scottish tones of Keith, it was a French woman (or possibly Spanish) saying something in her sweet accent but obviously unrelated to my plight! I was getting faster and faster, no Keith, and a French/ Spanish woman in my ear!!! Out of desperation I make the decision to turn. Straight after my turn I hear Keith in my ear calling me a tree hugger as I had just come quite close to the only tree that was in the middle of the slope we were riding on!
28/02/06 day 4
Still not broke anything yet. Eventually was eligible to use the poma lift!!! Yippee!!! However, not too sure why I am so excited as it was quite a painful experience. I fell off and had only travelled about 40 feet up the slope!
26/02/06 & 27/02/06 day 2 & day 3
Didn’t break anything yet, apart from sweat. I'm not yet ready to go up the poma lift so have to resort to a hike up the beginner's' slope every time.
--poma lift is basically a pole, the top end of which is attached to a cable and the bottom has a plastic plate attached to it. You place the plate between your legs and squeeze your thighs and you get pulled up the slope--
Biggest problem when I snowboard is that when I attempt to turn, my board just ends up sliding straight down the fall line as apposed to carving across the slope.
--Fall line is the route a ball would take if dropped on the slope--
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