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Talk to my friend as the blind man ain't listening...
Adil Latif | Snowboarding-Mont Blanc glacier Descent | ON 28th October 2006 | 1 comments
An interesting phenomena most blind people face and indeed most people with an obvious disability face, is people refusing to speak directly to them and opting instead to speak to who ever is accompanying them. After a few cool looking runs on my first day with Grant we were approached by a snowboarder. Random snowboarder:“So is he blind?” Grant: “Yes he is”. Random Snowboarder: “So how long has HE been riding for?” Grant: “Why don’t you ask HI...
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New Instructor for the UK
Adil Latif | Snowboarding-Mont Blanc glacier Descent | ON 27th October 2006 | 0 comments
Eventually getting back on the indoor slope I had a new instructor as Daniel Lloyd finished up with me for the moment as he has recently become a Daddy to a lovely baby boy. I got a Scottish lad called Grant Gallacher. He is of the same instructing calibre as Keith McIntosh and has ridden with him in France. He narrated a little story of him and Keith riding back country. On approaching a small cliff he seen Keith in the most calmest of fashion perform a beautifully executed back flip off the ...
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BOARD BALLET
Adil Latif | Snowboarding-Mont Blanc glacier Descent | ON 27th October 2006 | 0 comments
This post refers to the system through which Grant taught me to get rhythm in my turns. The goal of our session was for me to turn myself without his prompts, so basically going from left to right to left (without obviously hitting the pillars on the right when I go right and without hitting the wall on the left when I go left). At first Grant told me to count after each turn.. so we would go left and then I would start counting 1, 2, 3, 4 and then I would turn right and count 1, 2, 3, 4. After...
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