(Originally written 2004–06-14 23:35)

Kind of. Well enough to use the snowdome at Tamworth without somebody holding my hand. Recreational Standard apparantly. I can turn and stop and not crash into people and stuff. Looking forward to skiing with Andrea now. Just have to save up for a holiday :)
It’s seriously good fun. And cheap at the snowdome, for students anyway – just £15/hr for lessons, and at this time of year it’s really quiet – the busiest lesson that I was on was 3 students and 2 instructors :) One was one-on-one, and the others had two students. This I consider to be a good student-tutor ratio.
Just have to get the posture right now… apparantly I tend to ski like I’m sitting on the toilet. Hence weight on the back of the skis, and all goes bad. But that happens less often now. I’m getting the hang of controlling speed by traversing, rather than snowploughing. Which is fun :)
It’s great when you ski using the feedback from the snow to know what’s going on – it just suddenly clicked for me. Don’t need to think about the angle, or the motion, or anything; instead you feel the snow under your skis, feel the pressure on your legs, and get your feedback that way.

It rules.