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		<title>I can Ski!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Originally written 2004&#8211;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&#8217;s seriously good fun. And [...]]]></description>
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<p>Kind of. Well enough to use the <a href="http://www.snowdome.co.uk/" target="_blank">snowdome</a> at Tamworth without somebody holding my hand. <em>Recreational Standard</em> 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 :<del>)<br />

It&#8217;s seriously good fun. And cheap at the snowdome, for students anyway &#8211; just &pound;15/hr for lessons, and at this time of year it&#8217;s really quiet &#8211; the busiest lesson that I was on was 3 students and 2 instructors :</del>) One was one-on-one, and the others had two students. This I consider to be a good student-tutor ratio.<br />

Just have to get the posture right now&#8230; apparantly I tend to ski like I&#8217;m sitting on the toilet. Hence weight on the back of the skis, and all goes bad. But that happens less often now. I&#8217;m getting the hang of controlling speed by traversing, rather than snowploughing. Which is fun :)<br />

It&#8217;s great when you ski using the feedback from the snow to know what&#8217;s going on &#8211; it just suddenly clicked for me. Don&#8217;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. </p>
<p>It rules.</p>

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