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Yep, I was on there on Monday. I'm still learning see.  |
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| #20 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 21:44:39 |
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| There's a nursery slope under the main one?!.. |
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| #19 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 21:39:04 |
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| I learnt to board at Tamworth in 3 lessons.. This was back in 1999 when there was no nursery slope underneath the main slope. The main slope felt (and is) narrow with many boarders and skiers whizzing past and you had the fear of either taking out other boarders/skiers as well as the fear of catching an edge and doing a massive faceplant in the snow/ice.... I did the double... a massive faceplant and took out a skier! YEH ! |
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| #18 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 18:17:36 |
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| Neil Mcnab in Livigno, me and 3 mates about 15 yars ago i think he was a ski rep for crystal? Seemed pretty niffty on the board. |
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| #17 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 16:47:57 |
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| i learnt to ride at tam 4 and a bit years ago now good times! |
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| #11 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 14:58:55 |
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I learnt just over 5 years ago on Tallington dry slope, dendex *shivers*
Although i'd never go back to riding dendex it really was a great place to learn. If you can ride dendex you can pretty much ride anything. |
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| #10 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 14:50:42 |
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First lesson was at La Molina, Spain in '92.. 1 hour long.. Feckin useless instructor who could barely speak English and whose method of teaching to turn was to say 'Rida down, then turn'..
The had 3 full day lessons in '98 at Whistler.. 12 of us on the first day split between 3 instructors, no-one but me on the second day so I got 1-1 instruction with a cool Swiss girl, whose name I forget, for the price of a group lesson ..and the next day too!.. Needless to say I progressed pretty quick.. By day three I was riding reds easily and could spin pirouettes down the piste..
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| #9 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 13:44:30 |
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| Couple of Kiwi's in Andorra, they were pretty good. Guess I didn't really learn to ride properly until I went on a McNab course some years later. The RTM guys (who's advert is conveniently fliickering along above me) were also damn good at teaching flatland tricks. |
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| #8 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 12:21:27 |
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My first holiday was in Courchevel, and we arrived at about 2pm. We immediately hot-footed to the rental shop to get me a board and things and then had to make our way back down to the hotel via reds and blues! It was scary as hell, but also cool as f***! Next day my mates got me to do the falling leaf, then the day after that I had 2 hours one to one which taught me turns.
The rest is history. |
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| #7 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 12:02:45 |
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I was taught first by a crazy french friend of mine in St Lary (Pyr) and he got onto a red run on my second go.... I fell lots
Had a couple of hours with a Portugese chap that afternoon and was all good for some sketchy riding from that point on and had it pretty good by the end of the 6 days.
Then 2 years later I was back on the slopes in Sunshine Village. Got hooked up with a free days lesson with a nice New Zealand girl and she got rid of my ugly style and improved my confidence no end. Afternoon was 1 to 1 Top stuff  .
I think the days lesson with someone who spoke my language was probably the best thing I could have done on that holiday, set me off on the right steps for sure. Will be tempting to have an intermediate or adavanced lesson day when I go back this year. |
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| #6 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 11:51:14 |
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I was taught in 1998 by two instructors at Uxbridge/Hillingdon dry slope over the course of 3x2hr lessons. Boy did it hurt the wrists and knees, but well worth it. Teaching had come on a long way since then, as has the rest of the sport and also ideas about binding angles  . |
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| #5 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 11:20:23 |
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A mate who had done a few weeks taught me when I was working in the states. We skived off for a weekend and went up to Mammoth at the end of one November. It dumped overnight and I spent my second day waist deep in powder with no idea what to do. Never found powder like it since (haven't been to NA since).
Since then I had a week a year for about 6 years then took a couple of McNab clinics last year to get rid of the bad habits. This year is Freestyle and Backcountry if my battered body can take it  |
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| #4 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 11:17:01 |
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| I did my lessons at Cas, but reall think that my friends have hepled me more with building the confodence whichn is my main issue.....o thank you Austind and Philly |
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| #3 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 11:12:21 |
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| I went on my first snowboarding holiday in march of this year to Bulgaria where I had an awful instructor who was hungover from the night before. I was full of hope and was so excited, I thought I'd had a good lesson until that afternoon when i went up on a blue slope with my boyfriend and some of my friends... we got off the chair lift and i strapped myself in to my board off i went and then suddenly thought... oh my god i have no idea how to stop this thing!!!! My instructor had failed to to teach me the basics of controlling toe edge and heal edge!!! So my boyfriend took me to the nursery slopes for the whole of the next day and then tought me the basics for the rest of that week. To his credit he go me to link 4 turns by the end of the week! I was so chuffed especially seen as i had really scared my self when i realised that i couldn't stop the damn board initially! I'm still learning and can't wait for Jan 19th when i go on my second holiday with boyfriend (same one who tought me, so can't have done that bad!) and a load of mates.... can't wait!!! |
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| #2 Re: Who taught you to snowboard 24/11/2007 @ 10:50:11 |
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| Various Swiss instructors, they seemed to be perfectly good at teaching normal people (like my friend) to board but sadly didn't do too fantastic a job on me because I am massively malcoordinated and a huge wuss. Followed by a French instructor in Val d'Isere who was ok, then a fantastic one in Risoul who finally tackled my nervousness and kept making me straightline down the piste to cure my fear (it worked fairly well) and finally stopped just telling me to relax (not overly helpful) and told me to stop leaning back etc instead which actually worked - easier to force your body into a more correct 'relaxed' position than it is to actually make yourself relax - and once I had got into a better position I actually did relax anyway! I think I progressed more in the 2 lessons I had in Risoul than in the previous 3 weeks of lessons elsewhere. |
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