Had one of my first ski lessons this week, on one of those carpet conveyor belt like things. Reminded me of how the best learning devices are as difficult as they are rewarding. If all goes well I will feel confident enough to ski with fun the yearly company ski trip this March. And I wanna surprise the gf with an indoor ski day for Valentines, cause I know she really likes skiing but hasn't done it in ages.
I feel it only takes a couple days of skiiing before you can go down the easy slopes pretty confidently. It's pretty intuitive once you get into it - the trick is just to zigzag to slow down instead of trying to go straight down and brake pizza-style. Winter sports are the only thing making winter bearable right now, enjoy!
Yeah, we went for a week of skiing it wouldn't be an issue, but it's only 3 days of skiing. Last year was my first skiing holiday, and it was more perilous than I hoped - for some stupid reason a blue ski run can mean anything between 'kids playground' and morituri te salutant almost-black steepness in Austria. (Green doesn't exist.) It's so bad I have been considering writing code that can pre-analyze and rank the steepness of ski runs based on DEMs for me. I had ski lessons, but once confidence is lost it's really hard to get it back when you're on a steep as shit slope and dreading your next move. Only on the third day did I figure out which ski runs are good to practice on, and by that time it was already nearly too late. All I want this year is to whizz down a mountain at a slow and comfortable pace without breaking anything.