Do you talk about your skiing escapades with others?

[liquidfeet]

Do you talk about your skiing with others? Do you talk about how you barely missed skiing into that tree, or how you took a jump suddenly and unexpectedly, or how you mastered something yesterday that you were working on? If so, who listens? How do they respond?

Do you consider this type of talk to be fun? Or do you think of it is bragging?

 

[ski diva]

I LOVE to talk about skiing. And I love to hear other people talk about it, too.

My problem is that I have to watch how much I talk about it so I don't bore my non-skiing friends. I almost feel like I'm keeping part of my life under wraps, since it's something I could go on about all the time and I want them to keep liking me!

The kind of talk that DOES drive me nuts, however, is when skiers engage in a sort of pissing contest, when they try to out-do each other in how exceptionally brilliant, risky, dangerous, death-defying, expert, wonderful, etc. (you get the picture) they ski. I find that the people who do this are usually more talk than action. The remedy -- get them on the slopes and watch them squirm. :D

 

[tcarey]

I eat it sleep it and drink it. I have alot of ski friends now so most times it is all we talk about. Even some of my clients at the gym are skiers so there is no lack of ski talk there either!!

Terry

 

[liquidfeet]

You are so lucky. No one in my immediate circle of people skis. I have to watch what I say too, for fear of overloading them and boring them. But I need to talk! Thus my presence here. When I retire I want to move to a place near a ski mountain. But that brings with it the problem of making friends while old. So ... am working on in NOW.

 

[ski diva]

No one in my immediate circle skis, either. That's why this is so great!!!!!

 

[ISki]

No, there is no one really to share stories with around here. Many people ski, but more casually. I don't know any other women who love to ski. It's hard to talk about anyway, because sometimes it is more of the feeling that skiing gives than anything specific.

 

[Snowbird]

I wish I had women friends who ski, but I don't, so I don't talk about skiing too much. I have a male friend who's on the ski patrol, but I don't talk about skiing too much with him, either. Usually when I see him I'm in a group, and I don't want to bore everyonen else.

 

[eng_ch]

I wonder if it's an age thing too? When did you all start skiing? I didn't start until I was 30 so I'm a bit of a "born again" and find lots to talk about. On the other hand, my other great passion is music, but I've been doing that since I was little so it's second nature and doesn't need talking about. Does that make any sense or am I talking nonsense again?

 

[ski diva]

Don't know if age is a factor or not. It might be in this way - I have a friend who talks about horses all the time. And though I love my friend, and actually don't mind horses, I find it's kind of tiresome to listen to all the time. So when I think about talking about skiing to people who aren't interested in skiing, I think about my friend and her horses. And that's where age comes in: as I've gotten older, I've realized that not everyone is interested in the same things that I am, so it's better to tamp it down a notch rather than bore them to tears. And that's why this forum is so great. I can talk about skiing all I want -- and NO ONE GETS BORED!!!!!

 

[tcarey]

I was up at my local hill today(Okemo) and went for a beer with my Ski School Director.I tried to talk about other things but we both kept going back to skiing.Like what our goals were for the season,new skis,injuries we are nursing. It was great to talk with someone who shares the same passion!!

Terry

 

[SnowHot]

Hi! My name is SnowHot, and I have a ski addiction. I think about skiing and talk about skiing all the time. I need help!

Actually I think I'm a lot better now than I was a few years ago. I talk about biking, skiing, golf, ..........all of the things I find passionate.

I spent the afternoon with a girlfriend, who (with her family) skis with my husband and me all the time. When we chatted with her new neighbor, the first think I asked was, "Do you and your family ski?"

My friend said, to her neighbor, "If you don't ski, you should. If you start skiing with Tricia, you will get hooked. She is the abyss of skiing"

I'll take that as a compliment:D

 

[teachski]

I share my stories all of the time.

One story I love to share is about this time I met a friend from college to ski a couple years after we graduated. In college, she never skied, but then after she met this guy and he taught her how. This was to be our first time skiing together, ever.

Several times during the week before we were to meet she would call me and tell me how excited she was that we were finally going to ski together. She had moved away after college and was finally back in the area. When we met at the ski area she excitedly took out the new skis and boots her boyfriend had given her.

Seeing the skis and the boots I figured, ok, she must be able to ski ok, but rather than taking the chance, since it was both of our first time out for the year, I suggested we take a couple runs on a lower level trail. As we were going up the lift she looked at me with the most serious face I had ever seen on her and said, "My boyfriend said these skis are better than my old ones, they have brakes, how do you use the brakes?" I looked at her and asked if she was serious and she said she was. I knew I was in for some kind of night.

The first time down the hill "Mel" headed right for the trees on the edge of the trail and sat down as she came near one and straddled it. I knew I was in for some kind of a night. I ended up giving her some pointers after she told me that the skis she was on the year before were 160cm rentals. Her new ones were 195 K2 Comp RS skis ( I actually had the same exact ski in a slightly older model). After about 5 or 6 more times on the easy trail we wet to a steeper intermediate trail and she did ok.

I don't get to see her much, nor ski with her much because she has married and moved to Maine. Maybe I'll look her up this season.

 

[liquidfeet]

I wonder if it's an age thing too? When did you all start skiing? I didn't start until I was 30 so I'm a bit of a "born again" and find lots to talk about. On the other hand, my other great passion is music, but I've been doing that since I was little so it's second nature and doesn't need talking about. Does that make any sense or am I talking nonsense again?

Eng_ch, Now you have me really wondering. I came to skiing three years ago, and it threatens to take over my mind sometimes. I want to talk about it all the time. But I've been an artist all my life, both as a child and as an adult. I don't feel the need to talk about art nearly as much as about skiing. Could it be the time factor?

However, I've been a teacher of art for 20 years, and I never tire of talking about that process (teaching art), so maybe it's not how long I've been involved in something that makes me want to talk about it, but some mysterious factor not yet discovered. Don't know what it is, though.

Interesting food for thought.

 

[teachski]

Hi! My name is SnowHot, and I have a ski addiction. I think about skiing and talk about skiing all the time. I need help!

Would you recommend that I should seek counseling for my addiction to skiing? I think I have obsessive/compulsive disorder when it comes to skiing. The other day I even found a way to bring skiing into my lesson plan for my English class. We were studying Mythology and I introduced the Norse god Ullr. My classroom has ski posters on the wall from the first day of school to the last day. I also have a wall of ski stickers (on poster board), a couple plaques, a paper weight and for hat day I always wear my german ski hat with all my area pins on it. Me, obsessed? NO, not me, I don't have an obsession with skiing.

I used to also have an obsession with posting on ski related discussion boards, averaging 8 posts per day on most and a total signed in time of over 8 hours per day. I am glad to say I have overcome this obsession (as it caused me some problems).

 

[liquidfeet]

This obsession, addiction, compulsion, is embarrassing, isn't it? I try to hide it, but just can't. We just all have to meet someday.

By the way, winter is in the air here in Massa. The sky gets dark sooner, the air is colder, my husband even (Can'T BeLieVe thIs!!) turned on the heat the other day, and the leaves are in full orange. I FEEL winter and snow and skis beneath my feet as if it were happening tomorrow morning. I am SO primed. Amazing how a change in the weather can do something like this to me. Prickles in my psyche.

 

[Jilly]

Like SnowHot I think that I have a problem. Since the ski show opened Thursday I can now where my skier charm on a necklace. I make myself not put it on till then. I've been to the ski shop in town here weekly to see the new stuff and even went to the one in the next city, cause they carry different stuff. After the snow on Friday I want to get all the stuff out. Talking about skiing - I have a customer service rep in Toronto that I deal with. It's 2 minutes of the work stuff and 1/2 hr of ski stuff. Just like my dentist, doctor and eye guy. I remember once that I got talking about skiing to the eye doctor and HE forgot to order my new contacts!! Obssesed?? In the middle of the summer I start looking at the dunes at the Sandbanks, wondering what it would be like to ski one of them, could it be done?? Some braver souls that I have! Yes sir, I've got a problem and I'm a first flaker - see ya November 18th at Tremblant!

 

[Lilgeorg]

Lately I find myself talking about skiing more. the result is that I have found women who have wanted to try the sport but because thier sig other was so far ahead of them in skill level, they were reluctant to try. So i have been selling the WAA at Okemo. I think I have convinced 2 brand new people to give the sport a try. That makes me so happy.

 

[Marigee]

I would love to talk to others about skiing, but not many of my friends ski. I have one or two that love it like do, but we can't get together that often. I know I am addicted to skiing. I check weather sites, ski reviews, ski forums - like this one and epic ski - CONSTANTLY. It gets worse as the weather gets colder. It is nice to find a group of women that understand why I would be willing to drive 1 1/2 hours a couple of days a week to ski.

 

[liquidfeet]

Marigee,
That's what I do, drive for 2 1/2 hours to ski. We are indeed possessed. It's so great to hear others confess to their obsessions. Despite how similar we are here on this forum, many of us seem to have trouble finding other women in our immediate vacinities who are similarly taken with this sport. That's so sad, don't cha think? I'm so glad we can do this talking here.

 

[tcarey]

Lil,
Thanks for giving WAA a good plug!!

Terry