I don't know if she's a Diva, but she's certainly a diva! And certainly a diva extroardinaire!
DH and I were skiing down Showcase this morning, one of my first couple of runs for the day -- hardpack after several days of warm weather, and groomed. Showcase is a blue run, kind of a good warm-up one, and also heavily used by the ski school beginner programs. He went flying down - I was supposed to be right behind him (he goes faster than me no matter what I do!), and the corduroy was fast, easy skiing this morning. I was having a good time, and practicing the stuff I've been working on this winter -- keeping my skis parallel, and relatively close together, and keeping my butt where it belongs (that back seat thing, you know!) Strangely, the thing I've been struggling with MOST this winter is my poles. It's just like they've been one thing too many to work with, tossing everything into confusion when I've tried to do anything besides keep them out from under my feet!
This Lisa was coming down the hill behind me, and caught up, asking me, have you tried using your poles? I stopped, she stopped, we talked, she explained, she demonstrated, I tried, and we played like this much of the rest of the way to the run out. It was a fun, spontaneous mini-lesson!
My pole issue is solved!
When I got back to the lift, DH was all, what took you, and did you fall --- I said to him, noooooooooooooooooooo, it was a GREAT run!
So, I don't know if Lisa will see this or not, but thank you again, and I hope your day was as much fun as mine was!
And a side note -- DH said he got a nifty little cue the other day while skiing some bumps near a woman who was struggling a bit. He said she HAD to have been in a class very recently -- she was stabbing those bumps hard, and loudly saying "you're MY bump!" as she stabbed -- He said it stuck with him and has been working well for him since!
Kano
DH and I were skiing down Showcase this morning, one of my first couple of runs for the day -- hardpack after several days of warm weather, and groomed. Showcase is a blue run, kind of a good warm-up one, and also heavily used by the ski school beginner programs. He went flying down - I was supposed to be right behind him (he goes faster than me no matter what I do!), and the corduroy was fast, easy skiing this morning. I was having a good time, and practicing the stuff I've been working on this winter -- keeping my skis parallel, and relatively close together, and keeping my butt where it belongs (that back seat thing, you know!) Strangely, the thing I've been struggling with MOST this winter is my poles. It's just like they've been one thing too many to work with, tossing everything into confusion when I've tried to do anything besides keep them out from under my feet!
This Lisa was coming down the hill behind me, and caught up, asking me, have you tried using your poles? I stopped, she stopped, we talked, she explained, she demonstrated, I tried, and we played like this much of the rest of the way to the run out. It was a fun, spontaneous mini-lesson!
My pole issue is solved!
When I got back to the lift, DH was all, what took you, and did you fall --- I said to him, noooooooooooooooooooo, it was a GREAT run!
So, I don't know if Lisa will see this or not, but thank you again, and I hope your day was as much fun as mine was!
And a side note -- DH said he got a nifty little cue the other day while skiing some bumps near a woman who was struggling a bit. He said she HAD to have been in a class very recently -- she was stabbing those bumps hard, and loudly saying "you're MY bump!" as she stabbed -- He said it stuck with him and has been working well for him since!
Kano