Lellandra
Certified Ski Diva
Hello Divas!
I think I've finally calmed down enough to talk about my DH experience on Snowshoe this month.
We got there on Sunday night 03/20 and left on Tuesday afternoon. I bought classes for both if us for Monday. He had skied once before in his life and that was 2 weeks before. We had a private instructor that was splitting his time between him and my daughter. She didn't go to Snowshoe with us.
So here we are, uber excited about the classes, he goes for the yellow class and I'm on the green one.
My class was okay, the instructor was a very young guy, he seemed more interested in going down the slopes. I was not bothered by it, I wanted to do some drills but I just thought "I'm going to have fun today, DH is having his class and learning, this is great!".
Well, 20 minutes left to the end of the classes I find my husband's group coming down the green slope. I start to worry when I see his face and he looks miserable. I ask the instructor to wait for him to get to us and when he does, he is telling everyone he's taking off the skis and walking the rest of the slope down. It seems he had been tumbling most of the way down the slope, had hit his head twice on the hard pack snow (he called it snow cement, it was hard packed snow and pretty fast too) and was done. He looked embarrassed too. I asked if he wanted me to call the ski patrol and he said no. I didn't insist because I thought he'd be even more embarrassed.
I wait for him at the bottom of the slope because he said he didn't want me to walk with him. He wanted me to enjoy the rest of the class.
We went to the Boathouse and started talking and it turns out this instructor barely showed them how to do a wedge turn and took them to the normal green slope that felt more like blue because of all the very hard packed snow. I'm not sure if he was a new instructor but he almost killed all my husband's confidence. I had to beg him to try the next day. He did try and thank goodness it was a different instructor and much more technical. He did all kinds of different drills and he learned a LOT. He also didn't take any of the students down the green slope. DH said he talked to another student on his class and she was also instructed by the same guy the day before but later in the day. And she also had tumbled down the slope instead of skiing.
So a week has passed, he still has bruises from the experience. The problem is now he wants to try snowboarding. I think he might be done with skiing.
I have been trying to convince him skiing is better for him. He is an army vet and has a bad ankle and the ski boots really help with that. He also has a titanium pin on his shoulder and I told him snowboarding falls are worse on them (I don't know if this is true but I was desperate).
What do you guys suggest? Try and convince him skiing is better? Let him take snowboarding lessons and see what happens?
I think I've finally calmed down enough to talk about my DH experience on Snowshoe this month.
We got there on Sunday night 03/20 and left on Tuesday afternoon. I bought classes for both if us for Monday. He had skied once before in his life and that was 2 weeks before. We had a private instructor that was splitting his time between him and my daughter. She didn't go to Snowshoe with us.
So here we are, uber excited about the classes, he goes for the yellow class and I'm on the green one.
My class was okay, the instructor was a very young guy, he seemed more interested in going down the slopes. I was not bothered by it, I wanted to do some drills but I just thought "I'm going to have fun today, DH is having his class and learning, this is great!".
Well, 20 minutes left to the end of the classes I find my husband's group coming down the green slope. I start to worry when I see his face and he looks miserable. I ask the instructor to wait for him to get to us and when he does, he is telling everyone he's taking off the skis and walking the rest of the slope down. It seems he had been tumbling most of the way down the slope, had hit his head twice on the hard pack snow (he called it snow cement, it was hard packed snow and pretty fast too) and was done. He looked embarrassed too. I asked if he wanted me to call the ski patrol and he said no. I didn't insist because I thought he'd be even more embarrassed.
I wait for him at the bottom of the slope because he said he didn't want me to walk with him. He wanted me to enjoy the rest of the class.
We went to the Boathouse and started talking and it turns out this instructor barely showed them how to do a wedge turn and took them to the normal green slope that felt more like blue because of all the very hard packed snow. I'm not sure if he was a new instructor but he almost killed all my husband's confidence. I had to beg him to try the next day. He did try and thank goodness it was a different instructor and much more technical. He did all kinds of different drills and he learned a LOT. He also didn't take any of the students down the green slope. DH said he talked to another student on his class and she was also instructed by the same guy the day before but later in the day. And she also had tumbled down the slope instead of skiing.
So a week has passed, he still has bruises from the experience. The problem is now he wants to try snowboarding. I think he might be done with skiing.
I have been trying to convince him skiing is better for him. He is an army vet and has a bad ankle and the ski boots really help with that. He also has a titanium pin on his shoulder and I told him snowboarding falls are worse on them (I don't know if this is true but I was desperate).
What do you guys suggest? Try and convince him skiing is better? Let him take snowboarding lessons and see what happens?
