xxs_skier
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Thanks to @EdithP for this suggestion!
You can see her story here and @TiffAlt story here
I started skiing in Feb 2022 because my daughter's (9 years old now) best friends were skiing and I didn't want her to feel left out. My husband realized that we needed to ski as well since someone would need to go with her.
We did a private lesson and it was SO hard for me! We don't have the gradual bunny slopes that I often see on Youtube and it's pretty steep for first timers. So our lesson was at a very small hill with a more gradual slope that we had to side step up and snow plow down over and over again. While I could link turns, I couldn't make it to the actual bunny hill with the magic carpet because I couldn't stop on a dime in snowplow at speed. To be honest, I still don't think I can do this. By the end of the lesson I felt like I wanted to die lying down in the snow -- I was so exhausted!
Our next private lesson was so much better as the instructor thought as long as I was linking turns, I should be able to avoid people. I found my left turns were great, but my right turns were so hard to do. We got to do the bunny slope and our first chair lift. I was especially freaked out by the chair lift since many years ago when I was learning how to snowboard as I was getting off the lift, I ended up falling and partially tearing my rotator cuff. It turns out chair lifts on skis is sooo much easier.
It really took about 14 days of skiing for me to actually love it. I was very close to giving up. I think what made me enjoy it was actually having boots that fit because I could actually control my skis so much better.
Edited to add: I started at 40 years old
You can see her story here and @TiffAlt story here
I started skiing in Feb 2022 because my daughter's (9 years old now) best friends were skiing and I didn't want her to feel left out. My husband realized that we needed to ski as well since someone would need to go with her.
We did a private lesson and it was SO hard for me! We don't have the gradual bunny slopes that I often see on Youtube and it's pretty steep for first timers. So our lesson was at a very small hill with a more gradual slope that we had to side step up and snow plow down over and over again. While I could link turns, I couldn't make it to the actual bunny hill with the magic carpet because I couldn't stop on a dime in snowplow at speed. To be honest, I still don't think I can do this. By the end of the lesson I felt like I wanted to die lying down in the snow -- I was so exhausted!
Our next private lesson was so much better as the instructor thought as long as I was linking turns, I should be able to avoid people. I found my left turns were great, but my right turns were so hard to do. We got to do the bunny slope and our first chair lift. I was especially freaked out by the chair lift since many years ago when I was learning how to snowboard as I was getting off the lift, I ended up falling and partially tearing my rotator cuff. It turns out chair lifts on skis is sooo much easier.
It really took about 14 days of skiing for me to actually love it. I was very close to giving up. I think what made me enjoy it was actually having boots that fit because I could actually control my skis so much better.
Edited to add: I started at 40 years old