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- From: daryl@cup.hp.com (Daryl Odnert)
- Subject: Re: Question to more advanced skiers (bumps)
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:20:50 GMT
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- bgohari@wam.umd.edu (Babak Gohari) writes:
- : I have a sort of important question. I'm a relatively new skier (i.e. been
- : seriously skiing for a little over a year, been skiing as a whole for three)
- : Anyway, I tend to ski mostly blues (or greens even, if they're fun and
- : I don't want to embarrass myself for falling).
-
- Babak,
-
- If you want to become a better skier, you are probably going to have to
- fall a few times. Don't worry about embarrassing yourself. Everybody falls.
-
- The important thing is to use your falls as learning experiences.
- Before you get up, take a moment to think about *why* you fell, in
- strictly physical terms. Think about what caused you to loose your
- balance. Then, when you try it again, see if you can make the physical
- adjustments so that it doesn't happen again. Don't worry whether you
- are "doing it right". Experiment until your body finds what works.
- This is how you learned to walk when you were a baby, and you can use
- the same technique to learn to ski.
-
- Daryl Odnert
- daryl@cup.hp.com
-