Ski no more

The first time I went for ski was in Minnesota in 2005, at the end of the day I had promised myself that it would be the last time I would ever go. Well, I broke my promise and went ski again yesterday in Pennsylvania. I made another promise yesterday; this would be the last time I would go ski again

I would have stuck with my older promise, but I wanted my wife to experience skiing too, and there were some friends going and if we made 15 people group then we would have got the group discount.

I have existing ligament tear in my both ankles, so the ski boot hurts more to me. If you haven’t wore ski boots before, then it’s very heavy and it’s hard to walk normally or stand straight (as you would normally stand) with those on. My foremost problem was to wear those boots.

Secondly, more you grow older harder it is to fall down and get up. When you are skiing for the first time you fall a lot. It’s not a big problem to fall down (you won’t realize there itself, however next day it’s a different story), but getting up once you fall down is a bigger problem.  You have those heavy boots attached to the ski which gets tangled when you are trying to get up. Even if you are able to stand up without tangling your ski, it’s very likely that you fall down again as you are in a slope and gravity is always against you.

Thirdly, when you are just starting you will be skiing at the beginner slope. That’s where it’s most crowded, if you can get to the expert’s slope then it’s less crowded (the ski place had 7-8 different levels of ski slope). The beginner slope will have diverse people: majority of them are kids just starting, few older people who have never ski before but are learning it together with their kids, and foreigners like us who never had pleasure of skiing when we were kids. So the the biggest fear for me (I believe for most of us) was crashing into those kids. It’s hard to control yourself in the first place, then you want to avoid crashing into those little kids, and on top of that avoid others from crashing onto you.

Although my wife says she will go skiing again, so did few of the friends in our group, for me it’s surely the last time. I might go for tubing on the snow, but wearing those boots again is a nightmare for me.

So if we do go ski again you will see some good pictures, because I will be out just taking pictures

The picture in this post was obtained from www.ski-dondiego.org