My solo Man slope skiing session has arrive, as I am putting my equipment on I am feeling a bit nervous, but I am reassured to see a couple of my previous instructors are on the slopes today and maybe some help if needed. I have booked a two hour lift pass for today’s session, I set off up the lift and get to the top, I pause take look down, calming myself down, going through everything I have been taught in my head. Saying “you have done this before just take your time and you will be fine”. I set off traversing across the top of the slope which is the steepest part, and slowly work my way across and down the slope occasionally stopping, but I make it down without falling. Now my first solo run is out of the way, I make a few more runs, with passing advice from my previous instructors, about my balance and stance. I make it an hour on the slopes but feel tired. As my lessons were two hours, I thought a two hour lift pass would be ideal, forgetting that in lessons you are constantly completing runs.
I also asked my partner to film me skiing, as an exercise to see if what I thought I was doing is what was actually happening. The first video of me skiing lasts 1 minute 44 seconds, and I know have a reference point at the start of my solo skiing.
Reflection: I managed to over come my nerves and had a few albeit slow but successful runs without falling over. I also need to progress for my 2026 ski holiday, well what I thought was going to be my 2026 holiday is actually going to be 2025. So I need to make some progress in the next four months.
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