A more positive post today.

Unless you are a warm weather beach holiday lover!

Winter is coming. Woohoo!!

I just have a small request. If you are planning on learning to ski or taking lessons this year, please think about starting a fitness programme soon!! Your instructors will appreciate it.
 
Here's a good place to start: http://www.ifyouski.com/health/fitness/ circuits/

Hopefully then my physio won't have to take out a restraining order on me (but that's a whole different story!)

So now for a shameless plug for Oak Hall. Go check out the new Oakhall website http://www.oakhall.co.uk. They've done a great job redesigning it and it now shows availability information.

Once i know i'll post my trips, so you can avoid me! Not all the horror stories are true. Yes, I did take an advanced lesson off piste through a mogul field on their first afternoon, and yes they did all fall over. But it was character building!

FYI: The guy in the picture is doing a Javelin turn. It's an exercise designed to help keep you hips square down the mountain (fall line). As you turn lift up the inside ski. As you cross the fall line point the tip of the lifted ski down the mountain (crossing over the downhill ski). As you complete the turn bring the skis back parallel and begin the next turn.