Special day with my daughter

[hiroto]

I have done some special day trip with my son to go skiing with only two of us.

This Saturday, I went skiing with my six years old daughter, only two of us for the first time. She was sick for last three weekends, so I thought she can have some special time only with me without her older brother.

She was very excited and up beat. It was a beautiful day at Gunstock and sharing that with her was special in itself, but suddenly she was skiing quite better than three weeks ago. She has been skiing with very narrow wedging and occasionally doing parallel turns on the easy beginner slopes, but yesterday at Gunstock, she was turning primarily parallel on easy intermediate slopes. Daddy was mighty pleased.

 

[FRITOLAYGUY]

Good stuff i wish someone introduced me to skiing when i was that young.

 

[Stache]

Nice pole touches too.

 

[Skier75]

WOW, that looks awesome! She looks like she'll be racing before you know it. Great turns.

 

[TheBEast]

Awesome. As a new dad (my daughter is only 13 days old) I'm already dreaming of the days of us out on the slopes. Can't wait!

 

[Greg]

Nice hiroto! And congrats, TheBEast!

 

[hiroto]

WOW, that looks awesome! She looks like she'll be racing before you know it. Great turns.

Thanks. We are no racing family, but we do enjoy recreational skiing on NASTAR. The primary reason I chose Gunstock was that they have NASTAR course she hasn't tried yet. We did 5 runs - she got silver :flag: and I got bronze

 

[hiroto]

Nice hiroto! And congrats, TheBEast!

Awesome. As a new dad (my daughter is only 13 days old) I'm already dreaming of the days of us out on the slopes. Can't wait!

Thanks, and congrats TheBEast! The day will come soon enough and skiing will never be the same for you.

 

[wa-loaf]

Really nice! She's not just skiing parallel, but actually carving really nicely. Impressive.

 

[deadheadskier]

Really nice! She's not just skiing parallel, but actually carving really nicely. Impressive.

no kidding. Really impressive feel for the snow for someone her age. Very little skidding in her turns and great job of finishing off the turns. She's got some real talent

 

[SIKSKIER]

That is really impressive skiing.She really stands on that downhill ski and angulates that knee to make the turn work.Many skiers here could probably learn from her technique.

 

[hiroto]

Thanks for the compliments. What is impressive about her is that she pretty much figured it out by herself. She took one half day lesson when she was 4 and declared never again. I really wanted to put her in Dev team at Wawa this season but she refused.

She's always very curious on her skies and try different thing on her own, while all her brother was interested at the same age was to bomb down the hill and hit jumps. Show her a few thing ('hey, can you ski on one ski?') and she'll throw that in at the random moments in her skiing. Only this year, we started talk about a few thing, like "back seating is bad". I was pleased to see in the video that she was back seating at the top of the steep but remembered by herself to push her hand forward and regain control.

So we definitely have nothing to do with her carving turn. She is never taught how to do that. Only thing I can take credit for is to strongly steering her away from power wedging early on, and carefully choosing where she skies. This weekend, she went down black diamond for the very first time (and it is Gunstock black, but I didn't tell her that ;-) )

 

[gladerider]

This weekend, she went down black diamond for the very first time (and it is Gunstock black, but I didn't tell her that ;-) )

haha, i did that to both my daughters. told them later that they did black diamonds. huge confidence builder. it works until they start reading
this weekend, we were at whiteface. i took my daughters(11&9 1/2) down upper skyward, golf ball sized ice & crud. i looked at them and said let's go. they gave me the usual look (don't need to fool us.) well, doesn't work any more, but we get good smiles

 

[hiroto]

haha, i did that to both my daughters. told them later that they did black diamonds. huge confidence builder. it works until they start reading
this weekend, we were at whiteface. i took my daughters(11&9 1/2) down upper skyward, golf ball sized ice & crud. i looked at them and said let's go. they gave me the usual look (don't need to fool us.) well, doesn't work any more, but we get good smiles

Oh, actually it was the other way for her. She wanted to do black for the first time. She actually made me take a video of the trail sign before going down to have video evidence that she really did it. What I didn't tell her was that many people would not consider a black at Gunstock as a real black :wink:

 

[hammer]

What I didn't tell her was that many people would not consider a black at Gunstock as a real black :wink:

It's more than a black at Nashoba...

 

[DFRI]

That video prompts me to leave my first post. WOW. I was thinking the same thing as some others. She is carving. Awsome.

 

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