Snowboard Club UK
Technique - Getting over a bad session
Dick_Dastardly - Mar 15, 2008 - 08:05 AM
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You've probably been there, spend all day looking forward to going to the dome get there and it just doesn't work, falling all over the place and basically feel like you've taken a big step backwards. Its a big kick in the nuts mentally, do you leave it a week or so and go back or get back on the slope as soon as you can.
skinnedelbows - Mar 15, 2008 - 09:31 AM
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If you've only hurt your pride,and your'e not broke, get back on the slope. Hows that for early morning poetry!
rachie - Mar 15, 2008 - 10:11 AM
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Get back on ya board ya wimp............ 
Felinegregore - Mar 15, 2008 - 10:22 AM
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Keep up whatever routine you were doing.
Generally learning anything, there'll be highs where you made progress, and lows where you're not feeling like you're learning anything new. Also, you can have bad nights too, as you demonstrated.
Just got to take the rough with the smooth.
craignixon - Mar 15, 2008 - 10:37 AM
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Too right, as my back can currently testify too.
Speed is your friend on a kicker!
Just get back on the slope and laugh about it. Be too serious and it sticks in your mind
Dick_Dastardly - Mar 15, 2008 - 11:18 AM
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well i'm going again on monday and got my next lesson on friday, guess i should count myself lucky that i have the largest indoor snow dome in the world 10 mins away lol
N0DDY - Mar 15, 2008 - 03:21 PM
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I always tell myself that if I don't fall over, I'm not trying hard enough. Generally I pause to give some thought as to what I did wrong, then go straight back to the top to try again and again until I do it right or get bored trying.
freestylepumper - Mar 18, 2008 - 09:15 PM
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Drink beer and jagermeister they help get over a bad session
Markland - Mar 18, 2008 - 10:10 PM
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Dick_Dastardly wrote:
well i'm going again on monday and got my next lesson on friday, guess i should count myself lucky that i have the largest indoor snow dome in the world 10 mins away lol
Chill factore is the biggest in the UK not the world, i think one in Dubai is the biggest or is it Germany?.
I had quite a bad day yesterday lol not with my riding but my gear and also i had to pay adult to get in, firstly it was my pants leg vent zip breaking on first use making me pissed of with them (im taking them for a hopeful refund tomorrow). Then i get near lifts and realise ive made the cap straps too short and so have to go back to changing rooms and mess around with them with my screwdriver that is fine for the baseplate screws but too big for the little cap strap ones so this is hard to adjust and takes time. If it couldnt get any worse on what was supposed to be my last run one of the cap strap screws came out and so i had to walk down the side of the slope.
I got over this by laughing about it with my mate, and fixing it all right when i got home.
for your bad day riding just forget about the bad parts and remember the good like i remember that i managed to do first ever ollies without ever falling over which is suprising. Next time you go just forget your last session and try to improve on what you learnt in the lesson.
Eskimofo - Mar 19, 2008 - 01:23 AM
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I'm with you on the bad session thing today but you do have to just get back in to it as soon as you can.
I decided I'd just straight line it down the slope to the quarter pipe at the bottom, didn't get as much air as I was wanting then cained myself on the landing (ribs are so sore I can't lie down to sleep hence the late night action on here!) I did a few runs after that but then I lost a screw from my binding. Not a good night, the dry matts eaten my freshly waxed board and I don't have time to get it done again before heading out to austria, oh and I picked up my old boots instead of my new ones so I had 2 hours of the worst heel lift ever.
I'll be back next week!
freestylepumper - Mar 19, 2008 - 01:29 AM
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TBH I used to just get off the mountain go and chill out in a bar for an hour or listen to some tunes then go back and try to do what I was doing, if all that failed it was into town and generally get slaughtered in the bar till silly o'clock but the next day always seemed to be OK, confused at that one
RobTur - Mar 19, 2008 - 11:41 AM
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I think everyone has a bad day, sometimes a bad fall knocks your confidence and thats you for the day. Happened to me on my freestyle night and I went down hard, decided to get back to the top of the slope but kept falling after the kickers and totally avoided the box I went down on originally. Usually I stick on the ipod and im fine ! As someone already said if you aint falling, you aint trying hard enough !
nogirlielegs - Mar 19, 2008 - 01:26 PM
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Dick_Dastardly wrote:
well i'm going again on monday and got my next lesson on friday, guess i should count myself lucky that i have the largest indoor snow dome in the world 10 mins away lol
lessons....
so guessing a newb to the game??
dont sweat it...all of us go through that stage of having bad sessions. they become less and less as your riding progresses
going riding again as soon as possible after a bad session is the best way to move on
Dick_Dastardly - Mar 19, 2008 - 03:29 PM
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had the session on monday and it was ace, literally the first run i did was as good as any i'd done the previous session. Think the thing that messed me up most was my timing of the bad session, i'm into my weights and went the day after leg day in the gym which meant my calf's were tight and quads were sore, won't be goin again after legs day.
As for the lessons i'm on level 3 out of 4 for ski dubai, happy linking turns on all slopes but can't do switch yet well not very well anyway. Looking forward to tomorrow's lesson and trying to get my own board sorted as everytime i go the stance and angle of the bindings is different on the rental boards and there's no markings on them so i can remember the settings for the next time
Leightomgib26 - Mar 19, 2008 - 04:26 PM
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mate i been there and ya feel proper vexed. But i just got me head down and hit the slope again and again . And i still ride rubbish but hey if you aint falling over your not trying hard enough lol
HJ - Mar 19, 2008 - 04:27 PM
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What do you think to Skidubai for newbies?
Markland - Mar 19, 2008 - 04:48 PM
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bit far to go for just an indoor slope is dubai but it looks great and there building another one arent they?
Dick_Dastardly - Mar 23, 2008 - 04:58 AM
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Ski dubai is a great place to learn good instructors and the price isnt to bad around £30 for a 90 min group lesson, plus a bonus is on the beginner lesson you spend the 90 mins on the beginner slope and still have 2 hrs on your lift pass to go up the slope with if you think you cn do it. I think the biggest plus is just the size of the place, think i'm gonna progress ten fold over what i would do at say castleford just to the length and steepness of the runs availiable. Although i wouldn't say they have a black fun as they claim, the steepest run there is i'd say and easy-med red in most euro resorts. There is talk of them building a bigger one in Dubailand but whether that comes to fruition we'll have to wait and see
HJ - Mar 23, 2008 - 09:41 AM
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Anyay since i took this off topic I will bring it back on!
I struggle to get my confidence back - fell on the top half at cas weks ago and hit my head hard, so i was just feeling able to go to the top again when I had a really embarrasing poma incident right at the top so I am back to the middle again despite being laughed at by everyone I know there!
03tilinfinty - Mar 23, 2008 - 09:53 PM
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i find a few minor falls somehow loosens me up and makes me ride better. anyone else get this?
kap66 - Mar 23, 2008 - 10:54 PM
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i find not just with snowboarding but with alot of things, just before i move up a step or get a bit better at something, i always seem to get very bad for a bit first.
xtreme_bunny - Mar 26, 2008 - 11:56 PM
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falling hurts when u slide down an icy slope outside in chamonix and then bounce and bash ur head but i couldn't wait for the next run!
since then we went to cas tonight ( stupidly thinking that using their boards will b fine when ours r getting serviced) anyway i couldn't do a thing!! my leg was dead from my 1st trip up the lift and i wasn't comfortable despite having set my stance.
so.......... don't go back to hired kit when u got ur own perfectly good stuff at home! its rubbishand so was my night! there u go... a nice little tip for u all.
cant wait to get my board back!!
Dick_Dastardly - Mar 27, 2008 - 04:18 PM
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i don't mind falling when i'm trying something new, i get annoyed when i fall when i shouldn't ie doing basic stuff, it really frustrates me. Although i cn now pop an ollie off the rollers yay lol
Grae - Mar 30, 2008 - 07:30 PM
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yup, had one of those sessions today
been caining it in Mayrhofen all week, feeling really confident...so went to CFe today
was so crap, snow took some getting used to after the amazing conditions in Austria, managed to pop a few ollies but nearly floored myself just doing that (been doing them all week)
then attempted some switch riding at the bottom, totally screwed it up, lent right back and shot straight into the barrier, felt like a right nonce
HJ - Mar 30, 2008 - 07:46 PM
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having had nothing but bad poma sessions everytime I have been to cas recently - i had a fantastic session last night!
Confidence in yourself is wonderful and all that was missing for me
annieredding - Mar 30, 2008 - 08:35 PM
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03tilinfinty wrote:
i find a few minor falls somehow loosens me up and makes me ride better. anyone else get this?
Yup, if I ride like a numpty I get cross with myself then it makes me focus and channel my annoyance with myself into focusing better
Dick_Dastardly - Apr 01, 2008 - 09:04 AM
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Another good session yesterday did 3 hrs unfortunatly my mate didn't have such a good sesh, popped an ollies off a roller landed it then lost it lol knackered his shoulder up a bit possible rotar cuff injury which will keep him off the slope for at least a couple of weeks i think. Just tryin to get the guts to commit to some bigger jumps keep bottlin it and not carryin enough speed through to get off the ground properly
GinaG - Apr 05, 2008 - 11:30 AM
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Every session for me lately is a bad session, it kinda helps to ride with good people otherwise you tend to just get frustrated and bored, (or maybe that's just me).
You probably should go back straight away, i left it a year and now i cannot be bothered with it.
Mr_Alex - Oct 02, 2008 - 10:13 PM
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I found after a bad fall the confidence was gone and with it came back to tendancy to lean back which just made things 10 times worse and was a downward spiral from there, eventually started to get it all back but with tamworth havin a nice 90 degree bend at the top it doesnt really help things
Fingers crossed next sesh will be better 
winterfunman - Oct 02, 2008 - 10:42 PM
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A bad session is still better than been at work ( in most cases ) just chill relax and get back on your board .............. concentrate and have fun ..............the more relaxed you are the better you ride..........some days it can just be the sh1t quality of the snow , especially in domes