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Dick_Dastardly 
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Post subject: Getting over a bad session
 Posted: 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. |
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Post subject: RE: Getting over a bad session
Posted: 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! |
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Post subject: RE: Getting over a bad session
Posted: Mar 15, 2008 - 10:11 AM
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Get back on ya board ya wimp............  |
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Posted: 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. |
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Posted: 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 |
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Posted: 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 |
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Posted: 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. |
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Posted: Mar 18, 2008 - 09:15 PM
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Posted: 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. |
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Posted: 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! |
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Posted: 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 |
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Posted: 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 ! |
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Posted: 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 |
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Posted: 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 |
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Posted: 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 |
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