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Speaker 1: Winter Games. So you're up at how long you've been

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Speaker 1: teaching people how to ski and snowboard?

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, about sixteen years now?

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Speaker 1: Am I correct that it was the Winter Games that

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Speaker 1: first inspired you to get on the slopes?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Like I said, it was, I remember sitting

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Speaker 2: watching the Moguls years ago and just just laughing at

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Speaker 2: it all and then came to realize actually how hard

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Speaker 2: it is.

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Speaker 1: They make it look easy, which I guess is part

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Speaker 1: of the skill. And then there's some really strange ones

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Speaker 1: too well, even for instance, this free ski Big Ear,

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Speaker 1: which Luca Harrington's part of at the moment, I've got

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Speaker 1: it on the screen here, and just the way they

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Speaker 1: sort of, you know, hold themselves as they're going down

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Speaker 1: this god awful steep slope in what they do with

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Speaker 1: the skis, and then all the other sort of stuff

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Speaker 1: that we catch on ice and whatnot as well. But

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Speaker 1: at the same time they make it look really cool.

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Speaker 1: So perhaps if we've got young youngsters watching on at

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Speaker 1: the moment thinking yeah, i'd be keen to the mate,

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Speaker 1: where do we even start? What's the first steph.

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Speaker 2: Just coming up and having a look, I think, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, we do lessons for anyone at any age

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Speaker 2: of any ability. So just coming up and giving it,

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Speaker 2: giving it a go.

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Speaker 1: We're so lucky to have it on a door step.

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Speaker 1: Is there an ideal age to start?

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Speaker 2: No, I mean younger, Younger people tend to bounce more easily,

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Speaker 2: more men, less in built fear. But no, I mean

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Speaker 2: I've had a lady what a couple of years ago

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Speaker 2: that was in her mid seventies, just came up, gave

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Speaker 2: it a go. You know, we slid around for a

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Speaker 2: little bit and and that was kind of more than

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Speaker 2: enough for her. But any age, I mean, younger the better,

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Speaker 2: but you're never too old to start.

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Speaker 1: I don't think on that fearless thing. It strikes me

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Speaker 1: as a confidence game, you know, like many things is

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Speaker 1: staying with Bella and the whole sort of we're going

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Speaker 1: to be able to stop when we want to. And

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Speaker 1: then we see the lights of Mount hot Rescue and

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Speaker 1: what happened to Lindsay Vaughan thinking, oh, what advice do

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Speaker 1: you give people to feel more confident when they're up

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Speaker 1: on the slopes.

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Speaker 2: Just taking it steady, just kind of making sure you're

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Speaker 2: not trying to get ahead of yourself is really really

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Speaker 2: key with it I think just kind of have that

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Speaker 2: little bit more preparation and kind of be really confident

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Speaker 2: with you being able to being able to stop on

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Speaker 2: the easier stuff, rather than being like, yeah, I want

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Speaker 2: to go right up to the top and go super fast,

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Speaker 2: because you know, as we've seen, things can change pretty quickly.

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Speaker 2: But I think also just kind of having a good

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Speaker 2: understanding of what you're trying to do is really key.

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Speaker 2: So if things do go wrong, you actually you're not

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Speaker 2: going to be panicked, which is what I see a

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Speaker 2: lot of the time is panic and then kind of

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Speaker 2: there's too many things going on, and once that panic

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Speaker 2: sets in, it's it's them hard to kind of think clearly.

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Speaker 1: Something I found comforting when I took a lease in

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Speaker 1: a bit six or eight months ago, when when I

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Speaker 1: was like enough to be up there as the you know,

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Speaker 1: the instructor, I had seid lean into your boots, so

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Speaker 1: you're sort of crouching forward and almost embracing the uncontrollable.

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Speaker 1: Is it essentially a controlling because when you when you're

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Speaker 1: sliding down right, there's no way you're stopping in a hurry,

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Speaker 1: so you essentially just trying to control the uncontrollable to

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Speaker 1: an extent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean definitely being in that kind of slightly

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Speaker 2: lower position helps you helps you balance a little bit,

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Speaker 2: making sure, yeah, stay in the middle of your foot,

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Speaker 2: keep it balanced. But yeah, it is just kind of

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Speaker 2: if you can if you know what could happen or

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Speaker 2: is about to happen, you can think more clearly. That's

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Speaker 2: definitely going to help with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the easier skiing or snowboarding.

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Speaker 2: Or depends on the person to get going and to

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Speaker 2: kind of have that little bit of freedom Earlier, I

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Speaker 2: would say schemes, and then people will find that they

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Speaker 2: plateau quite a bit through the middle, whereas it's tricky

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Speaker 2: to get going on a snowboard because it's not a

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Speaker 2: regular way of standing like balancing and heels or balancing

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Speaker 2: and toads. But then once you figure out how to

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Speaker 2: link those terms together, people will find that they can

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Speaker 2: progress maybe a little bit more quickly. So yeah, it

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Speaker 2: depends on who you are, though. Some people pick up

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Speaker 2: either really quickly and struggle with.

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Speaker 1: The other so and super quick seeing Pringle from Mount

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Speaker 1: Hut when you're up there again, that whole sort of

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Speaker 1: coolness factor and you're setting it through the TV as well.

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Speaker 1: A lot of labels, and I think to myself, that

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Speaker 1: looks expensive. I'm not a man for feshion at the

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Speaker 1: beast of times. So say we're starting out, what's the

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Speaker 1: most cost of victive approach here? What are the absolute

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Speaker 1: essentials that we need on day one.

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Speaker 2: For you to own yourself? Just a good thin pair

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Speaker 2: of warm socks, all the gear and everything else like helmets, gloves, jackets, pants, skis, boots,

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Speaker 2: all of that can be hired up on the mountain and.

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Speaker 1: Then speaks a way to go about it.

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Speaker 2: Is it for that first time, just to get into

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Speaker 2: it one hundred percent? Yeah, yeah, I say it is

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Speaker 2: pretty expensive, and there are a lot of labels bandied around,

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Speaker 2: but just one pair of thin, warm socks is the

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Speaker 2: best way to go, not six pairs of you know,

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Speaker 2: rugby stocks.

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Speaker 1: And depending on how the leasing goes, maybe a change

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Speaker 1: of bundings too. Springle from that. Appreciate your time. Twenty

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Speaker 1: one past day