I did my 3rd Intermediate I class on Wednesday night. I was again the only student and it was repeating and practicing my turns over and over again. We get different instructors and each of them have different teaching style. We also formed our opinions of who are the better ones and tried to book classes with them. Unfortunately, most of them are part timers and their availability limited.
The same couple whom I took class with a few weeks back had their lessons after me. I took the opportunity to ask them about the Shenzhen indoor snow resort (yes, that is now in my holiday plan) and they coincidentally were heading over the next day! We exchanged numbers and I am waiting to hear from their experience.
Nana finally found time to take her 1st proper snowboarding lesson. We met for dinner and I fulfilled my mummy duties to feed her.
She did the Beginner I class on Thursday 9pm. While I didn’t take any classes, I was there to watch her fall. Lol. She was also the only student.
The 1st classes are super tiring bcos it is constantly on heel side, then switch to toe side and then repeat. Her instructor was good, giving very precise and clear instructions.
Nana suddenly looks so young again. It had been a while since I watched my kids learn a new sports/ take lessons. One thing about Nana - her head shape must be weird bcos her helmet (whatever kind of helmet) will always be crooked.
She was so tired that she simply flop onto the carpet during breaks, regardless of whether the carpet was dirty or wet. Lol.
The instructor said that Nana is ready for the Intermediate I class next. Like me, Nana was like noooooo… I want to do another Beginner class. Lol.
It was a good class for her and she woke up with muscle aches at weird places. Lol. I had muscle aches on my arms bcos I was hanging on to the bar with my dear life and blue blacks on my inner upper right arm, to add on to the ones on my left arm from the previous lesson. Haha.
Daddy Lim got motivated too. When he took the Intro class, he was the only student and got on the snow carpet. The instructor told him that he could skip Beginner I class and head straight to Beginner II class. Did we do that? No!! We took the Intermediate I class together on Saturday night. Bcos we were the only ones (strategically planned), the instructor was able to cater to our progress. Oh, we had the same instructor who taught Nana.
It was almost the 1st time that Daddy Lim got on the carpet and he fell so much, especially during toe side. Bcos he was constant on heel or toe side, he had to take multiple breaks, also to recover from his falls. Two of them were very hard falls on his butt when he was practicing his toe side. He fell so hard that his glasses flew off. Poor thing.
He said that his already bad neck hurt so much from the falls. I know; my neck has no issues that I got bad neck ache and bad muscle falls from previous lessons when I had spectacular falls. Our poor necks are taking all the toll. Daddy Lim is even considering to just build snowman or do sledding when we go snowboarding at the end of the year. Sob. Nana asked him to try to be a heelside warrior and heelside all the way down the mountain instead. Haha.
Daddy Lim could move to Intermediate I class next. Like Nana, he thinks that he should do 1 more Beginner II lesson. Ya, we are all not confident. Lol.
Zaky is now super jealous of all the fun that we are having during class. Hohoho.
Mummy Lim
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