first ski… injuried knee as a gift… but recovering…
on 31 march that is when i had my knee injuried. i had my first ski at the heavenly at lake tahoe, with of coz a basic practical lesson that cost me 75 bucks! not becoz of the price of the lesson but the overall learning experience that i felt it was way too unworthy…
so in the mist of the lesson i got injuried not be coz i was skiing alone somewhere out there… i was with an instructor whom has 48 years of ecperience in skiing and whom wanted very much a smarter learner, fast learner, puppet-learner and not someone like me… okie i am no fast learner but i need time and patience! and time isnt with me and so was the instructor’s patience.
the instructor taught me how to wedge the "V" shape thingy that you have to do when you wanted to slow down? yup… i did it but he wasnt happy. he was angry with me that i placed so much dependence on my rod the sticks which individual have to hold on each hands? well he got so irritated that he asked me forget about the rod and asked me to ski down from gentle slope… without it. i followed instructions.. and no surprise i fell… on the snow …soft landing? no way isnt the snow that hurt me… its the way i fell i twisted my knee in very awkard way… but it didnt hurt so i continued and persist on skiing. as the saying goes practice makes perfect… when the rest of the students rested… the instructor was pissed off when he saw the students rested… that he came to me and asked me to ski more and of coz i fell more each time… know this he didnt teach me how to get up from the fall and each time he got the chance to help me up… he just brush another sentence of discouragement… sigh… i guess am not his kind of student he wanted… but too bad i paid for the lessons. he has to bare with it.
finally… i decided to take break from the lesson… the instructor came to me and asked me to take the ski lift to a steeper slope for practice… i was like duh…huh? so he took me to the lift and who knows that the ski lift is also another skill to learn… on how to get onto the seat and to learn how get up from it ! it was a few seconds of beliefing and we goes for the lift… guess what? of coz i fell… this time my knee hurting slightly… he persist on despite telling him i am hurt… and he goes on with his discouragement sentences again… and asked me ski down???? tried and fell and this time is serious… my knee hurt each step i make… i told him and guess what? "oops sorry … i got to go i am 5 minutes over time here and i have to got…" then he goes on with his theories of ski technique… he went skiing down the hill like taking a flight down. in my mind i was like what am i suppose to do up here on the slope??? knee hurt and so afraid of skiing now… i didnt care… i took of my ski and walked down the hill… limping… and hurting… devil instructor!
knee hurts during my sleep that i have sleepless night followed on… for two days… and subsquently it recovered slowly with the help of my hubby’s anathestic cream… awl devil instructor!
