It is pretty boring alone, after all.
True, I love skiing and boarding but I have to be with people or I just get bored
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Ah yeah, the pizza. Those should only be relied on to stop you on bunny hills and in lift lines. Your intuition is right that there's a limit to how effective those can be.
Ironically though, the "way to make it easier" is the same technique that snowboarders have little choice but to learn from the start: turn until you're going across the hill instead of down, because like snowboards, skis only tend to slide down when they point down. Then you make "S"s down the hill to maintain the speed you want, shallow "S" for speed, wide, traversing "S" to stay slow. You can commit to hold a turn until you're completely sideways and come to complete stop, whether you're pizzaing or not. No competent instructor would let let their students off the bunny hill until they can turn well enough to control their speed, so I'm really sorry that you found yourself in a situation where you had no control.
with the trauma I have, I'm not sure I'll want to give it another try.
I don't blame you for not wanting to try again, and I don't mean to push you to because there's millions of ways to entertain yourself on this big blue rock. For what it's worth though, I've taught dozens of "first time" lessons where it wasn't actually their first time, they confessed to me before we started that they tried skiing once years prior, had a bad experience, and only after years and years were convinced by someone they trusted to give it another shot. I'm proud to say that every single one of these students had changed their mind by the end of the lesson. So if you find a good, psia certified instructor and go one-on-one or in a small group, I bet that you'd have better luck. I promise, once it clicks for you that turning=control, the mountain just opens up.
If skiing takes a lot of physical work, that's a sign that your stance is off. You can ski almost anywhere just by shifting your body weight from one foot to the other. Back when I was a ski instructor, my old boss (a ski instructor of multiple decades) used to say that skiing is a "skeletal" sport, not a "muscular". If you're working hard it's likely because there's something wrong with your stance and you're subconsciously using your muscles to compensate. The most common specific example of this I saw in my lessons (and had a habit of myself which I've been working on for years) was skier's quads burning out, because they were leaning back (consciously or not), because they lacked confidence (consciously or not).
I've come to learn that this advice applies to any physical activity. You can tell a master by their economy of movement, whether it's snow sports, playing an instrument, martial arts, or tossing haybails. Use weight and momentum, don't fight it.
Might as well be drinking piss. Try some gear oil if you want to put some hair on your chest
Ok seriously though that shit smells nasty, it taste nasty (siphoning snafu)
Legally, cars sold in the US have to have a backup cam, so there has to be a screen, so it might as well be a touch screen.
I agree this is dumb and that's why I drive an old car with nothing but bluetooth
"media" is already plural btw
I've stepped on multiple nails, ranging from somewhat clean to rather rusty. One went clear through. Good thing I had my tetanus shots.
I'm tired
+1 me everytime I make eye contact with the door person at the grocery store
Shaft-drive bicycles are a thing too. That might be easier for an ancient blacksmith to tackle?
Edit: or to at least get a proof of concept you could bypass the whole torque-transmission issue by building a penny-farthing
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