Laney
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Registered: 6th May 03
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Has anyone ever had lessons here? I wanna take up snowboarding but can't afford to go to a proper resort to do it, plus the only holidays I can get are in summer 
I'm thinking of doing an 8hr teaching session for £150...
Opinions/Advice?  
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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DO NOT DO LEARN TO BOARD IN A DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You will not be able to move after an hour as you'll be so tired. Spend the money on a set of 1 or 2 hour lessons.
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Laney
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Registered: 6th May 03
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In a non-taking the piss way, I'm quite fit. Or is it THAT tiring?
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ed
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Yea, but you have never boarded before and you won't have exercised in the way you do when you're boarding. I'm a ski instructor and thats less tiring to learn, at Tamworth we do learn to ski in a day and it's really such hard work to do. You get unbelievable hot, even if you are athletic!
You'll get much more out of the lesson if you have more shorter ones than one big one. You'll understand when you go to learn, you fall, you have to get up, you fall you have to get up. Then you get to the bottom, then you have to walk back up the training slope, then you go do the same again for about 2 hours. Then you start using the lifts, you fall, you walk to the bottom, you try again. So you get the idea 
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Skylined
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I'm guessing u fall down a lot when learning to snowboard then?
I've always wanted to learn but haven't got round to it yet
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Laney
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Registered: 6th May 03
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Sounds easy 
They do like FastTrack lessons of 3hrs each. Reckon that'd be too much? £72 a pop like
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ed
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3 hours and you'll be knackered, though if you're fit and do other sports then you'll get a lot out of it. What I find is that the people who do sports learn quickly and benefit from a longer lesson of about 2-3 hours because they pick it up quickly and can get out and start practicing...
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Laney
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Awesome 
*finds credit card*
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dna23
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Hmmm i'm a snowboard instructor mate, ed has said it perfectly you'll get pretty tired but they do give you breaks on the xscape course as its usually about 4 ppl to 1 inst and you have to wait as he does teacher assistance with the others.... i think you'd be better with 3 x 2 hour lessons or something? after 8 hours u'll be bored, tired, fed up and hurting a lot... plus it uses muscles you don't realise you have
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Laney
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Xscape do 3hr sessions but you need to do 3 of them aswell an extra one to be classed as Recreational
Thanks for the advice btw
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