I felt I had a little challenge learning this activities at first. Thats because when I was 7 I was just finishing up a ski lesson and we were still near the top of the hill. It was at camp fortune on the far left hill looking up the ski hill. The instructor told us that were done and that we have free ski time now. Well being a foolish child I decided to bomb the hill and see how fast I can get.
Well needless to say I am zooming down the hill, then all of a sudden my left leg hits a small bump and everything went slow-mo, seemed as though time slowed down, I saw myself slowly falling to the right as my left leg rose from the little bump. Then all I could see is white, tumbling down the hill. When I finally stopped my one leg was lying on the ground with the ski still on, and my left leg was facing down towards the ground with the point of the ski stuck in the snow, but I was on my back. I spiral fracture on my left leg, broke my Tibia and Fibula.
I got really lucky though the way it broke they just twisted the leg back and the bones went back into place, so it healed strong. The end result was a fear of the ski hill, but because of the great instructors they have available to Algonquin ODA (Outdoor Adventure Program) students, they helped me through the steps and now I feel like a am a competent skier and a pretty good snowboarder. All that in under 6 days of lessons.
My comfort on the hill has gone up so much, I don't think my past injury bothers me at all anymore. Bob, the ski instructor gave me a lot of really helpful advice on how to focus on making both legs work together and separately but still remembering to have proper balance. Just amazing though, I never thought I would have become this relaxed and confident in skiing and snowboarding, but here I am parallel carving on ski's and doing full edge carves on snowboards.
Couldn't of done it without the dedication and skills of the Mount Pakenham ski instructors.
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