The plastic toddler skis as seen being used with the ski trainer is excellent for pre-skis schoolers. If you now have a pair and are preparing for your ski holiday just take a second to plan when and how you can make the most of them. We found the use we got out of them was in the afternoon when we were as a family just having fun in the snow. We bought some bum whizzes in the local shop (just small plastic discs with a handle to pull through the legs) and took them and the skis to snowy bit round the back of the hotel.
After whizzing down the small slopes on the bum whizzes and lots of falling off, we put the skis on our toddler and just on the flat part let her walk around with her poles. After feeling very grown up and trying to actually ski like her big brother she soon got bored and wanted them off. Thanks to the easy grips round her normal snow boots this wasn't a hassle.
I was thinking, great thats £40 (yes they cost that much in resort!) wasted but after another 5 minutes of flying down the little slopes and laughing her head of she wanted them on again. And so set the pattern of the rest of the holiday. On off on off on off. But slowly she gained confidence walking in them, getting used to the odd feeling of these long things on her feet and just having fun. Towards the end of the holiday we put the ski trainer harness on her and she started going down little slopes which was such fun and seeing her little face as she realised she was skiing like her big brother!
We didn't set out to teach her skiing positions or anything formal, leaving that to ski school this year, but I hope we have introduced her to fantastic world of skiing and hope that when she starts ski school for the first time this feb she wont be scared but will be excited and will have an idea what this skiing malarcky that mummy and daddy (and now her big brother) are so addicted to!!!
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