beadyeye 0 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Lived 15 minutes from a ski resort - no brainer! Link to post Share on other sites
longsticks 0 Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 I won a ski holiday and that was it. No looking back fromthere! Link to post Share on other sites
docker 0 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Looked cool. I was right, it was. Link to post Share on other sites
Amos in Utsunomia 0 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 I just liked the look of it and so gave it a go. Simple really. The big downer is the cash needed, it's not the cheapest thing to take up if you're borderline. Link to post Share on other sites
deeplymad 0 Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 It's cool. That meant a lot back then! Link to post Share on other sites
sweetcaroline 0 Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 My friends talked me into it - got to admit I wasn't too keen at first, not mad on cold, but had a brilliant time when I got there. Addicted now. Link to post Share on other sites
RossyGnol 0 Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 It's a long time ago for me. Took the youngest on a ski trip and we all learnt together. Link to post Share on other sites
.co.jp 0 Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 I started when I first came to Japan about 10 years ago. I was in fukushima and with so much snow around you have no choice really but to try. Before coming I'd never really considered skiing. Mad into it now. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 I like your name .co.jp Is that dot or dotto? Link to post Share on other sites
andders 0 Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 GF at the time was instructor. Good reason as any. Link to post Share on other sites
Pepper 0 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 G/f at the time was a ski instructor - she took me. Link to post Share on other sites
willy or not 0 Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 I found myself living in a snowy region of Japan. What more motivation could you ask for? Link to post Share on other sites
marmite/sushi 0 Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Family holiday. There was a break of 7 years when I didn't go though for one reason or another. Coming to Japan was a good thing too. Link to post Share on other sites
alexeiw123 2 Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 parents are both keen travellers and keen skiiers, first skiing trip was at a very young age in austria, been to numerous places since learning bits along the way. my favourite place so far has been whistler, but january in japan (first time in japan) is my first O/S ski trip that I have organised where it's just friends. high expectations! even bought my own gear! Link to post Share on other sites
wobblybits 0 Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Job in Tokyo. Winter miserable. Friend said he was going up to Gunma to ski! Sounded good to me! Link to post Share on other sites
snazzy pants 0 Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 always wanted to when I was a kid. Got me a g/f who was a skier and she took me on a winter hols to Canada. Link to post Share on other sites
macmeh 0 Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 GF was in to skiing, so I headed to Thredbo and took some lessons from a really nice instructor... i've loved it ever since! Now I can't wait to get to Japan every December and enjoy a White Christmas! Learning to ski when I was 22 was a problem though... you already have that inner fear of falling over, and are just too tall and heavy for the snow plough to really save you... good thing I can parallel turn now, if only I had the courage to ski something other than runs off the magic carpet Link to post Share on other sites
Izobelle 0 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 I always wanted to have a go at skiing from when I was a kid. Took me until I was 19 to go. Its just a ton of fun. Link to post Share on other sites
FatherFred 0 Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Friends, way back it was. Got dragged along and loved it right from the start. Apart from the hassle in getting ready. Link to post Share on other sites
modern_messiah 0 Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 My brother went on a ski trip for school. He loved it and said it was fairly easy to learn. As I feel I am better than my brother in everyway I need to learn and beat him. lol. Also mainly cause I'm a skateboarder and windsurfer and I've never tried snowboarding...it looks like a shed load of fun! Link to post Share on other sites
acheybrakey 0 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 James Bond. Which one was it The Spy Who Loved Me. Link to post Share on other sites
uiski 0 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Dad took me to the Cairngorms (Scotland) bless 'im. Thats where I got started. Link to post Share on other sites
JJJJJ 0 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Brother dragged me kicking and screaming. I later thanked him. Link to post Share on other sites
skier1 0 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 My school took me trip to Shiga Kogen. It was my first time and I had no choice. But I soon enjoy it. Link to post Share on other sites
gareth_oau 2 Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 I tried skiing and at the end of the first lesson, had achieved nothing. Next I tried snowboarding and was up and going in about 15 minutes. I also found that having both feet strapped to the same plank was so much better for my groin than being strapped to 2 planks (which, according to Murphy's Law, will always head in different directions!!) Link to post Share on other sites
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