Kilternan Lessons

Dr Nic

Hi Guys,
A few of us are heading to dublin this week for a night out plus a lesson on the dry slope.
One of the Guys rang today to find out that lessons are only at 8pm every night. This would mean that we either miss a lot of our night out, or have to stay another night in dublin.
Does anyone on here know if it is possible to get a lesson earlier in the day? Even 6pm would help us enormously!
Thanks for the help!

bovril

I've only had lessons during the day at the weekend. During the week Mon-Fri I they open from 19.30-22.30 (from the facebook page).

rossc007

You skiing or snowboarding?

Pulled this from the website

We run snowboard lessons on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 8.30pm and on Sunday evenings at 6.30pm. Each lesson is 1hr15mins in duration.

http://skiclub.ie/Snowboard_Advanced_Beginner_Lessons/Default.91.html

Fattes

Dr Nic,

Dropped you a pm with my number give me a shout there is ways around this.

df1985

Kilternan does a one day ski course on saturdays for beginners to get the ropes, i know because im booked in for it saturday morning! 100euros for the day, weve to be there for half nine to get kitted out and it goes on all day.Maybe its booked out and thats why they never mentioned it to you?

Fattes

df1985; I shall see you in the morning as I will be teaching the one day class tomorrow! Remember your instructor will be a lot nicer to you if you bring Percy Pigs :)I promise I will be nice and will look after you for the day, Let me know if you have any questions and wrap up warm it will be cold tomorrow!

df1985

Percy pigs.....I'll be in Marks later....:D

Is there a chance there could be actual snow on the slope tomorrow looking at the forecast? Im taking no chances with the cold, all the gear will be on.

Fattes

According to these boys probably not enough for it to be considered snow however there are clouds hanging over the mountains out the window here.http://www.met.ie/forecasts/regional.asp?Prov=DublinOther than a good covering of snow the slope runs really well with a good frost on it and actually simulates a groomed piste really well when it is frosty! So I would either pray for a total Dump of snow or a frosty morning.Shall see you up there bright and early!

Dr Nic

Big thanks to Wayne for the course on Saturday...
Very enjoyable. Learned and progressed a lot (i think) over the day!
I'll report back with how we get on, on the real thing next week

Fattes

My Pleasure Dr Nic! Had a great day and was thrilled to see you progress so well. Lots of things to fix around the edges but that never changes no matter who you are!

Was a great class to teach and I can only hope more of them are like that!

df1985

Thanks aswell Wayne, really enjoyed the day and it just wet my appetite for the real thing this weekend. you earned them percy pigs!

experimenter

Fattes wrote: »

My Pleasure Dr Nic! Had a great day and was thrilled to see you progress so well. Lots of things to fix around the edges but that never changes no matter who you are!

Was a great class to teach and I can only hope more of them are like that!

Hi there, just wondering would there be a chance the beginners course would run on a Sunday 30th Jan???

I am suppose to be heading off on the 5th Feb and have college on the 29th Jan.

Regards, Rob

Fattes

Rob,
The don't run one days up there on a Sunday but There is 4 sessions on a Sunday, I think.

That means you could probably do A1-4 in a single day would be lots of breaks etc between them.

Dr Nic

Just back from 4 days Skiing in San Anton.
All i can say is thank god i went to Kilternan.

The ski-school in San Anton werent going to take me initially as i was a total beginner. But they did after i performed a few plough turns down a blue which i learned in Kilternan. If i hadnt gone, my holiday would have been wasted really.

The first day our instructor did her best but i suppose i wasnt really able to take it all in in one day. The second day, we had a different guy and i dont know whether he was a far better instructor or what, but it all seemed to click. By the end of the day, we were parallel turning down all the blacks in San Anton.

3rd day - Blacks and off-piste, with my friends. Took 1 horrendous fall, mainly due to the accumulation of enough skill to go fast, but not enough skill to be in control

4th day - Everything goes. Blacks, reds, off-piste. Death Con 5 race down 21 red to MooserWirt. My self-professed semi-pro boarder-buddies were not happy with the result. And no falls!

Basically Kilternan added about 3 days to my holiday, and saved me a couple hundred euro. I suppose there wasnt enough time in one day to get us parallel turning, and it is a lot different on the powder we had all week versus the mesh. Still highly recommended.

Thanks Wayne!

Fattes

Dr Nic; THanks a million glad you had a great time St Anton is epic!!!


As for the instructor thing I probably said it to you on the one day, different instructors work for people in different ways.

Really shows the value of just being able to do the basics on day one of a ski holiday.

Now don't forget where we are

thatsme

Will second everything you said Dr Nick I had been on 3 ski holidays before I went to Kilternan. I joined the ski club and took a course of lessons there last year and wow what a difference it made to my holiday. From being really s**t scared at the top of the mountain to skiing reds and blacks no bother, I could manage all the pistes. I even gave some friends who came with us a few lessons in the afternoons - they in turn did all the cooking - great deal!!
3 more weeks to the next ski holiday - Livigno here we come - Cant wait!!!