Adventure Magazine

Can you really improve over 40?

Snow sports are hard. Try learning to guide two planks downhill with a reasonable amount of control and style in plastic boots resembling something out of RoboCop as an adult and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.

The question is, we put our kids in ski schools, often for days at a time and we see their improvement happen before our eyes, but why don’t we do the same for ourselves to keep our own progression and learning continuing like our kids?

There’s a multitude of reasons and they often sound something like the following:

“But I can already ski, why would I go back and learn all over again?” “I grew up skiing, I’m, good…?”

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