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[quote=Anonymous]It’s going to be very difficult.  You are going to fall a lot and if you don’t have the resilience and determination to persevere, it’s not going to work.

I started skiing in college and then wanted to learn to snowboard in my 30’s.  It was damn hard, and I was falling all the time.  I went a lot too.  I finally got decent up to blue runs but that was after endless local trips.

DS grew up skiing, is really good, blacks/double blacks.  He tried snowboarding when we dated since I board, fell so much, that after 2 hours gave it up and went back to skiing.  It was humbling.

My good friend just tried last winter, in her 40’s, with a private instructor.  It did not go well.

I’m back to skiing now since we started teaching our DS to ski. So we ski as a family.  But honestly, I don’t think I could start in my 40’s.  Older, heavier, more scared of falling and injuries.  Plus PP above is right, pizza-ing and wedge skiing burns your thigh like hell and your legs just take a beating and hard to do for hours.[/quote]

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