- The writing of "20 Minutes" accompanies you during the holiday season. Big questions, small questions, real hassle? We answer you.
- Because the end of the year often rhymes with a stay in the mountains, it is always more difficult to admit that you are not comfortable with skiing during this period.
- Lessons for adults, alternatives to skiing and psychological advice… “20 Minutes” helps you to assume your “incompaskibility” with this winter sport.
It often starts the same way. One of your loved ones drops a “Hey, are we going skiing after Christmas? », And then you are in the middle of your hysterical friends at the idea of hitting the slopes. You would no doubt like to share their joy. The catch: you don't know how to ski.
The sketch of Gad Elmaleh's "blond" (well, we believe), which ensures on the powder while you are still trying to understand the snowplow position, it's a bit of the story of your life. But as every year, this is even more difficult to assume in this winter period, when the trips to stations are increasing.
Rest assured: no, you are not alone. Even at the writing of 20 Minutes , we are some journalists who have lived near the mountains without knowing how to hold on skis. Come on, high hearts, we give you three avenues (do you have it?) To accept your incompatibility with this winter sport.
It's never too late
There are only fools who do not change their mind, right? In the resorts, ski lessons are given to adults. The Courchevel French Ski School (ESF) thus offers several formulas (between 150 and 460 euros), open to all ages, ranging from week-long group training to a private half-day or full day lesson . These are the most popular: “Private lessons allow better support, begins Elise Gaspard from ESF. It is also perhaps easier to assume for apprentice skiers: alone with the instructor, you feel more comfortable, it passes more easily. "
If it is still a little more difficult to learn to ski as an adult ("we are more apprehensive than children about the fear of falling, of hurting themselves, the fear of others on the piste"), Why do some people insist on learning to ski? "When you arrive at a station, you want to discover the practice around which it lives," says Elise Gaspard.
Too much skiing kills skiing
And yet the stations are constantly developing parallel activities. In the end, skiing is so common ... While in Tignes, among others, it is possible to go diving under the ice, zip line or paraglider. Otherwise more stylish, right? In Courchevel, excursions by snowmobile or fatscoot are offered to lovers of small racing cars. Another means of transport: a dog sled ride is also possible, Ségolène Royal style . The resort even has an aquatic center for a ski holiday without astronaut shoes (but with swimming pool, spa and gym). In a slightly more luxurious version, while being a little ragged on the edges, do not hesitate to contact your friend who has a chalet with jacuzzi in the mountains.
Oh and then, "balek"
Ok, skiing is not your thing. So what ? It may be time to sweep his shame with the back of his hand. "Someone who assumes their own way of being will say" well nothing to fuck, it's not my problem ". Even if there are always embarrassing situations, they are just moments of shame: you are never ashamed without stopping. Everyone has known these moments, no one escapes them, ”assures Valentine Hervé, clinical psychology and psychoanalyst.
She recognizes, however, that assuming her singularity - here, being the only one in a group not to ski - is not simple: “We want to be conformist. You have to know how to ski for social belonging. Not knowing refers to a failure. And that's what shame feeds on: "Shame is a social affect." It is an extremely painful feeling caused by fault, humiliation, fear of dishonor. And this, in relation to the gaze of the other or the gaze that I imagine of the other, "explains Valentine Hervé, in a society" in representation. "Hell is others," wrote Sartre, for whom the art of skiing would above all allow everyone to be free. Like what, if you manage to free yourself from the gaze of others by putting on skis, you will have made the radical choice of Being on Nothingness ... And that is not bad for telling it around a Cheese fondue.
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