rosco wrote:

How about ski instructors... any of you recommend skiing without poles
other than as a drill?

Most of the kids I teach aren't using poles, _yet_. A lot of that has
to do with their size and stage of development of physical coordination
and whatnot, though. Put another way, if I were teaching adults who
were skiing at the level of the kids I taught today, I'd have 'em using
poles, but with the kids I think it would have just created confusion.

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Mary Malmros
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