Watching the Olympics does not equal better skiing!

I have been watching the Olympics on a regular basis and I am amazed at how easy the athletes make everything look. My husbands family is obsessed with skiing and when we started dating I had to learn. I caught on pretty quickly, but as a girl from flat Missouri I am by no means good. So as we have been watching the Olympics I have been paying really close attention to the moguls. I am determined to master moguls before the end of this season. The athletes make it look so easy and I foolishly had myself convinced that watching them would somehow translate into my brain without any work and I would get really good at moguls. I have been practicing how the move and stand (do not laugh!) and was pretty sure this would greatly improve my skills. Saturday my husband and I went to Snowbird. I did some moguls. Turns out I am still terrible! Regardless of all my watching my skills had no improved. I tried moving like the pros, going as fast as the pros, and anything else I could think of. I spent the majority of the day looking like this

 

and not mastering moguls. Basically all I mastered this weekend was not being completely humiliated when small children and adults point and laugh at you or when people yell "yard sale" as you are sliding down a mountain on your butt, loosing gloves, goggles, and hats along the way, with one ski. Ya I am THAT good. I guess watching doesn't help anything and I will have the master moguls the hard way. Unfortunately the hard way includes tons of bruises and sore muscles. Olympic skiers you are amazing and I will stop telling myself that I am as good as you. Somehow two seasons does not equal a lifetime of work. BUT I did do my first double black this weekend so maybe there is hope for me.