{"id":225,"date":"2013-11-14T11:02:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T11:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2013-12-31T12:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T12:28:17","slug":"skiplex-its-like-a-treadmill-for-skiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/skiplex-its-like-a-treadmill-for-skiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Skiplex &#8211; it&#8217;s like a treadmill for skiers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaletline blogger, Iain Martin, visited Skiplex in Chiswick last weekend &#8211; and was impressed!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are off on a family ski holiday to La Rosiere in December (taking advantage of the Chaletline\u00a0BOGOF lift pass offer!).<\/p>\n<p>Our children have only been on one ski trip before, so we thought it would be helpful to get some practice in before we arrive in France.<\/p>\n<p>I really can&#8217;t recommend this highly enough as a pre-holiday investment. \u00a0The \u00a0easiest way to explain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skiplex.co.uk\/\">Skiplex<\/a> is that it&#8217;s like a treadmill for skiers: the surface moves beneath your feet and you ski on top of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This video explains it well:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DA8P0Rj7amQ?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DA8P0Rj7amQ?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Skiplex now has three centres in the UK. \u00a0In Chiswick, Basingstoke and Reading. \u00a0Lessons cost around \u00a330 ph, although there are various offers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The other advantage I saw is that the children had the chance to try on skis and boots again. That on its own can save a lot of stress on the first day when you are dealing with little ones in a ski resort.<\/p>\n<p>The one-to-one attention from the instructor, and the fact that the children could see him\u00a0the whole time\u00a0&#8211; even when skiing behind them they could see him in the mirror &#8211;\u00a0also really helps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_226\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1727.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226\" class=\"size-large wp-image-226 \" alt=\"skiplex\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1727-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1727-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1727-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1727-190x142.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1727-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1727-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1727.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iain&#8217;s children learning at Skiplex<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Article by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107961348339974741522\/about?rel=author\">Iain Martin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/skiplex-its-like-a-treadmill-for-skiers\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1727-190x142.jpg);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1727-190x142.jpg<\/a><p>Chaletline blogger, Iain Martin, visited Skiplex in Chiswick last weekend &#8211; and was impressed! We are off on a family ski holiday to La Rosiere in December (taking advantage of the Chaletline\u00a0BOGOF lift pass offer!). Our children have only been &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/skiplex-its-like-a-treadmill-for-skiers\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8],"tags":[95,42,12,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}