> Learning to ski or snowboard requires falling thousands of times. I learned to ski in my early 40sc over the last 5 years and I would count my falls in the t

> Learning to ski or snowboard requires falling thousands of times. I learned to ski in my early 40sc over the last 5 years and I would count my falls in the tens. Certainly fewer than 50. That's counting every time I ended up on the ground, most of those could probably be classified as sitting more than falling. I'm far from extremely athletic, maybe even below average. If you learn from an instructor and don't try to ski terrain you're not ready for then there's no reason somebody of even below-average athletic ability couldn't learn to ski without getting hurt.