| It may seem like an unenviable task, even to the most | | | | those moguls with the prowess of a professional |
| heart-struck of instructors, but teaching girls | | | | female snowboarder. |
| snowboarding is a rewarding tradition that many a ski | | | | Teaching Skills For Life |
| hill and mountain has established as a part of their | | | | When you teach girls snowboarding skills, you are also |
| integrated programs for the season. It's hard not to get | | | | teaching them skills for life because you will be |
| carried away with visions of a line of girls falling over | | | | preparing them for what to do when they fall and |
| as you instruct them to snowboard, but the reality is | | | | when they fail at something. Do not let them get too |
| that many of the girls will probably end up teaching girls | | | | discouraged or alarmed at a mistake but rather |
| snowboarding skills just like you. You might even learn | | | | encourage them to try it again and to try it again a |
| a thing or two about snowboarding from watching | | | | different way. This is important because adapting to |
| other people learn and you can perfect your own | | | | new situations is an integral part of life and it is an |
| technique from learning from other mistakes and | | | | integral part of teaching girls snowboarding classes. If |
| successes. | | | | you are nervous as their instructor, you could take |
| Never discount the learning experience that you can | | | | some hints from their confidence so that they can |
| get through teaching girls snowboarding skills. Even the | | | | learn to grow as well. |
| simplest of techniques can be revised and made even | | | | The best part about teaching girls snowboarding |
| simpler with a little practice, so thinking in terms of | | | | classes is the immense reward of instructing people to |
| keeping it simple and real can be a great way to go | | | | a skill and an aptitude that they can use for fun and |
| about teaching your class. Don't be nervous, either, as | | | | enjoyment. If you teach them well enough, you might |
| girls will catch on to any sort of emotional deviation | | | | find that you have taught a world champion in the |
| from the norm and won't be as confident as you need | | | | future and that you have laid the foundation for |
| them to be when you start your class. You need to let | | | | success in girls snowboarding for years to come for |
| every girl in your class know that she has the ability to | | | | that one person. That, in itself, is a great reward and a |
| fly down those hills, take that big air, and get down on | | | | great reason for getting into teaching of any kind. |