(toddjb) wrote:


As unrecommended as this is, when I learned we just rented boards,
went to the bunny lift and figured it out. We had tips from a couple
people and asked other boarders we saw for advice which most provided.
These days most people recommend taking a lesson to increase your
learning curve, but if you're patient and have someone to give you
tips along the way, you can figure it out on your own like many people
do. (Instructors rarely admit to this since they see only the carnage
of self-teaching gone bad...the ones that get through it don't come
crawling to them!

Well, it's just an easy calculation: if you don't have the time to go
very often (let's say, two weeks per winter total), you can
a) either take all the two weeks to self-improve
b) or take just one or two lessons, and get all the improvements in one
or two days -- and use the rest of the remaining days to enjoy driving
better!

I don't say that a "normal" snowboarder can't give you tips on
snowboarding.

I can tell you from my experience: I was snowboarding for about 5 years.
I was quite good and came down the slopes well. But at this time it just
took very long to improve my skills.
So I decided to take instructor lessons, and two things happened:
- I learned in one week as much as in the last 2-3 years
- I now knew WHY to move in a special way, why to bend the knees, ...

Plus, I now know how to give that information to others.


It's similar with education...
Understand?

Martin