Skiing with a newb

grahmcracker

grahmcracker

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i plan on taking a good friend of mine skiing with me pretty soon but they never been skiing before and im pretty competitive... i just wanna be friendly and helpful and ive never taught anyone to ski. any tips?
 
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i swore i would teach my friend how to ski so we could shred, i spent about 15 minutes on the bunny hill teaching him how to turn and shit when my animal instincts took over and i went over to the park.
 
watching your friends who know how to ski well but are just getting into part is the funnest thing. so much falling and spills to watch but when they get something, so much stoke.
 
This thread is not about funny pictures of fat people.
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Just have fun with it. You know you're not going be shredding around like you do when you ski on your own, so just have a good time teaching them and share your stoke for the sport that you love. Also, just remember the fundamentals of skiing and show them instead of tell them how to do things.
 
just role with it... if they want to stay up with you. they will try harder to learn. so just offer the info for the first day and see what happens.
 
definitely start on the bunny hills, i took my friend skiing for the first time and it was a shitshow x 10. those blue squares are confidence killers for first time skiers. you better stay with your friend if you invited him. Just practice carving switch, its useful and fun to mach down switch around the bunny hills
 
i made a gopro edit of all my friends bails and put ride of the valkyries as the soundtrack. Pretty damn funny. It was his first time skiing in well over a decade.
 
I taught a friend how to ski recently and to keep myself challenged I rented a pair of tele skis. It was lots of fun, I could demonstrate on my skis what they should be doing, and I'm now buying a pair of telemark skis.
 
Pizza, French Fry. When I learned how to ski last year, I did it with a friend who also snowboarded with me before I switched, and she hated skiing and gave it up in two magic carpet rides. I, however, had a raging girl boner for skiing and it's now my new love. If they don't like skiing, let them try snowboarding. Because for some reason people think snowboarding is way cooler...?idk?
 
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my roommate just started skiing, got SPKs and dynastar superpipes with look bindings, skied like twice with me and gave it up as soon as MY season ended. he had no internal drive to want to ski whatsoever. fuck kids like that.
 
Good luck, honestly its a few days of torture (riding exceptionally slowly beside your gaper friend as they pizza in your tracks while your friends ride by doing their cool shit haha). But my bestie has never skied before last year and i brought her to our place for a weekend, taught her all i could, and this year she might still be slow but shes doing (mind you easier ones) blacks, a bit of trees and in general moving a lot faster.

Its sick to see someone grow into a good skier if you were the first one to teach them. Show them how sicccck skiing is and hopefully you start something with them - my friend loves it now. Better gear and maybe even her own skis and shes doing great. Have fun!
 
i definitely had this problem a couple weeks ago, never really got taught how to ski when I was younger aside from some really really basic steps on how to pizza, since then everything i picked up here and there, never taken a lesson, so it was kinda hard to think what things i should point out. Needless to say, the first while of skiing was failure on both my behalf as a teacher and my friend as a skier. Luckily I ran into two off duty ski instructors who were awesome enough to take a good chunk out of their day to give him free lessons. One of my big suggestions I have is tell your friend what muscles to when skiing. Even after all the instruction my friend was still not getting it until he complained that his ass muscles were hurting. Somehow he was trying to use his ass muscles to turn and was constantly falling into the back seat and wiping out. When I explained what he should have been doing he figure it out on the next run.
 
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