Teaching your Significant Other / Spouse to Ski

[drjeff]

I spent about 3 years teaching and developing my wife's skills on a board. She finally got to the point where we could ride together on just about any terrain and she could keep up. In other words, it was just starting to get really fun. Then we got divorced. :uzi:

Boy, I sure am glad I spent all that time waiting on the side of the trail for her while my friends were shredding some gnar.

The only "good" thing about that effort IF that wife thing had worked out, is that you would have already been a bit prepped for the days of slow riding on the beginner trails when kids show up and they start into the sport. That as a parent I will say is one of the coolest things to see!

 

[SkiFanE]

That body part of theirs has a lot of power over our small brains.

Only if they use it properly :wink:

 

[drjeff]

Only if they use it atleast on a semi regular basis :wink:

Fixed it for you (from a MALE perspective :lol:

 

[kimbahleeee]

basically your SO needs to be Buddha if they're going to tolerate a beginner's pace when they just want to be free! i don't blame them. i think it's a great thing to share interests, and at the very least you can ride up the mountain and grab snacks at the end of a run.

 

[darent]

if you want to preserve your marriage, be a loving husband and buy her lessons, if you want her to really improve take her too the womens clinics. that way you can ski by yourself while she is bonding with her group and female charger instructor. she will love you for the experience

 

[marcski]

My fatherinlaw gave me some very, very wise advice a few years back with regard to road biking...but it totally holds true with skiing. After I got into road biking, I was talking to my fatherinlaw about it..and possibly getting my wife a road bike.

His advice: "Don't do it, because then you're going to have to ride with her."

 

[Nick]

if you want to preserve your marriage, be a loving husband and buy her lessons, if you want her to really improve take her too the womens clinics. that way you can ski by yourself while she is bonding with her group and female charger instructor. she will love you for the experience

That is a very good idea. WRT Riverc0il, I guess like most others I think back to my own childhood and how things worked out. My mom learned to ski while dating my dad, and she became very good. As good as him, probably not; but she would ski the entire mountain, including some 4' hucks out west, that I was at least told about (if they were real or not...). In an event I don't ever expect my SO to be as gung-ho as I am, in any way, but if we could enjoy it together and ultimately enjoy it with our son then that's got it's own value that goes beyond simply going the fastest / furthest / boldest.


.... although you need that time on occasion, also :smash::smash:

 

[bdfreetuna]

Interesting thread. I've been going out with this girl for about 4 years.. then we took a break.. now we're starting to get back together again but not officially. We almost got married but some weird shit went down to make a long story short...

Anyway, she knows I'm back into skiing 110% now, and I kind of slacked on that while we went out. But now I will pretty much accept nothing in my life that is going to limit the amount of skiing , moutain biking, or other awesome activities like that.

This girl is really smart, really heady, extremely beautiful..... but damn she just likes to sit around and do boring shit most of the time!!

So I told her, you need to learn to ski... it's the most fun ever and I'm pretty sure I can teach you how to at least get up to an intermediate level within the course of a full day. After three of four times out I'm almost certain I could have her skiing in the woods and enjoying it. I'm a great ski teacher and plus I know this girl so well and I know she can totally do it and it would really spark up her s0rt of boring life.

She always wants to get outdoors and says she loves the mountains but it's like pulling teeth to get her to actually do it !!

I am pretty much insisting that she go out and at least give it a one day try with me. I'll buy her ticket and rent her some demo skis which breaks my balls finacially but I feel like it's worth a shot.

I don't plan on wasting time on the Bunny Lift either. Up to the top we go and start off down a green circle and I'll ski backwards while giving her tips the whole way down.

All she needs is a boost of confidence and the right pointers...

anyway if you read that entire vaporized ramble I guess I appreciate it. Good luck to me with this next weekend!

 

[Skimaine]

Interesting thread. I've been going out with this girl for about 4 years.. then we took a break.. now we're starting to get back together again but not officially. We almost got married but some weird shit went down to make a long story short...

Anyway, she knows I'm back into skiing 110% now, and I kind of slacked on that while we went out. But now I will pretty much accept nothing in my life that is going to limit the amount of skiing , moutain biking, or other awesome activities like that.

This girl is really smart, really heady, extremely beautiful..... but damn she just likes to sit around and do boring shit most of the time!!

So I told her, you need to learn to ski... it's the most fun ever and I'm pretty sure I can teach you how to at least get up to an intermediate level within the course of a full day. After three of four times out I'm almost certain I could have her skiing in the woods and enjoying it. I'm a great ski teacher and plus I know this girl so well and I know she can totally do it and it would really spark up her s0rt of boring life.

She always wants to get outdoors and says she loves the mountains but it's like pulling teeth to get her to actually do it !!

I am pretty much insisting that she go out and at least give it a one day try with me. I'll buy her ticket and rent her some demo skis which breaks my balls finacially but I feel like it's worth a shot.

I don't plan on wasting time on the Bunny Lift either. Up to the top we go and start off down a green circle and I'll ski backwards while giving her tips the whole way down.

All she needs is a boost of confidence and the right pointers...

anyway if you read that entire vaporized ramble I guess I appreciate it. Good luck to me with this next weekend!

You are kidding . . . right?

 

[gmcunni]

Good luck to me with this next weekend!

let us know how it goes.

 

[drjeff]

Interesting thread. I've been going out with this girl for about 4 years.. then we took a break.. now we're starting to get back together again but not officially. We almost got married but some weird shit went down to make a long story short...

Anyway, she knows I'm back into skiing 110% now, and I kind of slacked on that while we went out. But now I will pretty much accept nothing in my life that is going to limit the amount of skiing , moutain biking, or other awesome activities like that.

This girl is really smart, really heady, extremely beautiful..... but damn she just likes to sit around and do boring shit most of the time!!

So I told her, you need to learn to ski... it's the most fun ever and I'm pretty sure I can teach you how to at least get up to an intermediate level within the course of a full day. After three of four times out I'm almost certain I could have her skiing in the woods and enjoying it. I'm a great ski teacher and plus I know this girl so well and I know she can totally do it and it would really spark up her s0rt of boring life.

She always wants to get outdoors and says she loves the mountains but it's like pulling teeth to get her to actually do it !!

I am pretty much insisting that she go out and at least give it a one day try with me. I'll buy her ticket and rent her some demo skis which breaks my balls finacially but I feel like it's worth a shot.

I don't plan on wasting time on the Bunny Lift either. Up to the top we go and start off down a green circle and I'll ski backwards while giving her tips the whole way down.

All she needs is a boost of confidence and the right pointers...

anyway if you read that entire vaporized ramble I guess I appreciate it. Good luck to me with this next weekend!

If this plan of yours is true, well then I hope your NEXT girlfriend likes to ski

 

[billski]

i don't plan on wasting time on the bunny lift either. Up to the top we go and start off down a green circle and i'll ski backwards while giving her tips the whole way down.

u r doomed

 

[Nick]

I tried that, bdfreetuna, and I had to (literally) take the lift back down with my wife. At Wachusett, the Polar Express. She freaked out when she saw only blue's at the top, it was like her 2nd time skiing.

That was embarassing. I even suggested I'll ski down and meet you at the bottom and the second I said it I knew there was no way that was happening :lol:

 

[hammer]

I tried that, bdfreetuna, and I had to (literally) take the lift back down with my wife. At Wachusett, the Polar Express. She freaked out when she saw only blue's at the top, it was like her 2nd time skiing.

That was embarassing. I even suggested I'll ski down and meet you at the bottom and the second I said it I knew there was no way that was happening :lol:

My first time down Conifer was as a SPORE during Feb vacation week...was tough for me and I never saw so much carnage on a slope.

 

[billski]

I think this was an incendiary remark intended to provoke a lot of emotion. Lob and run.

 

[Cheese]

Anyone done this successfully?

If one is going to do this they owe it to their SO to get some sort of instructor training prior. Being an expert skier does not make one an instructor.

or

Teach them to operate the washing machine and vacuum so you can ski more!

 

[Nick]

@Cheese, well said, I am a fairly decent skier but a horrible instructor

 

[bdfreetuna]

Well I failed miserably at trying to teach this girl to drive a standard transmission....

I hope the ski lesson goes better than that!!!!

(for real!)

 

[billski]

Well I failed miserably at trying to teach this girl to drive a standard transmission....

I hope the ski lesson goes better than that!!!!

(for real!)

Yeah. That and a few other male fantasies will earn you big points :roll:

 

[BenedictGomez]

If one is going to do this they owe it to their SO to get some sort of instructor training prior. Being an expert skier does not make one an instructor.

Amen.

Lessons do wonders for speeding the learning curve of beginners. I used to work at the learning center of a large mountain, and you could EASILY SEE the difference in the newbies who took lessons and the newbies who went about it on their own. In a word, I would call the difference, dramatic.