Teaching your Significant Other / Spouse to Ski

[bdfreetuna]

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

I don't need any more points with this particular woman she's in love with me and I love her too but I just think she would enjoy learning my favorite outdoor activity.

She's down for hiking and mountain biking so skiing seems like it would work out too

 

[Skier4life]

My wife's first time on the slopes were spent listening to me give out instructions and patiently guiding her down a green run at a relatively small non intimidating mountain. Surprisingly, she quite successfully executed wedges, turns, stops and balance. I say surprisingly because I am not an instructor nor am I an expert skier. I am simply assertive at imparting the sporting knowledge I know to willing and equally responsive recipients. I merely gave her the basics she needed and the confidence to ski leisurely, albeit cautiously, after which she took a number of lessons to improve technique...did i mention that it was our first date and it was probably more of a case of mutual infatuation than my great instruction? Hey whatever it takes to get the adrenalin pumping right?!?

Anyway, notice how I still pushed her to get in a learning program because what I taught her is nothing compared to the instruction she would receive in lessons, it simply gave her the interest to carry on and learn more.

She is still only on mid level blues but that is more down to a lack on days out on the mountain.

So sometimes all it takes is the right dynamic between "instructor" and "student".

FYI: I learnt in Utah by a friend giving me tips on balance and stopping alone [I am extremely athletic and quick at picking up new sports], and now I have just as much fun shredding powder in the glades as I do trickling down a bunny slope with a friend, cousin, neighbour who has no idea how to make those silly long planks under their feet counter gravity on the white fluffy blanket.

 

[darent]

their are benefits in signing the wife up for ladies clinics, when she is done I ask her to take me to the places she skied, I have been shown some interesting runs that way. one is a nice steep bowl with a heck of long glade at the bottom in steamboat.