Snowboard

Who doesn't hesitate to try something new?

No one is born a skier. We are all, at one time or another, going to stumble before getting used to the ski. Now that my daughter is pretty comfortable on ski slopes, her next activity would be snowboarding. It isn't easy. Landing on the butts again and again can be achingly frustrating. That requires patience. And perhaps a mindset to stay low.

In our quest to encourage her to learn snowboarding, we have bolstered learning by watching YouTube video last night. Learning snowboarding by YouTube might not be as easy as learning a language by Duolingo, or learning algebra from Khan Academy for that matter. But that's the most popular experience of learning nowadays. As an intro tutorial before the on-the-ground practice, at least, for my daughter.

We rented the snowboard gear and let her try. She fell. She tried. Along the way, she had toppled over - a lot. One after another, step by step, she found her way on chair lift, and maneuvered her way down the slope. And another. And another. Many times.