She just turned five three weeks ago and she's been riding a snowboarding for almost two years now. Her father is NOW binding designer and professional snowboader, JF Pelchat. She definitely has snowboarding in her blood as she is as natural as it gets.
On our first run, I told her to put her back hand on her hip and to swing her front arm around her belly when turning on her toes. I never had to mention it again and she did those two things all day long. We went through Enchanted Forest a couple of times and she ran that tree run like it was a race course. Her big thing to work on was to skate on her board with one foot in a binding and one foot out of a binding. I made her practice that whenever we got to the CLC. No problem, by the end of the day she was a pro. She also needed practice going down a small hill with only one foot in a binding in order to get off a chairlift. No problem there either. For the first time she rode off the chairlift by herself today (Dad usually carries her).
Her riding ability is easily as good as the level four and level five classes of older kids, it's her stamina that wouldn't hold up during an entire day. No worries as we have two other Lil Rippers with Morgan who are working on catching up to her riding abilities. We will be able to ride with them soon enough. Needless to say I'm pretty excited for the season.
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