Day 15 | Ride Tribe

I was asked to work Ride Tribe (teenagers).  Whistler Kids has been so slow that I didn't mind having a change of pace.  I was betting we wouldn't have many kids in Ride Tribe but it turned out we had more teenagers (six) than we had kids-kids (four).  

My class was a girl from Singapore and she was a never-ever.  She didn't talk much but she could snowboard.  In the morning, we worked on the basics: stance and balance, skating, and zig zagging.  She was side slipping on both sides by the time lunch rolled around.

One of the perks in working Ride Tribe is being able to eat a lunch at one of the restaurants on top of the mountain.  We took the gondola up to the Round House for food.  It's also a great time killer.  After lunch, we worked on turning.  Before 2pm she was able to turn all the way down the Super Carpet so we took one run down from Olympic Chair.  That didn't go as well but overall she progressed very quickly for a kid who had never snowboarded before.