Snowboard Instructor

Okay so I’ve been preparing to move the past few months, not doing much approaches. On the other hand, I’ve cleaned up my finances a lot, taken care of a lot of loose ends, and worked on my identity a bit.

I left my job sometime before Christmas in preparation for the move; since I had a ton of free time and I didn’t want to spend money snowboarding, I took the instructor training course at a ski resort 2.5 hours away from me.

So now I’m a snowboarding instructor.

It’s pretty cool. I really enjoy teaching people and trying to figure out what their biggest weakness is and how I can help them overcome it. Kind of applying the information timing thing to snowboarding instruction.

Also I now have a season pass! So I can snowboard for free, as long as I get to the mountain. The instructor training course helped my snowboarding a lot as well, I can now tackle much harder trails than I had been able to prior. I tell my students something similar to Blow Me or Blow Me Out: if you’re not falling a little bit, you’re probably not trying new things, which means you’re not improving. It’s Wipe Me or Wipe Me Out! Okay, maybe not…

Anyway that’s the update on my identity.