{"id":3349,"date":"2009-03-12T11:38:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T19:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2009-03-12T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T19:38:55","slug":"ski-snowboard-action-how-to-teach-your-so-or-spouse-to-snowride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3349","title":{"rendered":"Ski &#038; Snowboard &#8211; Action! How to Teach Your S.O. or Spouse to Snowride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking of teaching your S.O. or spouse to ski or snowboard? In the words of an experienced Alta ski instructor, &#8220;DON&#8217;T!&#8221; Connie Knab says, &#8220;The problem is that there may be emotional issues. Both parties have expectations of each other that would be different from a student\/teacher or coach\/player relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, Connie is married to a long time snowboard instructor at Brighton. Tim Knab advises, &#8220;Get them in a lesson first, then you can ride or ski while they&#8217;re in class, so you won&#8217;t be wishing you were out there instead of standing around while they try to learn, getting frustrated because they don&#8217;t learn faster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But if you still insist on trying to teach &#8217;em yourself, here are some tips:&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthisweek.com\/view.php?id=164522\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking of teaching your S.O. or spouse to ski or snowboard? In the words of an experienced Alta ski instructor, &#8220;DON&#8217;T!&#8221; Connie Knab says, &#8220;The problem is that there may be emotional issues. Both parties have expectations of each other that would be different from a student\/teacher or coach\/player relationship.&#8221; Coincidentally, Connie is married to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}