When they ski better than you

My son is 11 and has been skiing since he was 4. He has been through the Nancy Green/SnowStars program and has been racing for the past 3 seasons. Last season at Sugarloaf I realized that he would soon be skiing faster and better than me. This weekend I realized that it had happened. Has this happened to you?

Only when that 7-8 y.o. little girl in a Pink 1 piece poached my line today.

Youth

OK Slider but how about that little boy (maybe 7) who earlier in the year as I was sitting on my arse and skied up and exclaimed, " Are you ok mister ". UGH

My son is 17..and I am fighting him and he is pushing me me to ski better and faster. I think it was Warren Miller who siad. "You kids skis the same as you for one day, then the next day they are better than you"

You know hey I want to feel some pity for you but all I can say is that theres a reason why rich people send their kids away to boarding school and it may have something to do with the fact that lots of rich people have lots of leisure time to do things like skiing if you know what I mean hey?

No.

My son was 13 when I realized that in a very short time he would be a better skier than I. Just about that time he changed to snowboarding, so it hasn't happened yet.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...48069896354929
this girl has already surpassed her parents. I hope she keeps coming back cause someday she will out ski me the instructor. At that point I am then a coach.

someday I hope to have kids like her.

That kid rocks.

When they get better than you, just smile and take credit for it...

Just remember- they will always meet you for lunch....(as long as you have the credit card)

My son who is 15, and has been skiing for 4 years beats me down the hill easily. I still maintain I'm the "technically" cleaner skier... ahem.

Who said that you would spend years and hundreds of dollars teaching your kids to ski - and for one one day they would ski as good as you - the next day they'd ski better.

so true

Wow! That girl is incredible!

My 6 year old and I were out yesterday and I believe she'll be skiing black by the end of the season or by next year. : She is already doing some parallel turns and just amazes me!

My 14 yr old son passed me up this year. The good news is that he pushes me to ski terrain I might avoid otherwise. Have to keep him interested.

Question: What are the three scariest words on the mountain? Answer: Follow Me Dad!

Some day is almost here

BushwackerPA, great video really put a big smile on my face.

This is very true. My kids got me back into the trees a few years ago. Kids LOVE trees. I had just forgotten about them, I guess.

My son just turned 12, and last year I could use cruddy or deep snow to slow him down. That doesn't work anymore; now I just don't wax his skis. That works. But it pisses him off.

Here's where the mixed feelings come in. I would be pleased if that motivated him to learn to wax his own, disturbed if he didn't, but glad that I could keep up, because he didn't.

My skis weren't made for speed, and my kids like to go ripping down the hill on their snowboards. They get their comeuppance when we come to a mogul field, and I get to turn the tables on them.

That's the level of the seasonal kids I've been teaching for the past two seasons - although these guys (and girl) ski and snowboard at our highest level.

I like the coach label, Bushwacker...I knew I was in trouble when I took one of the kids out on a slow midweek day last week with orders to do a race program evaluation on him. I believe my exact instructions were, "Go out and hammer him." No matter what the terrain, I would turn around at the bottom and he'd be 5 feet behind me, nonchalant as ever.

It's certainly an eye-opening experience, and one which I hope I get to experience with children of my own. It's also, however, pretty freakin' cool!

Sweet video, Bushwacker! That little girl is just great!

My younger brother learned to ski when he was 2, started racing in CUSSA at 5, and was beating all the older kids by age 7. He used to make my mom crazy because he'd just duck down whatever trail he wanted, without waiting to find out if she was OK with it. So she was constantly chasing him through bump fields that were taller than him. She made him bright-orange ski pants so people would see him! My brothers and I were lucky, we all learned to ski when we were young. My mother said skiing with us made her a better skier. And she was already a great skier, so I often wonder if she was saying that to be nice...or maybe it really was the truth.

My husband's three kids all learned to ski when they were little, long before I met him. Since he's a patroller and has been for 17 years, you'd think the kids would be awesome skiers. But they never quite found a passion for it, and often can't be bothered to go to the mountain with us. His daughter, now in her 20s, has gone skiing just a few times in the past 7 years, she's a timid intermediate because she doesn't put in enough time on the mountain. She always ends up having fun, but she doesn't have friends who ski/ride so she doesn't have an incentive to go, I guess. The boys (ages 20 and 17) can ski just about anything at Jay, but a lot of the time, it isn't pretty or done with any kind of skill. If you ask them, they are way better than their old parents! But they also have declined to join us when they know we're going out-of-bounds or into the tighter trees at Jay.

I know my husband wishes they'd taken to skiing with more passion, he always thought it would be something they'd share as a family.

Thatsagirl

I skied with a little J4 racer this past weekend. She was awesome too! You could tell she had spent a lot of time with coaches, as she took direction so well. But she did the best when she just followed my line. We skied our legs off. She was pooped at the end of 2 hours ("Dad can we just ride the shuttle back to the lodge? My legs are tired." Awesome!)

L

Yes.
Faster anyway. Maybe not better yet.
Maybe.

The little girl I had went for 6 hours!!! and wanted to keep skiing I would of went longer for no pay so rewarding to teach a kid tactics and you getting to show them where and how you ski the stuff you like.

I would of rather taught that Black level kid group lesson for a pay cut today over the private i did teach.

FYI that girl is a MRG skier so if you around and you see a little tiger catching up to you, that could very well be her.

It's in the process of happening to me with the older kid. Immesnley gratifying, but also presents some issues in terms of then getting the kid to understand how to ski different terrain options, and also dealing with the variability of kids. But she's still young enough to enjoy freeskiing with me, and I know that itself won't last that long, I'm just enjoying the time while I have it.

yes, last year on Castlerock when he was 14 and she (on a snowboard) was 17:-)

he can handle the more technical terrain better than I can, which is OK until he gets that impatient "dad, what's keepin' you" attitude

she's been faster than me for years .. crazy kid

On Tuesday skiing bumps with my 14 year old son, I realized that he's probably better at it than me. Granted, that has never been my forte, and I'm still a better all around skier, but clearly not for very much longer.

You know you've really had it when you and your kids start out together at the top of a run, they pass you right off the bat, halfway down they yell at you from the lift to "hurry up Dad", and then ... the clincher ... pass you again before you get to the bottom and the lift

You have a real talent to spark a light in kids like this! Keep up the good work!

Yes. My 11 year old son passed me last year. I thought I still had another year keeping up with my 8 year old daughter but she now enjoys the bowl at our local Mt. Ashland so I think she may have blown by me now also. Our local racing club is really great for teaching them how to be good skiers and good mountain citizens. I willingly admit I am not a great skier but still.....

Uh, yeah, it has happened.

My 10 year old will ski practically anything at Big Sky until the lifts stop running.

After taking my 5 year old through some tight, somewhat sloppy, rather steep tree runs last week (Coulter's Hell, among others), she came in and told my wife how "it was fun, but I had to keep waiting for daddy."

I'm toast.

I like this thread! My kids are 8 and 10 and they are good skiers. They always want to show off for Dad. I am very proud of them both but when I need to put them in their place and show then Dad's superiority I make then traverse, which they hate and then take them to the longer steep pitches. They can ski anything but their legs are not strong enough to sustain it on the longer stuff. I also told them that when they get better that me they have to pay their own way.