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Any other Ski Instructors out there? Disaster lesson stories!

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Duck_Sauce
Posts: 288 - Karma: 4,005
Disaster lesson stories!
-first year teaching
-9 year old chinese boy
-absolutely did not grasp the idea of skiing
-on the bunny hill, with magic carpet
-practicing simple J turns
-slowly makes a right hand turn, then turns so his tips are pointing up the hill
-starts gaining speed backwards
-me 20 feet away struggling to keep up
-headed straight for magic carpet going UP the hill, while hes headed down
the result was him doing a literal back flip and dumping into the ditch by the carpet

..i couldn't stop laughing. oh and he was fine and LOL'ing as well

Oct 14 2012 3:27PM
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Skiingsnow
Posts: 1567 - Karma: 797
around $300 a day.

but seriously, for a single day, $10 or more, $5 is just like oh fuck you, can't even get a beer with that
Oct 17 2012 3:56AM
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rzarector
Posts: 590 - Karma: 70
I have never been tipped and only know 1 other instructor where I work who has.


Oct 17 2012 9:02PM
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maxwell666
Posts: 554 - Karma: 20
We get tipped pretty frequently.
Oct 17 2012 9:35PM
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Iliveinutah
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tip 100$ i speak for all poor ass instructors
Oct 17 2012 9:39PM
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Skiingsnow
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it depends on the resort alot, in australia i have had 3 tips ever, $5 and $10 from kids i taught for a week, and $100 from a kids i had in race club all season
In whistler over the holiday periods on a good day i have walked away with $100 from a 1 day lesson with 6 kids
Oct 17 2012 9:39PM
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Iliveinutah
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so my disaster lesson was when i got 14 indian kids ( which anyone who teachs know they are useless people ) 12 girls 2 guys, the girls kept trying to grab my dick when i had to stop them so that pissed me off cause they were some nasty bitchs. i told them " stop grabbing my dick".. and clearly they didnt know what i said cause they could speak english. so i said fuck the world shot all them in the head and burryed them under the magic carpet where they still lay today.

i win fuck yall !
Oct 17 2012 9:45PM
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benyannelli
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a group of 3 families, 15 indians, in the words of my supervisor... "with dots not feathers"
Oct 17 2012 10:03PM
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hatchback
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Had a group of 10 adults last year and every one of them I had to pick up after falling getting off of the magic carpet...
Oct 18 2012 7:58AM
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Byron_tha_gr8
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My boss called lessons with Indians disaster control. However they always tipped the best
Oct 18 2012 8:06AM
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Nott
Posts: 28 - Karma: 23
This thread is unreal...

Last year I was teaching a class that comes once a week for a month.. One night it was just myself and one other girl. at this point I got her to a black diamond and she was doing great. unfortunately my stomach was not doing so well. I explained to her that i had to shit my pants. so we make it to the porter potty, i run in and produce all kinds of sloppy messes. she didnt say anything when i came out 15mins later with one less beanie..... yep i had to wipe with my beanie. fml
Oct 18 2012 12:10PM
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benyannelli
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my friend (lolklonvolkls) got a 100 dollar tip from some hipster asian lady who's son couldnt ski down the bunny slope
Oct 18 2012 4:45PM
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Shza.
Posts: 425 - Karma: 92
Really? Do you work as a liftie? If so, I probably know you haha
Oct 18 2012 5:33PM
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Tsands
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One day when i was an instructor i was given a group of 25 first time skiers.
It was a terrible 2 hours .....
Oct 19 2012 6:00AM
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Rosbif
Posts: 2543 - Karma: 930
Oh man, too many disaster lessons to type, highlights of my 12 winters ski instructing include a selection of children soiling themselves, a good deal of language confusion, too many drunk/hungover lessons to count, more spoilt brats than you could imagine, a few quite serious injuries and a fair bit of crashing in uniform too. It is such a sick job though.
Oct 19 2012 9:04AM
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doitbig
Posts: 4818 - Karma: 315
seen kids fall off chairs (not mine), countless injuries, a girl my dad had broke both her legs inside her boots at the cuff, numerous "potty" issues, "group lessons" which consist of 100 kid school groups from the inner city of Detroit all wearing jeans and bubble downs (these are actually my favorite b/c the kids are so hype to get a chance to ski.)

all for enough pay to get me to the hill and back.
Oct 19 2012 9:15AM
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Bateman
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ill definitely produce some disasters this winter.. if you know what i mean.



Oct 19 2012 9:18AM
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Skiingsnow
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all day everyday ;)
Oct 19 2012 10:02AM
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Rosbif
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Haha, I have heard thredbo is the worst for massive groups, NZ can't be too far behind though.
Oct 19 2012 10:06AM
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BEARS.
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this threads awesome. cant wait for my first season of teaching.
Oct 19 2012 11:49AM
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Byron_tha_gr8
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yes you can. it can be great, and it can be ugly, and it can be the most horrible experience of your life. but when you have a supper excited 6 year old linking parallels, its the best.
Oct 19 2012 2:31PM
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aaronec
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Girl dies on ptarmigan
Oct 19 2012 4:03PM
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A-Mac.
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hahahaha lost
Oct 19 2012 5:28PM
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FuckAllOfYou
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>be me, 8 years old, first time skiing ever
>fucking ski resort gives me 170's
>can't pizza down the bunny hill
>first run of my life, run into the woods and hit a tree
>brother and his friend have to get my untangled
>finally get to the bottom
>attempt to grab onto the ropetow
>nope.avi
>have to climb up the bunny hill every time
>repeat
>fml, I hate skiing

actual true story of my first time
Oct 19 2012 6:12PM
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Skiingsnow
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yea its not the best, adult first timer lessons are often 15+ in a group, school groups i've had up to 25, almost no one in australia who lakes lessons can ski parallel,then i got to whistler and the classes are rarely bigger than 6 and the kids all slay
Oct 19 2012 8:28PM
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accualyisdolan
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I can't believe how pathetic
Oct 19 2012 9:08PM
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accualyisdolan
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Some of these kids are
Oct 19 2012 9:10PM
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Rosbif
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Yeah, I taught a lot of big groups of Aussies in NZ, some would figure they had learnt enough at the end of one day to ski everywhere! I don't teach big groups anymore though, max in Japan is 8 and the same in Chile, but hardly ever more than 4, plus I teach more privates now anyway.
Oct 19 2012 9:14PM
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aaronec
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One time I had a student who had severe mental issues. He was a fully functional human being, he just had these crazy moods swings. On the lesson sign-up sheet under the "special needs/requests" field, the mother wrote "consider him special". The boy was 11 years old and weighed around 90 pounds. We're about halfway through the lesson, and the kid is in timeout because he was throwing a fit. I hear a child scream from behind me, and as I turned to look, this bastard is chasing another student with a stick he found in the woods. I ran over and took the stick and threw it into the woods. I put him back in timeout and told the floating instructor out there to keep a close eye on him. Not five minutes later, I looked over again to the kid beating my other instructor friend with his ski. I ran over to intervene but the kid came after me. I ended up getting hit in the face with the ski, getting a cut across my cheek, and getting kicked in the shin with ski boots - HARD. I try to restrain the kid but he escaped. Next thing I saw was the kid's dad sprinting over (probably the fastest I've ever seen someone run in ski boots), then absolutely pummeling his kid. Tackled him straight to the ground. Later that day, the dad came back and gave a $300 tip to any instructors involved, $150 of which I received.
Oct 20 2012 1:30AM
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whipple
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HAHAHA sig worthy
Oct 20 2012 2:50AM
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.Roockley.
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i'm an instructor but couldn't get a job in nz this season and ended up being a lifty, i rode the chair with some kids to help an instructor out, i got forced to the outside of the chair and when we loaded the kid on the far end didnt sit down and ended up perched on the edge of the chair, i ended up having to grab hold of him while he was dangling about 20ft up in the air and pulling him back up. i was fucking terrified for him

but the most common one is teaching kids that don't wanna be there, they make your life hell. fuck i hate having those kids on my lesson
Oct 20 2012 3:42AM
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Gibbon
Posts: 160 - Karma: 237
Where I work there is a story about a kid who had to take a dump in the woods (last run and he said he really has to do it immediately). The kid was dressed in an overall, so he took it down and did his buisness. Back in the gondola on the way down to the resort, the other kids in the group were like: "boaa what is smelling so horrible inside here". ski instructor looked in to the kids hood and there was shit in it... so obviously the kid's hood was right under his ass when he had shit... ^^
best story I heard so far! ^^
mine were just like the others here I think, with stupid and lazy kids who don't want to ski and cry all the time! ^^

one bad one for me was when it was so foggy on the hill that I couldn't see my own hand, and I was with a group of 10 kids. So I almost get lost in the fog because everything was looking just white (I know my resort quite well, but it was rly stupid bad weather).
Oct 20 2012 10:35AM
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A-Mac.
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bump
Oct 20 2012 12:37PM
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AnthonyWalsh
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i dropped a kid of a chairlift, but then caught her by the head.... i kid you not
Oct 20 2012 12:43PM
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dompuch
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my girlfriend was an intructor at snowmass and she had a kid fall under the bar on the lift, she cuaght him by the jacket and saved that kid, scary shizz
Oct 20 2012 2:37PM
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CoreyMacCallum
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I had a mexican in my freestyle group for the year and he actually wasn't that bad. He was starting to hit some bigger jumps (like 20 feet) and then one day the park was pretty icy and I told him to go slower into the jump. He did the exact opposite and over shot the jump by like 15 feet to his tailbone. He was out of commission for like a month.
Oct 30 2012 3:15PM
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skiP.E.I.
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My group of 7-9 year olds was at the top of the mountain going down a short steep section followed by a long flat where there was some powder. One kid who was one of the better skiers in the group of 8 hit a bump under the powder and tweaked his knee, and I guess it hurt too much for him to keep skiing. Aside from feeling very guilty, I had to wait for patrol and occupy the other 7 kids for >1/2 hour. The kid who was injured also lost a lot of confidence and needed a lot of coaxing for the rest of the season.
Oct 30 2012 4:48PM
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TZA.
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going up the chairlift with me and 3 students from aged 10-13 i believe when we got to the top , the bigger girl on the end put her 1 foot down to early and it twisted her foot completely around as she lost her balance BOOM torn acl her dad was supper pissed and wanted to press charges on me and the resort
Oct 30 2012 5:05PM
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TZA.
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lol i wish i got tipped , i usually only get tipped at the end of the year or rarely throughout
Oct 30 2012 5:08PM
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TZA.
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sorry for the triple post , but ive also had alot of kids bail off random stuff like i had a kid like front flip over an embankment and into some trees , and i have had kids pee themselves and some pretty good park bails , at my resort i had an instructor who had a kid fall like 30-40 feet off the lift kid broke both legs
Oct 30 2012 5:12PM
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