Yukie Ueda moved her base of life to Mammoth Mountain to enhance her snowboarding life.Various snowboarders, both professional and amateur, gather under her.This time, she describes the day when the Suganami family, who have almost no snowboarding experience, tried snowboarding. How did "playing snowboarding with your family" appear to Yukie Ueda, who owns a family and shares snowboarding?
I want to share the time I enjoy with my kids on snowboards
The Suganami family lives in the beach area of California with their families.Koji (Koji-san 43 years old) and Mie (Mie-san 37 years old) met and married in the United States and are raising three children (Kona 3 years old, Nico 10 years old, Zion 7 years old).
The couple have been to snowboarding together in California only once before.
"It's been 11 years since I gave my first child to the point where I was saying" I want to go again. "I'm desperate to raise my child overseas, and I want to go snowboarding again. However, snowboarding with three children was practically difficult. "
The husband, whose third child is now four years old, started skateboarding with his three children this summer.Impressed by the fun of skateboarding with kids, I decided to start snowboarding with my family this winter.
"When I start together, I feel pain and difficulty, including myself, but when I do my best, the joy of skating is huge! I'm really impressed when I can do the skills while teaching skating together."
By teaching by parents, the experience will remain in the memory of both parents and children.
My husband has been surfing for many years, but he has almost no experience in skating or snowboarding, but he is still very enthusiastic about teaching on YouTube to teach children on his own.We recommend that parents who have little experience leave their children to school, but we advise parents who have such power as how to teach them.
We professionals can teach, but the fact that parents work together to teach is worth it.I think that experience will be remembered in the hearts of children and parents.
Partly because he had started skateboarding, his eldest daughter, 10 years old, quickly learned how to skate, and children aged 7 and 4 seemed to quickly become accustomed to the feeling of horizontal glue.And even the wife, who said that she was second to none at first, decided to wear snowboarding for the first time in 12 years.
Koji says, "Because the whole family is a beginner, I think I was able to start because of the support of my colleagues."
Our family, who love snowboarding, and our fellow snowboarder families, use their experience to teach their children and skate together.Of course I give some advice to my motivated colleagues, but I also know how much effort it takes to skate while teaching my kids.I think that the attitude of "learning how to teach" rather than leaving it to others attracts the cooperation of those around us.
"I think it's time to leave it to someone or leave it when it reaches a level that I can't keep up with, but maybe I thought I'd do it because I think it's a level that I can (teach) myself. I thought it would be safer for the children to study and teach one-on-one. "And behind that is the existence of a wife who supports her husband and children.
Share snowboards with your kids without any special experience
I myself sometimes have a special image that I can slide with my child because I have many years of snowboarding experience.However, this time I felt that my wife had "not a must" experience in skating and snowboarding.
"I've been surfing all the time because there was a girlfriend who wasn't a surfer but let me admit. It's the same for kids, she doesn't skate at all, but now if I'm busy she Takes the kids to the skatepark. Thank you for pointing in the same direction to what I and the kids wanted to do. "
The snowboarding that started with the family this time is fully enjoyed by his wife.There was a figure that gladly slipped more than anyone at the same pace as the eldest daughter who started the other day.
"It's great! It may be the only thing that five family members can enjoy together. Since each person has their own way of enjoying it, it doesn't matter whether it's fishing or hiking, and I think it's great that the whole family can enjoy it. "
That's right.
A family of five drives to the snowy mountains and makes rice balls because the food on the slopes is expensive.While waiting in turn at the rest house, the children are slipping, and parents are excited about snowboarding for the first time in a while.Do you take it hard or fun?I am convinced that experiencing together and making memories with the family, whether the latter or not, sees their fulfilling smiles. A couple who tried snowboarding for the first time in 5 years and three children who saw the snow for the first time.There was a history of the snowboarder family.
It won't be long before we can see this family slipping together.
★ Writer of this article
Yukie Ueda
Born January 1973, 1.Born in Tokyo.He started snowboarding in Whistler, Canada, and after 22 years of competitions such as halfpipe and big air, he launched the Garzuru movie production "LIL" and led the Japanese girls scene.After getting married, he moved to the United States and continued his professional activities while raising his 24-year-old son (Toranosuke). Currently, he is enthusiastic about the backcountry and is developing various fields in Japan and abroad. In April 6, he moved to Mammoth Mountain and started a new life with his family near the mountain more naturally.
Sponsor: K2 SNOWBOARDING, Billabong, MORISPO SPAZIO, NEFF, RONIN, ZOOT, CORAZON SHIBUYA, LALALATV
