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Show 6B Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1983 kis, Children Are Compatible CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review Correspondent What is the best, or only, way to enjoy a skiing trip with a young family? Wave good-by- e to them at the childrens ski school, turn your back toward them and take off, $ome parents would say from ex; perience. But how do the ski instructors feel about taking on the responsibility for all of those aban- wedge. The E and F classes are the advanced classes. They learn how to race, absorb terrain and ski in powder, Ms. Olsen explained. Tools are sometimes used in cases where the children need extra help in keeping up with the others. allel. Class levels go from A, to F, the A class learning the basic Kinderbirds-fou- r to EFFECTIVE ANNUAL YIELD When you purchase a 6 month Money Market Certificate of $5,000 of more. Western Heritage offer 10.75 interest Effective annual yield 1 1.04 plus you may choose from a wide variety of FREE GIFTS when you open your account. five-ye- ar olds. If younger children can stay up with the class, then tfiey can join the Kinderbirds. Private lessons are taught to any age child. The next groups are the to teenage classes. Children are grouped according to their abilities in these classes. Instructors ask parents in depth about their childrens level of experience while putting the parents minds at ease about the lessons, Ms. Olsen said. Most area ski resorts offer instruction to the beginning child. WESTERN -- tions? Patti Olsen, supervisor of the Snowbird childrens ski school said that all 14 of their ski instructors are certified and are capable of teaching adults, but they all chose to teach in the Children's ski school instead. ; She said that during the Christmas season the school teaches over 100 children a day. And She stated that they have never had a failure. - Does this mean that perhaps adults are worse prospects than children to face on the slopes in a learning situation? As Ms. Olsen put it, Children are more flexible. They dont have the fear that adults sometimes have. For example, they dont think, Who will take care of my family if something happens to me. And children just enjoy it and have fun. ; Anyone who has ever tried to teach their own children to ski and then put them in a ski school, knows that the schools are capable of doing the near impossible. Ms. Olsen explained how they do it. First, she explained, the school is very conscious of safety and, secondly, they make sure the kids have fun. Having fun is more important than the technical part, she said. The school uses TV characters to make the lessons interesting, and they play games to teach the skill of turning, edging and stepping sideways. To the younger students, they will not say, We are going to sidestep up the hill, so dig your edges into the hill. Were going to climb up to the giants castle. We dont talk down to the students, she said. We are serious but we have intermittent games. And we let them show us what skills they can do. Etiquette on the ski lift is also taught. Ms. Olsen said that children from 4 to 5 years of age up should be able to go on the ski lift at the beginners by themselves. She said the lift on that - Your Skis May Need A Tuneup Call us today for a free personal rate quotation. five-year-o- ld D 0 a D D D V of for in the storage anticipation slopes, the first decision they must make is should they get a tuneup for their equipment? tune-u- p is as necessary to good ski performance as proper stringing is to a tennis racquet. Others think tune-up- s are a waste of money and scoff at the naive and uneducated who continue to throw their money away to prosperous ski shops. Ever see skis refuse to slide down a hill? But if the number of tune-up- s being done at area sporting goods stores are any indication, then the publics consensus seems to be in favor of the seasonal task. Ski shops report a large backlog of requests for as the early heavy snowfall has apparently given people skiing fever. Several area sporting goods offer the service at reasonable will run the prices. A hand-tun- e skier more for the precision operation than the faster machine-tunBut opinion varies on the benefits of a hand-tunThe average person wouldnt know the difference between a hand-tun- e and a machine-tunsays Wolfes ski shop manager Dave Crosthwait. 'The service averages about and $10 for the machine-tun- e ps e. Bountiful 107 North Mam 298-365- 3 THRIFT A LOAN Sandy 830 East 9400 South 572-263- 0 St. George 494 East Tabernacle 628-365- 8 0 Sunset D (MteraDim INSURANCE COMPANY CLIP & SAVE. )U K3RrrA XJXJ D 2649 N. Main V a a 9 773-059- 5 BHBC 0 D 9 Read The Classified For Best Results pay off in energy dollars. It will , As skiers take their skis out Some believe that the Instructors teach the children by the American Teaching Method, or ATM. Beginners are taught the snow plow, with skis in a wedge and the classes progress to the stem christy and par- , doned kids with their first pair of skis sliding in opposite direc- ! hill goes much slower, and the , lift operators are trained to help the children if they need it. Nevertheless, We try to have little children go up on the lift with an adult, she said. We try to have little children go up on the lift with an adult, she said. We teach them how to get on, howto ask for help, how to hold on, and how not to look around or fool around." At Snowbird the childrens group classes start out with the, fWORHEY Have you looked around the house lately? Chances are, youll find a lot of little energy wasters waiting to eat up a lot of your energy dollars. 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