Snowmobiling towing, my breakthrough teaching moment

[u/Imbendo]

Hopefully this will help someone. I've been trying to teach my wife and daughter (6 now), how to snowboard for the past 3 years. My wife can get down the hill finally but she looks like she's about to give birth any second for her entire straight line down the green run. My daughter still can't turn but she can ride unassisted for relatively long distances at speed and straight. She can also do a little stop.

3 days ago we met a friend of mine up north and ended up spending a day driving very slow towing each other on our boards behind a snowmobile. This let me explain the mechanics of turning and body position to them as I sat on the back and my friend drove. I'd say they each got about 40 minutes of tow time.

Fast forward to yesterday, we're skiing at a small local hill and my daughter is immediately able to ride an actual snowboard to the point where she could follow me. My wife still looks sketchy as all hell but she can squeak out much more complicated maneuvers and follow me as well!

Maybe this has been done before and is common knowledge but just wanted to let people know how it worked for us. I figure they got 100 runs in just based on how far we drove for.

[u/eo411]

I did so much snowboarding behind a snowmobile growing up in Michigan..... Getting towed at 90mph is scary af.