I teach snowboarding
specifically: I teach kids snowboarding. Now, I'm not sure how many of you have tried, but for those who haven't: when you learn to snowboard, you fall. It's an immutable fact, a law of the universe, a triumph of raw physics over ego. It's also, sometimes, quite cripplingly funny.

Now in any given hour teaching, you expect any beginner to catch an edge at least once. Best example I could find was here. I'll not lie, it's pretty funny, but sometimes you get a kid who really wants to push the envelope (And the instructor's blood pressure) to the limit.

My favourite was the kid who, at the end of the lesson, asked to slide down the practice hill sitting on his board. I thought "Why not?" and duly gave permission, only for the poor child to hammer it down the hill, across the stopping zone and straight into a nearby shed. You know in the cartoons where Wil-e-coyote slams into a wall, then peels slowly backward off it? Well this kid managed a pretty fair interpretation. I raced down the hill to make sure he hadn't killed himself, picked him up, and then had to turn away so he wouldn't see me trying to contain the laughter.

Poor bugger...
(Kendal, Sat 24 Jul 2010, 0:51, Reply)