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Feb 4, 2007 Dear Levi, When it comes to the park I'm totally in love, but also a total beginner. Rails are my thing, but so far all I can do decently are 50/50s. When there are other female riders in the park, if I'm not friends with them or they aren't very friendly, but they totally kill it, I get extremely self-conscious and competitive. I wouldn't mind the competitiveness, because it acts as a small push, but it really bothers me when I don't have the skills to do anything about it! How can I get over my hostile feelings as well as gain some (self?) respect in the park? Thanks, Distraught

Dear Distraught,

Yeah them damn female riders can be so mean and cruel to other female riders. This is what you do: you find a sweet hot male rider to teach you park tricks. Those mean girls will be jealous because you have a hot guy that you are riding with, and you're just killing it alongside him. Or, since we all live in the “real world," I guess what I would do is just suck up a little bit of pride and talk to the girls you see in the park all the time. It is good to have a competitive edge because it will help your riding more than you can imagine, but most of the girls in the park are probably pretty cool. I have found in all my years of snowboarding that most boarders are easy to talk to and love to show off their skills and teach others. After they show you how to do some of the tricks you want to learn, that competitiveness will push you to learn the trick and stomp it. Then you will have all the respect in the world when you step into any park, and other girls will be asking you to show them how to do stuff.

Levi

 

Dec 12, 2006 Dear Levi, My boyfriend and I both snowboard, but he just informed me that snowboarding will always be #1 in his life before me. Should I be worried about this relationship’s long term potential? 2nd Place

Dear Distraught,

Dear 2nd Place,
Let me just say this first before I get into the heart of your question. “If you play together you stay together!” Now on to the question, I think what your boyfriend is really trying to say is that once we are together don’t plan on me changing. What that means, I am who I am now and that’s how I’m going to be when we are together. I snowboard a lot now and don’t plan on stopping on doing that. Yes relationships are all about sacrifice and give and take, but you fell in love with the person for whom he is now and if you change that then you take the chance of losing him or hating you for taking something away he has always loved. So the answer to your question is easy, NO you don’t have to worry about this guy long term just don’t change him.

Levi

 

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