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Your first lessons on the board will be your instructor shouting at you to keep your weight on your front foot, and talking about how to carve a proper turn, etc. etc.... And all of that will be mostly a waste.

Being a snowboarding instructor, I find this very funny. Its good to see it from a students point of view.

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As you're learning to make turns, what you find is that fear is your greatest enemy.

So very true. One of the hardest things to do as an instructor is to get my students to commit to making their turns. They usually freak out just as Tony described and end up falling down. If they would just commit to the turn and do it with a little bit of confidence, they would be able to get it much easier.