YOU’RE ALREADY AMAZING
—Listening
to the snowboard instructors
Fists save wrists
Stay square, stay square,
You guys have this
We’re going
a little further
up the hill
You had it
You had it
We got this guys
Keep looking up
Jim Bodeen
11 February 2014
PRAIRIE-DOGGING WITH YOUNG RIDERS AT WHITE PASS
—for the instructors from S.O.S. & C.O.R.E.
Biff. That’s it, the word for falling.
But enough of that now.
This is snowboard zen.
Lift your foot.
Toe-side, the side that will help you.
Where you ride.
Push and slide,
weight on your toes.
How does this board feel when it’s attached to my foot?
Give a push, only to your back binding.
Let’s head on up the mountain a bit.
Squat down. Get into an athletic stance.
Like soccer. Like basketball. Alert.
Like that. Athletic stance.
This is the best part. Ready.
Don’t worry about stopping.
The exercise is to slide.
Focus on staying square. Athletic stance.
That’s an important move.
Use your courage.
Make that hard choice.
Look at me. Look at me.
Look at me.
It’s so close.
Eyes up.
You want to look at your feet.
Look at me.
I’m thinking you’re not getting enough knee.
If you feel you’re not getting enough control,
go to those knees. Front knee bent.
Look at me. Look at me.
Why Prairie Dog? Look at you guys sitting there on the snow.
Jim Bodeen
26 January 2014-11 February 2014
White Pass
CIRCLE OF LOVE
—With
S.O.S. (Snowboard Outreach Society)
High 5s, half-hugs, and fist bumps.
There’s one more, the girl behind the driver says.
What’s that? Hand hug.
Show me, turning around.
One hand, palm up meets the other, holding,
making eye contact.
I dunno. Let me catch my breath.
Deliberate, with permission.
We don’t need any miracle but our breath.
Challenge by choice, snowboards
on the mountain. Young people.
When the community is ready to advance.
Spread the love.
Pick up laundry bags at the Dollar Store.
Wash your socks each week.
Have fun and ride.
Start with the morning circle.
Prairie dogging around.
Spread the love.
Jim Bodeen
26 January 2014—11 February 2014
HOW CAN ONE BE WITH THE GRANDCHILDREN
ON THE MOUNTAIN, UNLESS ONE IS
WITH THE GRANDCHILDREN ON THE MOUNTAIN!
They don’t belong to anybody
unless they belong to all.
Jim Bodeen
11 February 2014
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