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Speaker 2: This is finally a shroud about a fifteen year old

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Speaker 3: Someday she'll be a professional snowboarder if things.

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Speaker 4: Go for a day.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so we're walking down to the dock, get on

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Speaker 1: the water. My name is kar Stolman and I am fifteen.

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Speaker 1: So I'm from Lake Arrowhead. Beautiful place I've born and

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Speaker 1: raised here. It's just very small mountain. You know, everyone

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Speaker 1: You know, my backyard. I can just ride my dirt

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Speaker 3: So that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: All right. So yesterday we got off the rig yesterday, right,

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Speaker 1: we were on We're on double handles, all right, So

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll start off on doubles this time.

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Speaker 1: We have seasons, so we have summer and winter obviously

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Speaker 1: Why was my brother's practice lesson? I was before you

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Speaker 3: But I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I was. I was not a good skier in the

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Speaker 1: So I'm putting all my skis and then I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: The most important part about like learning how water ski

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Speaker 2: So I'm just waiting with my curs to tell me

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Speaker 2: I'm Holly Frank. My mother in law, Pam McKenzie. Her

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Speaker 3: It really builds, it.

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Speaker 1: Builds your social skills, especially starting at such a young

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Speaker 3: That's how my dad is too. My dad can talk

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Speaker 2: So it's amazing the difference between having the instructor ski

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Speaker 2: And that's what skiing's all about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a super easy day. There's nobody else

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Speaker 2: So those hand signals are really really important, and that

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Speaker 6: Yep, us outside the way.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm the first girl instructor. I think.

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Speaker 7: figuratively learn the road of the business. So that what way,

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Speaker 7: when you get out there and you're instructing, you're completely confident.

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Speaker 3: And that's what she is.

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Speaker 7: Confident, funny, encouraging, strong, And.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna cry because she's just a great, great young

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Speaker 1: I started getting a paycheck, I believe a couple summers ago.

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Speaker 1: That's all I do pretty much. I ride for Dinosaurs

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