But Dan, although he'd developed into a decent skier, never really felt the fire. He could, however, ride a mean skateboard, and when this new device called a snowboard appeared when he was about twelve, it seemed perfect for him. I enrolled him in a lesson. By the next day he was riding full bore. He never even looked at those skis again.
Most ski areas offer adults-only snowboarding lessons.
Call the ski school for a brochure or information. Among the easiest, most popular and most successful ways to learn is through the Delaney Snowboarding Camps at Copper Mountain, Colorado or Mammoth Mountain, California. Snowboarding offered Dan something he could call his own, something he could do better than his dad. Which he finally did one day about five years later. By then I was moving well into middle age.