June 19, 2024 • 20 mins
Season 1 finale! Karis Dolman spends her winters snowboarding and her summers working at McKenzie's Water Ski School on Lake Arrowhead.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nine am this morning. Just just woke up. She
got out of bed, didn't fall asleep until one last night.
I was just watching some TV. So yeah, I was
gonna sleep in a little bit longer, but my dog's
decided it was otherwise needed to be let out and fed.
(00:23):
And my plans for today I had to go out
on the whaler. On my whaler, my boat. She's go
have some fun friends, cruise around, maybe fish a little bit.
And yeah, that's the plan for you today.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
This is finally a shroud about a fifteen year old
water ski instructor.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Someday she'll be a professional snowboarder if things.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Go for a day.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, so we're walking down to the dock, get on
our skis, you know, just get ready to get in
the water. My name is kar Stolman and I am fifteen.
So I'm from Lake Arrowhead. Beautiful place I've born and
raised here. It's just very small mountain. You know, everyone
up here, everyone knows you. Great place to go hikes.
(01:17):
You know, my backyard. I can just ride my dirt
bike out of my garage, you know, into the onto
the trail.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
All right. So yesterday we got off the rig yesterday, right,
we were on We're on double handles, all right, So
we're gonna start off on double handles this time, all right,
And then.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, we'll start off on doubles this time.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
We have seasons, so we have summer and winter obviously
my favorite ones because summer it's hot you get to
go water skiing and make money, and winter you just
go have fun and snowboard. And I started working at
sea School when I was about I think like nine.
I came there, I was really good friends with the
(01:56):
owner's son. Well, I didn't want to I didn't want to
ski at all in the beginning.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It was scary.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And then my brother convinced me to go out, and
then that was I started skiing.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
More and more, and then that just came on that
I wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Why was my brother's practice lesson? I was before you
become an instructor. I was just like first like lesson
and he did good.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
But I didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I was. I was not a good skier in the
beginning because I did not listen because I think it
was cuzier with my brother.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I did not listen to him.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So I'm putting all my skis and then I'm gonna
hop in the water and get ready to go skiing.
The most important part about like learning how water ski
is to listen, Like you just have to You have
to listen. It's the main, the main part, because you're
in the water. It's really it's very easy as long
as you're listening to your instructor and you're you keep
(02:56):
your arms straight and you stay in your cannonball position,
which is knees to your chest and tight ball just
like you're jumping in a pool. And then you just
let the boat do all the work and you just
have fun and listen. We have instructor, boat driver, dock doork,
and box bitch. I first started at ski school, like
as a dock door. Is that unpaid internship where you
(03:17):
just help out around at the dock and you catch boats,
you wrap up ropes, and you help people inside their
skis and show them on the dock construction, which is
where you just pretty much show them how to ski,
but like on the dock just like a little preview
of what's going to happen out on the water. And
all the instructors would tip you out so you made
if you made if the instructors made money from the groups,
(03:39):
then they would they'd give you a.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Little bit of what they made, and then you would
go home with some of that money.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So I'm just waiting with my curs to tell me
the idle and I'll get the boat going straight. And
then as soon as she tells me to hit it,
when her client the cut is all ready to go,
probably wait for a few of these weeks to go by,
then we'll hit it and we'll start the lesson. Yeah,
(04:13):
I'm Holly Frank. My mother in law, Pam McKenzie. Her
parents started Mackenzie Water Ski School in nineteen forty six,
so we're third generation, family owned and operated. My husband
has the real job that pays the bills, and I've
been running the ski school for thirteen years. So Keris
has now been an instructor for two years. But she
(04:35):
started out like all the other little ones on the dock,
doing as we say, figuratively and literally.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Doing the ropes.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So she's turned into an amazing instructor. So now usually
back in the rack here, she'll just shake her handles
a little bit and we'll slow the boat down so
we can practice working on starts. Unless it gets a
little too choppy.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
We'll keep going.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
In the beginning always like I always wanted to be there,
and like work the Box with Holly when I was younger.
Work in the box is you set up the schedule
in the book that has everyone's reservations. You take care
of the money, You take care, yeah, take care of
the scheduling and time cards, and just make sure the
(05:21):
doc's running smoothly.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Pretty much.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
When you're in the box, people can be mean. They
can They'll just yell at you for no reason. You
tell them that they can't schedule this time because someone
else has it, someone else's scheme during this time, and
they'll just lose their minds.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
It's not not very fun being around people every single day,
you know.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It really builds, it.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Builds your social skills, especially starting at such a young
age as a doctor.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You start at such a young age.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And like you're scared to talk to people at first,
and then you start talking to them and talking to
them and trying to get them to tip you, you know,
and you just keep working and working and working at it,
and then your social skills just become like talking to
strangers just like talking to your family. You know.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That's how my dad is too. My dad can talk
to a brick wall.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So it's amazing the difference between having the instructor ski
right next to you. There's only a couple of things
that you need to do, keep your knees bent and
your arms straight. But when the instructor's right next to you,
they're there to help you. So they're like psychiatrists and
athletes and comedians and encouragers. I say psychiatrists because that's
really important because a lot of it's mental. So once
(06:45):
they make their start with the instructor, then we kind
of like loosen off all the little training wheels that
we have so they can begin to do more and
more on their own. Obviously, seventy nine summers, we have
little tricks that makes everybody get up back.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Oh and she's down, flag up.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And that's what skiing's all about.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The rig is this little nugget.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It's it's a metal piece that connects to a ring
that's connected to a rope that connects to the boat.
And what does the connects to that is a pole
line that connects to our life jackets. And when you
pull that, it disconnects this rope that goes to your skis.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Like that connects to your skis.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And your handles, So when they fall, you pull this
rope so the like, if they keep pulling onto their handles,
they don't get dragged with the boat. Also it helps
them get up out of the water as well, it
pulls their skis with them.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, this is a super easy day. There's nobody else
out on the lake. But you're watching forward, watching backwards,
you know, making sure the clients have fun, making sure
that Karens is communicating with me what she needs. Looking
back all the time. I'm always looking forward to see
if there's other boats coming, making sure there's any other
skiers in the water, making sure that she's you know,
(08:02):
letting me know that I can see her, that she's safe,
that I've got her. So it's a lot of back
and forth. But she's an amazing instructor, smart, kind, hard working,
So those hand signals are really really important, and that
(08:23):
I'm paying attention right on.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Yep, us outside the way.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I don't know, I'm the first girl instructor. I think.
I don't know, I just maybe no one wanted to
do it.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Caros started with us six years ago as a little
we call him doc engineers, but it's really a doc
doork position. And that's where I say, you literally and
figuratively learn the road of the business. So that what way,
when you get out there and you're instructing, you're completely confident.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
And that's what she is.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Confident, funny, encouraging, strong, And.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I'm gonna cry because she's just a great, great young
girl and I'm excited to have seen her grow and
turn into such a great young woman, and it'll be
exciting to see all the things that she does in
her future.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I started getting a paycheck, I believe a couple summers ago.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Feels really great. It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
It's really cool being the only girl, especially like even
now I am like.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
The only girl instructor at the dock. Like it just
kind of shows who I am as a person. And
obviously is hard.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I don't have as much energy as the boys do
or strength, and it's obvious, like guys do have more
advantages of girls and a lot of things, and it's
not said enough sometimes, but yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
It's hard work. Definitely with one hand.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It hurts after skiing for a while, and you know,
skiing four hours in the morning and three or four hours.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
In the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It's a lot of work, and most guys can just
push through it, but being as a girl as it's
pretty tough. I grew up snowboarding with my dad and
my brother. That was our main thing we did, and
that just was the dream.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It still is.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's all I do pretty much. I ride for Dinosaurs
will Die in thirty two. Snowboarding is very expensive, but
that was one thing that my dad did to support
it all he was He would always he bought all
of our season passes. He bought all of our snowboards,
our bindings, our boots, our gear, and then most recently
I just I just started getting free clothes and free
(10:50):
boots and free boards, free bindings, So now all.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I have to do is buy a pass, which is great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I just broke my collarbone last winter during this like
core snowboarding event I went. I was falling on my
I caught my toes on a rail and I was
going to fall on my hands, but I put my
arms in because I didn't want to break my wrists,
and my shoulder hit and my entire body weight just
snapped my collarbone in half.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
So about a week later, I got surgery on it,
and then a week out. I was supposed to wait
for three weeks, but a week got for that, I
was back on my snowboard.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I broke my collarbhone on Friday, had my surgery on Friday,
snowboarding on Friday. I've always gotten told that I've always
gotten special advantages for my snowboarding because I'm a girl.
And it's true, true, I've always had a little bit
of an advantage. I mean, obviously not have an advantage
(11:56):
physical wise, but an advantage like people are like, oh,
my gosh, she's a fifteen year old little girl, you know,
like she's sick, she's super cool, so that's an advantage.
And people have always been like, yeah, you know, you're
only I've had a few someone tell me before like oh, yeah,
you're only sponsored by these people.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Blah blah blah because you're a girl.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And it's like, yeah, it's true, because I'm a girl
that snowboards, you know that's better than you.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
But yeah, all right, So now that's the signal for
me to stop the boat and then I'll bump it
in reverse here real quick so that they don't lose
their lines. Flag up very good, good job growth.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Now what are you doing taking a little breather.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, usually beginning of like before winter really hits, before
any of the resorts open and ski school ends, there's
not really much to do. It's kind of just hang
out around the house, hang out with friends until school starts.
Then just focus on school and then snowboarding will start
and then that's when I focus. You know, it's snowboarding time,
(13:06):
and snowboard all the way you could snowboard. Tell July,
Like last year, I was in Mammoth on July fourteenth.
I was in Mammoth on July fourteenth. Like it really
depends like how much snow will get yearly or whatever.
But like this year, my season ended already like a
month ago. So I've been just working and just hanging
(13:26):
out with my friends and just playing guitar. I really
like to play guitar actually, or go fishing.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I like to fly fish a lot.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Uh. Summer is a very different vibe, Like you're just
hanging out on the lake all day. You're not white
like a vampire, you don't look like a ghost, and yeah,
you're just having fun on the lake with your friends.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Especially because I have seasonal work.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I don't work in the winter at all, and like snowboarding,
it's completely different vibes, Like it's obviously like all your
friends are still involved, still hang out with your friends,
but summer's more of like flowers and go fishing, and
winters just snowboard hang out in your room.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
There's not much to do up here. I mean there's, yeah,
I work, go water skiing. Sometimes I'll go. I'll go water.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Skiing, like with some of my friends on their family's
boats or whatever, but mainly that or go on my whaler,
the Boston Wheeler that I own. But other than that,
it's pretty boring up here.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I bought my first boat when I was fourteen with
money that I earned from ski school, and so I
drive that thing around.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But it's probably like ten feet long and only like
four feet wide.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, you have to be sixteen to drive the big boats.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Nothing like that feeling.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
And back in successful roof.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Right on, I'm not sure really what I see past
sports like water skiing and like skating, riding my dirt
bike or snowboarding.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Really just kind of want to be as active for
as long as I can, and.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I'm planning on staying at ski school at least until
I turn eighteen, because I want to travel when I
graduate high school. I want to travel and go places,
and especially it always depends with snowboarding. I could be
anywhere in three years, so that usually it really depends.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But definitely planning on stain. I am not going to.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Go to college, so yeah, at school is not my
favorite thing. I'm actually on online school, like like not
for snowboarding, but I go. I'm online school so I
can snowboard, so I can snowboard every single day without
having to worry about missing school in person, and I
can just go home and do it on my computer
and it's very, very a lot more easier than in
(16:15):
person school. It was second semester of eighth grade and
they were telling like one of my friends did it,
and I was like, that's what I wanted to do.
First my mom said no, she said you're not doing it.
And then I convinced her and it was perfect. My
mom has been like through like fourteen years of school,
like as long as I can remember. My mom's been
in school for She's a nurse practitioner at La Melinda.
(16:39):
I started trying to convince her by just telling her that,
you know, the little ways, like I can snowboard more.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You know, I can do this, I'll get better grades.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And then I think, finally one day she just gave in,
and then my dad just followed her behind her and
they let me do it. So I passed all my classes.
I passed, Yeah, every single class. Now we're in summer,
so that's nice. Snow more school for a few months
at least.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Good.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I'm Becky Dolman. I'mkarasulman's mom's. We've always said she was
destined to do great things or for good or evil,
and we were always hoping that it would be for good.
She has been a strong, willed, independent child since she
was born, and she's always done great things. She's done good,
you know, always done good whatever she tries. She's an
(17:37):
amazing snowboarder and it shows because she loves it. And
it's not even that she's competitive. She's very humble and
she just loves doing it. I always get to your
eye when I talk about how like proud I am
of my kids.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Uh, there's definitely a lot of support from my parents
always and forever, especially my mom. My mom works every
single day she's working six days a week now to
just support me and my family, which is great. And
my dad, my dad owns his own construction business up
here in Lake Carrolhead, Uh, just pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
He built some pretty cool houses.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
And he's worked pretty hard as well to support us,
which is really cool. The way my mom has inspired
me is she's just worked so hard to become where
she is today. She's, like I said, as long as
I can remember, she's been in school, just working for
more and more and more and wanting more and more,
and just she earned every single bit of it. And
(18:38):
that really, like I feel like, inspired me to I
can do like she has done so many years of
school and I've only I was probably the longest like time.
Remember I'm like I've been in like nine years of school.
It's like not that big of a deal. So it
just really pushes me to just be the best as
in school and be who I am, you know, show
(18:59):
me that any thing is really.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Possible, because that's hard work. It's very very hard work.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I would I would tell someone that who wants to
be like something that is hard that only like they say,
only a man can do, but women could clearly do it.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It's just hard. You just have to work hard at it,
and you just have to believe in yourself and just
not give up.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So when she taps her head like that, that means
home and she's ready to go home.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
It's one am.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I'm about to go to sleep, and yeah, my night
was just watching TV. Watched I watched a scary movie
with one of my friends. Couldn't sleep very well so
last night as well. And obviously it's one in the
morning now, so you can see I can't sleep sleep
very well any any night, you know. But yeah, that
(20:22):
that's that's what I did tonight. I just watched the
TV and relaxed and now I'm going to bed.
It's nine am this morning. Just just woke up. She
got out of bed, didn't fall asleep until one last night.
I was just watching some TV. So yeah, I was
gonna sleep in a little bit longer, but my dog's
decided it was otherwise needed to be let out and fed.
(00:23):
And my plans for today I had to go out
on the whaler. On my whaler, my boat. She's go
have some fun friends, cruise around, maybe fish a little bit.
And yeah, that's the plan for you today.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
This is finally a shroud about a fifteen year old
water ski instructor.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Someday she'll be a professional snowboarder if things.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Go for a day.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, so we're walking down to the dock, get on
our skis, you know, just get ready to get in
the water. My name is kar Stolman and I am fifteen.
So I'm from Lake Arrowhead. Beautiful place I've born and
raised here. It's just very small mountain. You know, everyone
up here, everyone knows you. Great place to go hikes.
(01:17):
You know, my backyard. I can just ride my dirt
bike out of my garage, you know, into the onto
the trail.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
All right. So yesterday we got off the rig yesterday, right,
we were on We're on double handles, all right, So
we're gonna start off on double handles this time, all right,
And then.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, we'll start off on doubles this time.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
We have seasons, so we have summer and winter obviously
my favorite ones because summer it's hot you get to
go water skiing and make money, and winter you just
go have fun and snowboard. And I started working at
sea School when I was about I think like nine.
I came there, I was really good friends with the
(01:56):
owner's son. Well, I didn't want to I didn't want to
ski at all in the beginning.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It was scary.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And then my brother convinced me to go out, and
then that was I started skiing.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
More and more, and then that just came on that
I wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Why was my brother's practice lesson? I was before you
become an instructor. I was just like first like lesson
and he did good.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
But I didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I was. I was not a good skier in the
beginning because I did not listen because I think it
was cuzier with my brother.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I did not listen to him.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So I'm putting all my skis and then I'm gonna
hop in the water and get ready to go skiing.
The most important part about like learning how water ski
is to listen, Like you just have to You have
to listen. It's the main, the main part, because you're
in the water. It's really it's very easy as long
as you're listening to your instructor and you're you keep
(02:56):
your arms straight and you stay in your cannonball position,
which is knees to your chest and tight ball just
like you're jumping in a pool. And then you just
let the boat do all the work and you just
have fun and listen. We have instructor, boat driver, dock doork,
and box bitch. I first started at ski school, like
as a dock door. Is that unpaid internship where you
(03:17):
just help out around at the dock and you catch boats,
you wrap up ropes, and you help people inside their
skis and show them on the dock construction, which is
where you just pretty much show them how to ski,
but like on the dock just like a little preview
of what's going to happen out on the water. And
all the instructors would tip you out so you made
if you made if the instructors made money from the groups,
(03:39):
then they would they'd give you a.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Little bit of what they made, and then you would
go home with some of that money.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So I'm just waiting with my curs to tell me
the idle and I'll get the boat going straight. And
then as soon as she tells me to hit it,
when her client the cut is all ready to go,
probably wait for a few of these weeks to go by,
then we'll hit it and we'll start the lesson. Yeah,
(04:13):
I'm Holly Frank. My mother in law, Pam McKenzie. Her
parents started Mackenzie Water Ski School in nineteen forty six,
so we're third generation, family owned and operated. My husband
has the real job that pays the bills, and I've
been running the ski school for thirteen years. So Keris
has now been an instructor for two years. But she
(04:35):
started out like all the other little ones on the dock,
doing as we say, figuratively and literally.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Doing the ropes.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So she's turned into an amazing instructor. So now usually
back in the rack here, she'll just shake her handles
a little bit and we'll slow the boat down so
we can practice working on starts. Unless it gets a
little too choppy.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
We'll keep going.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
In the beginning always like I always wanted to be there,
and like work the Box with Holly when I was younger.
Work in the box is you set up the schedule
in the book that has everyone's reservations. You take care
of the money, You take care, yeah, take care of
the scheduling and time cards, and just make sure the
(05:21):
doc's running smoothly.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Pretty much.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
When you're in the box, people can be mean. They
can They'll just yell at you for no reason. You
tell them that they can't schedule this time because someone
else has it, someone else's scheme during this time, and
they'll just lose their minds.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
It's not not very fun being around people every single day,
you know.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It really builds, it.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Builds your social skills, especially starting at such a young
age as a doctor.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You start at such a young age.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And like you're scared to talk to people at first,
and then you start talking to them and talking to
them and trying to get them to tip you, you know,
and you just keep working and working and working at it,
and then your social skills just become like talking to
strangers just like talking to your family. You know.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That's how my dad is too. My dad can talk
to a brick wall.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So it's amazing the difference between having the instructor ski
right next to you. There's only a couple of things
that you need to do, keep your knees bent and
your arms straight. But when the instructor's right next to you,
they're there to help you. So they're like psychiatrists and
athletes and comedians and encouragers. I say psychiatrists because that's
really important because a lot of it's mental. So once
(06:45):
they make their start with the instructor, then we kind
of like loosen off all the little training wheels that
we have so they can begin to do more and
more on their own. Obviously, seventy nine summers, we have
little tricks that makes everybody get up back.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Oh and she's down, flag up.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And that's what skiing's all about.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The rig is this little nugget.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It's it's a metal piece that connects to a ring
that's connected to a rope that connects to the boat.
And what does the connects to that is a pole
line that connects to our life jackets. And when you
pull that, it disconnects this rope that goes to your skis.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Like that connects to your skis.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And your handles, So when they fall, you pull this
rope so the like, if they keep pulling onto their handles,
they don't get dragged with the boat. Also it helps
them get up out of the water as well, it
pulls their skis with them.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, this is a super easy day. There's nobody else
out on the lake. But you're watching forward, watching backwards,
you know, making sure the clients have fun, making sure
that Karens is communicating with me what she needs. Looking
back all the time. I'm always looking forward to see
if there's other boats coming, making sure there's any other
skiers in the water, making sure that she's you know,
(08:02):
letting me know that I can see her, that she's safe,
that I've got her. So it's a lot of back
and forth. But she's an amazing instructor, smart, kind, hard working,
So those hand signals are really really important, and that
(08:23):
I'm paying attention right on.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Yep, us outside the way.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I don't know, I'm the first girl instructor. I think.
I don't know, I just maybe no one wanted to
do it.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Caros started with us six years ago as a little
we call him doc engineers, but it's really a doc
doork position. And that's where I say, you literally and
figuratively learn the road of the business. So that what way,
when you get out there and you're instructing, you're completely confident.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
And that's what she is.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Confident, funny, encouraging, strong, And.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I'm gonna cry because she's just a great, great young
girl and I'm excited to have seen her grow and
turn into such a great young woman, and it'll be
exciting to see all the things that she does in
her future.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I started getting a paycheck, I believe a couple summers ago.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Feels really great. It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
It's really cool being the only girl, especially like even
now I am like.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
The only girl instructor at the dock. Like it just
kind of shows who I am as a person. And
obviously is hard.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I don't have as much energy as the boys do
or strength, and it's obvious, like guys do have more
advantages of girls and a lot of things, and it's
not said enough sometimes, but yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
It's hard work. Definitely with one hand.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It hurts after skiing for a while, and you know,
skiing four hours in the morning and three or four hours.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
In the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It's a lot of work, and most guys can just
push through it, but being as a girl as it's
pretty tough. I grew up snowboarding with my dad and
my brother. That was our main thing we did, and
that just was the dream.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It still is.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's all I do pretty much. I ride for Dinosaurs
will Die in thirty two. Snowboarding is very expensive, but
that was one thing that my dad did to support
it all he was He would always he bought all
of our season passes. He bought all of our snowboards,
our bindings, our boots, our gear, and then most recently
I just I just started getting free clothes and free
(10:50):
boots and free boards, free bindings, So now all.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I have to do is buy a pass, which is great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I just broke my collarbone last winter during this like
core snowboarding event I went. I was falling on my
I caught my toes on a rail and I was
going to fall on my hands, but I put my
arms in because I didn't want to break my wrists,
and my shoulder hit and my entire body weight just
snapped my collarbone in half.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
So about a week later, I got surgery on it,
and then a week out. I was supposed to wait
for three weeks, but a week got for that, I
was back on my snowboard.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I broke my collarbhone on Friday, had my surgery on Friday,
snowboarding on Friday. I've always gotten told that I've always
gotten special advantages for my snowboarding because I'm a girl.
And it's true, true, I've always had a little bit
of an advantage. I mean, obviously not have an advantage
(11:56):
physical wise, but an advantage like people are like, oh,
my gosh, she's a fifteen year old little girl, you know,
like she's sick, she's super cool, so that's an advantage.
And people have always been like, yeah, you know, you're
only I've had a few someone tell me before like oh, yeah,
you're only sponsored by these people.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Blah blah blah because you're a girl.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And it's like, yeah, it's true, because I'm a girl
that snowboards, you know that's better than you.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
But yeah, all right, So now that's the signal for
me to stop the boat and then I'll bump it
in reverse here real quick so that they don't lose
their lines. Flag up very good, good job growth.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Now what are you doing taking a little breather.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, usually beginning of like before winter really hits, before
any of the resorts open and ski school ends, there's
not really much to do. It's kind of just hang
out around the house, hang out with friends until school starts.
Then just focus on school and then snowboarding will start
and then that's when I focus. You know, it's snowboarding time,
(13:06):
and snowboard all the way you could snowboard. Tell July,
Like last year, I was in Mammoth on July fourteenth.
I was in Mammoth on July fourteenth. Like it really
depends like how much snow will get yearly or whatever.
But like this year, my season ended already like a
month ago. So I've been just working and just hanging
(13:26):
out with my friends and just playing guitar. I really
like to play guitar actually, or go fishing.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I like to fly fish a lot.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Uh. Summer is a very different vibe, Like you're just
hanging out on the lake all day. You're not white
like a vampire, you don't look like a ghost, and yeah,
you're just having fun on the lake with your friends.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Especially because I have seasonal work.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I don't work in the winter at all, and like snowboarding,
it's completely different vibes, Like it's obviously like all your
friends are still involved, still hang out with your friends,
but summer's more of like flowers and go fishing, and
winters just snowboard hang out in your room.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
There's not much to do up here. I mean there's, yeah,
I work, go water skiing. Sometimes I'll go. I'll go water.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Skiing, like with some of my friends on their family's
boats or whatever, but mainly that or go on my whaler,
the Boston Wheeler that I own. But other than that,
it's pretty boring up here.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I bought my first boat when I was fourteen with
money that I earned from ski school, and so I
drive that thing around.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But it's probably like ten feet long and only like
four feet wide.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, you have to be sixteen to drive the big boats.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Nothing like that feeling.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
And back in successful roof.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Right on, I'm not sure really what I see past
sports like water skiing and like skating, riding my dirt
bike or snowboarding.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Really just kind of want to be as active for
as long as I can, and.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I'm planning on staying at ski school at least until
I turn eighteen, because I want to travel when I
graduate high school. I want to travel and go places,
and especially it always depends with snowboarding. I could be
anywhere in three years, so that usually it really depends.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But definitely planning on stain. I am not going to.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Go to college, so yeah, at school is not my
favorite thing. I'm actually on online school, like like not
for snowboarding, but I go. I'm online school so I
can snowboard, so I can snowboard every single day without
having to worry about missing school in person, and I
can just go home and do it on my computer
and it's very, very a lot more easier than in
(16:15):
person school. It was second semester of eighth grade and
they were telling like one of my friends did it,
and I was like, that's what I wanted to do.
First my mom said no, she said you're not doing it.
And then I convinced her and it was perfect. My
mom has been like through like fourteen years of school,
like as long as I can remember. My mom's been
in school for She's a nurse practitioner at La Melinda.
(16:39):
I started trying to convince her by just telling her that,
you know, the little ways, like I can snowboard more.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You know, I can do this, I'll get better grades.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And then I think, finally one day she just gave in,
and then my dad just followed her behind her and
they let me do it. So I passed all my classes.
I passed, Yeah, every single class. Now we're in summer,
so that's nice. Snow more school for a few months
at least.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Good.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I'm Becky Dolman. I'mkarasulman's mom's. We've always said she was
destined to do great things or for good or evil,
and we were always hoping that it would be for good.
She has been a strong, willed, independent child since she
was born, and she's always done great things. She's done good,
you know, always done good whatever she tries. She's an
(17:37):
amazing snowboarder and it shows because she loves it. And
it's not even that she's competitive. She's very humble and
she just loves doing it. I always get to your
eye when I talk about how like proud I am
of my kids.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Uh, there's definitely a lot of support from my parents
always and forever, especially my mom. My mom works every
single day she's working six days a week now to
just support me and my family, which is great. And
my dad, my dad owns his own construction business up
here in Lake Carrolhead, Uh, just pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
He built some pretty cool houses.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
And he's worked pretty hard as well to support us,
which is really cool. The way my mom has inspired
me is she's just worked so hard to become where
she is today. She's, like I said, as long as
I can remember, she's been in school, just working for
more and more and more and wanting more and more,
and just she earned every single bit of it. And
(18:38):
that really, like I feel like, inspired me to I
can do like she has done so many years of
school and I've only I was probably the longest like time.
Remember I'm like I've been in like nine years of school.
It's like not that big of a deal. So it
just really pushes me to just be the best as
in school and be who I am, you know, show
(18:59):
me that any thing is really.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Possible, because that's hard work. It's very very hard work.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I would I would tell someone that who wants to
be like something that is hard that only like they say,
only a man can do, but women could clearly do it.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It's just hard. You just have to work hard at it,
and you just have to believe in yourself and just
not give up.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So when she taps her head like that, that means
home and she's ready to go home.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
It's one am.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I'm about to go to sleep, and yeah, my night
was just watching TV. Watched I watched a scary movie
with one of my friends. Couldn't sleep very well so
last night as well. And obviously it's one in the
morning now, so you can see I can't sleep sleep
very well any any night, you know. But yeah, that
(20:22):
that's that's what I did tonight. I just watched the
TV and relaxed and now I'm going to bed.
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