“Je suis mal a ca” is particularly helpful when mounting a drag lift as a beginner snowboarder.

The lovely lift crew will probably slow the lift and hold your hand until you slide ungracefully up the hill.

Let’s face it, every little helps when you’re learning to snowboard. Drag lifts are literally like hell rolled into an a mechanical device, determined to quash your visions of becoming the next Shaun-White-mega-snowboarding-babe.

If you’re extremely inept at drag lifts, you can always grasp the button between both hands, like you are wakeboarding.

You’ll get up the mountain (maybe), but this will lose you numerous cool points when it comes to looking like a local. Just saying.