Man life is funny. I too am taking my girlfriend down to falcon in Feb. Was in the same situation u are. After reading this I decided to take her out in the front yard and give her a lesson. After about 10 minutes and ten backlashes I could feel the frustration building in both of us. I live on a 9 hole golf course and the #2 and #11 tee box is just in front of the house. As I am picking out another backlash one of the members rolls up to tee off and sees us and starts laughing at me. He says your not trying to teach her youself are you. I nod yes and he says you go sit up on the porch and don't say a word. He takes her out in the yard and after about 15 minutes he has her making some pretty good cast with no backlashes. He tells her to keep practicing and he'll be back after playing 9 holes. He tells me to leave her alone and not to give anymore instructions just let her practice. With each cast she just keeps getting better and better. About an hour later he is back to tee off again on #11 he spends maybe another 10 minutes with her showing her stuff and then he tells her to keep practicing and then comes over to the porch and laughs and grins. I say how did you do that !!! He says my wife is the same way I can't teach her anything. You have to let someone else show them they listen and learn everything alot easier that way. I just laughed and shook his hand and said THANK YOU VERY MUCH. We were out there for 3 hours total. After my first ten minutes with her she had only 2 or 3 backlashes and and fixed them all herself. LOL He did say to try and get her to practice everyday for 30 - 40 minutes until our trip.