I borrowed a easy jungle for the first time last year, I'm a life long skier but man did I enjoy learning to ride a skwal. I started off using poles, but that's probably because of my skiing background (looks pretty cool though). I started out on quite a steep slope, and I believe that is the way to go, speed is control on a skwal. Biggest issue I had with learning was fully committing to a turn, but within 2 days I was decent enough to tackle all slopes on the mountain.
P.S. If you don't like it, and are looking to sell, Pm me ;)