Six times - this is exactly how many times I tryied to go to snowboar and I couldn't for some reason.
But today it changed.
I went to Blue Montain, ON, and got a wonderful time collecting bruises all over my body. I went five times to the beginners track, where I opened my wrist in the very first time that I tryied to ride. Thirty minutes later, I got mad because the shortness of the track, what privent me to have time to learn how to ride the board - then, I went to the "Big Baby".
I can tell you, somebody recorded me sliding in my first time there, it still laughing till now. I just can't understand how I fell down so hard, weirdly and so many times and still alive. My guardian angel worked hard today.
Anyway, in my second drop, I found a girl in the same situation than me and we started to chat. Along the complains, she told me something that relieved me inexplicably: "I was told that, once you got it, you got it." Ins't that weird? Well, even more weird is: after that, I got. Simple like that. Oh, for sure I still lame, but even my friends told me that I was doing really great for the first time... so we went to the NEXT TRACK.
Stupid mistake.
I can say that I was doing good, specially for my first time in the track, but almost in the end I fell really hard. And there went my low back. We kept going, but at every fall, the pain was harder. I the fifth drop, I went so hard in the ice that I couldn't get up for a while... and than, as easy as that, I wasn't able to keep going.
Sad? Bad? Lame? All of them?
To say the truth, I had a wonderful time, enjoied everything, even the falls, because it was funny (you have to be able to laugh at you own lameness). Was great feel my progress, and see how good my friends were doing, with just two, three or four times snowbording more than me. And was amazing finish the night alive!
XOXOX,
LA
But today it changed.
I went to Blue Montain, ON, and got a wonderful time collecting bruises all over my body. I went five times to the beginners track, where I opened my wrist in the very first time that I tryied to ride. Thirty minutes later, I got mad because the shortness of the track, what privent me to have time to learn how to ride the board - then, I went to the "Big Baby".
I can tell you, somebody recorded me sliding in my first time there, it still laughing till now. I just can't understand how I fell down so hard, weirdly and so many times and still alive. My guardian angel worked hard today.
Anyway, in my second drop, I found a girl in the same situation than me and we started to chat. Along the complains, she told me something that relieved me inexplicably: "I was told that, once you got it, you got it." Ins't that weird? Well, even more weird is: after that, I got. Simple like that. Oh, for sure I still lame, but even my friends told me that I was doing really great for the first time... so we went to the NEXT TRACK.
Stupid mistake.
I can say that I was doing good, specially for my first time in the track, but almost in the end I fell really hard. And there went my low back. We kept going, but at every fall, the pain was harder. I the fifth drop, I went so hard in the ice that I couldn't get up for a while... and than, as easy as that, I wasn't able to keep going.
Sad? Bad? Lame? All of them?
To say the truth, I had a wonderful time, enjoied everything, even the falls, because it was funny (you have to be able to laugh at you own lameness). Was great feel my progress, and see how good my friends were doing, with just two, three or four times snowbording more than me. And was amazing finish the night alive!
XOXOX,
LA
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Good ideas!
I'm a writer/designer, there's just an enormous meeting tomorrow and work continues up to the last possible minute.
that's cool. I like your list...