Posts Tagged ‘ski’
Humbled by the Snowboard
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
In my Jan 13th entry I thought I was hot shit on skis. Snowboarding was another story. This was my first time snowboarding.
To make a long painful story less painful I’ll just tell you of two falls.
The first happened on my first run. I had no clue the ground was hard as cement so when I hit the ground I really busted my ass and screwed my wrist up pretty good.
I’ve seen fake snow before, and it looks like snow. What covered this mountain did not look like snow. It was tiny pieces of ice, kind of like salt, but a little bigger. It was very slick.
The next serious fall happend to be my last run. I was starting to get the hang of it and and made it to the bottom with some speed. Out of the blue - BAM! I hit the ground hard. My head hit the ground knocking my goggles and hat off. I mean it when I say the ground was hard as concrete.
I am now sitting on a large black and blue bruise and typing with a wrist that will need some kind of brace.
Tags: fake snow, fall, injury, korea, ski, snowboard
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Skiing in Vivaldi
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
I went skiing for the first time about a couple of week ago. I went with a friend that had about as much experience as I did. We were not very familiar with the difficulty ratings or where exactly the ski lifts would take us, so the first time up we found ourselves on a slope that we should not have been on. I basically crashed my way down the mountain. It seemed as though as soon as I stood up I was moving 50 miles an hour. Many people were retrieving my skis and poles. My friend had to walk most of the way down the mountain. After shaking the snow out of my jacket I gave it another try and was moving pretty quick. I found that most of the time when I fell was when turning or stopping, so I decided no to slow or stop as much, instead I made large sweeping turns and held on for dear life.
A week later I went skiing again with about 10 co-workers. I was glad I got broken in the previous week. Half the people I had skied with had never been. My stopping got better this time but I was still going quite fast. I am not sure if I should blame my speed on my desire to go fast or my inability to stop . (more…)
Tags: alice park, fast, korea, ski, snow, vivaldi
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