Oohhhh, I'm sore...
Ski Club Saturday. ^_^
It's just my shoulders and elbows that are sore, but still... And the really odd thing is that I don't recall using them that much...
It was fun, though. The place we're going this year is much beter than the crap-tastic place we went last year. It's well run, there're lotsa good trails, it's clean, the food is good, and less of a ripoff, and the snow stays longer in that part of Ohio, so there'll be much less fake snow, if any. You can not stop on that stuff...
Plus, their group program is much better. There are no lesson Nazis, and they have photo IDs, instead of paper passes that are easily destroyed.
I fell a lot, because I can't properly stop yet. I need to turn better before I can completely stop. At least now I'm doing use-board-to-slow-down, fall, stop, not fall, slow-down-using-ass,stop. I almost stopped once, but bit it horribly. But it didn't hurt, and was fun. I went up to a trail that crosses one, and then has a little outlet onto a less-steep-at-the-end trail. Unfortunately, I turned off the trail where it crossed the other, not at the outlet. So I'm going down a hill that's steeper than expected (Not too stepp, though. I was sticking on the not-so-steep 'cause it was my first time boarding in a while.), and I get to the end going somewhat fast, 'cause I can't turn enough to go down back and forth, and thereby slower, without falling. I turned to stop, and almost did. Now, to help you non-boarders, the way you stop a snowboard is to turn it horizontal, and put your weight on the uphill side, in this case my heel side. Then I hit a tiny little clump of snow, and my weight went to my toes. The board caught and stopped, but I didn't. I flew forward, my chest hit the ground, and my feet and legs came up over my back, but diidn't hit it. It didn't hurt, so that's good. My fall entertained a nearby group of guys, though. Of course, if I had landed closer to my face, it might've been a serious injury. First, my face'd hurt, second, I'd have been bending my spine a lot closer to my neck.
But I didn't get hurt, so it was fun.
Ski Club Saturday. ^_^
It's just my shoulders and elbows that are sore, but still... And the really odd thing is that I don't recall using them that much...
It was fun, though. The place we're going this year is much beter than the crap-tastic place we went last year. It's well run, there're lotsa good trails, it's clean, the food is good, and less of a ripoff, and the snow stays longer in that part of Ohio, so there'll be much less fake snow, if any. You can not stop on that stuff...
Plus, their group program is much better. There are no lesson Nazis, and they have photo IDs, instead of paper passes that are easily destroyed.
I fell a lot, because I can't properly stop yet. I need to turn better before I can completely stop. At least now I'm doing use-board-to-slow-down, fall, stop, not fall, slow-down-using-ass,stop. I almost stopped once, but bit it horribly. But it didn't hurt, and was fun. I went up to a trail that crosses one, and then has a little outlet onto a less-steep-at-the-end trail. Unfortunately, I turned off the trail where it crossed the other, not at the outlet. So I'm going down a hill that's steeper than expected (Not too stepp, though. I was sticking on the not-so-steep 'cause it was my first time boarding in a while.), and I get to the end going somewhat fast, 'cause I can't turn enough to go down back and forth, and thereby slower, without falling. I turned to stop, and almost did. Now, to help you non-boarders, the way you stop a snowboard is to turn it horizontal, and put your weight on the uphill side, in this case my heel side. Then I hit a tiny little clump of snow, and my weight went to my toes. The board caught and stopped, but I didn't. I flew forward, my chest hit the ground, and my feet and legs came up over my back, but diidn't hit it. It didn't hurt, so that's good. My fall entertained a nearby group of guys, though. Of course, if I had landed closer to my face, it might've been a serious injury. First, my face'd hurt, second, I'd have been bending my spine a lot closer to my neck.
But I didn't get hurt, so it was fun.
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