Snowboarding is...

...SO INCREDIBLY FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went snowboarding with my co-worker and her daughter a few weeks ago. I'm so late in blogging about it because I wanted to wait for the videos to upload - they're pretty hilarious. Snowboarding is not as easy as it looks! I went just before the Olympics, and let me tell you, Shawn White is my new idol...not really, but he gives me something to work towards...

I've never been on a snowboard in my life. The closest thing I've come to a snowboard is a skateboard. Christy used to have two skateboards - one "fast" and one "slow". Christy and I would go to the end of our street to the stop sign, sit down on the skateboards, and push ourselves down the sidewalk, and "wipe out" into the grass at one of our houses. We would do this for hours! It was from these events of my childhood that I got the inspiration for the first video...



Oh yeah, it was great. I spent a lot of time on my knees, back, and face. The hardest part was actually getting up the hill. You see, there wasn't a chair lift. It was more a rope that you hang on to that drags you up the hill (your feet are strapped to your board, so you don't get to move your feet if you loose your balance...). And it did - quite literally - drag me up the hill my first time trying to get up the hill. I held on to that rope for dear life, lost my balance, fell, but neglected to let go of the rope. So it dragged me up a ways, while the lift people below were yelling at me, "LET GO OF THE ROPE! LET GO!!!!" I could not get the hang of it, so the poor ski guy had to hold on to me, run up the hill with me until I caught my balance. Pretty funny...

When I finally made it to the top of the hill (YAY!!!!!!!) I then had to learn to go down the hill. It's not as easy as it looks! "You move by putting your toes forward and heels back." "Bend your knees, point your toes." "BEND THE KNEES! STAND UP!" Oh, it was fun. Like I said, I spent a lot of time on my back, knees, and face.

This video is a little bit better - I actually stay up for a little bit of time...



Snowboarding is pretty incredible. I had a blast!

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