The first time I went snowboarding, my friend took me up the second highest slope at a relatively crappy ski resort and just headed down the mountain. Having never even seen a snowboard up close until a few minutes prior when I rented my snowboard, I had no idea how to ride it. I pointed the snowboard down hill and jumped on. A few seconds later when I was flying past everyone I started to realize I couldn't turn and did not have any idea how to stop. I tried falling back on my butt. However, at those speeds it quickly became a tumble and rolled over a bunch of times. Realizing I had no idea what to do and this was definitely not the right place to learn, I got out of my bindings and started to limp down the mountain. Several people passed me and said "jump back on and keep trying."
At the bottom some random dude asked me why I didn't get back on again and try again. After a few questions, he realized that I had never even touched a snowboard until a few minutes prior and had a horrified look on his face. He asked me why I chose there to start, and I said that's what my friend recommended. Dude just said "you gotta get some better friends" and walked away. Years later when I was retelling this story to his wife, she said he did the same thing to her. She's never gone skiing with him again. He's a good friend most of the time, but I don't know what his malfunction was with skiing.
No one in the story is a fat ass, but I thought you might like the story anyway.
I did.
Good story, your friend is an ass :)
I can ski, water ski, wake board, surf and skateboard. I could not snow board the first time I tried. The balance is really unnatural when compared to the other activities I listed above, and I learned that the hard way after wrapping myself around a few trees on the way down and falling a bunch of other times. When I got to the bottom, and went and traded the board in for some skis and had a great rest of the day. It probably didn't help that I was almost 30 when I tried snowboarding that one time. When you're a kid and under 50 lbs, falling doesn't hurt. When you're full grown and more than 3 times that weight, you don't just bounce right back up again.
The balance is really unnatural when compared to the other activities
Yeah I could surf and figured it was kind of the same. I was in my early 20s when this all happened. It's also a big deal what type of snow you're in. The place I first tried had generated snow which was packed down by the time I went in the early evening. Both falling and snowboarding are much easier in fresh thick powder. I've never got very good at it and my current illnesses will likely prevent me from trying anymore.
I didn't get any powder my first time either. It was early morning and only a few degrees below freezing, so the hill was quite icy.
Cool story, bro.
Once on ice I fell spraining my wrist trying to help my youth group nigger friend who also sprained his wrist. He was a smart nerd bigger though
Wrist sprains are rough when you have to work with one. Having to turn a wrench, write stuff down, or type on a computer becomes a real bitch.
I was still in school
First two and maybe only times I snow boarded I nearly literally broke my ass bone. Snowboarding isn't easy. It's rather stupidly difficult actually. Ski boarding is much easier. And you can start having fun and actually doing most slopes etc.
With snow boarding I actually had to be abandoned by my friends because I couldn't keep up. Made fun of eventually walking down the slope back to the lodge lol.
Really wish I could snow board or ski right now. Situation won't allow it.
Yeah I found out how much harder it was after I got down the mountain and started asking the staff some questions. I ended up buying a balance board to improve that weird front to back balance needed for it. Ironically, I still use the balance board because some medication I took wrecked my vestibular system even though I'll probably never go snowboarding again.
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