Its well into Season #2 at Mission Ridge for me and I've really been slacking on this Blog writing business. I have priorities, you know? SnoRide Bob has been bugging me to write more often, but I've been busy snowboarding. Geez!!
This year has brought much fortune for me. I was sure when I set foot on to the Chair-lift at the beginning of the Season, that everything I had learned from the previous year was gone. WRONG! It all came back, like it never went anywhere. Once you've got it, you've got it!! I had heard this from other people. But me, being the skeptical person that I am, I was doubtful! I had to find out for myself.
I got off that chair-lift, without falling!!! Turned my board down the hill and faster than I've ever gone before, I cruised down to the bottom. WITHOUT FALLING! Once I got to the bottom I looked down at Ross (my board) and said "Thank You! that was awesome!
Okay, not many people talk to their boards probably, but I believe if I don't show some appreciation to my little rental board that I bought last year, Ross will kick my ass on the mountain. He's like a second boyfriend to me! I spend every weekend with him and he gives me the greatest orgasmic rides ever!! But notice, I said second boyfriend??
SnoRide Bob, did you hear that?
PHEW!
I stayed on Chair One for a bit, a week maybe, just making sure I still got it. Plus, I was with my two girls. So, why they were still working their way down the hill I was practicing my 360s goofy and switch. It felt so good to be on Ross again and the snow was nice too.
Well, enough of the "Comfort Zone" stuff. SnoRide and Cary took me up a chair I have never been up before, EVER! Chair Four to Castle run. "Whatever, I can do this." Getting on the chair lift was easy enough, the ride up is steep, pretty.. lined with trees, and kinda long......? I think I was just anxious because its not that long of a ride, really. Its the frickin' drop off at the end of the ride up, that scared the shi*t out of me.
It reminds me of the LOG RIDE at Knott's Berry Farm. You come up to this little shack, put your board down straight on this little platform, lift your butt off the seat at the edge and drop about 8 feet. Okay, its like dropping into a half-pipe with one foot in your binding. Needless to say, I "face planted" that landing a half-dozen times.
Everytime, I go to Mission Ridge to ride, I have a goal I want to work on. Getting off Chair 4 and Chair 3 (about the same) was my goal. It took me awhile ,but I'm there finally! I think its great for my psyche' to challenge myself and put myself in a place that is going to make me feel uncomfortable, but in the long run make me a better snowboarder. I do not deal well with "I wish I woulda's" or "I cant's." Life is too short !! You never know what you can accomplish, if you just take the first steps and give it your best shot. Yes, its true, you might face-plant it as much as I did. But... If you want to do it badly enough, you will succeed! Just believe in yourself
CHEERS to going "Balls Deep!" in whatever you decide to do.
