日曜日, 11月 27, 2005
Snow sports 2006
My snow sports 2006 season officially starts today, November 27, 2005. Rumel, Jeff and I went to Kuruizawa in Nagano prefecture to warm ourselves up for the upcoming snow sports season.
Of course this was also the ceremonial breaking in of my brand new Snowboard. Result?! The bonding experience was fantastic. A couple of bruises, a sore right wrist, aching butt were truly worth it.
Time and again, snowboarding has proven to be the most therapeutic recreation. It didn't matter what my profession is, who I am, my heartaches, my hang ups, all of those temporarily erased as I was focusing on going down the steep slope and moving faster and faster without tumbling down.
I still had so many falls, I still found it difficult to stand up but why do we fall? 'So we can pick ourselves up' , that was the mantra for the day...And by the way, I was not afraid of the lift and the height anymore!
Little by little, I'll get through all of these and I am positive that before the snow season ends, I'll be able to jump as high as those amazing riders.
Til next week for another snowboarding weekend. For now, I need to sink my sore body in a hot and soothing tub! And I should be studying after that!
Thanks for visiting!