I'll be damned...again.

This weekend, while doing a security job for a reggae party/snowsplash event in Minakami, Japan, I also tried my hand at snowboarding again. Much like with the bowling thing, I hadn't done it in years, and much like with the bowling thing, I started off pretty rough. Reflecting on the whole bowling experience, after about three hours or so, I decided to borrow a screwdriver at the chairlift station, figured out how to remove the foot bindings from the board itself, switched them around and reset everything myself- reversed.

With that, I got on my board 'goofy-footed' as they called it, and had my first good run of the day. Although I still fell a few times after that, by the next day, I had no problems carving in either direction, or bringing to a standstill on either edge of the board. By mid-afternoon, I had made my first run with no falls. And that was on no sleep. (I was doing security both nights, and didn't go to bed until about 7 each morning). The moral of both stories: Just because a skill isn't obvious, doesn't mean that it isn't there. Will write again soon.