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My sympathies. I decided to learn to snowboard last year, egged on by some 'friends'. The bastards. Managed to beat myself black and blue on the ice in France for a week. The mid-week days were miserable but it was a lot of fun by the end. Couple weeks after I got home I found out I'd fractured my elbow (just a hairline fracture though). 10/10 will snowboard again. This year's main trip was to Austria, last week. Things went well, nice slushy and powdery snow. It was awesome. Until day 4 when, an hour into my group lesson, the instructor took us off piste down a serious slope and I managed to nosedive the board into the powder, did a nice pretty cartwheel, felt my right knee make some interesting crunching sounds. Managed to board down to the bottom. Turns out I sprained my MCL, apparently quite a rare injury for snowboarding. It seems to be healing well. Problem is, I am due to be going out to Switzerland for a friend's pre-wedding ski trip as well.. in less than two weeks lol. Guess we will have to see. I suppose the worst that happens is I shlep around to the nearer apres ski places on foot and hang out there drinking my sorrows away. Could be worse. edit Partial Octopus posted:new split arrived today. I have a volume shifted addiction. I'm hoping it skins well being this short and wide.
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Tweak posted:I remember getting the wind knocked out of me a time or two when learning to board as an adult (I had been a skier since I was ~6), but never anything especially, “bad.” No, those falls all happened much more recently, when I thought I was, “good” but actually just careless. Also, neither I, nor the instructor, realised that no one had ever taught me how to do flats on a snowboard. Like, I had no idea what to do on them lol. So naturally I started to go down a lot on them. On hard ice. Repeatedly. Totally lost confidence that first day. Anyways after a few days of group lessons I finally started to get some confidence back near the end of the week - it helped that there was also some snow on day four or five so the ice problem lessened. But yeah, bad luck and stupid decisions. Probably also doesn't help that I'm not particularly sporty or fit, I'm skinny but don't do enough exercise in general. Once I start to get seriously tired, that's when I'm in the real danger zone though I guess it's the same for everyone.
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Sitting in an expensive rear end Swiss resort with my only partially healed MCL, while my mates are out enjoying perfect conditions. gently caress. (Tried boarding this morning but didn't go well)
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