Guide - Mistake path
THE SNOWBOARDER MISTAKE PATH
We’ve all done one of these and I know I’ve done most of them.
- Buy a board coz it’s a Burton, coz it looks sick, coz I want the first one I see, coz Travis Rice has his name on it and so many more daft reasons.
- Buy full body armour even though it’s going to be at least two seasons before you venture into the park or do your first jump.
- Buy goggles and a helmet that don’t sit together well so you have a massive “tw#t gap” but you don’t put any sun cream on there and you get the burn of shame!
- You feel that snowboarding is easy enough so you don’t need lessons.
- You buy boots coz they were cheap or a good brand without making sure they are comfortable or even fit correctly.
- You want to learn how to do a 180 without being able to ride switch first.
- You go to slash/spray a skier for the first time, get it wrong and land on your ass or worse still barrel into them.
- You talk a big game in the bar and then you’re seen on the slope looking like Bambi.
- You drink too much the night before and hurl in the gondola.
- You have too much to drink up the mountain, then think you are an indestructible snowboarding god and have a big smash breaking an arm, collar bone or something else important.
I would be very surprised if you find a snowboarder that has not done one of these, most will say they could cross off a good few. If you do find anyone that has not done any, you may want to suggest they take up a different sport, maybe chess.
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