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There’s no boarding like snowboarding!

Finally today we went snowboarding! I went with Aaron and Harako-san* to Ajigasawa Ski-jo and on a borrowed board, in borrowed snow-trousers and on borrowed time I learned how to get from the top of the slope to the bottom and only rolling part of the way!

For those of you who are thinking “so did you get hurt?” yes I guess I did a little… The very first thing we did was to get on the ski lift, one of the slide-on-slide-off ones and the sliding on is pretty easy, but when you have never tried sliding off before, and indeed rarely slid anywhere in the first place, it proves a little more difficult getting off and I indeed fell on my rear end. Right on my tailbone (coccyx for my brother and others with that kind of anatomical knowledge), which is still hurting even now… But to be honest that was the only really painful fall, the rest were pretty tame, even at pace, but each time the bouncing brought back memories of that first one by the lift as my poor little wannabe tail got jarred.

But, aside from that it was great, infact I’d say if it hadn’t been for that first fall the day would have been practically perfect! By the end I was even gliding back and forth across the piste as though I actually knew a little about what I was aiming to achieve! Hopefully next time I will have a less painful time and can build on the foundations put down today! Because there is going to be a next time!

*watch this space for name update after I affirm its spelling with Aaron tomorrow…