A lot of effort goes into naming tricks in snowboarding, I’m sure we can all name 20 or so with minimal effort.  A lot less effort goes into naming falls.  Aside from the standard face-plant and scorpion, it’s pretty much virgin territory.  There’s also the yard-sale, but that’s for skiers.  I know I’m immature, but yelling yardsale when a skier loses all their gear under the lift has made me laugh from the age of 10 to 27.

Not saying I’m the best at naming stuff, but if no one else is jumping in, this one’s going to be named the butt-tear.  Not be confused with buttering, butt-tearing occurs when you hit a jump, fall on your ass and your back cheek lands higher on the jump resulting in a tearing feeling. (see illustration below).

There’s a moment when you get up and sort of try to suck yourself back together, but that doesn’t help, you might even let your friends ride a little ahead and check for blood, but you’re fine, usually.

Who knows, chances are I’ll fall again really soon, so maybe I’ll have some new falls to name, feel free to comment or email in if you have any suggestions.

I saw this trailer today!

It reminded me of…

which is amazing!

thanks Lando

So, today was my first day snowboarding.  I’m not going to post stuff on how riding was everyday, or this blog would soon be a, “what was Stowe like today?” page.

I have sort of sensitive teeth I guess, not like oooh, I cant drink coffee, or eat ice-cream, but if packed my mouth full of snow, I’d get irritated in a few minutes.

Anyhow, point being that the whole drive back from the mountain my teeth hurt becasue I had a huge smile the whole way down.  Snowboarding is so awesome.