Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Little Miss FZ did the airbag on her second ski trip. I was hugely proud of her, not just for doing the airbag, but because of HIW she did it. She's waiting her turn at the top of the run-in (for her first ever go at it) when a cocky little 10 year old goes hurtling down and completely cocks up his take-off. He smacks the back of his head on the kicker, don't ask me how, and lands like a sack of spuds on the bag. It took 10 minutes to remove the half-conscious body from the airbag with doctors called and parents fussing about. Despite watching all this happen and being next to go she still went ahead despite being clearly terrified. Good girl!
Those big airbags are really fun. Scary first jump but great after that. Only problem is the kids want to do them over and over, and you end up carrying yours and their skis up.
P.S. Looks like you need more speed and height to make sure you get round on your somersault!
Little boys just love jumps. Good to hear of a little girl liking them too, @foxtrotzulu. I enjoy watching the lads in the skatepark. So brave. But sad to see the girls mostly sitting around watching. My 3 and 5 year old granddaughters are quite good on their bikes and scooters in the park but I suspect that in another few years they'll have decided it's "for boys".
I sat and watched some kids in the snow park today. Some kids, not that good, but having a brave attempt at the jumps and rails. Pretty well all boys, though. Maybe our great British female freestylers will change attitudes.
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Little girls are just little kids.
When I was little, my Dad encouraged me to do whatever my neighborhood little boys do. Although I wasn't much good at those things, I learned a healthy attitude about boy vs girl activities --- basically no difference! That at a later point of life allowed me to take up a "man's career" (engineering) which is quite satisfying and pays rather well (being a "man's career").
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Good for you, @abc, The sad fact is, though, that if you look at a bunch of kids at a skatepark, or snowpark, the big majority are likely to be boys. Maybe it's better in the States.
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pam w wrote:
Maybe it's better in the States.
I don't know if it's better in the states or not since I only grew up in one country (it's not the states either, some 3rd world country that women are "supposed" to have very low status. Funny reality being, women there done quite well. So the perception was just...maybe just historical).
Nevertheless, I was the only girl in the group of boys most of the time.
The thing is, I recall no hostility from the boys. They just accepted me as one of their own. Instead, I had very chilly reception from many of the girls in my class. There was these occasional snip of me being a tomboy, or my being "too popular" with the boys (you can't get it right if one cares about what other teenage girls "standard").
Even now, as an adult. I still occasionally get this chilly reception from SOME adult women who thought I wasn't "one of them" because I work in the "other career" women don't! My male colleagues, for the most part, just see me as another colleague. They didn't hesitate a moment to hand me the heavy boxes when we need to move stuff around the office!
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@abc, that rings very true. The bigger boys in the skatepark are nice to my granddaughters and considerate. It's peer pressure from other girls that they encounter as they grow up (eg to have long hair even if it doesn't suit them, to avoid sport, etc) which is more of a problem. They really want to "fit in".
@BobinCH, hope the scan shows you're alright, otherwise I'll feel guilty about laughing and watching it twice
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@BobinCH, glad to hear scan is clear. Use the excuse that the jump didn't have enough kick (not that you rotated way too early...)
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Oh dear... My internet connection is too slow to show the video but fingers crossed everything's in the right place. Maybe you should change the thread title. Something about old dogs and new tricks?
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Ouch! That's exactly what the boy in my post above did. It's clearly easier to get it wrong than I'd imagined. Glad you are OK.
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@BobinCH, phew!
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@foxtrotzulu, I'd imagined it horribly easy to get it wrong. Top marks for courage though.
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@foxtrotzulu, @Themasterpiece, judging by the preceding effort at a heli that i've just seen it's clear that I'm a prime example of white men can't jump...
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