 Poster: A snowHead
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Watcha SnowHeads,
Just had to share this with you (as I've only been skiing for a few years and I'm very pleased with myself – baring in mind that I’m a fairly tentative and cautious skier). I've managed to do my first little ski jump/bunny-hop/thingy.
I was skiing at MK XScape the other evening and wasn’t really paying attention and hit a bump too fast which sent me at least 10 feet up in the air – OK, OK, that’s a lie – it was most probably more like 10mm, but my skies definitely left the ground. Amazingly, I managed to keep my balance and didn’t fall over. So, for the rest of the evening I was hitting the bump faster and faster and actually trying to launch myself to get a proper jump. It was great fun – I’m going back next week to try it again. I have to admit that, when I’ve been skiing before, and I’ve accidentally hit a bump, I’ve either fallen down or been a little shaken up by the episode, so I’ve skied even more tentatively and cautiously than I usually do, for the next half an hour or so.
Now, I know that this is nothing to all you hardened SnowHeads out there (especially if you were one of the skiers/boarders on the other slope that were actually hurling themselves 10 feet into the air from the proper jump) but I guess we’ve all got to start somewhere.
Hopefully, my skiing will be less cautious and less tentative from now on. Although, I don’t think I’m quite ready to give up my day job for a season on the ski jumping circuit.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Welcome SeeJay, that's the way to do it, start off small and gradually build up your confidence, as long as you have fun it doesn't matter about the odd fall but by building things up slowly you are much less likely to seriously injure yourself, unlike some of the more daredevil skiers and boarders out there 
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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?
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Well done, SeeJay, with your enthusiasm you'll be doing 520 degree aerials in no time.
It is interesting that you started by accident really. I find this is often the way. The instructor tells me what to do, I tell my legs what to do, but somehow the message never gets through. Then when I stop trying so hard and relax I suddenly find I have done it (bunny-hop, jump-turn or whatever), and then wonder why it seemed so difficult in the first place.
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hope its not 520s. that would hurt 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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JonL, you're right. Thank you. You need another 20 degrees or disaster is likely (I must remember: 3x8 is 24, 4x8 is 32....)
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