Reality checks are a good thing, something that happends to set you in line with what's really going on. Know what I'm talking about?
My most recent was when I went snowboarding yesterday (this is my first season) and I took a jump, too big and too fast. Parallel to the ground immediately after take off, I did a bouncing bellyflop, complete with snow up the nostrils. A few runs later I hit the halfpipe at too sharp an angle, completing with a sloppy and ugly full flip that left me with a sore and crackling ankle and slightly swollen, repeatedly injured knee.
It was a big *HELLO* that there needs to be some ability to pull something off to match the aggressiveness to take it on.
Has anyone else had a lesson learned they'd like to share?
My most recent was when I went snowboarding yesterday (this is my first season) and I took a jump, too big and too fast. Parallel to the ground immediately after take off, I did a bouncing bellyflop, complete with snow up the nostrils. A few runs later I hit the halfpipe at too sharp an angle, completing with a sloppy and ugly full flip that left me with a sore and crackling ankle and slightly swollen, repeatedly injured knee.
It was a big *HELLO* that there needs to be some ability to pull something off to match the aggressiveness to take it on.
Has anyone else had a lesson learned they'd like to share?



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