Snow bunny gets the boarding bug

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Japans flagPublished: January 22nd 2007Asia » Japan » Hiroshima
January 20th 2007

This trip was my first attempt at a snow sport, and yes the snow is obviously man-made :-)
After taking an hour and a half on the first run (most of it not upright), the second went a lot better, the third time I face-planted once, and the fourth I didn't fall at all!!
Never quite managed getting back up frontwards, but got the hang of getting up backward then doing a 180 degree jump round, and starting off front-on.


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Date: 23rd January 2007

grinch
Good on ya Jo, for giving snowboarding a go. Despite eating snow on many occasions while you are learning - it's worth sticking with it. It actually becomes awesome fun after a while cheers VLV

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