on my days off last week i decided to get a bit more adventurous with my riding...
I first took an advanced lesson...where my dutch instructor had death wish for me....trying to take me off the front face of the mountain in a 50mph wind!!
picture a practically vertical drop off, icy as in a gail!!....good fun....i mastered about 20% of the turns and slid the rest of it....but im glad i did it coz now what once were "hard" runs look sooo easy....
I can also say that i can now 'catch air'...well not really it is about 2cm worth but hey i can go over jumps and not fall over...im proud...
But my big news is that i have "eaten shit"....aka i fell good.....i got a bit cocky on a tree run and came over a ridge to find a tree front and centre...and no those things dont move...i have some pretty impressive bruises..good and black...but nothing is broken so i will recover....
its all in the name of improving....as i was told by my crazy instructer...if you arent falling almost every day then you arent challenging yourself enough....*this could start getting dangerous*