Snowpark was primo today!!!

This morning I woke up and I was sore and stuff, had brekky and a shower and saw that I had a bruise on my ass (I will get a photo of it for you later tonight). It was foggy in the morning and pretty cold so I was automatically un-motivated.

I had to wake NoNo's fat ass up cos he said he was keen to ride and we eventually left the house at about 10:30. Before we left, we checked the Web Cams for the mountains cos we were pretty unmotivated, but SnowPark and Cardrona were showing clear skies and little to
no wind.

So I have this thing where I am trying to get from our place on Stone St in Wanaka (A.K.A. The Big Gay House) to the top of Snowpark in under 30 mins and I pretty much have it down pat. Today we were driving and it was foggy as in Wanaka and for about 10 mins of the
15 min drive to the Snowpark entrance. The next time it is foggy, I am going to film the drive up to Snowpark and then play it in fast
forward. It will be sweet :D

Ok, so snowboarding, the whole reason I came here.

So SnowPark is really living up to it's reputation as one of the best freestlye resorts in the world. At the moment, they have about 18 boxes and rails, about 7 jumps and a massive 1/4 pipe. The half pipes aren't open yet, but it looks like they will cut them in the next couple of days which should be fun! It is still early in the season and every couple of days they add something new to play on. There are about 4 main jumps, rainging from about 10 feet to about 40/45 feet, I wanna try start jumping, but I am a bit nervous still..

I rode with NoNo for most of the day, he has put in an applicaiton for the Burton Open, we just
have to see if he gets accepted as they got more applications than there are places.

Today I did a switch front lip 270 out on one of the C Boxes which I was pretty stoked on, I wanna try and get a straight front lip to 270 Pretzel out on a C Box, but I haven't been able to get it yet. As for flat down boxes, I am still lacking confidence when it comes to gapping them and spinning onto them, but they will come with practice.

For those of you who don't know, I had a pretty bad slam at the end of last season (and I spent the whole of last season teaching my exGF how to snowboard) and from that slam I had a detached medial ligament, snapped ACL, torn medial patello ligament and a miniscus cartilage tear in my right (front) knee. I am slowly getting my confidence back on boxes, but I am a little bitch when it comes to jumps. I did a small jump on one of my jib boards and I snapped the tail cos I am a fat shit and I landed a bit too far on the tail.

My knee feels pretty solid, I am just taking it easy though cos there is still a long time left in the season and I have already seen about 7 people whos seasons have ended prematurely from injury. I have seen about 4 people break thier wrists too which is fucked.

Oh, and I also saw Miss Austria there as well, I actually gave her a lift down to her car cos she hitches from the bottom. I told her about the house warming party we are having and she seemed pretty excited and said to make sure I message her... Who knows, there might be
hope yet.