Planned days over the week did not go as planned, so the Saturday morning before Christmas, when we should all get some sleep and be rested for the next day, my body wanted its party at 5 in the morning.

Taking the opportunity for myself, I also made it an easy morning as I wanted to go on the road with a takeaway coffee available only from 6 onwards.

Roadtrip with freshly baked croissants and warm coffee, with a Tolkien third LOTR book in the background, was done in like 10 min.

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Ski slopes again, remembering all the fun and relaxed feeling I had during prev season, the smile on my face that did not go away even if I wanted. I almost ran towards the area, where I finished gearing up and stepped into the board. "Take it easy," I said, and skipped the first slope and took the easy path to see how the board behaved.

No turning, gripping the snow at the edges, slow motion, and the first fall after just a couple of meters. "This is gonna be a fun season" rang in my mind, which continued with walking towards the chairlift, as the "easy path" was not connected to the desired destination.

Man, it took me two or three rides to properly handle the carvings where my body and gravitation started to do their work instead of my clumsy forcing the rotation.

After that, the day became as beautiful as I remember it from the last season. Even the scare of speed became manageable fun, and the freedom feeling I was craving was back again.

With each lift, I looked at small bumps where I could make my first jump of the season and begin my trip towards proper jumps and 180 that I set for myself. Each ride brought more fun of riding, and another missed opportunity to do the first jump. A couple of hours later, it finally happened.

I stopped before a bump and released the break in a strange cramp of doing "the thing" I was shocked that the snow was not soft as expected but icy hard, which my body confirmed a second later.

And that is how my first jump became a fall.

I called it a successful day anyway, so I continued my day with LOTR in the background and more coffee for the next road trip I had planned for that day.

Till next time, stay sexy and hydrated.


Snowboarding again - on the slopes

For some time now, I have said yes to as many things my mind comes across.

So, in that spirit, I started snowboarding prev year again. I took a mentor and did some days on my own. The experience turned into one the most relaxing and easy things in my life, realizing that the struggles I had in the first years of boarding all came out of having the wrong boots, causing strange leg pains where I could never enjoy the whole day at a resort, blaming it on all on the stamina and simply not being good at it.

The first day on my own was full of strange and already forgotten feelings of excitement, almost triggering hardcore anxiety attacks. Starting with the first steep track, leading to the main chairlift, to using it with my board in my hands to avoid falling when going off of it or the scary feeling of height when being a couple of meters off the ground :shrug:

This time, all I did differently compared to the first 8-ish years was to stop and try to feel the body, the board, and the snow. After a couple of hours, my fun started to explode. Just one more ride, one more, only this one, till the chairlift ended and the resort started closing.

In the spirit of a prev winter success, I set myself a goal to learn how to jump and do the 180 by the end of this year's season.

As I knew that finding days to be out and on the snow was a spontaneous decision happening as we go, I wanted to be unrestricted by a single resort and renting availability. So I made a good excuse and a commitment to get out as much as possible for a hobby where computers are not involved. It was time to buy my gear.

Knowing way too little about the gear properties and the requirements, I turned to Extreme Vital store, where the enthusiast of snowboarding took time, from the current level to my future goals, spending way too much time on finding the boots and shaping them to my final needs up to suggestions where and how to get most out of the learning experience coming towards me.

Of course, I had to do the whole gear-up at home as well; who wouldn't :giggle:

Yes, that is me smiling, have you never seen a developer in your life?

I can't wait for the snow journey to start soon.

Till next time, stay sexy and hydrated.
