So in the last few days I’ve been working on going of jumps. On Saturday, I attended a park clinic at Nashoba but I think it’s just an excuse for the older folks to get to try some of the park features without the yun’s to judge them. I did learn a few new things but nothing that I couldn’t have gotten off the terrain park safety website. After the clinic, I hit the jump with a little more courage since the landing was really soft due to the warm weather. By the end of the day, I finally did my first grab (indy)! I def worked up my confidence and I wasn’t scared to pop off the lip as hard as I can.
Sunday, brought another warm day, so more soft landings. The bigger jump was open and I knew I had to hit it. The jump had only been open on Friday night for the big air comp so it still maintained most of its shape. It was about a 15’/20’ step down. I was so scared going off of it but by the 4/5 time it was smoother, I still haven’t fully gotten comfortable getting a solid pop off of it but after this kicker, the smaller jumps seem like nothing. It was a great rush getting air and feeling so relieved when landing it, I didn’t really care I wasn’t doing tricks. By the end of the night I got a couple solid landings on it and called it night.
Monday, it snowed again and snow was continuing the entire day, so my friend and I took a hike up to Sunapee. We spend 75% of the time in the park and I had a great time until my last run (more about that later). They had 3 small sized jumps in the park so I just cruised it and worked on more grabs. I went on some of the boxes and the smaller rails but I still psych myself out and fall more than I want to. But I was really feeling the jumps and I got better at my indy and got a couple melon grabs in, still need to work on getting some spins in (next season). It was snowing all day so even if I fell the landing was soft and giving. The only time my fall was not so giving was on my last run. I’d been cruising the park several times so by now got pretty comfortable with the jumps. On my last run though I landed the second jump and was carrying a good amount of speed so I just went straight into the third jump which I usually checked my speed and prepared myself a little for. But I just decided to go for it, but something went wrong and my nose was lower than it should have been and then my mind just freaked and I just crashed my landing. My upper right half of my torso took in most of the fall, it was a good thing I had my helmet on, I really think I would have gotten a concussion. Anyway, I laid there for a second but I was ok to get up but as soon as I got up and turned on my heelside I felt a pop in my ribs and a pain and I just collapsed. Then I was hurting too much to get up on my own so I laid there until ski patrol came.
My diagnosis is I got a contusion in my ribs. How I got this I’m going to blame my phone that was in my pocket. I think the phone was between my ribs and arm in the fall so enough to push my ribs in a bit. Luckily, nothing is broken and all internal organs look in good shape. Moral of the story careful what you put your pockets when you’re riding/skiing. For now I’m prob going to take it easy, I still want to ride again before the season ends but who knows.
Little guide to grabs:
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