Day 3 on the slope- Chamonix Training session 2 (April 8th to 11th)

10/04/2006
Legs were in pain before starting which may have been the cause for my worst day on the slope ever.  Missed breakfast again, and my foot was wobbling around in the boot for the first run.  After having a small bit to eat before starting the second run I felt slightly better.  Nevertheless the day didn’t improve much and consisted of some of the hardest falls I’ve had to date.  Description of one of them:
I was on my toe edge of the board going at a reasonable speed on the brink of executing a toe to heal turn.  I had began the turn however hadn’t notice that my board had began to slide down the fall line as apposed to carving across the slope (even though I think I heard Keith shouting to inform me!).  This lead to my heal side of the board catching while I was steering the turn resulting in me going airborne backwards down the slope on the first bounce landing on my arms with my back crashing down, the second bounce was better as I remembered Keith’s advice to cross my arms over my chest so not to break arms and wrists and stuff..However had nowhere to put my head so it crashed down hard.

All I can say is I really can appreciate the valuable training my body received from my years of being really crap at Judo as my body hardened up to being thrown around!