TRAINING UP-DATES

BOARD BALLET

This post refers to the system through which Grant taught me to get rhythm in my turns. The goal of our session was for me to turn myself without his prompts, so basically going from left to right to left (without obviously hitting the pillars on the right when I go right and without hitting the wall on the left when I go left) At first grant told me to count after each turn.. So we would go left and then I would start counting 1 2 3 4 and then I would turn right and count 1 2 3 4. After a few runs we hit a high of elegance I hadn’t experienced up to yet, Grant who at all times been riding behind me, comes by my side, and starts humming dad a dad a da…dum dum…dum dum… dad a dad a da… dum dum… dum dum. He was urging me to ride by his side. On the Da Da's we would ride to the right and on the dum dum's we would ride to the left. I’m sure we broke numerous snowboarding fashion norms. My sincere apologies to all :-)