BOARD BALLET

Adil Latif | Snowboarding-Mont Blanc glacier Descent | ON 27th October 2006 | 0 comments

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 height of elegance I hadn’t previously experienced. Grant who at all times had been riding behind me, came to my side, and started 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 :).