What made me decide to snowboard
A lot of people ask me from time to time why the sport that I picked was snowboarding. They also ask why I choose to work so hard at it, and why I managed to achieve a degree of success in doing so. The answer is straightforward, and it is the reason why many people do a great job participating in different sports. The answer is wanting to do the sport and the love is what I had in abundance for snowboarding, before I had my accident.
I had to think long and hard before I could pick a sport. I asked myself what should I do snowboarding or skateboarding? This was the hardest decision I had to make as I love both sports, but I was having to train for both of them, and therefore wasn’t dedicating enough time to either. That is why when it came down to it, I decided that skateboarding would only be a hobby and that snowboarding was the sport I wanted to take part in. The reasons that I preferred snowboarding were not clear cut, and to say I had anything less than love for skateboarding is also not true. But I think I loved the way that snowboarding was a whole different world. Do you know what I mean? When you choose to go skateboarding you can just jump out of bed, and skateboard down to the shop, Ollie over a step and grind down a pole. Is that fun? Yes, of course it is. But when it comes to snowboarding you are entering a completely alien environment. Let me explain. When you live in Atlanta you hardly get snow every day of the week, nor do you get hills and slaloms caked in it! That is why, whether I am boarding on snow or synthetic snow is just the same feeling.
There were also another reason for choosing snowboarding, that were my mates these really made up my mind. My friends who do skateboarding were not really close friends unlike them that do snowboarding, this had a huge impact on me decision. The thought of getting to spend more time with Collin, Justin and the lads was just to much to miss out on! We had such a good laugh, and had so much in common. We would always feel the same about snowboarding, and we were able to really help each other out on issues. When we noticed a mistake in each others techniques we would always tell each other so we could all improve together. This was a great idea, and was another reason why I chose snowboarding over skateboarding when it came down to it!
Now fun over, the sad part now, I am unable to take my career further in both snowboarding or skateboarding. The reason for this is I had a terrible accident that ruptured my leg muscle, this caused me to have a six month time-out at such a crucial time. You see others will improve in fitness whilst I worsen and that is why my sponsor has now dropped me as well. What I am hoping to do is try my best to get back into the sport, because my love for it and my ability at it should be enough to make me come through. Collin and Justin are doing really well, but it is hard for me to spend as much time with them when they are always down the slope or working out. One of my friends called Blair, has also recently won the Junior USA championship, and although I am happy for him it makes me sad to think that could have been me competing for that trophy. All I can now is try my up most, and with any luck it may go my way.
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