Personal Narrative Essay On Snowboarding

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Have you ever had something that you have just always wanted to do? We all have this one thing, whether it is skydiving, running a marathon, or learning something new. Well for me, that one thing that I have always wanted to do is, learning how to snowboard. I had been dreaming about snowboarding for years, but I had never taken the initiative to go out and learn.
Until one winter I decided, it was enough dreaming. It was time to do it. Every year my school would take multiple trips to Big Rock for the kids to go skiing and snowboarding. This year I finally said to my friend Gage that I was ready to try out snowboarding. So we made a plan that I could borrow his old snowboard, and he had to teach me how to snowboard. By the time we had made it to the mountain, I have just about psyched myself up that snowboarding …show more content…

Trying to duplicate what Gage just did, I stand up and start down the hill. While picking up speed, I decide that it is time to make an S*; I bend my knees and go on my toe edges, sending me slightly to the right. So now to complete this S, I straighten out my legs and lean backwards on my heel edges. But instead of turning back around and completing the S; I fall directly onto my back, knocking the wind out of myself. But it was in that moment of failure that I discovered that it is not just leaning back and forth on your toe and heel edges: It is also leaning forward into the way you want to turn and using your whole body to swing yourself back around. Gaining a little more confidence in my ability I pick myself up and head straight down to where Gage is waiting for me. While I was gaining speed, I had a moment of realization that I did not know how to stop; so seconds before I made it to Gage I threw myself to the ground, to stop myself from colliding with Gage. He laughs as I sit up and brush the snow off myself. “So are you ready to go to the top?” Gage asks