I have been visiting my family in Colorado for years and years, but I have not yet gotten the guts up to snowboard. I have always skied, but snowboarding has seemed very scary to me. I really am afraid of breaking bones, dislocated my shoulder, or something like that. Anyway, my boyfriend and I are going to Aspen for Christmas break to see my family, and he has finally talked me into snowboarding.
I am pretty nervous about it, but I am thinking that I can just listen to my iPod to keep me focused and distracted from the fear. I ski all of the time with my iPod on, and it helps me to stay in the zone when I am going down the slopes. However, I am hoping that it will have the same effect on me when I’m snowboarding, especially for the first time. Also, we are going to take a class together so that we don’t do anything dangerous to ourselves. I always see so many extreme sports videos of snowboarders breaking something on their body, but I doubt that will happen to me since we will probably be starting out on the bunny slopes. Either way, wish me luck!
