Snowboarding: A Londoner’s Perspective
Growing up in the Rocky mountains may give you the edge when looking to become professional snowboarder, but those of us with the passion for the pastime but are unfortunate enough to grow up in London: we are destined to the dry slopes of Milton Keynes. That is until our four year saving spree, working at the local retail giant, provides us with the opportunity to take a four day trip to Sunshine Village or Lake Louise, the memories of which will last at least another four years (well they’ll have to!).
Mediated sport provides us with the incredible images of snowboarding at its very best. Perhaps we would be better off without these images sent from the other side of the world (with the bliss of ignorance cushioning us) but the global sport scene engulfs us and we want more, more, more! Thus there is only one answer… to become a snowboarding instructor!
This is something many people attempt and not so many, actually, achieve. Myself included. The reason for this is you really have to know your backside from your sinch strap! Well I didn’t, and in my first lesson teaching ended up failing miserably: without too much detail I finished about fifty meters away from my board whilst knocking over an old age pensioner and nearly maiming a toddler! But that’s the way it goes… I still love the sport, except I’m now back in retail with huge debts. Every third night I head down the dry slopes where I hope to rescue my confidence from the grasp of that humiliating experience, might take a while but I guess that’s snowboarding!
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