Snowboarding

Now I’m new to snowboarding and I’m not very good at it but I’m a fast learner and I’ve came a long way.  When I was younger I used to have one of the old crappy snowboards and would go down vet’s hill.  My friend used to work at Apple Mountain so I thought that would be a good place to start off.  The hill is bigger than vets but it isn’t too big.  I started off like a newborn deer.  I was afraid to go fast and fall because I could break something.  By the end of the day I was going down apples biggest hill, mind you it’s not as big as the hills I go to now but it was a good starting point for me.  My senior year I went on the rec class snowboarding trip and loved every second of it.  I’ve only been snowboarding for a year and a half.  Now I go to Caberfae, Boyne, crystal, and tree tops.  I’m still a little lenient to go super-fast because I don’t feel like breaking anything, but I still go fast.  I like being cold so I figured snowboarding was my calling. Up until last year I would just rent boards and boots, but it started to add up in price.  So last year I bought my own board, bindings, and boots, I couldn’t have been happier when everything came in the mail.  I don’t do anything crazy like backflips or anything I just like carving down the hill and getting to the end and spraying my friends with snow.  This year I’m hoping to be able to go over ramps cleanly.  Last year when I went over a ramp I would push too hard off the ground and my legs would come out from under me. I would then proceed so smash my head on the ground, didn’t feel too good, and I would have a headache for a couple of hours.  I hate failing so I would keep trying to land it before we all called it a day.  Last year me and three of my friends went to Boyne for the weekend and rented a room and stayed there, we are hopefully going to do it again this year and make it a tradition.  

Golf

I used to hate golf, watching it or playing it.  I’m the kind of person to not bash on something if I haven’t done it, so I decided to try it one day with my friends during my freshman year of high school.  Boy was it a treat, I took about 10 shots on every hole and I think I ended up shooting an 82.  Which if you didn’t know is a god awful golf score.  I had fun but I didn’t think I would ever try again because I hate losing.  The next time I went I started to get a feel for it and a shot a little better, 72. Still an awful score, but I realized the more I do it the better I get.  When I first started my drives went far, but they also sliced.  If you don’t know what a slice is, it’s when your club head outs spin on the ball going away from your body.  I could hit the ball 200yrds but it would go 50 yards right, which defeats the purpose.  So I learned to play my slice and I could get the ball in the middle of the fairway.  My sophomore year I went 6 times throughout the summer and kept improving.  My junior year wasn’t much better than my sophomore year but I started to get my short game down, using my irons and wedges.  My best score my junior year was a 52, which isn’t terrible but it’s still bad.  My first time my senior year I developed a love for the game, my first tee shot I aimed way left like I used to and smashed the ball straight as an arrow.  I teed up again and aimed down the center of the fairway and drove the ball just like the first time.  I finally cured my slice and felt like I could do anything.  This last year I shot my best game ever with a 39.  There are still something’s I can work on, my drives are 250yrds every time down the center of the fairway; my chips are on some days but off on others.  My biggest problem is putting; I am the worst putter in the history of golf.  I’ll miss a putt from 2 feet away, and I don’t know what the problem is.  

Lava Tag

During the summer late at night when we don’t have anything fun planned to do we usually just send out a group text message and we meet at Vets Park. When we get the text everyone knows that it could be one of two things, lava tag or capture the flag.  My personal favorite is lava tag, now when everyone was younger every kid played in the living room and you could touch the ground. Now we play at the imagination station and you only get two steps on the woodchips.  But this isn’t like playing in the living room; people make crazy jumps and climb up things that should be climbed on so they are not it.  We have had times that when we left people are full of scratches, blood, and sweat, its and intense game on a structure that isn’t meant for it.  Have you ever heard of free running? Well that’s kind of what our games look like, but there are no flips, tuck and rolls, or wall running.  So when we start the game and have to decide who is it we let fait decided and choose by what every 19 year old kids would do, bubble gum bubble gum.  Once that last foot is stuck in the middle everyone scatters around the park.  The person that is it has 10 seconds before they can get anyone.  If the person that is it takes more than two steps on the woodchips they have to recount and if some that isn’t it takes more than two, then they are now it.  We usually play for an hour or so, or until everyone is gassed out and doesn’t want to move anymore.  Usually after we are done playing we all drive to our friends house and jump in the pool to cool off, and that’s is follow but a couple games of euchre.  We probably do this like two or three times a week during the summer. 

Disc Golf

Have you ever played disc golf?  I’m not talking about at an actual park, I’m talking about just going outside of your friend’s house one day and play with obstacles as the hole, you know like telephone poles, stop signs,  truck beds.  One bright sunny day my friends and I were inside bored to death, and I’m talking about death, we were too lazy to even turn the TV on.  We all came to the consensus that we have to get up are else we will do nothing all day.  So we went outside and started throwing the Frisbee around.  Eventually we were just trying to hit things next to the other person, and then it turned into who can throw it the farthest, and then how many throws it takes to hit something.  We started to keep score and started to me the “hole” around.  We even gave each hole a par number based on how difficult it was.  Like hitting the stop sign from 40 feet away is a par 3 easy to do but having to throw the Frisbee hit a telephone pole and fire hydrant in one throw is a par 15 because is almost near impossible.  The holes range from par 2’s to par 15’s and we keep track.  Whoever won the last hole gets to call out the next hole, and it can be anything they want, car tire, through an open window, first step on the porch, if you can think of it, it’s a hole.  The first time we played, we only played one on one with three holes, but now if we are in a group and we have nothing to do, we just go grab some Frisbees and play a round of 18 holes.  As you can tell by a couple of my blogs I’m in a group of very creative friends.