So far it's been a mix of weather, bluebird, rain, whiteout and snow due to arrive end of this week but accompanied by high wind!! The past couple of days it's been like spring up the glacier with an icy park in the morning soon turning into a real slushy one!! The glacier is really bare right now and desperately needs snow with icy pistes, so weird to see it like that as I'm used to seeing it with a lot more snow!!
Riding around I have been feeling strong on my board and couldn't be happier being back snowboarding it's not till I was back on my board I truly realised how much I'd missed it. I love riding the whole mountain but I have always loved the park and trying to push myself to go bigger, be better and work on my style. This comes from years of learning tricks on dry slope. I'd say I'm getting my feet back in the park but what's annoying me is jumping, it was always the thing I loved the most and it still is nothing feels better than flying through the air and spinning. Although I just hate the smaller jumps at Tux I find them so hard to get the right speed, I had a break through with that last week but now it's back to sucking again and I'm just not used to this and it makes me feel like a rubbish snowboarder and I know I'm not when I look back on what I've done on my board and achieved!! I think people start to then think that I've been lying to them about all I can do on my board which is pretty disheartening!! I know it's lame to blame the jump and sounds like an excuse I don't know I think I have to give myself a stern talking to followed by a massive kick up the ass followed by manning the fuck up!! I really want to hit the medium jumps too as they look so good and I see people hitting them where I know if they can hit it I can as I've hit bigger before but again there's this doubt in my head for some reason and I don't know why this is happening!!
Last winter I didn't push my park riding which I guess is maybe why I'm feeling like this now, although now I really want to do everything I've dreamed about doing in the park and it took a summer off snowboarding to get that fire inside back burning brighter than ever!! I've been riding with people which has been awesome as I've not had that for so long, you feed off of what their doing and it's good to see/ hear other peoples perspectives on things!! I guess I just gotta keep doing what I'm doing stay relaxed on my board, push my riding and everything will fall into place, when it's time I'll feel it and I'll just know and hopefully things start going the way I want them to on my board real soon and my confidence will keep growing!!
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