so today was another brilliant day on the slopes.  i actually wasn't going to come up here this weekend, but my buddy jonathan's brother, scott snow, is racing the junior olympics up here in mammoth, so i had to come up and support the hardqoreness.  he's racing well, finishing in the 20's out of 90 or so competitors, and he's only 13 in the 13-14 division.  he'll win next year.

 

but scott's putting all that high school peer pressure on me - "what, you've never done a 360 off a jump before?  it's easy - if you can spin a 180 standing still then you can totally do a 360 off a jump."  "uhhhhh, you've got to be crazy, scott.  i'm not exactly the best jumper..."  "oh, you can do it."

 

so yeah, now i've got to get the courage up to do a 360.  i make a halfway effort and pull a 180, but just sit down right away.  "oh, that's cool, jeremy - nobody makes a 360 on their first try."  "..."

 

360's.  not sure i'll keep on trying those - maybe i will - but i really think i better learn how to ride goofy foot first, and that's just not easy at all.  anyway, yeah, whatever.  scott also got me to step up to the big jumps - the ones where you start to catch some serious big air.  and i've got to say - that is absolutely terrifying flying when you're getting big air.  it's just something you have to get used to, and it'll definitely help out the boardercross racing, but wow - pushing the limits for sure.