29/10/2002 Cape Town, South Africa
(Phill)
Well, I'm walking with a limp. Twisted my knee in a crazy way today. S'pose I should start at this morning. Well, today was the Sand-Boarding day. Basically it's just like Snow Boarding except on sand. The sport uses the same equipment etc... you simply walk up the massive sand dune and strap in and off you go. Snow Boarding is of course synonymous with broken legs and ankles. Since the other two people knew how to board the cool Swedish Instructor spent the first 30 minutes or so making sure I was learning okay, which I was. The easy slopes were dead easy, it wasn't till I graduated to the massive dunes that I got in trouble. You know me, bit overconfident sometimes, particularly in sports. Off I go down this hill, board nicely waxed, picking up lots of speed and I try and cut right and the front of the board digs into the sand, my head plants into the ground and my board twists over my body. It definately hurt, but with all the people watching and cheering I had to get up and bow and walk the rest of the hill. Sat out for a bit of course.
Anyway, it didn't hurt enough to keep me off the slopes and I did manage to get decently good at it. I was hurting enough to pass on the jump we built though, I knew that wouldn't be good!
Once I actually got in the truck to drive back I could definately feel the pain, now it's pretty hard to put any weight on it. Tomorrow is shark Diving though, so if the shark gets through the cage I won't be able to swim very far :)
Great day though, oh yeah, my camera is destroyed too, full of sand. That's probably not good for it!
Posted by Admin at October 29, 2002 07:53 AM