Japan - Day 24: 220 sanics per hour
Ok, so, first day on hoth, time to get skis and see if i can outrun that yeti.
Whats really strange about those two pictures, is that i hadnt planned to do a contrast, and also, they were consecutive photos! so i hadnt taken any others alllllll day!
So... Skiing... I've never done it before, ill admit that. I am also not very good at learning to do it as i soon found out! There are 3 basic maneuvers in skiing: turning, stopping and gotta go fasting. I managed to get one perfected, and another i managed in my own special way.
It starts off all peaceful, going kinda horizontal across the snow, things arent too bad... 4 years olds are zooming past, but thats ok, they were learners once too (probably only hours prior though)
Reaching the edge of the slope, ok homey, time to slow down, youve got to turn around and go back the other way! No problem!
turning.... turning... turning.. okok, currently am facing straight down the slope.... instinct kicks in... GOTTA GO FAST! There is no more turning, only the human shaped engine of destruction that is me going down the slopes. I observe blueshift, i know i have broken at least 3 sound barriers, goodbye yeti! go eat someone else! but now i really need to stop! basic training never covered stopping unfortunately, and its not like i can just press brake or hold back on no joystick! I engage my built in stopping mechanism by falling to the ground.
Now, im sure you all did that when you were younger and know its a bad move. I am now learned. Falling over does not instantly take your velocity to zero, you still have your friends momentum and inertia to chill out with... and so i did as i skidded down the snow, tumbling away. One leg decided that since it had a ski attached, it was more than likely born to be a helicopter and attempted to spin its way to freedom. It was forgetting that i still had a knee attached, though tried to remedy this by ripping it apart.
A few tumbles later and i was free of both skis, having left them in my path of ruin.
So yeah, skiing isnt really my thing... the next day my knee was megahertzing and sometimes decided it didnt want to hold my body up no more, instead choosing to let me stumble around stupidly.
Elmin chilling with a snow bro
