Boarding Day Research Paper

I’m a sponsored snowboarder who boards at Massanutten Mountain. I claim it as my home mountain. One day, up at Mass, I was with my boy Carl Leake. We’re both amatuer professional snowboarders. We were boarding all day, a 13 hour boarding day. The accident happened when we were about to leave the wintery wonderland. Carl and I just came off of MakkAttack which is a slope going down to the terrain park on Pacesetter which is another, smaller slope. They only put this sick terrain park up at the end of the season. It was about 50* and sunny as can be for the winter. I was boarding in a regular sweatshirt and a snapback. There wasn’t a day better than that to go boarding. We boarded down to the terrain park and Carl went ahead of me while i was waiting to watch him …show more content…
They had a nice big kicker after a pole jam and a flat, down box that i had my eye on. That’s when the brilliant idea came into my head. I decided to try a backflip. It was finally my turn to go after like 10 minutes of waiting. Which is a long time to wait for 1 run down the park. I started to go with the mindset of throwing the backflip. I went up, hit the spine transfer, tail-tapped the pole at the top, and then came down the landing and was picking up speed. I came up on the pole jam at a high rate of speed and board-slid up it and 180 off it back onto the ground. Landing the way I did made me pick up even more speed. At this point I was probably rolling at 40-45mph. I was coming up on the kicker, the only thought that was going through my head was how I would throw my weight to make this backflip happen. Finally my board came off the ground, I threw my head back and tucked as much as I could with all that I could. Everyone was watching me, I was upside-down when i realized how close to the ground I was. I was falling fast and I couldn’t make the rest of the rotation. I hit the ground still upside down, shoulder