Practice makes perfect: snowboarding
How many people do you know who would sign up for the Grand National without ever having ridden a horse before? Or without taking out horse insurance or some kind of life insurance? Not many, I’ll bet. And yet every winter thousands of absolute beginners head off to the slopes of Europe and North America with nothing more than an expensive ski jacket and the idea that snowboarding is cool. Of course, snowboarding is cool. What isn’t cool is spending most of your precious winter holiday (and perhaps many weeks afterwards) laid up wrapped in plaster with an unreachable itch somewhere half way down your leg. If you don’t get in at least a couple of practice sessions before you get on the plane, then you’ll either end up having a really boring time or, worse, end up in hospital!
