Wednesday, January 7, 2015

New experience: Sandboard (in Tunisia)



After a week off we received a letter from our coach with five airline tickets to Tunisia on May 30, 2014. The letter was a note saying: to be the best at something you have to work hard.
He also said that for this trip we only going to need our skateboard helmets, summer clothes and plenty of sunscreen.
Once on the plane, our coach started telling us what it was our trip: we were practicing "sandboarding" a new sport practiced with a board that would help us improve our technique.
We arrived at the hotel at night, rested a few hours and we had to get up early to go to the desert where we would sandboarding.
In the morning after the big breakfast, they got on us in a 4x4 to take us to the resort. Once there we took our equipments and they swept away us to the biggest dunes.
Sandboarding experts told us the basic caves of the sport, then it was our turn.
At first it was a weird feeling, it seemed that we were snowboarding, but in reality was totally different because you had to have more balance and falls ached more, also influenced the warmth into the exhaustion.
Unfortunately on one of my downs I stumbled upon a stone, I fell down with a bad posture and when we went to the doctor, he said that I had a broken wrist.
Overall it was a good experience, because as I told you, we are lovers of the tables, and we like all modalities.
I leave a video of our instructor. Hope you like it and you feel encouraged to try this sport!



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