OLD THREAD REVIVAL w00t!!!!!
allrighty, so today was part 1 of 14 for my excursion to park city....well actually part 3 0f 20 if you wanna count drive time, anyways i digress. So after 2 days of 9 hour a day driving, that i didnt even get to drive for cuz my mom thinks im an "unsafe driver", which is total bull, ask allen he LOVES my driving skills. Im fuckin tired but i was hopped up on red bull so i didnt sleep till like 2 or so in the morning, get up at 6, cause my mom belives getting up any later on a monday is a sin (on saturdays its 8 instead!!). So i get to sit there and watch good ol' msnbc, because nothing screams "exciting" quite like the talking heads jab about why hillary was robbed and the economy is in the shitter. So i show up to the UOP around 10 meet mick and travis and do tramps for an hour or two, and finally the point at which i had been waiting for...i strapped up and got to hit the ramps. So let me set the stage for you: its a beautiful sunny day, no clouds in the sky, im decked out in my oh so sexy wet suit, board shorts, and my trusty protec helmet...now heres the fun part....its a balmy 54 degrees with a water temp of 47 and a nice 5mph breeze. So to sum it all up..ITS FUCKIN COLD AS SHIT!!!! And of course me being oh so lucky lose my ski on the first jump (screamin semen if u were wondering) so i have to dive down 12 feet in this water that isnt suitable for human life, well me having no endurance and being at altitude make it 5 feet down before gasping for air and almost drowning on my way back up. At least there was an extra pair of old line chronics lying around cause no one else wanted to do me a favor and go get it (i offered 10 bucks too). so i ride for an hour or two until luch and i walk shanking to the locker rooms for a hot shower. so later when i got my ass back to work and rode for 3 hours until all the swimming turned my tendonitis wrecked shoulders stiffer than shit. I do tramp for another hour and then dicieded to call it quits, went back to the hotel slept for 2 hours woke up ate some din-din and then wrote this. all in all a good day, so now since my mom has left the food network on i am now hungry again am goin to go eat some more and probably sleep some more.
peace
-Ryan
oh wait i cant forget a few name drops, one of the coaches here, competed with martin and lew-dog back in the day, mick remembers seamus and paddy from jo's, and Iberg is in town this week. oh and for any of you USSA guys remember colby from jo's from the 07 season, he was here, he quit after like 5 jumps cause he hurt his thumb.