Skateboarding and Snowboarding

As you might have already guessed, these are the names of my two favourite sports I like to do with my free time. First of all I have to allow, that I do the snowboarding just for the first year and I do the skateboarding just for a few days, but doing these sports I spend the most of my free time.

I got the Snowboard under the Christmas tree and I bought the skateboard recently both on advance of my friends who have done these sports already for a few years. Before I got my board, I had never rode on something like that, but I could already ride after four or five days (I wasn't the best one of course). I really enjoyed it, but the disadvantage of living in the City is, that the nearest peaks to ride on are usually about 10 or 20 km far off Bratislava. So I used to ride just during the weekends or holidays in winter.

But as the spring has been coming and I've bought my skate, I'd like to spend more of my free time doing this amazing sport. It is much less demanding on conditions than snowboarding and the city provides plenty of places you can skate on. Now I can ride the board more often. Just riding on the deck ain’t very difficult but to be a really good and cool driver, you should learn some new tricks like jumping, sliding and grinding. And believe me, you’ll really have to work hard if you want to acquire such skills. But God save your ankles and knees!

And found out that snowboarding and skateboarding can bring you a lot of fun and pleasure, so I recommend performing these sport to whole nimble and brave youth. One more advice: Do buy kneepads at the same time you buy your skateboard!

Juraj Payer

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