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Rated: ASR · Poetry · Emotional · #1543113
Broken bones. Broken Pride. Broken snowboard! Based on a true story.
Last chance
Go for it
This is the final run
After this, you're leaving
Your friends are watching

She's watching

Do this, and you'll be immortal

It's a monsterous gap
Bigger than anything you've ever hit before
You'll never make it
It's too long
You're going to die on this mountain.

You can't back out now
Even if no one was watching, you would still hit it
You would never forgive yourself if you didn't do this now
Today, on this snow, in this wind
God, it's windy

Don't do it
Say it's too windy
That's believeable, isn't it?
The wind is gusting from the west
It would throw me off the landing
Besides, who are they to expect this?
None of them hit it, why should I?

No, I told them that I had to hit it before the end of the day
They never said the same for themselves
I brought this on myself

I can do it
I have the ability
I just need to focus on the landing
Read the takeoff
Focus
Landing
Takeoff

Flip to your song
Get pumped
Focus

Basic movements
Keep the spin basic
No need for a difficult trick
Stay in your comfort zone
This jump is completely beyond your comfort zone

What the hell am I doing?

No, no, no
Don't say that
Stay focused
Focus on the takeoff
Hit the landing, or break your bones

Oh, God....

I feel it
The wind is dying down
Now
Do it now

Stand up
Crouch
Speed check
Not too fast, or you'll miss the landing
Not too slow, or you'll land in the gap

She's watching you

Stay past the gap
Twenty feet

Ten

Too fast

Slow down

Too late

Focus

Left foot forward
Spin
Right foot forward
Spin

Trust the board
Trust yourself

Brace for landing

Brace....

Where is it

Keep your back forward
Lean forward

Landing
Where

Too high
Why prove yourself
They already know

Shouldn't have taken this jump
Should have leaned forward
Shouldn't have spun

Now consequences

Where the hell is the landing?

Stupid
You are an idiot

You're a complete and total id-

WHAM




Oh. There's the landing.


Black.



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