Crash

So a couple of years ago I got this cool Long board for Nate that is called a Carve board. What is cool about it is you carve like in snowboarding or wake boarding to get it to move. It works best when going down hill, but since we don't have any hills around us in AZ, Nate hooks our dogs up to a water ski rope and they pull him. They get great exercise and Nate gets a fun ride. We have even hooked the rope on the back of a car and gotten a great ride.

We usually get two kinds of looks from our neighbors, either "that is so cool" or "Really". Nate took the girls (dogs) out on it last night so they could get some exercise while I was cooking dinner. He was gone for about 10 minutes which is normal and he came back to tell me he had his first crash. As he was leaving the driveway in a turn one of the tires must have got a rock stuck in it or something, because the tire started to skid. Nate said that he thought to himself, "should I jump or can I hold on?" He decided to jump, but the board hit his ankle and caused him to fall. He hit his hands and chest first and his right arm and side is all scraped up. Of course that did not stop him from taking the dogs out. His Adrenalin was running because he said it did not hurt until he got home. He is going to have some bruses and be sore for a while, but we are glad he is okay. He does have a helmet, but of course he was not wearing it.