At least, I'm not embarrassingly bad at it anymore. I'm able to make my way down two of the blue runs at Stevens Pass, and really only fall over when I've decided I need to let it hang out a little.
...so I wrote this big long post about how snowboarding really requires you to rely on the tension in the board and in turn, embrace speed as you go down the hill, but in linking the post together I realized that I wrote about precisely this barely over a year ago.
Lovely. Read the old post—it's better than what I wrote here (and then deleted) anyway.
You posted that and the only thing I could think of is when you busted ass in the drainage canal.
That was gnarly!
Hahahahaha yeah totally.