Just Like Jake

Over the summer I was introduced to Cboys TV. The Cboys are from Minnesota and are YouTube famous for doing everything outdoors like snowmobiling, four wheeling, or riding dirt bike. Early this December I was at my boyfriends house watching Cboys, when we watched Jake, one of the Cboys, jump a bus on snowmobile. This planted the idea in his head that I should learn how to jump a snowmobile.

We decided to go for a ride and found ourselves at his grandfather’s house. His grandpa had plowed a snow hill that would be perfect for me to practice on. He went first and tried to explain it to be but it all sounded like gibberish. Finally, i hopped on and drove. On my first attempt at a jump I drove over the hill with hardly any speed and didn’t even get any air. My second was the exact opposite. See I was never informed that you need to stand when jumping to keep your balance, so I held the throttle all the way down while sitting and hit the snow pile. I give myself credit that I got some air on this one, but it ended up with me feet up smashing the helmet on the handle bars, snapping the visor in half. Along with that I had jammed my wrist and been thrown off the sled, just as the sled crashed into a tree in the yard.

At first I got up and was fine, nothing hurt, but shortly after I realized that my wrist hurt really bad. So the next day I went into urgent care for x-rays. After getting the scans back the Physician told me that I had a fractured radius and would have to be out of basketball for six weeks. So the fracture wouldn’t get worse, I would need a cast, and just my luck the only color they had left was ugly hot pink. The next day is when I get lucky I guess. My mom called me at school tell me that I had not actually broken my arm, and the Physician had just read the scan wrong. So after having a “broken arm” for less than 24 hours I was able to get the cast off and play in the game that night. As you can tell I am not exactly qualified to become an honorary Cboys member, and I think I will skip out on jumping any time soon.