PXMommy

Looking for a new fitness routine?  Want to take your body to the next step and push yourself to the limit.  I have recently discovered a new program.  It’s called PXMommy.  My friend Kaylan introduced it to me.

Imagine one of those scenes from a movie where two people are engaging in an activity.  One person, the expert has their back turned to the beginner.  The expert is strategically explaining every detail of the activity.  Taking caution to point out all the cues, all the trigger points and to remind the novice that it is very difficult and it takes lots of practice.  There are many modifications to be learnt before working up to the final action. 

Meanwhile the audience is watching the beginner complete the action without difficulty, waiting for the expert to finish their monologue.  The expert turns around to begin the lesson only to find the beginner 10 steps ahead of them, might I add, with complete ease.

Yes, that is Kaylan’s and my relationship.  Not only did she completely blow me away with her first time canoeing, kayaking, portaging and camp survival skills this summer, but now she has one-upped me with her surfing, leaving me in her wake.  To be honest there was no competition.  This girl is a natural! This leaves me with the title of  “what she lacks in skill she makes up for with heart” AKA, “you're out of your league”.

I quickly learned my lesson from her; she is learning nothing from me, instead I better start taking notes.  So I ask her, “How can such a delicate and petite girl be so strong and powerful?  “It’s called the Mommy Factor,” she informed me nonchalantly. 

I say if being a mom brings you super human powers than I can’t wait for motherhood.  She is amazing!

No I didn't push her off her board!  She fell on her own.  I'm not that competitive.  Give me some credit.

Ben

Ben and Mat

This is the part I am really good at.

My crew tells me that snowboarding is a lot like surfing.  “Hence why we are so good at it.”  

However, in the reverse, if my skills of surfing are of any indication of my potential snowboarding career, then I better stick to the medium that will break my fall instead of breaking me.  

The only worry I have out here is maybe a mild enema, a manta ray/jellyfish sting, or an acute shark attack.  All minor in comparison to “yard-saleing” it down a cliff side at 50km/h in -20 Celsius weather, hoping that I become a human snowball that will eventually lose speed before hitting a tree.

Paddle Board Surfing is worth a try.  It is much harder than it looks as the boys demonstrated below.