I used to spend all winter snowboarding when I was a teenager and I took a break for a few years while I was in the Navy because I wasn't stationed within 1000 miles of snow. I gave it a shot the winter after I left active duty and didn't even spend a whole day on the mountain. My skills had degraded to the point where I wasn't comfortable anymore. Shortly thereafter, I met a woman who had been a high level skier when she was a teenager and was expecting to go to the Olympics before she got in a serious accident that damaged the nerves in her neck. She had full function of her extremities, but she said she couldn't feel very much below her neck and a lot of what she did feel was that painful stinging you get when your leg falls asleep or something. Her story made me give up winter sports for good. She was one of the best and she had a life changing injury; what the hell am I doing up there? I haven't been in the slopes in almost 20 years now, and I can literally see the resort I used to go to most often from my bedroom window.