I'm getting better at Shaun White

Today I spent some time practicing my snowboarding skills, and although I'm still not even close to being good, I am getting better. During my training I worked on balance, speed, and jumping. I think my biggest problems are leaning in the correct direction, putting the appropriate amount of pressure on the correct foot, and lifting the correct leg at the right time. To add to that, I'm still not sure when to use the A and B buttons.

So, obviously I still do not know what I'm doing. I've figured out that turning consists of putting pressure on my toes or heels. That's about all that I understand so far. I've been doing better jumps, but the jumps that I do are purely accidental. I don't know how to do specific jumps. I pretty much just jump and move around on the board, and I have no idea how I make the character move how it does. That's what I am going to be working on next, learning how to do specific jumps.

While you are playing, the game shows you what you should do by displaying a picture of the balance board and lighting up what you should be doing. I cannot focus on the snowboarder going down the mountain and look at the tutorial image at the same time. Maybe once I can do that I will get better.

I think that it will take a lot of practice to improve at this game, but I still think it's a lot of fun. Also, because it's Wii, I'm getting a workout from playing. After playing for about thirty minutes today I had worked up a good sweat and my ankles were a little strained (like if I was really snowboarding).