Snowboarding & Pain..

Its wierd, but this week I had a revelation!
Every snowboarder that has evolved up till a certain level has experienced a certain amount of pain. Snowboarding seems to be a sport that cant be practiced without that amount of pain..
Last week I saw a friend, lying in the snow. She had just fallen on that same painfull butcheek for the bazillionest time and was lying in the snow, not moving, not talking, just waiting for the pain to stop.. (when Cederic pulled a very insensitive stunt spraying us all with snow in his stop) At that exact moment I completely understood how she felt.. Pain, lots of it. Miserable moment, knowing she had to continue snowboarding at least till the end of the slope (& yeah she was still HIGH up) and then a guy spraying snow over you, making you not only miserable, but cold & wet on top of it.
Not only did I completely understand what she felt, I was sure that anyone with some weeks snowboard experience EXACTLY knew what she was feeling..

Wich leads to the conclusion that there is a certain mandatory amount of pain involved in learning to snowboard :/
Wich is a pitty coz it means that Stitch ll never try it :( pitty pitty