Flyboard

This summer, when I went on holidays to Peñiscola, I saw a man, over the sea, that was flying. I did not believe what my eyes were seeing. The person could go up because he wore an object that, with the pressure of the water, and the air could go up very high, but he had to have a lot of balance, because he could fall into the water. I didn’t have the opportunity to use it, because it happened on the last days I stayed there for holidays.

When I arrived in Soria, I had a lot of curiosity about this sport. I had never seen it before. This new sport is called Fly board. Nowadays, it has become very famous. With this object, you can fly over 12 meters high, but at first it is a bit difficult because you have to have a lot of balance. Also, it allows you to submerge under water. 

The board has two nozzles to provide balance. The first ones are located under the feet to promise drive, and the other ones are located in the hands, to secure balance as if you were using ski canes. This object is like a board, where one stands on. It has to be connected to a watercraft by a very large tube, because you need another person to control along with you the pressure of the water and the air. This sport needs two people; one on the board and another on the watercraft to help the other with the pressure he wants, giving speed to make the board go higher.

If you want to do this alone, you have the opportunity to do it by another method where you control the pressure you want for the board, but doing it alone is a bit more expensive. If you want to rent it with the help of another person the price is around 100 euros for 20 minutes.

RUGBY IN SPAIN

Rugby es one of the most popular sports in England. England´s team plays in the 6-nations cup, which means that England´s team is in the elite. Meanwhile …. this sport in nearly estingushed in Spain . I am one of those rare Spanish rugby playes. Furthermore, I am a girl.  That means that it is really hard to find other girls to play with. Let's say Rugby is not seen as a very femenine sport, and it is quite impopular. After some years, our team, Ingenieros de Soria, has reached our goal; to createm a femenine team. After all, we have created two teams, one for senior players and another one for girls under age. We are more than twenty girls ready to play our favorite and unpopular sport. Now, the most dificult thing is to find girls and teams to fight with.  We play in the Aragon League of Rugby, but there are only there teams so we can barely play matches.

Although there are barely any teams to play with, we have managed to play some matches. On December  we played against  Fénix in Zaragoza, on their pitch. But last Saturday we played in our  home, in Soria, in “Los Pajaritos” in our pitch. We were ready to win; we had been preparing for that  match for ages.

It was raining. We played in a grass pitch. It was full of mud. It was cold. Freezing cold. We fought an we won.

After all we wan. This twenty girls who prefer studs and rugby balls to heels. These twenty girls that tried to practise a very unpopular sport have won a match. And we will try to make it popular; this, our beatiful, favorite, noble and femenine sport.

-“Good night, my little princess with studs”

And my dreams come …..., as a victory over the Fénix girls. Understanding that Rugby is a worderful sport. Just like English people say.