Brad a Skater boy half Gorgan

It was the newest sport craze, made to enhance relationships between the bipedal and taur races. Those being races with a “Centaur” like body makeup; humanoid torso with 4 legs with a body behind them. This included centaurs (horse), cervitaurs (deer), Chakat (cat) and the 8-legged drider (spider). Any bipedal race over 5-foot was able to compete on the board, any shorter and the lower center of gravity make it unfair. There was however a below 5-foot division for your shorter bipedal races pared up with smaller taurs such as centaurs whose horse parts resembled those of a pony.

The rules of Taur boarding were simple, the humanoid held onto a tether held by a taur. They had a board strapped to their feet which was practically an offroad skateboard. The Taur would complete a trail course dragging the humanoid behind them being pulled by the rope. There were points for speeds but a one second penalty for hitting a cone and a 5 second penalty for not completing obstacles (think slalom, tight turns, weaves, etc.) correctly. The humanoid had to stay holding the tether the whole time. Each competitor got to run the course twice. They set a time and they had a chance to beat it. There was also a bonus point if the first time you set was not beaten by anyone including yourself. This led to some competitive strategies.

This brings us to our main characters. Helen was a piebald cob centauress. She wasn’t the fastest, but she was agile; she had done a bit of dressage, the taur version of ballet, as a kid. Brad was a half-gorgon, he had snake hair but had not inherited his mother’s snake body or ability to turn people to stone. He was a skater and musician. He had a punk look, ripped jeans, baggy shirt, leather jacket and his snakes were naturally yellow and red. For this story we will follow brad

You and Hellen had been friends for a while, but you thought this sport would bring them closer together. you had a cush on her, and you knew she had feeling for her but of her friend stuck up their noses at you (especially Temanka, a goblin with a particularly long nose). They said a half-breed humanoid was not good enough for her. Despite this you got Helen to agree to the race and you entered an amateur level competition, with a grand prize of £300.