Snowboarding is a different sport but if you have a skate or wake background it will come easier. On your first day accept that your gonna fall and it will be a good week before you can finally just make it down every time without catching an edge or washing out. Take it slow. Rape the bunny hill till you cant stand it anymore. If its a huge resort stay on the blue squares and green circles (trail rating) until your comfortable upping it to the steeps (most fun but hardest trails) Stay away from moguls and unless your like me and my friends and progress really fast stay out of the terrain park (rails jumps ect)

Go skiing instead, way more fun to be had

Hipster wrote:

Go skiing instead, way more fun to be had

Harder to learn easier to master
Have many friends who Snowboard that used to ski. Not a single friend that Skis that used to snowboard.
Snowboarding is more fun and cooler hahahah cept freestyle skiers like x games level that shits awesome.

Completely the opposite for me. Tons of friends came from snowboarding.

And give me 10 good reasons why its "more fun and cooler"

Just take a lesson and practice and you'll get the hang of it. I don't think snowboarding is anything like wakeboarding but I'm not sure about skateboarding. I snowboarded once and failed miserably, you get so sore from falling the first time. D:



Haha, skiing is way easier to learn.

Falling on snow at relatively low speed sounds wonderful, beats packed dirt and rocks anyway.

Downhill :cool:

You've obviously never experienced snowburn. :p Haha snow isn't soft and you don't go slow.


But with snowboarding it isn't so much the falling on the ground as much as the fact that when you fall, your body can't tumble naturally because your feet are strapped down. It's hard on the knees/back/shoulders, etc.

Haha pretty much. Getting up again after you fall is a bitch because you're strapped to your board. Getting off the lift and getting on it wasnt easy haha. At one point I fell forward and the weight of the board lifted it up and basically smacked me in the back of the head.. Didn't hurt but it was awkward.

Bottom line: snowboarding is cool but not easy. You need reeally good balance, and patience.

Hipster wrote:

Completely the opposite for me. Tons of friends came from snowboarding.

And give me 10 good reasons why its "more fun and cooler"

Most kids who start skiing spend like 3 weeks just doing pizza down the hill in snowboarding they are making turns and having fun their first day (at least in my experience)

If it was not for snowboarding stuff like winter x and winter dew tour would not exist because snowboarding is where park started.

snowboarding is faster to learn and less painful (again my experience)

Skiers around here are dicks while snowboarders are pretty chill

most skiers wills see a kid struggling and just pass by a good snowboarder wills stop and help another snowboarder having trouble

jumping on a board is easier to learn and master

switch on a board is not "riding backwards" and after a while feels the same as riding with your strong foot forward while on ski's switch is completely different and way more dangerous.

all skiers look the same doing tricks. there is no style (except Alex Schlopy)

snowboard boots are years more comfortable and don't dig into your ankles

snowboarding wont kick you out as early as skiing. my parents skied for years but had to stop about mid 40's while there are 70 year olds that snowboard

and boarding is growing way faster than skiing

thats eleven good sir.

i partly agree and partly disagree
ive been boarding for 6 years and skiiing for 13
ive seen skiers who are way past the age of 60 still going strong
it just depends on the amount of punishment you put on your body
(not saying your wrong)
just saying it depends on the circumstanced
my, i love skiing, but boarding is fun when going on hills with friends

they are both one fuck of alot of fun regardless