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What do you find more enjoyable PERSONALLY in terms of both riding down the mountain and for doing tricks? I have done skiing and picked it up easily (the basics at least), but I hear its tough to learn how to do tricks/advanced riding maneuvers. Snowboarding is supposed to be hard to learn, but easier to do advanced stuff, so any thoughts on that?
in before snowboarding is for men, skiing is for women.
Personally, I find snowboarding more enjoyable, but then again I was given a skateboard when I was three years old- so I am biased to going down hills sideways. For me the first day or two snowboarding left me pretty banged up but then it all clicked and became much easier.
Snowboarding assumes groomed slopes where there are no depressed areas that might cause a person to have to hike out. Hiking out in deep snow can be not only exhausting, but life threatening, depending on the weather conditions.
On skis you can use good technique, aided by your ski poles, to work your way out of such situations.
There has been an increasing number of deaths from such situations since snowboarding became popular, especially when someone goes off piste or into back country.
snow boarding is huge it's popular with kids and adults what do you mean advanced tricks cause their is a board park at some moutains which is like a skate park for the half pipe and rails to grind on I prefer just carving down the hill you do get beat up when you bail though
I bring both when I head to the mountains. If we get a good dumping the night before, its nice to ride the board. And after grooming, I like to put in the skis for some slow cruising.
I started skiing when I was about 10 in the early 70s growing up in the mountains of Northern CA and skied for about 20 years and lived and breathed the sport. After being intrigued by snow-boarders on the lift and the mountains for a few years I made the jump and picked it up real quick (pain is a great teacher!-no lazy edging haha) and absolutely fell in love with it, it felt so much more connective to the mountain, I never really got into the whole terrain park thing which is such a huge component of boarding but I loved just carving the slope and boarded for about 12 years.
Snow boarding is a pain whenever there is not enough vertical, traversing nearly flat access trails is painfully awkward- that's when you are jealous of skiers poles. And I never got into the whole "us vs them" mentality. If there is anything that shows your immaturity and uncoolness its when you think you are so much cooler than someone who is doing something a bit differently than you, or has some age on you.
Alas, I severely snapped my collar bone in half at a particularly vulnerable spot while snow boarding a few years ago and it took years and major surgery to attempt of heal it (I can predict rain, when it hurts just a bit more than normal haha). The Dr. said I could snow board again as long as I NEVER fell on that shoulder again. Totally bummed me out but I got back into skiing and the new parabolics and it was full circle discovering the sport and loving it again. I wish I could snowboard again but as you get older those injuries just do not ever heal as they did when your a kid so mellow skiing it is for me now.
We live in Utah where the snow is absolutely fantastic. I am a personal fan of snowboarding, but never get out enough to do it! I've also never tried skiing, but I am very open to trying it one day. I just wish there wasn't so much tension between the two preferences on some mountains. There is one resort here that doesn't allow snowboarders.
I was always a great skier from when I was small. Then in HS I switched to snowboarding off/on because my buds were into it. I became moderately good, getting about 6-8ft of air and doing little 180s and grab stuff. I just really never got use to having my feet tied together...alway just felt so weird and confining.
If I wanted to do anything extreme, especially on steep, ice clad conditions, the skis came out. Where one slip could seriously maim myself, I never trusted one edge. Dropping 30+ft out of the air, things can go wrong fast and I always felt safer knowing I could squiggle a bit to get at least one leg semi under me.
If I wanted to do anything extreme, especially on steep, ice clad conditions, the skis came out. Where one slip could seriously maim myself, I never trusted one edge. Dropping 30+ft out of the air, things can go wrong fast and I always felt safer knowing I could squiggle a bit to get at least one leg semi under me.
How about dropping about a thousand feet before coming to a stop? That happened at Snowbird, in Utah, when one of the very first snowboarding ski instructors working there went with a bunch of skiers on a helicopter jaunt to the ridge line above Cottonwood Canyon to the north of Snowbird. His "fall line" remained clearly visible for some time after the accident. And no, he did not survive.
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