[quote]Fergy wrote:
one thing I’ll say to you if you try to snowboard is please, for fucks sake, don’t scrape all the snow off the slopes when you’re learning ;p. [/quote]
I would like to highlight this point. I have seen many a great powder day get ruined by a bunch of jackasses on snowboards. And it’s not limited to the beginners either.
If you do decide to snowboard, learn how to carve properly. None of that sliding down the hill face forward bullcrap.
I wasen’t getting any better on skis so I bought a snowboard in 98’…I will never ski again. Boarding is way more suited to me.
It’s alot more work than skiing imo. You fall down on a flat spot the funs over.
Wear wrist protectors.
This is from the Stuff White People Like blog:
If one would like to meet a lot of white people, one of your best bets would be to go on a Snowboarding trip. Snowboarding is the practice of skiing sideways on one ski. White people love snowboarding as opposed to basketball or football because there is a sense that it is an alternative sport outside of the mainstream.
Also too many ethnic people are skiing now. White people enjoy activities that cost a lot of money and require expensive clothes. Even though pro snowboarders make far less than football or basketball players, it is an activity that is exclusive to those who have money. Below are some of the prerequsites for snowboarding
- $500 North Face or Burton Jacket
- $200 Snowpants
- $40 wool socks from Mountain Co-op
- $60 thermal underwear from Mountain Co-op
- Living in an expensive area that is close to mountains ie) Boulder or Vancouver
- $200 Snowboard
- $100 boots
- $20 to pay for your overpriced burger
- ability to act really annoying
[quote]SSC wrote:
[quote]eric_lacrosse wrote:
[quote]SSC wrote:
Snowboarding kicks skiing’s ass ANY day of the week. Don’t be a pussy.[/quote]
Oh I’m still gonna give snowboarding a shot. It just happened that skiing came up first. Are you a convert from skiing to snowboarding? My boss knows someone who gave up skiing after 20 years and now exclusively snowboards. [/quote]
Nah, I’m a snowboarder exclusively of about 10 years now. I know lots of people that dabble in both and either converted from one to another, and I’m to understand that snowboarding overall takes much more patience, confidence, and has a steeper learning curve opposed to skiing.[/quote]
Skiing - Easy to learn, HARD to master. (long learning curve)
Snowboarding - Hard to learn, EASY to master. (short intense learning curve)
Snowboarders are cool. They have their own style and moves. Mostly kids and younger people. Skiing is a classy way of doing it. The equipment is far superior and more advanced. You go faster, turn faster and corner like on rails.
There really is NO comparison in the technical feats of skiing vs snowboarding. I consider myself a low level, expert skier as opposed to a high level expert. There is a difference.
In closing i will say that i love both. I love the “Sport” so anyone getting in on the action and supporting it’s growth is good to go even though i don’t snowboard.
I DO love to compete with the boarders. Downhill bombing runs on expert trails are awsome. Carving up the snow with rooster tails behind you is a high like no other. Especially when the lift is taking you up as the morning sun crests the mountain top and you see the frozen winter wonder land. Did i mention i love the sport?
[quote]Sharp4850 wrote:
[quote]Fergy wrote:
one thing I’ll say to you if you try to snowboard is please, for fucks sake, don’t scrape all the snow off the slopes when you’re learning ;p. [/quote]
I would like to highlight this point. I have seen many a great powder day get ruined by a bunch of jackasses on snowboards. And it’s not limited to the beginners either.
If you do decide to snowboard, learn how to carve properly. None of that sliding down the hill face forward bullcrap. [/quote]
Again, and quoted for significance.
Also, I’d avoid the advanced hills for quite some time. I see very unexperienced people go on them early in the boarding/skiing career and they’re very dangerous.
Also, don’t bother with the bunny hills. Learning curve of the row tow < learning on the intermediate hill.
[quote]Nards wrote:
This is from the Stuff White People Like blog:
If one would like to meet a lot of white people, one of your best bets would be to go on a Snowboarding trip. Snowboarding is the practice of skiing sideways on one ski. White people love snowboarding as opposed to basketball or football because there is a sense that it is an alternative sport outside of the mainstream.
Also too many ethnic people are skiing now. White people enjoy activities that cost a lot of money and require expensive clothes. Even though pro snowboarders make far less than football or basketball players, it is an activity that is exclusive to those who have money. Below are some of the prerequsites for snowboarding
- $500 North Face or Burton Jacket
- $200 Snowpants
- $40 wool socks from Mountain Co-op
- $60 thermal underwear from Mountain Co-op
- Living in an expensive area that is close to mountains ie) Boulder or Vancouver
- $200 Snowboard
- $100 boots
- $20 to pay for your overpriced burger
- ability to act really annoying
[/quote]
That site has hardcore racial overtones. I don’t like it. Yes this sport is expensive. But what sport isn’t when you commit to it?
[quote]Fergy wrote:
You can’t rip through bumps and trees on a snowboard like you can on skis (need I say more? :P.) I’m not sure how often you plan on going or how into it you’re going to get, but skiing is usually easier to learn at first for most people as opposed to snowboarding. However, I would say it is more difficult to get uber good at skiing than it is for snowboarding, simply because it’s much more technical. Personally I ski, so the one thing I’ll say to you if you try to snowboard is please, for fucks sake, don’t scrape all the snow off the slopes when you’re learning ;p. [/quote]
Scrap all the snow off the slopes?? Last time I checked one of the first things a new skier learns is to snow plow. What do snow plows do?
[quote]tmay11 wrote:
Just to add as an example - At Fernie, B.C, easily 20% of the terrain isn’t accessible by snowboard(well technically it is but it would require an hours hike vs 6/7 min traverse/sidestep on skis). This 20% is also probably some of the best terrain the mountain has to offer and also where all the powder is![/quote]
When it comes to deep powder snowboards are better do to the fact that skiers tend to sink while a board stays on top better. An hour vs. 7 mins? really? Are these guy crawling on thier bellies? Skiers do look cool in thier one piece suit 
Snowboarding for sure.
For a dude who’s downhill skii’d, X-country, Telemark and all that stuff. I have to say that snowboarding wins it for me.
There truly isn’t anything cooler than a wide and steep heel edge to toe edge turn, deep enough to drag your hand through the snow. To each his own… I’m not a hippie or a patchoolie wearing dread locked white guy, but when it comes to the going down the hill I respect what everyone else is looking for, be it speed, jumps, bumps, or carving… Doesn’t matter, just get your money’s worth.
[quote]3hitter wrote:
[quote]tmay11 wrote:
Just to add as an example - At Fernie, B.C, easily 20% of the terrain isn’t accessible by snowboard(well technically it is but it would require an hours hike vs 6/7 min traverse/sidestep on skis). This 20% is also probably some of the best terrain the mountain has to offer and also where all the powder is![/quote]
When it comes to deep powder snowboards are better do to the fact that skiers tend to sink while a board stays on top better. An hour vs. 7 mins? really? Are these guy crawling on thier bellies? Skiers do look cool in thier one piece suit :)[/quote]
Yes really, on a long climbing traverse a skier can skate and glide, you can do this quite fast if your a decent skier. Also, when the flats happen to be interrupted by a slight decline you can really pick up speed for the rest of the traverse. On a snowboard you are walking. I’m not exaggerating. You wont find snowboards on a large part of the mountain here because of this. And as far as skiing vs snowboarding in pow. If you are on powder skis than a skier has just as much float as a snowboarder. You probably haven’t really seen many powder boards on the east coast though.
[quote]tmay11 wrote:
[quote]3hitter wrote:
[quote]tmay11 wrote:
Just to add as an example - At Fernie, B.C, easily 20% of the terrain isn’t accessible by snowboard(well technically it is but it would require an hours hike vs 6/7 min traverse/sidestep on skis). This 20% is also probably some of the best terrain the mountain has to offer and also where all the powder is![/quote]
When it comes to deep powder snowboards are better do to the fact that skiers tend to sink while a board stays on top better. An hour vs. 7 mins? really? Are these guy crawling on thier bellies? Skiers do look cool in thier one piece suit :)[/quote]
Yes really, on a long climbing traverse a skier can skate and glide, you can do this quite fast if your a decent skier. Also, when the flats happen to be interrupted by a slight decline you can really pick up speed for the rest of the traverse. On a snowboard you are walking. I’m not exaggerating. You wont find snowboards on a large part of the mountain here because of this. And as far as skiing vs snowboarding in pow. If you are on powder skis than a skier has just as much float as a snowboarder. You probably haven’t really seen many powder boards on the east coast though. [/quote]
Yeah you’re probably right about us east coasters. There isn’t any good powder areas way out here. The other problem is that we don’t have many airports. Traveling sucks. We normally have to walk everywhere.
I’ve been skiing since I could walk and snowboarded for 3 years in between. I respect both aspects of the sport, however, I just need to iterate that skiing is easier for most people to pick up. Your first few days of snowboarding, you’ll be lucky if you stay up for 20 feet.
So if you will only be going a few times, stick with skiing, because a day of skiing can easily be over $100 and you don’t want to pay that much just to have a cold sore ass for the day. If you will really make it your winter sport, try both and do whatever you like best. Personally, I’m a two-planker who likes to carve. Oh, and pack your own lunch.
[quote]tmay11 wrote:
[ You probably haven’t really seen many powder boards on the east coast though. [/quote]
Truth spoken, nothing beats the interior of BC for powder, and the coast for peanut butter.
My daughter and I ski, my sons snowboard and Yo Daddy stays in the lodge oogling women.
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
My daughter and I ski, my sons snowboard and Yo Daddy stays in the lodge oogling women.[/quote]
Yo Daddy sounds like he’s doing it right.
[quote]Gregus wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
This is from the Stuff White People Like blog:
If one would like to meet a lot of white people, one of your best bets would be to go on a Snowboarding trip. Snowboarding is the practice of skiing sideways on one ski. White people love snowboarding as opposed to basketball or football because there is a sense that it is an alternative sport outside of the mainstream.
Also too many ethnic people are skiing now. White people enjoy activities that cost a lot of money and require expensive clothes. Even though pro snowboarders make far less than football or basketball players, it is an activity that is exclusive to those who have money. Below are some of the prerequsites for snowboarding
- $500 North Face or Burton Jacket
- $200 Snowpants
- $40 wool socks from Mountain Co-op
- $60 thermal underwear from Mountain Co-op
- Living in an expensive area that is close to mountains ie) Boulder or Vancouver
- $200 Snowboard
- $100 boots
- $20 to pay for your overpriced burger
- ability to act really annoying
[/quote]
That site has hardcore racial overtones. I don’t like it. Yes this sport is expensive. But what sport isn’t when you commit to it? [/quote]
Doesn’t seem like hardcore racial overtones to me. Snarky truths maybe. The whole skiing snowboarding past-time equates to county clubs in some regards, where the instructors/pro’s are not compensated very well to teach clientele who are spending insane amounts of dough.
However.
I taught myself how to ski and snowboard. I fell more, for sure, but got it down. People who don’t have time or patience or are deathly afraid of hurting themselves are the ones who pay instructors.
As for the itemized costs of gear?
That’s BS
There are tons of inexpensive ways to get your stuff, and once you have it, as long as you don’t fuck it up, it lasts. My brother is feeling the pinch a little because his kids are still growing out of their stuff, but places like Dicks Sporting goods and the like have trade in programs that save dough on the next set of equipment/clothes.
When it comes down to it though, if you love it, you’ll save and pay for it. No matter what color or economic status you are.
ive done both. i skiied when i was younger, and then when i was 14 or so snowboarding became all the rage so i gave it a try and liked it enough. its a different feeling, the difference between skate boarding and roller blading.
falling on a snowboard sucks because you are locked in, you contort in all sorts of strange ways when you fall. my younger sister REALLY messed up her knee snowboarding and was never the same (shes tiny too, so imagine a bigger, meatier guy falling).
it might not hurt for you to take a lesson or 2 so you can get the hang of it and learn how to fall so you dont get hurt.
[quote]3hitter wrote:
[quote]Fergy wrote:
You can’t rip through bumps and trees on a snowboard like you can on skis (need I say more? :P.) I’m not sure how often you plan on going or how into it you’re going to get, but skiing is usually easier to learn at first for most people as opposed to snowboarding. However, I would say it is more difficult to get uber good at skiing than it is for snowboarding, simply because it’s much more technical. Personally I ski, so the one thing I’ll say to you if you try to snowboard is please, for fucks sake, don’t scrape all the snow off the slopes when you’re learning ;p. [/quote]
Scrap all the snow off the slopes?? Last time I checked one of the first things a new skier learns is to snow plow. What do snow plows do?[/quote]
Thing is, you don’t see intermediate and advanced skiers snowplow, ever. But that sliding down the hill facing forward thing that snowboarders do is still common off the bunny slopes.
[quote]Sharp4850 wrote:
[quote]3hitter wrote:
[quote]Fergy wrote:
You can’t rip through bumps and trees on a snowboard like you can on skis (need I say more? :P.) I’m not sure how often you plan on going or how into it you’re going to get, but skiing is usually easier to learn at first for most people as opposed to snowboarding. However, I would say it is more difficult to get uber good at skiing than it is for snowboarding, simply because it’s much more technical. Personally I ski, so the one thing I’ll say to you if you try to snowboard is please, for fucks sake, don’t scrape all the snow off the slopes when you’re learning ;p. [/quote]
Scrap all the snow off the slopes?? Last time I checked one of the first things a new skier learns is to snow plow. What do snow plows do?[/quote]
Thing is, you don’t see intermediate and advanced skiers snowplow, ever. But that sliding down the hill facing forward thing that snowboarders do is still common off the bunny slopes.[/quote]
I never gave it much thought but I would think it’s cause there is more of an edge for skiers to slow down… Two versus one. Poles help as well. Could be wrong. I wasn’t aware that this pissed of skiers. Not that I give a shit.
Boarding on ice is a nightmare.
Boarding is more fun. Also skiers are fucking faggy butt pirates. Seriously, they lick eachothers assholes in the change rooms and in the woods up on the slopes.
Haha I miss the good ole days, school ski club where half of our buddies snowboarded and half were fag skiers. We all rode together but it was basically nonstop chinese downhills, followed by a couple bombing runs for bragging rights and then hit the half pipe or the park up for the rest of the night. See who can pull the best tricks, who goes for a massive air and who bust thier ass the hardest on a fail.
Stick with snowboarding though, don’t be a fag.
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