Why snowboarding is better than skiing

Simply click the "Confirm My Email" link in that email to confirm your email address. Reason 1: Snowboarders Can Walk Like Human Beings If you had a foot race between skiers and snowboarders it would be extremely unfair — and if you turned it into a stair race it would be even more unfair. Reason 3: Snowboard Gear is Cheaper I had never looked into the cost of ski gear until recently; I had no need to.

Yes, snowboarders take more tumbles — but even those tumbles typically look cool! What Do You Think? Learn the 7 Easy Steps to Better Snowboarding. Comments I am just happy I was able to come across this page. Hey Haris Thanks for your input. Woh Anthony calm down! This was totally tongue in cheek. Hi Mike Thanks for your message. How to convert a middle aged skier to snowboarding?

That sounds like a challenge. Hey Kyle Thanks for visiting. Always good to meet someone who has done both and prefers snowboarding!

And I often ride with skiers and it still just has no appeal for me just watching them. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.

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Happy riding, Nate from Snowboarding Profiles. All of these mean wipe out on the side of a mountain, no matter how skilled you are. Now, you bail on skis. Your knees are twisted, your ankles hurt, and your skis have popped you out of your bindings and have sent you flying.

On a board, you bail, you get up, brush yourself off and continue to rip. You can get yourself out of the bottom of the landing of the kicker and not hurt someone else while chasing your pole. Powder is awesome until you get it in the bindings of your skis.

Sometimes you get to just get off the lift and ski away, which makes it easier to run laps. This is quantifiably true. Snowboard gear is way easier to carry than ski gear. You can walk in your boots. Put your pack on and carry your board. You can even string your board through a normal pack. Have you seen skiers trying to get from their car to the chalet? Or over the same shoulder, but they have to get their pack on first. On skis, you get the choice: go fast or tricks.

One for the trick park, one for the mountain. A snowboard is way more versatile. Any snowboard can be used for tricks. You want to do that blue run with your parents? Go for it. You and your friends want to hit the trick park the next run? There are lots of different types of ski lifts - Chair lifts, cable cars, bubble lifts, drag lifts, the magic carpet to name the more common ones.

For some types there's no difference at all. The two where there is a difference though are chairlifts and drag-lifts. Chair lifts are much easier on skis. You can just ski to the line and it scoops you up, before skiing off again at the top. On a snowboard, it's a different story. Getting on is easy enough, it's getting off that's the challenge! You have you take your back foot out of the binding use a chairlift and drag-lift too for that matter.

Snowboarding with only the front foot in it's binding is a very difficult skill. Then you have drag lifts, the snowboarder's nemesis. Button lifts and T-bar lifts the main types of drag lifts were not really designed with snowboarding in mind, and a drag lift with a vicious pull at the start can be hugely difficult on a snowboard.

Indeed, I've been at the bottom of valleys with quite competent snowboarders who have taken four or five goes to manage the takeoff from a particularly difficult button lift! To use a chairlift or drag lift, a snowboarder has to take their back foot out of it's binding and just place it on the board. With only the front foot clipped in, a snowboarder has a much reduced ability to steer. Without the full ability to steer the lumps and bumps on the snow can often knock you in the wrong direction, push you into other people, or even knock you over.

Snowboarding is a lot easier. For some people going off piste is the holy grail of snow sports holidays. People generally tend to be pretty good on piste before venturing off into the powdery wonderland. On skis, that transition can be a bit of a shock. If feels like a completely different sport.

All the technique you've been working on for ages on piste, well, none of it seems to work at all in powder snow. It's like going back to be being a beginner, except every time you fall over it takes 5 minutes of digging to get your skis out then wrestle them back on to your boots.

On a snowboard the technique is far more similar to that of on-piste snowboarding, and most people find the transition much quicker and easier to learn. It's enjoyable almost from the first run, whereas off-piste skiing can be a bit of an investment before you get to the enjoyable stage. Snowboarding wins again here. These are compressed snow, flat and firm. Think of a road covered in snow after a whole load of vehicles have driven up and down and squished the snow flat.

Off piste means skiing through the untouched snow. The technique required is different to skiing or snowboarding on piste. Disclaimer alert: Off piste on skis or a snowboard is dangerous and you should only go with a qualified mountain guide! Even that little bit of powdery snow not too far off the edge of the piste can avalanche. In the French Alps, where I spend a lot of my mountain time, skiing is far more popular.

In other parts of the world you'll see more snowboarders, North America notably, but I've not been anywhere where snowboarding has reached parity with skiing in terms of popularity. For the fashion conscious amongst you there, really is no huge bias these days. An outsider's view might think that snowboarding is the "cooler" option.

But to be honest that applied to the late s, and the added cool factor of snowboarding is something that kind of been and gone. Once you have mastered snowboarding there area endless board sports to enjoy. Are you a skier? Then read our 10 reasons why skiing is better than snowboarding. Click here to look at all our skier and snowboarder friendly holidays. I snowboard and ski, so i understand them. We are loud. Cut you off. Talk shit about skiers. Most have now ideal how fun skiing really is.

Slow down lines trying to strap out. Boards take up more space on the chair lift hanging sideways scratching our skis. Like to stop and plow snow everywhere. Have a slow learning curve, so skiers have to dodge them all day long. Snowball fights while riding. I snowboard and ski, so i can see it both ways. However, i think that there are so many more reasons why snowboarding is better then skiing. And some of those reasons that skiers hate snowboarders are also reasons that snowboarders hate skiers.

I skied for a few years in my teens until I met my first college girlfriend who was a snowboarder and she introduced me to snowboarding at a small icy hill in upstate NY. I have been snowboarding the 21 yrs since. The way I see it is this — There are far-more long-term mediocre to shitty skiers on the hill than there are snowboarders.