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Skateboarding to skiing crossover

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slimbruddah
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  would skating help develop your style for skiing in the winter? I think it's gunna have a huge impact on my skiing this year. my skatings progressed a lot this summer for the first time in years.  i think skating can change the way you look at skiing in the park, how you put lines together, ur flow kinda thing. any similar situations or thoughts out there?
Oct 30 2007 8:03AM
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user098123
Posts: 6072 - Karma: 18
I just picked up skateboarding this summer too, still not very good at it. I think it will really help improve my balance though, as for other aspects I'm not so sure.
Oct 30 2007 8:11AM
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rudeboy_87
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rollerblading feels almost identical to skiing... i practice my style all summer and it makes me a much more stylish rider if i do say so myself...

helps alot with rails too...

it even taught me to be able to look over either shoulder going switch...

just saying...

buy some skates...
Oct 30 2007 9:04AM
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Capurnicus
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Yeah, on rails it will definitely help you a lot!
Oct 30 2007 9:14AM
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ski_cartel
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I dont really know how much it helps my skiing, but it gives me something to do in the summer months
Oct 30 2007 10:03AM
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slimbruddah
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i mean like ive been skating for about 7 or 8 years now. The last 2 years i skated lots, just i never really learnt any new stuff, i kinda hit a plateau for learning.
but this year ive improved so much, doing individual shit, thinking of new stuff to do at my park no ones dones before. i have a style when i skate now. My creative mindset has been completely renewed to something different for skating. The way I look at certain tricks, or objects im tricking on. And i've gotten 400% better this summer, which is weird cause i havent really improved a huge amount in the past couple of years.
i wonder how much of an effect this will have in the park when im on my skis this season
Oct 30 2007 12:01PM
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Ryno
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Every outside thing you do impacts your skiing and your style. Soccer, skateboarding, baseball, work, etc. These are all experiences that shape your style, and you will adapt that style to whatever you do, skiing included.

So yes, skating will have an influence on your skiing this winter.
Oct 30 2007 12:11PM
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SGLogi
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longboarding makes my skiing either super chill and laid back or really intense depending on where i am on mellower stuff and park i kinda relate my skiing of the chill side of longboarding, its all about having flow
Oct 30 2007 12:28PM
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cousinmark
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there are so many similarities between sking and skateboarding.  more so than i think blading even tho position wise its identical.  think about it.  to turn a 360 on skis is way harder than on a board the same way basic tricks on a skateboard are ten time more difficult than basic blading tricks.  and also there are way more hot girls who blade than skate in the same way there are way more hunies who board than ski.  for me skatng  definatly helps. 
Oct 30 2007 12:33PM
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Aenigma
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Anything you do outside of skiing will give you a new perspective on how to look at things when you do get on the snow.  Skateboarding would definitely help with park skiing, and I'm sure it'll even make you see new things on the mountain too.  I mountain bike in the summer, and I know my skiing is affected by it just as my biking feeds off skiing.

Oct 30 2007 12:39PM
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Neffer
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...really?  I was pretty sure its the other way around.
Oct 30 2007 12:43PM
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doitbig
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GL you been skating around the EL at all?  We have a crew of very medicore skaters that sesh all the time.
Oct 30 2007 1:20PM
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user098123
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Ya a little bit, i'm still pretty bad tho haha I just started skating when I came up to school this year. My roomie BMX's alot tho, he's really sick.
Oct 30 2007 1:56PM
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Holte
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You know, I've never really thought about it, but there's some great truth behind that statement.
Oct 30 2007 2:10PM
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zackblain
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stop skateboarding. Start freestyle rolling.   
Oct 30 2007 5:29PM
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Edward.
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i think it would depend on how you skateboard. i dont skate, but in a lot of videos that i watch of my friends who arent very good but are decent at skating, they always have their hands up in the air and constantly flail, making them look pretty goofy.
Oct 30 2007 5:37PM
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DynastarriderGP
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i find that practicing kickflips really helps me negotiate my way in thick trees
Oct 30 2007 5:41PM
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Avifarer
Posts: 5926 - Karma: 598
Maybe the rails part. My friend has been skating forever and he started skiing last year and he slays rails. Maybe because he's used to that metal or something. He said he's to scared to ski switch and hit jumps but he eats shit everyday skateboarding. His arms are always scabbed
Oct 30 2007 5:52PM
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peterriley2
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i started skiing with a long history of skateboarding, i think it really helped me with balance, also a lot more. it also helped me with snowboarding, and generally everything else to do with balance....
Oct 30 2007 6:00PM
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Ryno
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Thanks
Oct 30 2007 6:01PM
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skiP.E.I.
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I'd say good for balance and makes you fell at home in a park. plus it would hone your reflexes and you use alot of the same kind of movements for skiing park
Oct 31 2007 12:29PM
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psychkub
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I've always found this funny about people who try to compare the logistics of skateboarding with skiing. I just don't see it... aside from the fact that you skate in the same position you'd jib on. Other than that, rollerblading seems to be the most commesurate summer alternative. Anyway, as the guy above stated, any time of physical sport will enhance one's skiing ability due to physical training but in terms of cross training, I still vouch for rollerblading over skateboarding. Just my .02.
Oct 31 2007 3:34PM
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Me.
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Sure, but skating is way more based on balance, just like skiing than those other sports. Skating will help you much more than soccer, for example.
Oct 31 2007 3:40PM
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spwrozek
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What world do you live in?  Skiing 360 is so much easier then a snowboard 360...
Oct 31 2007 6:45PM
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strongmark
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skateboarding is better than skiing anyway
Oct 31 2007 6:46PM
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mohawkskier
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you^ dont ski!


666 on halloween
Oct 31 2007 6:51PM
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mike_stack_rules
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OMG 666 ON HALLOWEEEN NUMBER 1 NUMBER 1! dude you're killing it this season. sk8 er die broo.
Oct 31 2007 6:58PM
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cousinmark
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i don't know bro i guess its subjective. but all the kids at my mountain who rip on both board and skis  agree. i think a ski 3 takes more commitment.
Oct 31 2007 7:49PM
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lochsucks
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skateboarding is funnn. its a lot harder to do anything than in skiing and i think it really helps with balance. i find a lot of it has the same vibe to it
Oct 31 2007 8:02PM
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paone
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look at kye peterson and sean petit they can do it so you probebly could
Oct 31 2007 8:05PM
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cousinmark
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also i was bombing steeps on a snowboard the afternoon i picked  up a board that took me several season to work up to on skis.  i also skate a tremendous amount when the ground is dry and learned to ski on these (exact size)

http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/Ski-alpin-DYNASTAR-4x4-vertical-fix-TITANIUM-190cm_W0QQitemZ110172310811QQihZ001QQcategoryZ104629QQcmdZViewItem
Oct 31 2007 8:06PM
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spwrozek
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Everyone I know feels the other way. 

Based purely on physics it is harder to do snowboarding.  Based on personal experience it is harder to do snowboarding.  I guess that is subjective but I would still say that it is harder on a snowboard.  Committing to a FS 3 is hard to do on a snowboard.  It really doesn't matter I guess, never heard someone say spinning skis was harder then a board before though.
Oct 31 2007 11:13PM
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Ryno
Posts: 31125 - Karma: 336
You misunderstand the point of my statement then.

Everything you do contributes to everything else you do. Skating will help your skiing in one particular manner (balance per say) while soccer helps your skiing in another way (cardio and leg strength).
Nov 1 2007 5:22PM
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vzdz
Posts: 782 - Karma: 87
surfing helps my skiing a lot.. it really helps gain control over your core and center of balance and knowing where that pivot point is
Nov 1 2007 5:43PM
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Switchin_Dirty
Posts: 2012 - Karma: 107

Ryno is dead on.

any sport be it skate, bmx, surf, longboard, and even soccer contributes to your ability and style.

the way you throw tricks, visualize, your timing(specially with rollers, bmx is good for that, I used to do it alot when I was younger), balance etc. all of those sports are good, keeps you active too.

skating will definetly help your style, and overall skiing ability, keep it up and you will see improvements in both.

Nov 1 2007 7:42PM
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