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Snowboarding.....(wait, isnt this a skiing forum?)

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Steeezy-E
Posts: 237 - Karma: 12
snowboarding,


first let me say this,
ive been a skier all my life. i have never tried a snow board. i used to take great pride in that, especially when tons of people switched.

but ive been thinking, why not do both?
that my first question. does anyone here do both? pros/cons? 

i just think that it looks tight and like  alot of fun, since i love the feeling of surfing/long board shredding.

the other thing is progression. i reached a point in my skiing (claim) that i can pretty much ski anything, exect for park, which im pretty shit at. ]

whats the progression like for snowboarding?


thats about it.

this is a legit question, lets keep the flaming out please.
Jun 14 2010 8:51PM
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Mr_FreshShirt
Posts: 992 - Karma: 41
i do both, i get free shit from snowboarding and at the beginning of this year picked up skiing. i did not think skiing was that hard except for rails and boxes. but basically i can hit almost any size jump up to 50 feet and do like 3's and shit and its super fun
Jun 14 2010 8:52PM
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Fischer-Addicted
Posts: 1064 - Karma: 30
I ski 6 days a week consistently throughout winter and strap on a snowboard 1-2 days a season. It's nowhere near as fun, nowhere near as versataille, nowhere near as addicting. but still fun for a change.

but hey its all an opinion.
Jun 14 2010 8:55PM
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mmallender.
Posts: 5805 - Karma: 936
i do both, i always switch from time to time. its sick because you can hurt something skiing, and then switch, and it might not hurt as much when you snowboard, or vice versa. same goes with getting frustrated, you can be so frustrated with one that you just cant deal with trying, so you switch to the other so you can keep riding.

the downside is that it slows your progression in both, but even more so in the one you do less. basically you wont be as good of a skier if you are skiing and snowboarding, compared if you just skied.
Jun 14 2010 8:56PM
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OGHolliday
Posts: 2390 - Karma: 2,430
Some days I'll have terrible shin bang, its slushy, I cant land shit so I'll ask a friend if I can switch for a few runs. Its pretty cool to do for a few runs. Some nice smooth turns and maybe some ride on boxes and rails with 180's out and translating my afterbang to a snowboard. Its really fun and I see no reason why people shouldnt try it. However, I would never make a full commitment to both sports. Really lowers progression on both and costs soooo much.
Jun 14 2010 8:57PM
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OGHolliday
Posts: 2390 - Karma: 2,430
Wow JINX.
Jun 14 2010 8:58PM
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No_Dub
Posts: 3357 - Karma: 294
I started skiing when I was 2. When i was 8, I switched to snowboarding because it was more Badass.(lol) most of the people I had snowboarded with stoped and never started again. I was a pretty darn good snowboarder. I could 3 and almost 5 and i had won some rather competive races. Keep in mind that this was when i was young and when it wasnt a huckfest. When I saw my first pair of twin tippers on mariob, I started skiing again. I did both from about 11 to twelve. I started strictly skiing again when I only had one snowboarder friend left. I bought myself some skis and started skiing again and got decent. I like the fact that now I can pick up a snowboard and ride it and now that I'm less pussy I try things like inverts on them in the pow and in the park. Overall, learning to snowboard was a good thing. I sugest you have that skill. I cannot say that I like the direction that snowboarding has turned recently but now and then I enjoy a good board sesh with my friends to keep it hyphy and fresh.
Jun 14 2010 9:15PM
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Ducky.
Posts: 5811 - Karma: 1,420
I do both. No you shouldn't get much hate here for that.
Jun 14 2010 9:20PM
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.cam.
Posts: 1852 - Karma: 48
i am mainly a skier and my ability is about equal to yours from what you said.every now and again i find it fun to switch and take a day or two of from skiing. its just a change in pace. its always fun to mix stuff up a little right?
Jun 14 2010 9:24PM
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.frenchy
Posts: 18231 - Karma: 12,390
i snowboard, and thats all ive done since i was like 8. i just started progressing really this past season, its soo fun. skiing looks alot easier, in my opinion..
Jun 14 2010 9:28PM
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majora
Posts: 860 - Karma: 157
this thread is surprising me that there are many snowboarders on this site too. i did not know this
Jun 14 2010 9:33PM
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nern
Posts: 171 - Karma: 61
I have been a skiier since I was 3, switched to snowboarding for about 3 years when I was 12, and this past season I switched back to skiing because it looks a lot more stylish in my opinion. I think that snowboarding was very fun, and it felt a lot smoother to me. I enjoyed it for the few years i did it and did not get too much into park. Now i'm back to a full time skiier, skiing everything (park, back country, all that...) mainly because I have a group of friends that ski. I say you should try it and see if you like it, but I definitely enjoy skiing more.
Jun 14 2010 9:57PM
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MNBlake
Posts: 658 - Karma: 34
i snowboarded for 7 years, just started skiing 3 years ago. i still do both from time to time, but i love skiing way better. that being said, theres nothing like making fat powder turns on a board. i know ill get hate for this but a board in powder is so much more fun than skis. park though, forget about it. skis are way better
Jun 14 2010 10:53PM
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Kogu
Posts: 377 - Karma: 64
I've done both for a couple seasons, skied first, love it so much more personally. Its just more fun I enjoy the feelings and movements more, so I pretty well have abandoned snowboarding since.
Might pick it up later in life. Idk
Jun 14 2010 11:12PM
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Kangbang
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im surprised to see skier that snowboard as well.
Jun 14 2010 11:21PM
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wintersway
Posts: 5115 - Karma: 128
i would like to be able to do boxes and maybe 180s. i switched with a friend for a few runs this season and was just starting to get toe side turns when we switched back.

i thought it was going to be easy because i skateboard and like to carve, but having your feet strapped in is really frustrating on the snow.
Jun 15 2010 12:47AM
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2L208
Posts: 1075 - Karma: 308
i just switched from a boarding for 6 years, boards are sweet in really tight trees, they are both sick, i am more hooked on skiing than i ever was with a board though, its not to bad of a thing to be good at both i fell very confident on both, sliding on snow is the greatest feeling ever
Jun 15 2010 1:13AM
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debrickshaw
Posts: 1957 - Karma: 68
first time ive seen inx on the internet...
Jun 15 2010 1:16AM
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mmallender.
Posts: 5805 - Karma: 936
sweet jesus..... what the fuck just happened? wait....




niiicccceeeee

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Jun 15 2010 1:50AM
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chickenwang
Posts: 5639 - Karma: 40
i like to snowboard
Jun 15 2010 1:59AM
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DockEllis
Posts: 1131 - Karma: 1,745
i mostly snowboard, but skiing is super fun, can't go wrong either way
Jun 15 2010 8:59AM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
Posts: 9097 - Karma: 777
I've been skiing for about 15 years. Picked up a snowboard last season and have been goofing off with it in the backyard and such. i think I might get a nicer one to take on the mountain next year. it's fun, I wouldn't call it as versatile as skiing but it's fun that's for sure. I just try to stick my nose in as many hobbies and sports as possible, my shed looks like a sporting goods store exploded or something.
Jun 15 2010 10:09AM
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pomme-de-terre
Posts: 3915 - Karma: 703
i snowboard every day, i switch once in a great while with my friend. skiing is fun, i like to do daffys.
Jun 15 2010 11:50AM
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SirFryanator
Posts: 11149 - Karma: 1,416
I love snowboarding, I'm not very good at it but I did it for about a half season when I was 14 after I quit racing. I need to get myself a setup, it's a lot of fun but simply put I'm a lot better at skiing and I'm not going to compromise myself now. I like boarding pretty much just on groomer days, for pow or park I'll stick with my sticks.
Jun 15 2010 11:57AM
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Keith_M
Posts: 795 - Karma: 771
I switched from Snowboard to Skiing, and its still fun to board around a bit to change it up. I think its good to have both, I love both.
Jun 15 2010 12:05PM
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dan4060
Posts: 1458 - Karma: 847
This is a pretty bold statement.  Unless you are destroying lines like Sage and Seth and JT Holmes you cannot ski anything.

Where do you live?  I bet it is somewhere flat with nothing steep.  If you lived at a place like Squaw or Jackson you would definitely find things that you cannot ski, and probably will never ski.

There is an area of Squaw called McConkey's.  It used to be called eagles not.  It is a slab of rock on top of KT 22.  When it is filled in, you have to make turns down a 65 degree face to a 30 foot cliff with trees in the outrun.  Until you ski something like that you certainly cannot ski anything.

You are either a Shane McConkey type skier, or live at a shitty mountain.
Jun 15 2010 12:49PM
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dan4060
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Oh, one more thing:  The degree steepness of McConkey's can be confirmed in Squallywood.  So please, let us not have any newschoolers einstein's telling me 'I doubt it is 65 degrees' or anything like that.  If you don't believe me, talk to the Gaffney's, and Shane McConkey(rip) about that.
Jun 15 2010 12:52PM
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P_Steezy
Posts: 323 - Karma: 11
I used to do both. It was kinda nice because I could choose what I wanted to do depending on what mood I was in. However, I started to notice myself loving skiing more and more, especially in the park. So I decided to give up snowboarding because, like someone else already said, it slows your progression horribly if you try to do both. In all honesty, there is not a thing I miss about snowboarding. I love every aspect of skiing much more, especially when it comes to park.
Jun 15 2010 12:59PM
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Zent33zy
Posts: 1546 - Karma: 389
I do both I stoped cuz I stopes progressing after landing some sketchy 7s. for a whole year i didn't learn annynew tricks and I wasn't as stoked on it as I was on skiing soo I switched over and this was my first year skiing and I love it I will board sometimes as a joke during the seasonlol
Jun 15 2010 1:02PM
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mmallender.
Posts: 5805 - Karma: 936
i would go out on a limb and say he didnt mean to come off as being able to ski ANYTHING, but that he meant he can ski everything he wants, as in he has reached a point in his progression that he does not feel he has to or can, progress any further.

then again i could be completely wrong and he could be some cocky little fuck who thinks hes the shit haha
Jun 15 2010 1:03PM
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Scott0_robot0
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i started skiing this year from snowboarding and can do both pretty good i like boarding on pow and in trees than park for skis i know i am crazy.
Jun 15 2010 1:16PM
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Crispy.
Posts: 6117 - Karma: 7,714
Before this year I had snowboarded for 7 years, this year i decided to change. I also had reached the Going to skiing was easily the best choice I had ever made in my life. Skiing was easy to learn, but snowboarding took me 2 years to learn how to carve. This is an opinion but when you do tricks on skis, they look a lot cooler. Personally, I would stick to skiing, but since you reached the best you could get it's all preference.
Jun 15 2010 1:22PM
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nickyp
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If I'm having a bad day, I'll switch to a snowboard, or some skiblades, but it's solely to mess around on, I'm really not concerned about progressing or my trick bag on a snowboard. It's nice to so something different every once in a while.

Also, if there's no/few features out, skiblades are fun just to fuck around on.
Jun 15 2010 1:24PM
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J.DUKE
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i do both. i actually started out snowboarding LONG before i ever skied. but i had to take a required ski instruction class my freshman yr, and was like' dang, this is fun". i bought a setup a couple months later and now only ride about two weeks a season total; and have progressed past the level i was at with snowboarding 10 fold ( as a complete skier). Im still pretty god in the park on a snowboard, but i would never be able to ride some of the terrain i can ski.

i think snowboarding is super fun on piste, but on a pow day or out of bounds, skiing ftw. skiing is way more utilitarian and versatile IMO
Jun 15 2010 2:00PM
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shocker611
Posts: 2599 - Karma: 423
it sounds like what you are really looking for is room for progression.. so why dont you make it into the park more? theres infinite progression in the park and even though youve got the slopes "mastered" you will never have a lack of stuff to move onto in the park. If all that youre looking for is room to continue learning new things then I would say you should take your skiing skills to the park and try progression there
Jun 15 2010 2:10PM
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whegrodamus.
Posts: 933 - Karma: 12
what do snowboarders and skiiers have in common?
they can both snowboard haha

I started snowboarding because my dad told me that it was cooler, eh not really. My dad was still skiing because he said he sucked at snowboarding, he found some twin tips, got em then i started looking at park rats, i was like... snowboarding = cool? no, park skiing. I'll only snowboard if i go somewhere i know where my skis will get really fucked up if i ride em
Jun 15 2010 2:25PM
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Alex_G
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quick NS critique: why do people take virtually meaningless topics like "should i try snowboarding?" and make it into an overanalyzed internet rant? do whatever the fuck you want dude, try snowboarding if you think it looks fun.
Jun 15 2010 2:46PM
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mmallender.
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well he did ask some specific questions, so generally people answer them when they are asked, as stupid or meaningless as they may seem. we're just trying to provide help for the questions he asked?
Jun 15 2010 3:28PM
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Steeezy-E
Posts: 237 - Karma: 12
i live in seattle washington. i ski crystal and Silver Star (in BC) regualarly, and occasionally venture to othert mountains. Obviously im not a fucking shane mcConkey skier. I dont have fucking free helicopter rides to the top of huge alaskan spines. what i mean is that at both of these mounatins, i can ski everything that there is.

what does this mean?

it means that i am able to ski it, to look semi-put togather, and to not get fucked up on the way down. yes, there are some lines that make my heart pump, but the availiblity and accessibility, especially with recent years conditions, makes them virtually unskiable.

whether or not you think crystal and silver star are shitty mountains i cant say. but i personally think there both pretty solid when it comes to terrain.


one more point. i ski, about once a season, a "hard" mounatin. IE revelstoke, kicking horse, ect. yes there are things that i am too pussy to ski. but i skied revelstoke BC and those ridges at kicking horse.


last point. im not trying to sound cocky. im no where close to being as good as the pros you mentioned. but im pretty solid, what gapers would call an "expert skier"   no, i dont stomp huge airs, but yes i ski, and fairly well, almost everything at both of my home mountatins.


Jun 15 2010 5:18PM
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Steeezy-E
Posts: 237 - Karma: 12
oh hey internet bro,

idk because i had a question to ask some other people who ski, and i to me its not virtually meaningless. 

what do you think is "meaningfull" stuff to be posted under a forum called "ski gabber"?

seriously, what the fuck do you think threads should be?

starting snowbaording is a bit of an investment, and so i wanted to do some resaerch on it before i spent money on it.


Jun 15 2010 5:22PM
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Dukeybrains
Posts: 1030 - Karma: 11
Snowboarding is super fun i tried it a few times this season
Jun 15 2010 5:31PM
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Zoro
Posts: 1253 - Karma: 37

snowboarding was pretty easy for me to pick up.  i think i only used mine for about 3 runs this year though.  i was bustin 180's and indy's like nothing /claim

with snowboarding you can hit alot of little natural features you wouldnt normally be able to hit on skis.  and vise versa

Jun 15 2010 6:19PM
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funkmaster
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i boarded for about 5 or 6 years and put skis on for the first time this year... I picked it up really fast i find it a lot more fun and way more versatile. Its cool to strap on the board sometimes and ride a bit for a break but i rarely touch it anymore except for teaching lessons
Jun 15 2010 6:21PM
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leahey
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I have been skiing since I was 3, I stopped at 7 to switch, worst decision ever, came back to it at 11, and I fell in love again. When I snowboarded I was always the kid holding everything up for my friends, and if it isn't a perfect groomed steep slope you are like barely getting any speed and you just get in the way. Skiing FTW.
Jun 15 2010 6:29PM
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Randy_Quench
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i mean this with no hate to snowboarding..

Ive skied all my life. my dad put me on skis pretty much the same day i learned to walk (exagerated)
in 7th and 8th grade when it was the "cool" thing to do i switched to boarding. i immidiately thought it was way too easy. I started off first day hitting average sized park jumps and rails.

sparknotes: it was too easy. switched back to skiing. have no problem with either sport.
Jun 15 2010 6:52PM
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Bryan*
Posts: 1818 - Karma: 115
i have been snowboarding for about 4 years now and i love it.

nothing against snowboarding but i honestly would rather watch skiing videos and follow skiers... they are way more interesting and seem to be a lot more relaxed.. watching skiing videos it is just soooo much more technical and i like that also there are not any sites like this for snowboarding but i do love the NS community!
Jun 15 2010 7:02PM
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