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Did you ski or board first?

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SquattingDog
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For all the NSers who snowboard, did you learn how to ski or board first?
May 23 2014 12:59PM
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milk_man
Posts: 5252 - Karma: 5,983
Ski

I didn't even try boarding until I was like 13
Jun 2 2014 4:33PM
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Mingg
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Ski. However I learned how to do some park things on my snowboard before my skis
Jun 6 2014 5:48PM
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ModMommy
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(reversing this buuut) I learned to snowboard before I started skiing. I boarded for 7 years, and only fo it about 8 times a season now.
Jun 8 2014 4:34AM
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theabortionator
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Skied

Had some plastic skis I got for christmas when I was real little. Started on real skis at a mountian when I was 6. Got a plastic board around 8. Tore up the backyard mini park. Hit my little rail. Then got a real board at 10 and stopped skiing after a couple years. Just started skiing again this winter over decade later.
Jun 12 2014 4:44PM
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shred-sesh
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Skied till I was 12 and Im since I started snowboarding Im not switching back.
Jun 16 2014 4:58PM
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Mingg
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shred-seshSkied till I was 12 and Im since I started snowboarding Im not switching back.


But we are gonna make an edit of you skiing and me snowboarding....(:
Jun 16 2014 5:04PM
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shred-sesh
Posts: 64 - Karma: 210
Yes! Ill throw down on your skis hahah
Jun 16 2014 5:13PM
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Mingg
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shred-seshYes! Ill throw down on your skis hahah


There's so much I need to teach you(: hehehe
Jun 16 2014 5:19PM
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milk_man
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shred-seshSkied till I was 12 and Im since I started snowboarding Im not switching back.


MinggBut we are gonna make an edit of you skiing and me snowboarding....(:


What? What is this?

inb4 they're both one person, and that one person is just talking to himself or herself
Jun 16 2014 6:32PM
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Mingg
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milk_manWhat? What is this?

inb4 they're both one person, and that one person is just talking to himself or herself


hahaha damn you caught me.

But in all seriousness, we're just best friends and we're lame hahah
Jun 16 2014 6:54PM
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milk_man
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Mingghahaha damn you caught me.

But in all seriousness, we're just best friends and we're lame hahah


Pics, or shred-sesh is just an alias
Jun 16 2014 10:13PM
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Mingg
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Her insta is shred_sesh mines mingdinger. There's a bunch of pics of us together haha
Jun 16 2014 10:51PM
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shred-sesh
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milk_manPics, or shred-sesh is just an alias


I swear I'm not mingg
Jun 17 2014 10:50PM
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milk_man
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shred-seshI swear I'm not mingg


Hmmm...that's something mingg would say


tits or gtfo
Jun 20 2014 11:25AM
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SquattingDog
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milk_mantits or gtfo


Tits from both or gtfo.
Jun 20 2014 2:33PM
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shred-sesh
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Gn4rwh4lerTits from both or gtfo.


I guess I better gtfo then
Jun 24 2014 7:28PM
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icydope
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whereupon more difficult to do tricks? I have read that learning to ski harder tricks this so? If yes then do not see the point in skiing, since I did not set up for the long term
Also interested in skiing, but thought Is it worth? I read that difficult learning normally ride and do tricks, if I'm on the board for 4 years really is not even learned to ride, the skiing will be even worse? I just thought that ski somehow easier ... but everywhere I read that ski harder, hmm. Direct jumps I did on cross-country skiing), but on the board only recently started.
But the main criterion of choice - it is complexity of learning tricks, for example, even a simple rotation, if the ski harder see no point in them.
Jun 28 2014 2:55AM
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SquattingDog
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Aeeehwhereupon more difficult to do tricks? I have read that learning to ski harder tricks this so? If yes then do not see the point in skiing, since I did not set up for the long term
Also interested in skiing, but thought Is it worth? I read that difficult learning normally ride and do tricks, if I'm on the board for 4 years really is not even learned to ride, the skiing will be even worse? I just thought that ski somehow easier ... but everywhere I read that ski harder, hmm. Direct jumps I did on cross-country skiing), but on the board only recently started.
But the main criterion of choice - it is complexity of learning tricks, for example, even a simple rotation, if the ski harder see no point in them.


What.
Jun 30 2014 7:08PM
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icydope
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nothing D
Jul 1 2014 12:54AM
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connecticunt
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I was in those stupid kiddie ski camps since I was two. Picked up a snowboard last winter and I'm hooked. So much easier to hit park on a board. I think I only picked up my skis three times last winter and all of those were to teach classes.
Oct 15 2014 3:06PM
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.frenchy
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Switched to skiing junior year of HS I think.


both are rad sports, skiing park was easier to learn though.
Oct 29 2014 2:16AM
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milk_man
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shred-seshI guess I better gtfo then


Now I feel bad.. Its almost as if she took me seriously.. come back I'm sorry :'(
Nov 13 2014 4:28PM
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Young_patty
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Skied a few years but then i went and tried snowboarding for 2 years ultimitly decided i liked skiing better so i went back to it and then started skiing park last year.
Dec 28 2014 12:50AM
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TaterTots
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I used to snowboard but switched this year and I'm so happy I did :) I liked snowboarding but it honestly didn't give me the feeling skiing does if that makes sense haha.
Jan 23 2015 1:08PM
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Huck-e-Cheese
Posts: 303 - Karma: 417
I snowboarded first, but after awhile i realized that snowboarding is kind of gay, so i joined newschoolers and bought skis
Feb 20 2015 11:14PM
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Katehill
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skiing is easier. Learning to board can be quite painful but by the end of the day you may get progress. While skiing is easier to learn, you'll get the hang of it by the end of the day.
May 20 2015 2:52PM
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qyleberry
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I boarded first for 4 years and then tried skiing one day and became addicted
Sep 29 2015 6:58PM
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mhuddy_22
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Snowboarded first then I tried skiing. Loved it, sold my snowboards and now ski.
Oct 7 2015 2:03PM
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Jaybrtn
Posts: 375 - Karma: 643
I lived in the midwest until I was about 12, at which point I moved to Washington. In the midwest I did a bit of cross country skiing, and eventually got a snowboard for the small hills in the area. Since moving to Washington I snowboarded until about 19. Decided I wanted to try skiing again and bought some twin tip park skis. Snowboarded and skied for years after that, but now I'm mostly a skier. Once in a blue moon I'll hop on my board and rip around though.
Oct 11 2015 1:11AM
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AWOLASIAN
Posts: 92 - Karma: 163
first ski then tried snowboarding and got tired of sitting on my butt all day so i went back!
Oct 28 2015 5:21PM
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bait
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my buddy was going to go from snowboarding to freeskiing, but i convinved him not to.


you dont see freeskiers going to snowboarding
Dec 23 2015 3:30PM
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c0ntentcreat0r
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Skied for 4 years until I was 8... Turned to the dark side at that age. It was all thanks to a movie I bought from a board store while shopping for a helmet. The movie was called Positron (still my favorite shred movie ever). I begged my parents to snowboard after seeing the tricks those guys did, and it still inspires my style a bit today. They said "not until you're 8 son" and I never looked forward to something so much. When I was 8 I started lessons at a ski hill owned by The City of Toronto called Centennial Park Ski Hill. I was always at the top of my class (thanks to skateboarding) and I was doing boardslides on boxes on my 8th day. I was sooo hyped to be snowboarding, mainly because the ski boots my dad bought me were uncomfortable and at the time I also did not know that freestyle skiing even existed, which brings me to my rebirth as a skier at age 12 after 4 years of boarding. Basically, my dad said "hey you should try skiing again", and I said " but you can't do tricks like rails and spins on skis" (I don't know how I never noticed a freeskier while riding the parks at MSLM, I must have been blind, or just too focused on riding.), and then my dad said "but you can do tricks on skis" so I said "ok I'll try it", and so my dad bought me a pair of afterbangs. After 2.5 seasons of dividing my season between skiing and boarding, I settled on skiing, simply because I found I progressed faster due to feeling more comfortable on skis.

"And that, little Timmy, is the story of how grandpa destroyed his knees."
Jan 18 2016 9:09PM
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Klaus
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TaterTotsI used to snowboard but switched this year and I'm so happy I did :) I liked snowboarding but it honestly didn't give me the feeling skiing does if that makes sense haha.


Greater orgasm from skiing is what you mean
Feb 12 2016 1:34PM
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coreysloan
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Never skied in my life
Nov 18 2016 9:30AM
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snowcrunch
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Snowboarding hadn't really exploded when I started going skiing with my family at like age 6... By the time I was 13 it was the cool thing to do so I gave it a try, and that was 21 years ago.
Jan 11 2017 12:36PM
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