Replying to girls and snowboarders

I was talking about skiing in school the other day and this girl who's pretty hot said 'guys who snowboard are hot.' I don't really understand this. I kind of think that 90 percent of snowboarders buy a nice board, jacket/plaid pants, and goggles and then only do 180s, grabs, and 50-50s or less in the park just so they can say 'Yeah, I snowboard.' A lot of people just automatically assume you hit up the park a lot if you snowboard because of its park roots, when, at least where I live, half the snowboarders don't even go in the park, and most of those that do just sit on their asses and never do anything. Why is it so cool?
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