Is learning to skateboard the same difficulty as learning freestyle skiing?

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How long was it before you could Ollie off things or across trannies?

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one of the bigger difficulties with skating is how easy it is to pick it up for 20 mins then quit just as fast. At least with skiing your typically forcing yourself to go for 4-5 hours at least. A lot of skating is repetition, if you can force yourself to do it a lot you'll probably pick it up pretty fast.

Also keep in mind when most people learn park skiing they've probably been on skis for a few seasons if not longer. Think about how long it took to be comfortable with trail skiing and remember you'll also have the same process getting comfortable on a skateboard (don't sleep on learning to ride switch/fakie, especially if you want to ride vert/ramps)

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Is a good way to learn switch pushing mongo so it’s the same pushing leg? Or should I go for different pushing leg too?

Aug 22 2020 12:24PM

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I blade but I'm pretty sure having the board not attached to your feet makes it significantly harder to do tricks than in skiing or snowboarding

Aug 22 2020 1:43PM

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pizzaman69How long was it before you could Ollie off things or across trannies?

Assuming ur replying to me it took me about 2 years of skating before i could ollie 3 stairs and do tricks on kinda bigger quarters (4-5 feet)

Aug 22 2020 2:32PM

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pizzaman69i just started skateboarding and it brings the same ambition I get in the park to get tricks on features. But when I see a rail in the skatepark and imagine myself trying to lip on to boardslide, I realize how intricate every move is on the board and how much progress I’ll have to make before I can get on a rail. I was fortunate to learn skiing young. So I don’t remember how hard the learning curve was. But for those who do remember and are a decent skater as well as skier; which one is harder to learn?

Lip on to boardslide isn’t a trick just FYI

Aug 22 2020 2:34PM

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With skiing you can get away with progressing by just hucking shit. You can’t really do that with skateboarding.

Aug 22 2020 3:33PM

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Hahaha. I kinda thought that. Backside then.

animatorLip on to boardslide isn’t a trick just FYI

Aug 22 2020 4:11PM

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animatorLip on to boardslide isn’t a trick just FYI

Ya it is it’s called a lipslide

Aug 22 2020 5:13PM

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rice.chexYa it is it’s called a lipslide

Yeah a lipslide is a trick, a lip on to boardslide is not. Two different things

Aug 22 2020 7:08PM

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animatorYeah a lipslide is a trick, a lip on to boardslide is not. Two different things

A lipslide is a lip on to boardslide it’s the same thing

Aug 22 2020 7:10PM

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You can't just send shit skateboarding, which gives people a sense of a lack of progression, but really when it comes to freestyle skiing, they both have a big learning curve where you suddenly go from 5 tricks in the bag to infinity and beyond

Aug 22 2020 7:28PM

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Yeah it’s the same but when’s the last time you heard someone say they just did a “lip on to boardslide” while skating? No one calls a nollie a fakie switch Ollie

rice.chexA lipslide is a lip on to boardslide it’s the same thing

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DesertStixYeah it’s the same but when’s the last time you heard someone say they just did a “lip on to boardslide” while skating? No one calls a nollie a fakie switch Ollie

Ya but it’s still a trick is all I’m saying. If someone new to the sport called a trick a little differently than the norm most would still understand what they were talking about.

Aug 22 2020 7:49PM

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rice.chexA lipslide is a lip on to boardslide it’s the same thing

No it’s not buddy 😂😂 a lipslide is when the back of your board goes over the rail/ledge, and a boardslide is when the front goes over the rail/ledge they are absolutely not the same

Aug 22 2020 8:37PM

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animatorNo it’s not buddy 😂😂 a lipslide is when the back of your board goes over the rail/ledge, and a boardslide is when the front goes over the rail/ledge they are absolutely not the same

Do you mean the tail of the board? Ya so the tail goes over first which is the lip on part then your board slides the rail which would technically be a boardslide. For short you’d call it a lipslide. But a lip on to boardslide would be understood by nearly all skaters so idk why you think that’s not a trick. Kinda a stupid argument but I don’t think you understood what I meant when I was saying they are the same. Boardslides and lipslides are different tricks tho

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Aug 22 2020 8:44PM

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I feel like skating is def harder but it depends. I think learning either at a young age makes it massively easier. I was skiing since 6 and snowboarding at the mtn since 10(8 in the backyard) I remember being bad at them for a little but wasnt hard to get good. Im learning to skate now and its rough. Concrete fucking hurts.

That said building a mini and learning ramp tricks was super fun the last few months I lived in CA.

Probably depends on the person but I'd say skating is harder but getting really fucking good at either is tough. If you're flipping down 15 stairs and bombing hills, or ripping pools youre going to eat shit. If you're doing triples, or hitting steep urban quad kinks or big cliffs/gaps youre going to eat shit.

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No he means back as in backside lol you’re beating a dead horse

rice.chexDo you mean the tail of the board? Ya so the tail goes over first which is the lip on part then your board slides the rail which would technically be a boardslide. For short you’d call it a lipslide. But a lip on to boardslide would be understood by nearly all skaters so idk why you think that’s not a trick. Kinda a stupid argument but I don’t think you understood what I meant when I was saying they are the same. Boardslides and lipslides are different tricks tho

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Pretty obvious he meant lipslide when he said lip onto boardslide. Especially in skiing terms to board terms. It works. It wasn't like he was mixing uo frontside and backside.

Aug 22 2020 8:51PM

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DesertStixNo he means back as in backside lol you’re beating a dead horse

Well no cuz a frontside lip is a trick too

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Skiing is honestly way easier than skating

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rice.chexDo you mean the tail of the board? Ya so the tail goes over first which is the lip on part then your board slides the rail which would technically be a boardslide. For short you’d call it a lipslide. But a lip on to boardslide would be understood by nearly all skaters so idk why you think that’s not a trick. Kinda a stupid argument but I don’t think you understood what I meant when I was saying they are the same. Boardslides and lipslides are different tricks tho

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Ohhhh so you were saying a “lip on to boardslide slide” is just a dumb way of saying lipslide? My b I thought you were saying that they were different

Aug 23 2020 12:54AM

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I am so glad I asked that question this was fun.

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Skating is harder but I feel like if you skate everyday, or as much as you can, you'll get really comfortable on your board and eat shit a lot less. The thing that's hard with skating is that let's say you learn a kickflip on flat, and then want to do it on a bank or down a curb, it's like relearning the trick. There's a lot more steps and it can get frustrating sometimes

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Skatings hard as fuck. I try do bunch type shit on little features. Makes it way more fun

Aug 23 2020 11:43PM

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Skating has like no margin for error compared to skiing. The simplest flat ground tricks can end in broken bones concrete is fucked compared to bailing on snow.

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Both have their degrees of challenges. I am going to have to say skating do to the fact you are on concrete trying to balance on a board with 4 wheels that can shoot off into any direction at any given moment. I started skating many years back, got okay but quit a year later. I have recently picked up skating again this summer and I have been trying to skate 4-6 times a week and I have noticed some huge improvements from just spending time on the board. I cant ollie off stairs yet but I am getting a few tricks in the bag. Stick with it and keep pushing yourself, you will get better each day.

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This question cant really be answered based on the two sports as a whole. Professionals in both sports probably put in a similar amount of effort and time into it meaning that the highest level of both sports are somewhat equal in difficulty. Its hard to compare because the sports have completely different tricks and a varying risk factors for each milestone. To answer this you would have to pick two tricks in the sports and compare them and the work it took to achieve it.

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