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over a year ago
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"strap a plank on and lob myself down a mountainside? you don't wanna see me doing that like..it'd be a mess! "
You don't know what your missing out on.
I'm no pro but I'll give it a go. |
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"strap a plank on and lob myself down a mountainside? you don't wanna see me doing that like..it'd be a mess!
You don't know what your missing out on.
I'm no pro but I'll give it a go."
tried skateboarding...fell off, bike, broke my arm, i have no balance, i'd die  a very exciting and creative suicide it would be though! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"strap a plank on and lob myself down a mountainside? you don't wanna see me doing that like..it'd be a mess!
You don't know what your missing out on.
I'm no pro but I'll give it a go.
tried skateboarding...fell off, bike, broke my arm, i have no balance, i'd die a very exciting and creative suicide it would be though! "
Damn I would definitely recommend you don't give it a go then buddy.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"strap a plank on and lob myself down a mountainside? you don't wanna see me doing that like..it'd be a mess!
You don't know what your missing out on.
I'm no pro but I'll give it a go.
tried skateboarding...fell off, bike, broke my arm, i have no balance, i'd die a very exciting and creative suicide it would be though!
Damn I would definitely recommend you don't give it a go then buddy.
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i'm great at the ssx games on ps2 and ps3 mind you  |
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"Does anyone else do any winter sports.
I snowboard because skiing is a bit shit isn't it. "
Quite the reverse !
We ski but we did snowboarding for a day on our last holiday. Or should I say, we sat on our arses for a day on our last holiday.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Does anyone else do any winter sports.
I snowboard because skiing is a bit shit isn't it. "
Ski because I like the speed!
Snowboarding you can ride goofy. Says it all really  |
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I ski and snowboard.. not at the same time cos that'd just be showing off..
I'm not too bad at both but always seem to be far better in.the afternoon than the morning...
Dunno if it has anything to do with the gluwheine and beer at lunchtime... |
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Skiing for me. Not into the ski vs board thing, there are nuisance types in both. I must admit I don't like the sound of a boarder behind scraping sideways, wondering if he's coming into my back or just turning. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I ski and snowboard.. not at the same time cos that'd just be showing off..
I'm not too bad at both but always seem to be far better in.the afternoon than the morning...
Dunno if it has anything to do with the gluwheine and beer at lunchtime... "
It's all about the 10 o'clock beer time
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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One plank not two here, much more style and yes I hate those button lifts, Austria and Italy so far this year maybe time for one more trip before the seasons finished!!! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Does anyone else do any winter sports.
I snowboard because skiing is a bit shit isn't it.
Ski because I like the speed!
Snowboarding you can ride goofy. Says it all really "
Hahahaha. YOU can still go pretty quick on a board. Hitting speeds upto 52 mph in Tignes this year. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"One plank not two here, much more style and yes I hate those button lifts, Austria and Italy so far this year maybe time for one more trip before the seasons finished!!!"
You should have a look into Jasna in Slovakia. The off piste is amazing if the snow is there. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Hahahaha. YOU can still go pretty quick on a board. Hitting speeds upto 52 mph in Tignes this year. "
That's some good going to be fair. I usually try to ski the slalom courses if they have them and got clocked at 135km last year but don't believe that. What app do you use? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Hahahaha. YOU can still go pretty quick on a board. Hitting speeds upto 52 mph in Tignes this year.
That's some good going to be fair. I usually try to ski the slalom courses if they have them and got clocked at 135km last year but don't believe that. What app do you use?"
Damn girl I sault you with a massive shot for clocking up speeds like that. Was going to say fancy a race to the bar and lose gets the round, but after that comment just put your drink on my tab lol.
I used snow tracker.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does anyone else do any winter sports.
I snowboard because skiing is a bit shit isn't it. "
I got back from snowboarding on Monday. So much fun, even though I did have a huge fall and dislocate my shoulder  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Damn girl I sault you with a massive shot for clocking up speeds like that. Was going to say fancy a race to the bar and lose gets the round, but after that comment just put your drink on my tab lol.
I used snow tracker.
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I don't think I was that quick though!! We could do that but I'd get d*unk waiting lol
Will try that next year thanks. |
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"One plank not two here, much more style and yes I hate those button lifts, Austria and Italy so far this year maybe time for one more trip before the seasons finished!!!
You should have a look into Jasna in Slovakia. The off piste is amazing if the snow is there."
Top place. I was there this year. No Apres at all though.. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Does anyone else do any winter sports.
I snowboard because skiing is a bit shit isn't it.
I got back from snowboarding on Monday. So much fun, even though I did have a huge fall and dislocate my shoulder "
Been there done that. I had a grade 2 separation trying to put it back in the socket. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"One plank not two here, much more style and yes I hate those button lifts, Austria and Italy so far this year maybe time for one more trip before the seasons finished!!!
You should have a look into Jasna in Slovakia. The off piste is amazing if the snow is there.
Top place. I was there this year. No Apres at all though.."
We found a few bars in the town and we went to the ice hockey as well but it was a distance from the mountain. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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I don't think I was that quick though!! We could do that but I'd get d*unk waiting lol
Will try that next year thanks. "
Just get me a shot of fireball waiting |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Does anyone else do any winter sports.
I snowboard because skiing is a bit shit isn't it. "
Skiing for me as I love mogul bashing and the speed of a good downhill run. That said I do envy the airtime boarders get |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I do both enjoy both , can't stand this silly petty one is better than the other nonsense xx "
Silly and petty or good humoured conversation. I think the second |
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"I do both enjoy both , can't stand this silly petty one is better than the other nonsense xx
Silly and petty or good humoured conversation. I think the second "
I prefer the second
Sadly my experience would be the former , there can be a lot of sniping and disdain x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I do both enjoy both , can't stand this silly petty one is better than the other nonsense xx
Silly and petty or good humoured conversation. I think the second
I prefer the second
Sadly my experience would be the former , there can be a lot of sniping and disdain x"
That sucks. Everything I've seen has been good humoured. At least I thought it was lol. Only strap a board on if I want to play in the parks. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I do both enjoy both , can't stand this silly petty one is better than the other nonsense xx
Silly and petty or good humoured conversation. I think the second
I prefer the second
Sadly my experience would be the former , there can be a lot of sniping and disdain x"
I mean to cause no offence, it is all a bit of fun.
I love and respect everyone on the slopes. ONE of my good friends is a skier and we generally rip each other apart for are choice of sports. He is a prick on sticks and I am a wank on a plank simple as that.
I hope you are all having a good day.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Does anyone else do any winter sports.
I snowboard because skiing is a bit shit isn't it. "
I do both, but I was born and raised on a ski hill.
Oh and skiing is my preferred choice. I have more fun in the back country on my skis. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I do both enjoy both , can't stand this silly petty one is better than the other nonsense xx
Silly and petty or good humoured conversation. I think the second
I prefer the second
Sadly my experience would be the former , there can be a lot of sniping and disdain x
That sucks. Everything I've seen has been good humoured. At least I thought it was lol. Only strap a board on if I want to play in the parks. "
So you have got a small amount of taste then. What board do you ride with. I jib on my k2 WWW. |
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"Does anyone else do any winter sports.
I snowboard because skiing is a bit shit isn't it. "
Skiing is far better for the speed freaks (like me), and people with the dedication to learn Snowboarding is easier to learn, looks cooler, and far better when in Scotland and all the pistes are sheer ice through the middle, and all you have left is powder hugging those crappy little fences..... |
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By *CDecauxMan
over a year ago
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Used to ski when I was younger, evolved into snowboarding as I became a teenager and older.
Ice hockey is my main thing though, does that count towards the "winter" sports? Lol. The season runs from September to April so I'd say so personally. Haha. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Used to ski when I was younger, evolved into snowboarding as I became a teenager and older.
Ice hockey is my main thing though, does that count towards the "winter" sports? Lol. The season runs from September to April so I'd say so personally. Haha."
I will salute you dude for your devotion of winter sports. I would of loved to of tried ice hockey but I wasn't the best skater so I never tried. |
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By *CDecauxMan
over a year ago
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"Used to ski when I was younger, evolved into snowboarding as I became a teenager and older.
Ice hockey is my main thing though, does that count towards the "winter" sports? Lol. The season runs from September to April so I'd say so personally. Haha.
I will salute you dude for your devotion of winter sports. I would of loved to of tried ice hockey but I wasn't the best skater so I never tried. "
Ahh y'see, I started ice skating very very young. I was barely two years old when I first started, really got into it when I was 6 or 7 years old, so can't really remember a time when it wasn't a thing for me. Almost as natural as walking nowadays. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Fan of skiing
Looking into a bobslay team "
If you go to La Plagne you can go down the bobsleigh there in a 4 person bob with one of their drivers. Its brilliant. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Does anyone else do any winter sports.
I snowboard because skiing is a bit shit isn't it.
Where do you go to snowboard and how often"
I've been to morzine twice, deux alps, Jasna, mayrhofen and this year I went to Tignes. Used to hit the UK indoor slopes a lot freestyling but had to put the anchors on it due to expense and to many injuries. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Fan of skiing
Looking into a bobslay team
If you go to La Plagne you can go down the bobsleigh there in a 4 person bob with one of their drivers. Its brilliant."
Did a bobsleigh in innsbruck. what a fantastic experience. |
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"Many years a skier and tried boarding last month, it's ok but I love the exhilaration of the skis.
Can't stop..have a few more runs to try out now x"
Personally I find both equally exhilarating xxx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I tried snowboarding and I couldn't quite get it. Decided I'd spend my money practicing my water sport, wakeboarding, instead of taking up a winter one. |
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Personally I find both equally exhilarating xxx
Boarders appear too relaxed to be exhilarated, whereas I tackled the red runs today and couldn't stop smiling "
I don't understand your comment ?
Same incline same speed same air through hair , same "whoo shit that was close " same "Ooo lil kicker wonder if I can go 180 , same I'm knackered where's the bar?
Formulating false differences is fine but know they are just make believe
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"I tried snowboarding and I couldn't quite get it. Decided I'd spend my money practicing my water sport, wakeboarding, instead of taking up a winter one. "
Dude , a lil bit more practice , I wake also on cable they are virtually the same, can you do a raley ? My best trick is surface pop 180 blind x |
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Boarders appear too relaxed to be exhilarated, whereas I tackled the red runs today and couldn't stop smiling
I don't understand your comment ?
Same incline same speed same air through hair , same "whoo shit that was close " same "Ooo lil kicker wonder if I can go 180 , same I'm knackered where's the bar?
Formulating false differences is fine but know they are just make believe
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Just saying..
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Boarders appear too relaxed to be exhilarated, whereas I tackled the red runs today and couldn't stop smiling
I don't understand your comment ?
Same incline same speed same air through hair , same "whoo shit that was close " same "Ooo lil kicker wonder if I can go 180 , same I'm knackered where's the bar?
Formulating false differences is fine but know they are just make believe
Just saying..
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Lol as it's a forum , I'm just replying to your just saying and just saying I have no idea why you said what you were just saying x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"boarding is massively exhilarating, but boarders look so unbelievably cool while boarding that to the unenlightened they look disinterested
Ha ha not so sure , a bad boarder scraping down is no more elegant than a giraffe on an ice rink ? And me , when on my fat boy skis in orange and yellow shredding the pow balls deep or just playing in the park , well I'm sub zero  "
what's to scrape down? ... i only surf the powder where no-one else goes
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"boarding is massively exhilarating, but boarders look so unbelievably cool while boarding that to the unenlightened they look disinterested
Ha ha not so sure , a bad boarder scraping down is no more elegant than a giraffe on an ice rink ? And me , when on my fat boy skis in orange and yellow shredding the pow balls deep or just playing in the park , well I'm sub zero
what's to scrape down? ... i only surf the powder where no-one else goes
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You said boarders suggesting all borders xxx of course you and I look amazing but some really struggle just as some skiers do |
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By (user no longer on site)
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" You said boarders suggesting all borders xxx of course you and I look amazing but some really struggle just as some skiers do "
all the boarders i know are totally cool and look completely awesome especially when they're boarding |
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" You said boarders suggesting all borders xxx of course you and I look amazing but some really struggle just as some skiers do
all the boarders i know are totally cool and look completely awesome especially when they're boarding "
Ha ha I know of this
Wakeboarder , he tried but did not get it , I'm sure with practice he will , but no one looks cool catching an edge and catapulting head first into the snow or getting off the chair and collapsing in a pile stopping the lift just as both skiers and boarders can do xxx |
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" You said boarders suggesting all borders xxx of course you and I look amazing but some really struggle just as some skiers do
all the boarders i know are totally cool and look completely awesome especially when they're boarding
Ha ha I know of this
Wakeboarder , he tried but did not get it , I'm sure with practice he will , but no one looks cool catching an edge and catapulting head first into the snow or getting off the chair and collapsing in a pile stopping the lift just as both skiers and boarders can do xxx "
dude ... when i'm looking rad shredding the gnar, you're clearly busy having a yard sale |
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" You said boarders suggesting all borders xxx of course you and I look amazing but some really struggle just as some skiers do
all the boarders i know are totally cool and look completely awesome especially when they're boarding
Ha ha I know of this
Wakeboarder , he tried but did not get it , I'm sure with practice he will , but no one looks cool catching an edge and catapulting head first into the snow or getting off the chair and collapsing in a pile stopping the lift just as both skiers and boarders can do xxx
dude ... when i'm looking rad shredding the gnar, you're clearly busy having a yard sale "
Dude not sure you're reading my posts x if you are you're not understanding them xxx |
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" You said boarders suggesting all borders xxx of course you and I look amazing but some really struggle just as some skiers do
all the boarders i know are totally cool and look completely awesome especially when they're boarding "
A very cheeky generalisation (and totally untrue) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Ha ha, got to be ski ing. Snowboarders seem to spend half their time on their arses. Guess it's quite fun when you finally crack it but give me safety of 2 planks of wood any day. |
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"Have skied...did a taster session on a snowboard for five minutes...loved it...time and money meant I couldn't do more...loved wakeboarding and can waterski ok...need to kite surf "
Get yourself a 2.4 m kite and learn to fly , the board skills will come naturally x |
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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago
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"Does anyone else do any winter sports.
I snowboard because skiing is a bit shit isn't it. "
I've never snowboarder so I couldn't say whether or not it's good or had but I'm a cross country (nordic) ski instructor and have done a lot of downhill (alpine) skiing - put of the two, Nordic is by far the best, hard work but so exilerating, especially when coming down black slopes! |
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"Snow surfing for me in a snow mobile.
Now I have found someone to take me back country. "
We will be In Bulgaria all season mainly back country snowboarding we will be traveling around but based near Borovets. come out for a play |
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"Does anyone else do any winter sports.
I snowboard because skiing is a bit shit isn't it. "
Snowboarding is for people who want to learn a new sport quickly, as it’s so easy to pick up the basics. Skiing is for people with more patience to master a technical sport, and who have a desire for speed................... |
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Snowboarding is for people who want to learn a new sport quickly, as it’s so easy to pick up the basics. Skiing is for people with more patience to master a technical sport, and who have a desire for speed................... "
Boarding not exactly a 'quick' sport to learn but is easier than skiing to pick up the basics, although progress is slower.
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Snowboarding is for people who want to learn a new sport quickly, as it’s so easy to pick up the basics. Skiing is for people with more patience to master a technical sport, and who have a desire for speed...................
Boarding not exactly a 'quick' sport to learn but is easier than skiing to pick up the basics, although progress is slower.
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Thought I’d seen this thread before.. my view is that snowboarding is cooler |
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Snowboarding is for people who want to learn a new sport quickly, as it’s so easy to pick up the basics. Skiing is for people with more patience to master a technical sport, and who have a desire for speed...................
Boarding not exactly a 'quick' sport to learn but is easier than skiing to pick up the basics, although progress is slower.
Thought I’d seen this thread before.. my view is that snowboarding is cooler "
It was maybe once ?
Now with some pretty serious back country fat boys with equally rad graphics and maybe some freestyle thrown in , riding the deep stuff tickling ones dangleberries
The objective player could not choose between them
I wear the same yellow and orange "looseish" gear what ever I ride and that's what it's about , just riding the mountain with a massive smile xxx |
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Snowboarding is for people who want to learn a new sport quickly, as it’s so easy to pick up the basics. Skiing is for people with more patience to master a technical sport, and who have a desire for speed...................
Boarding not exactly a 'quick' sport to learn but is easier than skiing to pick up the basics, although progress is slower.
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Yep, years ago I booked a week in Aviemore with a mate who’d never skied before, but there was no snow at all when we got there, only black ice across the pistes, with dry powder down each side hugging those little fences they have in an attempt to keep the snow. So we swapped to snowboards and rode the powder for a week. He had never boarded either, and within a day or so was going quite quick and controlled, although the poma lifts were a challenge! |
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"We both ski and snowboard but prefer snowboarding we will take both with us this season ,I think we like back country so we don have to listen to all the Ski vs Snowboard bullshit ,YAWN"
And it is silly bullshit |
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It’s an age old ‘debate’ - I ski, board and skate, they all lend themselves to each other and great fun plus the Apres of course! Just enjoy the scenery, the craic plus a few beers, what’s not to like?!!!!
Speed wise, I clocked 100 kmh on my new board last year and the skiers were struggling to keep up. A bit hairy, eyes streaming and legs a shaking but great fun! Volkl AFC directional board, we’ll recommended!
Time to get all the gear out for a couple of jollies |
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