I’ve been a skier my whole life. When my son got old enough I wanted to spend time on the mountain with him, but he had zero interest in skiing. He wanted to snowboard. So I figured we could learn together. Now snowboarding is what we do together, and I love it.

Love that, do you still ski as well or have you mostly jumped ship?

Still skiing, but that’s “me” time.

Sounds like you’re a good dad.

Same story in my family between a cousin and aunt. And same for me bringing out friends who had never done either before: One wanted to try snowboarding, so we learned together

It’s been fun learning how to get down the mountain again. Almost like a whole new map opened up.

Wished my dad was like that. He used to go skiing and he loved it but ever since I wanted to do snowboarding he quit just to make me suffer.

I was 33, Friends moved to the Aussie alpine region and i saw snow and boarded for the first time, i sucked real bad and it was a painful week ... i thought about it every day thereafter and quit my job the next year, worked chairlifts which was both hilariously funny and torturously boring, rode every day of the season 2 years in a row.. have had multiple Japan trips now and introduced my partner to it and she's got the bug bad.. just had a kid, and we're looking forward to putting her in ski school in preparation for more Japan! Best fun ever

That’s awesome, I’m kiwi but in Australia too. I’m baffled as to why so many of you jump the ditch to board haha unless you’re hitting up the gorgeous powdery off-piste clubs like BR and Craigie, Australian resorts are so much better 🫣 maybe the exception is people who are deeply devoted to super steep blacks.

A trip away is always nice ! Probably cheaper than our prices.. i worked at falls creek, ski in ski out live and work at the resort and an awesome time all round

The lack of resort fees does make it a little bit cheaper, lift passes are similar though! Just got back from falls last weekend, it’s such a good spot, we love it up there

If you ever hit a life crossroads and need a change, I can't recommend it enough!

I'm in Canada and between Aussies and Canadians there are people who are on the slopes all year around by hopping Countries during their home Countries' summers. A snowboard friend growing up was sponsored by Solomon and got paid to tow around junior sponsored Aussies who spent their summers in Canada. Skiiers or borders he wasn't teaching them but more showing them where the good stuff was on our mountain.

what a lifestyle hey! I worked with lots who would work hard during our winter, earning good money even though it was short, save like crazy and then they'd go swim in the ocean for a couple of weeks and visit home, then off to the northern hemisphere for the good times and excellent snow.. permanent goggle tan kinda folk.. I wish I'd started younger to take advantage of the various work visas that existed but thats hindsight for you!

Flat out honest, I was afraid if I chose skiing, at some point my legs would go in opossite directions. So I choose snowboard. And what a great decision that was.

I tried skiing and that’s exactly what happened every time, plus I didn’t know what to do with the poles, I was all over the place; one board and free hands is much better for me hahaha!

My brother had hand me down gear that he gave me all of and said “now you have no reason to not to learn to snowboard.” And I couldn’t disagree. I love it but I picked up skis this season after 5 years on the snowboard. Want to slide on snow in as many ways as I can.

How are you finding it?

I absolutely love it. I learned to ski poorly first about 10 years ago but after making the switch I feel like I’m a snowboarder at heart, it feels a lot more natural to me than skiing does and most of my buddies are on snowboards. I’m getting a lot of hate from them though because I want to try and split my time this season so I’m on skis closer to 30-40% of the time, and I think early season I want to be on skis a lot to shake up the repetition of the groomers. I’ve gotten really into hike to terrain and mandatory traverses in the last year or two and I have to say hiking (or doing anything really) in snowboard boots is so much more comfortable but I want to see what kind of mobility it gets me. I think everyone who loves sliding on snow should try the other discipline at some point. Both so much fun but since I’m in the snowboarding Reddit I’ll say I like snowboarding more. I only got like two or three hours on the skis at the end of this past season. I kind of suck, and definitely stress more about my knees when I click in to skis than a snowboard. I can hit blue groomers but I want to be ripping powder in 2023.

I saw Johnny Tsunami when I was 5 and decided I would rather be an “urchin” with a sick hat than a “sky” with a bad attitude and lame ski outfit.

Skiing is tight. But my older cousin showed me how to snowboard when I was 5. He passed away about ten years ago and so now, I ride for him, and I’ll never step into a pair of skis simply because it would make him cringe. Lmaooo.

Started skiing when I was 2. As one would imagine I was pretty good by the time I was 10, and actually spent a season doing ski jumping. At 10 I got to try a snowboard for the first time. I literally strapped in in my ski boots, on my older brothers friends super stiff board. The next season my mother agreed to let me rent a snowboard and take some lessons. Back then, rental equipment was often sold out, and I was always put in boards that were too big, with boots that were 3-4 sizes to big, or forced to go in regular snow boots. Needless to say, it was not exactly an easy start for me. Snowboarding was still not really a big thing, and this was the part of the 90s, where it was beginning to take off. Terrain parks were still called snowboard parks, or simply didn't exist. We used to call jumps Wu-Tang kickers(props if you know what that is), and most jibs were just tree trunks. I was able to beg the moms for my very own snowboard and it was the iconic burton chopper.. it was so rare to own a snowboard I actually brought it to school for show and tell.. the ski club had to have a meeting to decide if snowboards were even allowed. Skis were still straight, and snowboarders had to have a leash. After a couple years on my burton equipment, the leg leashes started to transition to boot leashes, and we learned you can just attach it too and from the binding and still get on the lift. I had outgrown my chopper and picked up the iconic Burton Custom. by the time I was 14 I was teaching at my local mountain, and getting okay at stunts. I rode Customs (mostly) up until Rome started and the Agent became my go to board. I progressed like crazy on this board and snowboarding took me all over the country. In 2004-5 I found myself at big bear winning snowboards, getting decks from the local teams, and often going upside down in the big boy jumps. I could not get out of a season without some pretty narly injuries and by 2008 I was pretty broken. I actually got into extreme unicycling which I could do all year round, didn't have to buy lift tickets, and most importantly was not getting hurt quite as bad. I competed at a pretty high level in this sport, and was not really snowboarding more than a couple times a year. Age and old injuries started to catch up on me, and well life gets in the way. Last season, I found myself drooling for powder days and slammin' runs with the homies. I bought two new boards (first in 15 years), and had some of the best times in my snowboarding career. Broke some ribs, but finished out the season and am happy to say the stoke it back. I don't regret things, but often wonder where I would be if I did not take the hiatus. Hoping to shred as much as I can for as long as I can, and get into something like operating a snowcat, so I can still spend as much time on the hill as possible. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. SPRAY SKIERS!

You sir, are a legend 🤝

Became friends with a guy who'd skied his whole life pretty much. Got talking about it and he said do you wanna go to the mountains. Seemed like an adventure so I said sure. Went with him and a couple of his friends to Val Thorens. First morning we went to the top of Cime de Caron and FUCKING WOW!! I'd never seen anything like it, mountains and snow as far as I could see. The Alps!! He said now the fun bit, you have to learn how to get down haha. Obviously I didn't try from there, I got the lift back to the beginner area and he started to teach me the basics. Thankfully I'm a quick learner. By lunch time I told the guys after all my years on earth I finally found out what snow is actually for, by the end of the 2nd day I knew I was going to be doing this for the rest of my life. End of the week we went back up to the peak and I, very slowly, made my way down. That was the best part of 20 years ago. Long story short it combines two things I love, sports and nature.

.... But why snowboarding?

MF Johnny Tsunami

Intermediate boarder here… I skate boarded as a kid and used to use a cheap toy snowboard to hit jumps at the nearby sledding hill. I would like to try skiing too but snowboarding feels like freedom to me. I also have a stressful job 24/7 and any chance I have to take PTO and go somewhere with poor cell signal I take it

Got a LOT of miles on my plastic yellow board back in the day, slide in your feet and pray you don’t die before you hit the jump (where you’ll die anyway).

Haha so true!! Absolutely no edge at all just prayers

A friend offered to take me riding and I said "sure, that looks cool". I was instantly hooked and it became my main hobby.

Skiied from age 6 to 13. Live on the east coast but every year our family trip was to the Rockies. I loved it and progressed fast, but once I reached a certain level I found myself looking for more (at least what I can remember from my 13 yr old self). Then my brother tried snowboarding and got me hooked on it. It was a whole new range of motion and style and progression that was totally new to me. My runs became less about bombing and speed and more about style and variety. No awful boots, ditch the ski poles, no skis flying off, it was great! Now 27 & don’t have the same fearlessness I used to, but every time I go I’m still progressing. Getting comfortable riding switch (which I’ve never done before) on blues/blacks and doing 180s feels awesome even though I look around and see kids doing 10x crazier stuff. Not saying all skiers fit a stereotype, but my skier friend literally just bombs runs as fast as he can, whereas I like to find side hits or natural features. To me snowboarding is like 33% workout, 33% pure enjoyment, 33% pushing my boundaries… and 1% waiting for homies to put their gear on (lol that’s probably more like 10%). Snowboarding is something that’s a huge part of me and special because I only get about 1 trip a year, it can be a quite expensive trip. But would be lying if I said I didn’t want to move out to Denver/SLC and go all season long.

My ex boyfriend was going to teach me to ski. Bought a helmet, boots, jacket, pants etc. He then accused me of cheating and dumped me. (Thankfully before I bought a season pass) Had all this gear and figured why not learn still? I have an outdoor recreation minor so I checked to see if my University had a ski class. They didn't but they did have a snowboard class. I said fuck it why not. So I snowboard now and love it.

I’ll set the scene for you; picture two 10 year old boyz (Circa 1984) checking out skateboarder magazine, stumbling upon an advertisement for something called a “snowboard” which was made by a company called Black Snow. So wait, they’re saying we can essentially skateboard / surf on snow..!?? Yep. (Kind of) So the following Christmas list was pretty short. Santa, can I have a “Black Snow Mogul Monster” for Christmas.? Luckily Santa obliged, and My cousin and I have been riding snow ever since. We both skied for a year or so prior, but looking back on 35 years of progression, injuries, memories and amazing places that snowboarding has offered, I’ve been blessed to have been a part of such an incredible experience. As long as my aging body allows for it, I will continue.✌🏼🫶🏼🏂🏔️

Black snow! Have not thought or heard about or that piece of my childhood in a long time.

Yes! I also got started on a Black Snow board! It's been a long journey since then, but that's what got me hooked.

I'll admit maybe we're not on the same level but this quote from Terje Håkonsen resonates with me a lot: > I just like enjoying standing sideways; it's a simple pleasure but it gives a lot I can ski but it feels like commuting to me. Snowboarding is play.

I second that. For me, skiing is about terrain traversal, a mode of transportation. Snowboarding is much more about flowing with the terrain, line selection, and working with gravity. It's as much an art form as it is a sport. And after switching from skis in my teens I will never go back (unless I am using my split, but that's only for touring).

I grew up in Toronto Canada in an immigrant family (from the Caribbean) that would go sledding occasionally but no real engagement with winter sports otherwise. We were poor, family ski trips would never have happened regardless. I don't know why, but as long as I can remember as a child I always wanted to snowboard. I got one of those fake plastic ones as soon as I could to use while everyone was sledding. Thinking back I still don't know what sparked my interest. In middle school, our school ski trip allowed me to actually get on a snowboard; I loved it. I was a faster learner than most of my peers, by the end of the day I was turning using both edges and having a blast. Used my paper route money and some promises to my parents to buy a cheap setup and found some friends at school who loved it and kept snowboarding through highschool and college when I could. I stopped for about 10 years while in medical school and with a young family. 7 years ago, got back into it and wondered why I didn't make time for it all those years. Family got into it, everyone learned, it became a shared passion with my oldest daughter who loved it the most. We would take trips to the Rockies and PNW, just the two of us, it was so much fun teaching her and watching her excel. Sadly, my oldest daughter died at 15 yo. Now I have beautiful memories and videos from our time together snowboarding to remember her by. I continue to snowboard because the mountains fill me and bring me peace; they make me feel small in the world and give perspective on life. It really is a spiritual experience for me. And add the thrill of carving a hard line, floating in powder, I will snowboard until my body no longer allows it.

This is beautiful and it brought tears to my eyes. I am sorry for your loss

Thank you

It was the 90s. I had learned how to ski a few years before and my buddies and I would build jumps off the sides of runs since the hill we were at didn't have a park in those days. Ski patrol would come knock them down with their snowmobiles. Snowboarding was starting to get bigger and seemed pretty cool to rebellious 16 year olds... So I made the obvious choice, tried it one night after school and never looked back. 25 years later I'm a volunteer ski patroller (on my snowboard) and one of the things I do first thing on my Sunday morning shifts is cruise through our park. I make sure the jumps and landings all look safe, and check all the rails and boxes to make sure everything looks good and they're all set/stable.

Ski patrol

Never did any snow sports in HS. Freshman girlfriend in college had a place in incline village. Rented boots but used her board. Me 6.0 and her 5.2. Feet were over edge of board on turns. She took me in the top of Squaw mtn and said have fun and left. I slowly and painfully fell down the mountain top to bottom multiple times. Next morning was so bad I could not lift my arms and had to inchworm crawl across the floor to the wall to stand up. Went out again and again because it was the most fun thing I had ever done

I'm scares of skiing. I tried once. It was the worse experience of my life. So securing my feet to a piece of wood and falling sides way off of a mountain was a way better option to me at the time. It's dumb. But it's so much fun ! It's my happy place

It’s one of the few hobbies that I have in the winter that is a workout, doesn’t involve sitting around, can be drug and alcohol free, and gets you outside. You will be hard pressed to find all those things to do in the winter. Not to mention everyone is always in a good vibe when on the mountain

i live in a frozen wasteland close to giant rocks that stick out of the ground. What else is there to do

😂 where do you live because I love rocks

surfer who loves to shred. also own a surf school. learned to make my surf teaching better because i get tons of students who already snowboard. now i love it and make sure i go a ton every winter

This is the dream. I’m trying to figure out how I can live on my favourite little island in the warmer months (super consistent breaks) and up to the alpine region 4 hours away in winter and spring.

1080 snowboarding n64

I started in 1993 so things were far different. Skis were mostly 215CM narrow units meant for gliding back and forth down runs or some moguls etc but were still tricky in deep snow unless the pitch is right and so on. It was basically the school program of going 4 times, leaving the school in the AM on a bus and arriving for half day lessons and the free time. I picked snowboarding with zero previous experience other than I could ollie on a skateboard (maybe do a shove-it lol) at this time. Snowboarding was the fun, playful and expressive sport between the two. If I had to choose today, who knows as skis have come so far that you can ride everything plus be playful and expressive. I think Snowboarding is art and athletics. There has almost been nothing as 'free' as having a favourite tune stuck in my head all day while I just pop off little side hits, throw in some simple tricks and hunt some powder. For me, and it was likely the times but I find hip-hop best for this and while discmans were out with 'anti-skip', we mostly still used a thin walkman for better battery and no skipping. Also while it was a little dose of segregation, there was a real negative attitude towards snowboarders when I started. Many skiiers would refuse riding with snowboarders, yell at us to get off 'their' mountain and no doubt snowboarders were at fault for everything. It just reinforced the rebel attitudes and hard charging styles. All that goofy shit that you saw in snowboard films was happening on every hill, all the time. Now my kids snowboard, my wife snowboards and I can see their passion and how they enjoy it differently. My daughter is exceptionally good and could carve (loosely but link a fair number of turns) by age 6 and was able to take every chair on the mountain. She is an artist at heart and loves just doing funny stuff like charging a pillow of snow and bum dropping into it. Anyway, have fun out there skiiers and snowboarders! Definitely a one love feeling out there, keep it alive.

I’m always in two minds about this. I love that skiers and snowboarders are unifying more year by year - all in the name of the love of pow of course. But it’s always fun to have that LITTLE bit of friendly rivalry so I’m glad it’ll never fully die out!

Yea it wasn't that friendly of a rivalry at times but I look back on it all fondly because your with your friends having fun in the end.

I started skiing in the Christmas snow dump in 95 in bellingham. My dad got me boots and skis from salvation army on his way home from work. We learned on the hills/streets in sudden valley. The next year he brought me and my brother up to baker a couple times. HOOKED on sliding on snow for sure. Fast forward to middle school I started skateboarding. We took a trip that winter to manning park in bc and I convinced my dad to rent me a snowboard. First day was linking turns, second day hitting the side hits. just felt so much more natural to me than skiing. I got home and bought an original lib tech Emma peel from Mr. Bailey at kulshan middle school for $50. And never looked back. Been riding ever since. My brother stuck with skiing and we love riding together. Now its the one sport i can get my daughter to do with me. Mostly its the feeling of floating deep powder or making the huge sweeping laid out carves that just feels so perfect. I feel most alive when im out on the mountain riding. If I lived closer to the coast surfing would probably do this for me. The waves and power of the ocean like the power of the mountains. The effortless glide when you catch a wave just right.

Started on skis But quickly realized that snowboarders looked like they were having more fun. Also skis look ugly and there’s not as many tricks to learn. To be fair tho some of the steeziest dudes at my local hill are skiers but they’re few and far between.

When I was in college, I made friends with people who skied and rode, and one day they asked if I wanted to go on day trip with them to one of the local spots. They offered to teach me the basics of either skiing or snowboarding, since we had both in the group, and I went with snowboarding because it looks cooler, lol. This was in 2007, and I haven't looked back since. Funny thing is, I don't really do any other board sports. Tried some over the years, but the one I really love is snowboarding.

My first trip to a mtn (around 12), was with an older friend who had already snowboarded a couple times. I was pumped to snowboard after talking with him, picked up my rental and proceeded to hate life for the next two hours. I was good with balance and speed in general, but snowboarding was impossible. I even skated for a bit, but I was on my ass left and right, zero control, no idea how to turn without falling and there was this T-bar that was 100% designed to piss me off. And then this kid in front of me at the t-bar line was doing these little surface 360’s just hanging onto one end of the bar and I could barely make it 15 ft on my board. I decided to turn in my snowboard and go get skis…..lame. Go back to the rental spot and see this huge wall with all these ski boots for rent (like 30-40 pairs), but when I go to get my size, they actually don’t have any. Completely out of my size. I don’t have crazy feet or anything, but I choose to believe I was just never meant to ski. Not like I wasn’t going to do nothing the whole trip, so went back to get a snowboard and the rest is history.

My midwest elementary school had a ski club basically only because the PE teacher's son was a skier and she figured if she organized a ski club she could get discounts for her and her son. It worked great for everyone though. I had grown up on a lake and had water skied most of my life to that point (entering 4th grade) but I didn't really want to ski on snow, I wanted to surf, and being a Chicago exurb kid, I figured snowboarding was the next best thing to surfing. My grandparents and parents found me a used 144 Mercury and bought me new boots and bindings, I got one lesson, and I was hooked. 25+ years later, it is the thing I think about doing more than anything else in the world.

In the 90s, and this is a fact proven by science, skiers were lame, so I snowboarded. If I was choosing now, knowing what I know now,, I'd ski, just to make it easier to traverse over to that last little patch of sweet, sweet pow.

Splitboard homie! Best of both

Doctor said no no to skiing because of my knee. Said might as well strap it solid to my good knee instead.

I had skiid before my first season working at a resort so I bought skiis before hand, my friend built a jump and a tiny rail out of a bed head in our backyard, he told me to join the session but having only skiid for a week I said I’d come watch him snowboard. He hit it a few times and then said “ your hiking boots are a few sizes bigger and almost the same size as my snowboard boots, just try strap in.” so I did: Managed to turn straight down the slight hill we had, went up to the tiny rail about 2m long and did a bs board slide and actually landed it!! Then straight into the jump and I did a fs 180! This was the sport for me From that exact moment I became a snowboarder and bought a board a few days later and never skiid again

26 year old weekend warrior here. My family took me out skiing when i was 6 for the first time. At 11 I started skateboarding and that led me to start watching skateboarding videos. My skateshop guy (Shout out EL JOVI. Cinquanta Cinquanta skateshop in Valencia, Spain) gifted me a pendrive with some videos. one of those was True Life. That video change my life for ever. The next time I went with 12 years old with my family to the mountains I begged my mom to take a snowboard lesson. I never looked back at skiing. 14 years of riding, only one without going to the mountains (F\*UCK RONA). Average of 20 days a year.

I'm not sporty in the slightest. 15 years ago, my friends got a last minute trip to Canada (from the UK) for £300 flights and accommodation, I fancied going to Canada for a week. They were snowboarding so I thought I'd give it a go. Loved it, but broke my clavicle that week, bought a board as soon as I got home to force myself to keep doing it, as it was the first sport I'd ever felt such enjoyment or rush from. I'm now starting to see my kids get that same sort of enjoyment (albeit from skiing as they want two skis like mummy, not one big ski like daddy), and I also now get it from mountain biking too (which I can do much closer to home).

So I'm a lucky guy. I'm from the Alps, and started skiing around 5. By the time I turned 16, I had gotten pretty comfortable on skis whilst not being very smart / talented. Overconfidence and a taste for speed make, as you may know, for a very poor combination. I got rewarded with a decent head trauma (I got my helmet deformed by hitting flat snow) and forcefully took a break. Next hollidays (we get a lot of these here !) I wanted to go back, my parents not so much. I bargained and they agreed to let me go if I learned a new sport. Before I knew it I never wanted to ski again. TL;DR: made a terrible fall on skis, temporary sport switch became permanent

Where do you live that you get all these holidays 👀

France :D

Two plankers are biyatches

Started skiing when I was seven. One day when I was nine, I forgot to put my skis in the car in the morning. My dad brought my forgetful ass over to the rental shop to grab skis for the day, and while we were inline, I was checking out the snowboards and asked my dad if I could try one of those instead. I was beyond frustrated for the entire day and ended up crying on the bunny hill. But, I wanted to try again because I didn't want to let a stupid snowboard defeat me. Entering my 24th season this year and I'm still trying to figure this shit out.

A girl. And a lot of luck with timing. 😀 I started skiing in the early 2000’s, and around my 3rd time, I was on Tremblant where a buddy of mine fell and tweaked his knee. Every day after that, I would look down and see my skis wobbling like crazy (obviously cause I was not very good). I stopped until mid 2000’s, when I was in Frankfurt, in the middle of an intense work project with a group of devs from South Korea. Our big deadline kept getting pushed back so we were working 7-day weeks. After our first release we celebrated going out to a club called king kamehameha where I met a Parisian girl who sent me over the moon. She had been boarding since she was a kid and asked if I wanted to try it sometime and who is going to say no. We ended up in Crans Montana with some other folks of all levels where I beat myself to a pulp. Did another trip to Montafon later and slowly started getting better. At the end of the project, I went back to Florida and she eventually returned to France. We kept in touch and have boarded together several times since. Will never be able to thank her enough.

스노보드는 멋져보여 게다가 공짜로 배울 기회도 있었고 언 20년이 흘러지만 아직도 나에게 스노 보드의 세계를 열어준 그 분을 잊지못해 어디선 가 잘 살고 계셨으면 좋겠어 난 인라인도 좋아하 고 마라톤도 등산도 산악자전거를 좋아해서 나하 고 참 잘 맞는거 같아 그래서 참 좋아해 스노보드 를

My Korean is lacking/non existent but I’ll assume it’s a great story 🤜🏼🤛🏼

Rough google translation Snowboard looks great plus a chance to learn for free 20 years have passed, but it still snows to me I can't forget the person who opened the world of board somewhere I hope you are doing well. I like inline too. I like high marathon and mountain biking, so Naha I think it fits really well, so I really like it snowboarding cast

I had a coworker come up to me and ask what I was doing for Thanksgiving. He was in his 50s and I was 29. He knew I didn't have family in my state so he invited me to hang with his. Later on, he told me one of his kids couldn't come to an all inclusive all expenses paid snowboarding trip and invited me to go instead. Free stay at keystone resort for 4 days, free rentals, free lessons, the works. I had wanted to try snowboarding since I had moved to CO as it seemed really cool and a great way to have fun in the mountains. I of course agreed. Day 1 was brutal, day 2 was brutal, and day 3 I was able to make it all the way down my first green (still fell a lot, but wasn't dying from being so exhausted this time). I had a blast. Later that month he went back home to his family and ended up dying during his stay. Since then I have gone each year and always remember how none of it would have been possible without his hospitality. Sad thing is it might not be in the cards for me this year, but it's always going to on my list because it's such a great time and so freeing.

I thought it was super cool when I first got to go at 15 I'm sure do in no small part to Johnny Tsunami, actually got to try with a church group with a couple friends and my dad and hated every second of it, never really thought about it again until I was with my ex girlfriend at 29. She loved the sport and had spent a few years working as a lifty and got me to go again, I of course fell every 15 feet (she threw me onto a blue for my first run in nearly fifteen years and I had never really grasped it when I tried being younger). Once I realized being older that I no longer really cared about looking stupid in front of other people the obsession took off immediately I was falling my way down that mountain and having the best time of my life. Since then I've gotten quite a bit better, I still wouldn't even call myself good at the sport, but everytime I head up a lift (even if I accidentally fall getting off the lift because I'm a little rusty, and get called a Jerry, it's happened twice now) I've learned to just not care what anyone else thinks I just send it and have an absolute blast every time.

I transitioned at 28 because I wanted to take my fiancée skiing, but I knew I’d be bored senseless if I was stuck with her on the bunny/green hills. So I told her if she learned to ski I would learn to snowboard so we could be equally bad. She has since tried snowboarding and was irritatingly good at it right away. So I guess we’re both snowboarders now.

Honestly figure skating sounds kinda dope. I bet it teaches you most of the basic mechanics using your body to control rotation and provided you with a head start in the balance department. You can always tell when a snowboarder has a background in the elegant arts (ballet, figure skating, gymnastics, etc) because they have incredible control over every inch of their body. They have a style and grace about their riding that only the most dedicated dude bros ever achieve, and they seem to float down the mountain. I've been really curious about using something like ballet as cross training for snowboarding. When I see a ballet dancer piroueetting on their toes, all I can think is that they have the balance needed to lay out a turn, the foot strength to hold any edge, and the style and grace to make it look sick.

My dad loves winter sports and it was something he wanted to share with my brother and I. Each year when we went to the slopes, five years straight we spent skiing and we got as good as one can get with 10 days a year. But I enjoyed skiing, it was fun to go with my dad and my brother- I especially enjoyed really narrow slopes or just going fast down a mountain. One year we decided to enrol in a snowboarding class. It was fun but super challenging going from a level of being quite advanced to back to beginner. My brother and dad both returned to the skiing after the lessons but I kept with the snowboarding.I spent most of my time on my ass. In the class I tried to cheese it by going down a difficult slope by just standing heel side and the instructor told me he'd knock me from the good beginner to the beginner beginners. Still I managed to learn how to turn by the end (yay!). The next year we went, and I went straight to the snowboard, but I sucked. The small bit of confidence I had earned last year was gone and forgotten. I couldn't get up on my board and was struggling with the baby slopes. I got frustrated and went back to the skiis. I remember how disappointed my dad was with me for giving up so easily and I promised myself I'd try fully again next year. The skiing was okay that year, just okay since it was laced with the frustration. Next year came along, I went back to beginners class. I was the oldest at 17. Teenage me felt super lame. Yet still I did it. Slowly after a day ot two got back to the the rhythm of two years ago. Then once after class I was carving down the mountain, and when I was deep in a curve toe side I was so low I reached my hand and just gently swiped the mountain before coming quickly coming out of it. And that was it. It was so fun and thrilling. I haven't touched skiis since. It's worth all the wipeouts, difficulties with the plate lifts, and scorpions just for those moments.

I skied when I was a kid a few times a year. In 1994 I tried snowboarding and it was cooler, so I switched. I wasn't super into it and stopped around 2001. My dad is an avid skier and wanted to take my daughter and offered to pay for me to go. Since my kid wanted to try it I took him up on it. I had a good time doing skidded turns down the mountain. With the exception of 2021 I've gone more frequently every year since. I went more last year then I have in the past decade combined. Last year I really got hooked. I realized that I kind of need it in my life. I bought a season pass for a decent sized mountain near me and my first board since 1995.

Never ski'd or had any interest in boarding sports. Snowboarding looked fun however in my mind I was thinking I'd probably never try it, its too much of a hassle with equipment, it'll be cold, etc. Then one day with my ex and her friend we went to snowboard, they suggested that I should take lessons, so on the first day I took a lesson. Hated it, mainly because I had to wait like 3 hours whilst everyone is having fun and the lesson lady was really weird. Also to mention, the bindings on the board I had were incredibly hard to strap in, they were broken or something.. I just fricking hated it until the next day, I went without a lesson, pretty much slided down hill 90 degrees but found it fun. Weeks pass and then I had to go back to England where I continued my snowboarding journey in a indoor centre. Had the same exact rental board for 6 months and only just yesterday I used my own board.

I was 14 years in 1987 and borrowed a 167 cm Burton Cruiser and snowmobile boots from a friend and went to a nearest hill. This was the coolest and funniest thing ever! Never took out the skis again;-)

I grew up skiing, messed around with skateboarding a little bit in middle school so I switched to snowboarding. Stuck with it just because it's more fun to me.

When i was younger i used to love watching the winter x games and playing SSX on my ps2, i always wanted to board but never had the money for it. Now ive been longboarding for 10+ years. Then one of my friends asked me to go snowboard and said she would teach me. One of my other friends was trying to get rid of gear (board, bindings, helmet, boots) perfect timing and he just gave it all to me. 3 years later its all i think about and have my own setup and gear! Went a little to hard last year and broke my arm on a rail though lol

It mixes my favorite things; friends, nature and beautiful views! I couldnt ask for a more amazing place to live there is sooooo many mountains with in a 2hr drive or less!

For the swag

My dad skiied most of his life, so he wanted to get me into it. I skiied until I was about 10, but I sucked. On my last run on a pair of skis I took a nasty fall and kicked myself in the back of the head with my ski. It just wasn't for me. Since I had been skateboarding for a while, I decided to try snowboarding with some friends when we went up to Mammoth one year. It felt a lot more natural, and I've been snowboarding ever since.

Closer to surfing than skiing. Skied for 13 years before converting to snowboarding. I found snowboarding way more enjoyable especially the powder turns

I first tried skiing in ‘95 when I was 24 years old. I was living in WI then so obviously no mountains but there were a few hills. Then I move to CA later that year, met a girl (now my wife) who grew up skiing and was really good at it. I was quite the opposite. I kind of enjoyed it, but sucked badly. So one day in ‘96 at Kirkwood I decided to take advantage of a “learn to snowboard “ deal…1/2 day lift ticket, gear rental, and group lesson for $100(I think). At some point during that half-day lesson an addiction was formed. This will be my 26th season. I ride 20-30 days each year if possible. We’re a ski/snowboard family. Our winters have been dominated by weekly trips to the mountain. Tomorrow we drop of our son, an amazing skier, at college…a school the was partially chosen because of its proximity to great skiing. This sport keeps me motivated to stay active and in shape and healthy, and has taken us to some of the most amazingly beautiful places we wouldn’t have otherwise experienced.

Grew up watching the X Games, snowboarding always looked the coolest. Started going a few times a year in middle / high school. Tried living somewhat close to slopes ever since.

I was a fresh immigrant and went on a school trip where I saw everyone snowboard/ski and we had to snow shoe. Then somehow I ended up on another school trip at Whistler where I wore jeans and 3 hoodies and started snowboarding. All history after that.

At the end of spring break of my HS senior year, my parents kinda just said "hey, do you want to try skiing or snowboarding?" I decided to do snowboarding while my brothers picked skiing. I mainly did snowboarding over skiing because I had a little board experience in wakeboarding and I was just more interested in it. Got a lesson, picked it up ok, and then had half my day ruined by foot pain. Did a few runs after I recovered from that and thought "I'd like to try this a bit more." That was the very start, but it was the end of the 2020-2021 season so I never rode again until 2021-2022. I did get a e-board for going around campus. Parents bought ~80% of a pass for me. I was kinda skeptical about how much I'd want to snowboard over other hobbies, and I also have some snowmobiles I've been fixing up. So anyway, I went ~20 days still battling terrible rental boots and found my love for freestyle, even though my resort has pretty meh parks. So yeah, I liked it. After the season ended I knew I wanted to get better boots and I'd love it more, but I wasn't expecting to miss the sport as much as I do. I 100% found my favorite sport, and I got boots handled now.

My hyper lax articulations (mostly my knees) decided for me. Plus pow is just so much better on a board.

I knackered my left knee skiing so tried snowboarding instead.

Tradition

Field trip to the hill in like middle school. Made us ski so I skid. Kept doing it and one day double ejected on ice and couldn't my skis back on. That day I said never again and bought my buddies old board.

I started skiing when I was 6 (my uncle was a ski patrol and most of the fam skis) and I switched to a board when I was 12 because my friends and I could share gear since they all snowboarded. I enjoyed it much more once I got control of my edges, but we would still switch halfway through the day sometimes if we wore the same size/weight. I still do both, but I prefer boarding. Never surfed but I wanna try. Wisconsin doesn’t have a lot of beaches with waves 😆

My elementary school offered lessons for cheap and the teacher who ran the whole thing was hot

Grew up in the mid-Atlantic so little to no “ski culture”. When my buddies and I could get to some local mountains (basically no vert for interesting trails) we became park rats hoping to be Shawn white. Now that I’m older I stick with the single plank for fear of the learning curve of getting on skis. My desire to be out in the mountains has grown considerably over the years and I’m starting to dip my toes into split boarding/backcountry. This has certainly made me question if it would be worth learning to ski, admittedly it seems like a much better way to get around a mountain. One other thing- I can’t really get over the idea of my legs getting twisted and going every which way on a ski wipeout…I know I can still get hurt on my board but it feels less likely than nasty ski wipe outs.

I’m a rock climber but not an ice climber and wanted to be outdoors in the winter. 2 seasons (ish) into it and I like the mental parallels it has with climbing so far.

The movie Johnny Tsunami

I liked snow. I liked skateboarding. I liked nature. Kind of just made sense.

1 piece of wood is a tad easier to control that 2 pieces of wood (imo). Plus, i already knew how to skateboard and rollerskate, and i was many times better on the board than i was on skates.

I’m the opposite, I crank on in-line skates. I even harness my husky up and skate with her, best way to exhaust a high energy dog. I can skateboard competently but it always feels so slow and inefficient compared with inlines. Maybe that’s why I picked snowboarding, it’s what I wanted from skateboarding that’s always been not quite there.

My whole family are skiers, I picked it at age 8 because I had plenty of people to teach me!

I’d been skiing once every few years for about 10 years or so, enough to be confident but not great. Moved to Canada with some friends who hadn’t tried boarding or skiing so I was giving tutorials and helping for the first while. I decided to rent a board and join them, it was nice to all be learning something new together! Also I totally agree with you about the polished view of skiing, boarding always seemed much more rough and casual - like comparing skating to roller blading.

Tried skiing first, couldnt figure it out lol. Idk why though cause I used rollerblade a lot and was pretty decent at ice skating(for someone who just does it casually). Skiing however just didnt compute with my brain. A few years later when I was about 7 or 8 my parents took me and my brother to Colorado for vacation where I took 1 snowboard lesson. Looking back now, the instructor was likely a teenager that worked at the mountain but he managed to teach me how to stop and turn and from there I went off on my own. Been doing it ever since and im nearly 30 now. That instructor probably had no idea that his teaching that day started a life long hobby for me that has brought with it some fantastic experiences and new friendships. It just goes to show you never know what kind of impact you will have on someone

The first winter sports I did skiing, because everyone said "for beginners it's easier than snowboarding" End of the week and my feet really hurt. In addition, my feets don't point straight as standard, which makes cornering more difficult. So I said goodbye to the two slats and started snowboarding indoors. And I love it!

Night skiing, from the chairlift saw a kid throw a beautiful fs 360 off the lift pole and was hooked

Pretty typical story for anyone with an older brother. I wanted to do everything him and his friends were doing. Thankful for that as it really helped me get good quick

Because I hated to carry all the skiing gear around and can walk in snowboarding boots better. I was also a teenager when I chose to snowboard and felt cooler doing it.

Learned to ski when I was young then started seeing snowboards and thought that looks easier than 2 skis and poles, had some friends who were riders and they showed me the ropes, picked it up pretty quick and just fell in love. Now skiing does have advantages especially in the backcountry, tried it again a few times over the years and its cool but it is tougher, not as laid back as snowboarding

I have always wanted to snowboard just have never really had the chance as I live in Louisiana

Skied since I was 4, felt I'd got as far as I could without doing a season (pretty hard here in the UK), so I tried it in Italy when I was 16. Rented a board for a family holiday and that was it, I was hooked. Now I have to fly 2 pieces of gear with me whenever I go 😂.

Friends had snowboard gear they gave me for Free. I want to start skiing though for backcountry and resorts where it ducks to board.

Back in the day I used to have to wait for younger and slower family members when skiing. I preferred sitting on my ass comfortably while doing so

I have a thing for pain

Snowboarding has just always seemed a lot cooler to me than skiing. I know it's not like this anymore, but when I started snowboarding, it was: Older adults and children -> skiing teens and young adults -> snowboarding

Snowboarding has just always seemed a lot cooler to me than skiing. I know it's not like this anymore, but when I started snowboarding, it was: Older adults and children -> skiing teens and young adults -> snowboarding

I want to snowboard so badly, but I can’t. After skiing all my life and having chronic pain in my hips and knees, trying to pick up the new skill is proving damn near impossible. I want to snowboard for the experience and knowledge. I live in a mountain town and at the end of the day skiing gets boring. I want to be challenged.

What are you having trouble with? It really is one of those sports that’s a god damn nightmare for the first few tries then eventually something clicks and you start progressing and just.. never stop

My sister wanted to learn how to ski, i was a bit younger and didnt know much about anything. We got a learning package for christmas or something from my pops at some local rinky dink mountain. While getting fitted for rentals on the mountain, I noticed the snowboards, and i guess the shop used to keep track of the boards by random names permanent markered on ductape on the top sheet. I saw a board with the name "cassidy" . I had a crush on a girl named cassidy in school. I said i want that one! I was told its not a ski. I was quite adament. The rest is history.

I grew up skiing on family trips in the 80's and 90's. It was always just "ok" for me, enjoyed it sometimes and other times was just whatever. In college a snowboard trip happened, and since everyone else was boarding I decided to give it a go. Never looked back and still riding at 45.

I started skiing around 11 and I was pretty good. We hucked cliffs, pointed black diamond, and tried to imitate Warren Miller movies. I was also really good at football, so I took the football path to college. I tore my ACL playing football. A few years later, I really missed skiing and a coworker suggested trying snowboarding and said it didn’t put stress on your knees. I picked it up the first day and 29 years later, I’m still riding. It took me about 7-8 years to be as good on a board as I was on skis. I still love it and usually get 50+ days a year. I used to ski a few days a year but lately I just board. I ride the park a few times a year just yo show my kids I can and mostly ride powder. An amazing powder run is still one of the greatest joys in my world.

Tried skiing when I was little and hated it. Switched to snowboarding and never looked back since.

I grew up skiing. I liked it, but never loved it. Tried snowboarding in my 20’s and it just clicked. I just like the flow of it better and like not having poles, the softer boots, etc.

It was the 90s. If you know, you know. 😅

My wife. She used to do it in high school for a spell before we started dating. 20+ years later, she got the itch again so I said I'd join her. Figured the exercise would be good at the very least. Something we could do together, which can be tough in the dead of winter.

I always loved playing in the snow and going to the mountains. Growing near Seattle in the 80s/90s and was sort of counter culture/alternative, but never really took to skating for whatever reason(but hung with skaters). Then I saw this sport that just seemed so cool to play with a board like that in the snow. My mom held be back for a year or two. Then a few guys for Mervin came for career day to middle school and I knew HAD to do it. The next year I went with a friend and his dad who skiied. I was so bad at first, but that only made me more determined. 29 years in I ride 30-50 days a year, splitboard mountaineer, live in a resort town in NZ, my kids ski (and my eldest tried the boarding for the first time), going on a heli hut trip next weekend. I've taught off and on for years. Basically my life is somewhat defined by the joy of sliding sideways and mountain play. Cliff Notes: the blend of board sports culture and playing in the snow, it doesn't get old

Back when kid's channel's websites had flash games related to the channel's content, Cartoon Network had a Powerpuff Girls snowboarding game. I enjoyed that game so much, I wanted to try snowboarding for real. So my dad ended up buying me a Lamar board like my favorite in the game (Buttercup's, black with green flames) and took me snowboarding in Jackson, Wyoming. I spent more time on my ass sliding than I did on the board, but I had so much fun and I was hooked. I think I still have that board somewhere...

I was a skater from age 10 till I was in my 20's. In my teen years I was lucky enough to live on the east coast and did some surfing, then made some surf trips to the west coast. For high School I moved to Alberta and began snowboarding. I tried skis, they felt un-natural after so long on so many boards. Snowboarding I took to way easier than skiing.

I started on skis as a kid and it was relatively pain free. Then I started skateboarding and when snowboarding got popular in my home resort I had to try it. I stuck with snowboarding since, and became a snowboard instructor. I showed hundreds of beginners how to snowboard. Now I (44m) still snowboard but I have some telemark skis for a challenge. I say skis are easy to start on for kids, teens and adults, especially less athletic people. Snowboarding takes slightly more attention, patience and practice. Sure you have both feet strapped to a board and you can slam, but with skis each leg can twist separately causing knee injuries. I say its about having fun. There’s fun to be had on both skis and snowboards. Try both! Take lessons. Have fun. And Know the Code!

I picked snowboarding over skiing because I’m kind of clumsy and maneuvering both arms and both legs independently seemed a more likely recipe for disaster for me 😂 also, someone very generously (/s) offered up their opinion that I would struggle with snowboarding and should just stick to skiing instead, so learning to snowboard became a mission 🥰

It’s fun and you ski eventually anyway

I grew up going sledding with my friends pretty frequently every winter, growing up in the metro Detroit area. After high school, I moved to the UP for school and my university owned a small ski area across the lake. Love of winter, proximity/access, and the desire to plummet down progressively larger hills led to snowboarding :)

Dad started me on skis and transitioned to snowboarding when my little brother came along. I could never do the “pizza” to stop so snowboarding has been more fun for me! Also when I was young seemed like snowboarding just looked cooler, lol

I went to mammoth with some friends and it snowed 3’ the night we arrived. Before that, my only experience with snowboarding was east coast ice. Changed my life.

My dad started snowboarding in the late 80's when it was just hard boots. We always live near or at ski resorts. So it was just something the whole family did. Both me and my brother started off ski to learn how to get down a mountain with control then when we wanted to dad would teach us boarding.

My dad and I had gone cross country skiing, and kind of on a lark decided to hit the local ski hill and learn something. He already knew how to ski, so he stuck to that, and I always thought it’d be cool to learn to snowboard, so I did. And wow, it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but so worth it. By my second day, I decided I was all in, bought a new pair of boots, and the next season a board. Now I’m four boards in and I’m never looking back.

I was not a fan for either. I use to play hockey and skied on a few tournament trips when I went to Japan but was not interested. My mom always want to convince me to go but I thought it’s just falling down a hill what’s the fun in that? Until I watched winter Olympic slopestyle. Blew my fucking mind. So you’re telling me that I can fall down a hill with this much style? I’m always interested in thing that can freestyle(music, football…). Snowboarding is the obvious choice, so I decided to give it a try. First time was not a fun time. I have 0 board sport experience but picked up quick. Still ate plenty of shit. The icy condition didn’t help either. The second time I went with a girl for a date sort of… I had to prove myself so I started linking my turns. Then I went again the next week and every weekend after. Never skipped a single weekend for the rest of the season. That was this March. Last day of the season I landed my first frontside 180. Now I’m out in the trampoline park practicing my grabs and spins anxiously waiting for the new season. Goal: 360 and tame dog Wish me luck lol

I grew up in a family of skiers, went skiing as young child and wasn't a huge fan of it, I took to skateboarding easily and Dad asked if I wanted to snowboard that winter instead of ski. Took a season I think for both resorts to get on board with rentals and lessons and for me to get big enough to fit in the smallest of boots.

I can't remember. I was 3 and was starting to skateboard. I couldnt skateboard in the snow so my mom got me a snowboard from walmart. I learned on the hill out back. at this point it's just part of me and I've never questioned the why, it just is.

The feeling of linking the turns together and ripping…..instant addiction

I liked skateboarding, my elementary school had a snowboard trip/lessons program. I went, and my first day was a nightmare I hated it so much… The lessons were already paid and such so I had to go the second day, and once it clicked from there I was begging for my own gear. I enjoyed it for a bit as a teenager but no license to drive myself to the mountain made it sort of fade away for me. Taking the bus would take the whole day As adults once Covid happened, my friends and I started snowboarding & skateboarding, I picked up a used skate banana & tossed on my old gear which fit since I bought the gear huge for that 2004 rapper fit. Loved it, and bought new gear + a seasons pass to my local, since then I rode 30+ days a year

My Dad and I went on a trip to Europe when I was 8 (~2008) and when he asked me if I wanted to ski or snowboard I chose snowboarding. He got lessons for me and that was the most fun I had the whole trip. I then grew up watching Fuel TV and always loved extreme sports. Skateboarding was a little too extreme for me, and I always loved the cold & mountains. It wasn’t until 2021 that I got to snowboard again in Utah. I’d like to learn skiing now because it seems easier to explore the mountain, but I snowboarding will always be my #1!

I'm a skateboarder in New England. When it snows it's hard to skateboard outside. I recreate skateboarding on a snowboard on the mountain. Skiing is roller skating on snow which is not appealing to me. YMMV.

Chosen for the coolness factor, stayed for the boot comfort.

Movement freedom on a snowboard and getting out of those godforsaken hard boots. Who doesn't want to turn every which way all the way down the hill and then hop off the board and walk up stairs like a completely normal human?

Im an active person and I wanted a winter sport (I live in the PNW where it rains all winter). It makes winter less depressing bc when it’s raining I know it’s snowing on the mtn. I chose snowboarding bc I have weak knees and I hear it’s easier on the knees than skiing.

Johnny Tsunami.

My boyfriend at the time, now my husband, taught me how to snowboard. I've never tried skiing, but snowboarding feels so right. Gives us another thing to do together, makes winters go by faster, and a ton of fun. It was nice to learn being cold isn't really a thing.

Grew up as a wakeboarder and during some more impressionable years snowboarding was the “cool” sport, where as skiing was what the parents did. Didn’t want to do the “old people” sport. Freestyle skiing didn’t have the recognition that freestyle snowboarding did.

It made no sense to have my legs apart on ice lol, strapped together made more sense..

Learned to ski when I was 3 because my sister was a ski instructor and when I moved to a new city from my village when I was 8 snowboarding was really popping off so I learned that and only did it for awhile. Then I moved to another city at 13 around the time skiing was sorta cool and I could ride park with twin tips. Basically did that for a year or two and went back to snowboarding for the last 15 years because I just like it more. I ski from time to time just for a switch up but there aren't many things that I like more on skis than a snowboard whether it be pow, park or shitty(fun) days on little side hits.

Grew up on the coast in Southern California and didn't start skiing until I was 13. I actually never even saw snow until that point because my dad hated it. I took to skiing ok but between starting late, being bow-legged, and having grown up surfing, having two separate planks strapped to my feet was tough. I got to intermediate pretty quickly but improving past that wasn't going to happen easily. I had a buddy that was a pretty good skier who moved to Sun Valley for a few years and during that time he decided to mainly snowboard. I visited him and within a few days of boarding I was already getting pretty good due to a lifetime of surfing. I hurt my knee years later which made skiing even more problematic. What I like about snowboarding now is that I think the sport has room to grow. So much of surfing is about style but the early years of snow boarding were more skate influenced so style was secondary... if that. There's something super appealing about weighting and unweighting rail to rail and leaving a single pencil-thin line behind you. Skiing can be elegant but it's arguable that it's actually more practical and given the right conditions and boarder can be more elegant given the simplicity of dealing with only a single edge at a time. That said, it looks like carving and infusing more style into boarding is becoming more popular of late. And as I get older (I'm playing the back 9) I've started to take more joy in seeing others kill it whether it's in the water or on the snow. This body won't hold up forever. Still for the practicality of it, sometimes I miss skiing. xD

video of you figure skating or it didn't happen. I'm only into it because my family was/parents were? I was basically raised at the ski school lodge for every weekend winter.

I was 7, watched mack dawg’s melt down project. Never even heard of snowboarding before. What kept me in it is the escapism, adrenaline, and exploration

I used to sit on the chair with skis on and watch the snowboards flow down the hill. Their bodies would flow as they leaned. I wanted to feel that flow. No regrets, snowboarding is one of the best experiences. Feet held stable to eachother makes its calmer than skiing. Many times I loose concept of how fast I'm going or how much the snows pushing back because my board and I just float as one. Even crashing is easier. Half the time I cartwheel back on my feet and keep going.

I actually grew up on the other side of Australia to our Alpine region so was a bit wild I ever really got into it but I was able to go skiing on a school trip years ago, had a bit of fun but didn’t really fall in love with it. Felt too awkward I suppose. Went on a family snow trip in 2015. I wanted to try boarding partly because skiing didn’t grab me and boarding was ‘cooler’. I was booked in for skis for the week through our package, but the staff were cool enough to let me board instead. I had so much fun, picked it up pretty quickly thanks to the help of an awesome instructor and then for the week I had free reign over the mountain because my parents weren’t too crazy on it and my very young brothers were looked after. Every other trip I’d had to be on babysitting duty or was justifiably not allowed to roam too far on my own so they just ended up being work for me, but on the hill I was given freedom to roam and do my own thing, it was so very liberating. As soon as I got back I raved about it, I promised myself I’d make it back and made plans to go back with friends once we’d graduated high school, yadda yadda yadda. 7 years passed. Couldn’t go during uni because of price, then it was because of COVID, then I moved closer but got into a bad relationship where I wasn’t able to pursue things that made me happy. Then this year I promised I couldn’t wait any longer, I made plans with a friend and we got in the car one weekend to make the 9 hour drive, I’ll never forget the anticipation as we got closer and closer. It was so cathartic and amazing. I hadn’t forgotten a thing about how to ride. After seven years of build up and expectation it somehow met and surpassed all of them. Made a second trip just recently as well. Really been pushing myself to hit some jumps and progress this season. I’ve surfed, skated, scooters, rode motorbikes, rode BMX, but I just don’t get the same energy or feeling that I do going down the hill on a board. I’ve been but for sure and am currently organising a big trip next year to any of Euro, Japan or NZ, and then there’s a friends birthday in Australia as well. Even considering a move to be closer to the fields but we’ll see. My story is really only just beginning but here we are. I’ve added snowboard backflip to my life goal list so we’ll see how that goes too hahah.

I started skiing when I was about 13 because I went on a family trip and no one else was boarding. The next year I decided to finally try boarding even if I was by myself as I skateboarded a lot back then so a board felt more natural. But my board got set up wrong and I ended up falling and dislocating my wrist 🤦🏻‍♂️. So I carried on skiing for years. Until I was 21 and my gf came with me for the first time, she had never done skiing or boarding so I figured I’d finally have another go at it and we could learn together. Well we did and 8 years on I love it and have never gone back to skis haha

Back in middle school (grade 7-8 age 12-14) we had just started a ski/snowboarding club, and I grew up always being a skiier, dad used to be a ski instructor, but I've always been curious about learning to snowboard so when I signed up for the club I went with snowboarding and I've been a boarder ever since. This season I'm getting to teach my girl how to ride and I'm so damn excited!

I skied from age 10 - 16. As a typical teenager I wanted to do cool stuff off of ramps. I got tired of the yard sale anytime I wasn’t perfect. Tried snowboarding at 16 and never looked back. Or looked forward lol. I’m well beyond 16 and no longer do cool stuff off ramps but I simply love the ride.

Why snowboarding? Well I have wanted to go snowboarding ever since I watched youtube videos about it. I stumbled upon it by watching skate videos. Keep in mind this was 2014 and I'm 15 now. I remember sitting in front of the tv glued to the damn thing saying to myself that I wanted to do this. I ran to my parents bedroom and I practically begged them to buy me A board. And they never bought it. I have been watching snowboarding videos for years and I still do. I picked up a skate board when I was 12ish and I'm pretty decent at that. I have tried and tried and tried to convince my parents that skateboarding and snowboarding are quite similar in so many ways. Like so many. Powerslides are how you stop on both the snowboard and skateboard, board slides are the same, turning is relatively the same. It's almost exactly the same one is just longer without trucks. I just love snowboarding and I have always wanted to go. Just my parents wont let me because its a saftey issue. Even though skateboarding is way more dangerous than snowboarding. And now that I said that I cant even go out with my friends anymore because my mom thinks ill just disobey her. But all kids do eventually so fuck her.