Interactions with snowboarders

I’ve got some friends who board, at the end of the day they’re also just mfs who like to slide around on snow. I don’t like waiting for them to strap into their bindings though
 
I live with a snowboarder. Maybe you can help with something I have been going through lately. I went out into the living room after a long nights rest, and was greeted with a friendly good morning. He continued on by asking, "how I was doing this morning?"...

I'm not sure what to think at this point. Is this a good interaction? Does he want to use my extra plank to end my life? Maybe I'm just tripping.

As I type this message I keep looking over my shoulders. Only god knows what that crazy bastard is thinking about. (Probably nose pressing a jersey barrier) It's a cold world.
 
A snowboard said hi to me at the top of the psrk once and I told him to fuck off. Dude seemed like he wanted to get hit. Didn't wanna lose my pass though. The hell do snowboarders think they're doin
 
14485120:theabortionator said:
A snowboard said hi to me at the top of the psrk once and I told him to fuck off. Dude seemed like he wanted to get hit. Didn't wanna lose my pass though. The hell do snowboarders think they're doin
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ITS THE WOOD The wood is talking?>

The walls, the mushrooms grow off the wood, THE WOOD.
 
They either really suck, scraping snow off trails, and are trashed blasting music from their backpack or chill af and shred so hard I can barely keep up. No in between.

My best friend is a boarder so I am sure to remind him how inferior his race is.
 
It’s fun to let them know they’re inferior as I rip by in the flats. I definitely tend to meet a lot more boarders doing hard drugs at mountains and getting way to fucked especially in the 28-35 age bracket. Older and younger guys are pretty chill.
 
Most snowboarders are in their 30s now it seems. Skiing has definitely picked up the next generation.
 
You might wake up one morning to your inside edges welded together and your bindings perpendicular :0

14485107:HSmith said:
I live with a snowboarder. Maybe you can help with something I have been going through lately. I went out into the living room after a long nights rest, and was greeted with a friendly good morning. He continued on by asking, "how I was doing this morning?"...

I'm not sure what to think at this point. Is this a good interaction? Does he want to use my extra plank to end my life? Maybe I'm just tripping.

As I type this message I keep looking over my shoulders. Only god knows what that crazy bastard is thinking about. (Probably nose pressing a jersey barrier) It's a cold world.
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14485160:r00kie said:
Most snowboarders are in their 30s now it seems. Skiing has definitely picked up the next generation.
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this is objectively false aside from mountain towns
 
14485160:r00kie said:
Most snowboarders are in their 30s now it seems. Skiing has definitely picked up the next generation.
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I mean it's still a thing, but it's not as big compared to skiing at the base line anymore.

14485296:Farmville420 said:
I’ve noticed this as well. Wonder why?
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Snowboarding was the counter culture. It was the sketchy dude you let show up to the BBQ sometimes. It had some jokes, maybe would do a flip off the balcony, but inevitably get too drunk and disrespect your grandmother.

They built up the parks to give them a place to go, to get the fuck away from skiers trying to do ski things. Skating was back on an uptick, winter xgames showed up in 97 as did some other contests. I feel like Out Cold was pretty late 2001 ish, but even that was during the big wave/last big push of snowboarding. that was a major ish movie too.

With televised events, movies, friggin Johnny Tsunami squashing the beef in 99 it was a growing thing. I remember at the local when I first got a real board in 98 I think there was only 1 other snowboarder and 2 older dudes that did both sometimes. Tbar lift with a steep headwall, no grooming. It was what other places experience a couple years before I think. We were small town late but still it was a huge wave. 2001-2005 everybody was getting into it. I remember a season where I knew 10+ friends(at a small friggin mtn) all on their start falling leaf mode down the hill.

Skiing and snowboarding kinda hashed out the beef over the years, skiing progressed a ton. Especially 2005-2010. You had to snowboard to ride park at one point. I mean some parks were legit snowboard only, but I mean skiing wasn't that accepted. That's why this place was born. You saw people with twin tips and it was a novelty almost. Now they're both related but also independent. People can grow up skiing and then move into park and kill it. There isn't a weird push to need to snowboard.

That said, it's cool when people dabble in both. My buddy that's our park sup now and living with me up at Crystal just posted an edit doing a front 4 off a flat tube. Didn't know he could do it. Idk, I know a lot of dual rippers. It's pretty sick.

Was hoping to get boots this year, but I fucked up my leg and had medical bills and am too broke to do it. I want to asap though. I'm prolly never gonna be decent at jumps again, but I like the feel of trying to spin on and off rails, be a bit of a kook on the smaller features.

I think skiing is similar to rollerblading in one way at least. It used to be hated on, but now you see a rollerblader at the park, everyone has mad respect. The park is just a place, do whatever. If you ski or board it doesn't matter, if you're a kook you're a kook, if you're cool you're cool. Most people ride with a mixed crew.

That was way too many words for this, apologies to anyone that read all that. My bad
 
I just feel bad that my snowboard trick knowledge is practically nonexistent, like my friend who is one of the better snowboarders I’ve seen will describe a line to me and I still have no idea wtf he’s talking about or how impressive it is

**This post was edited on Nov 30th 2022 at 3:34:40pm
 
I know of a certain mtn in the east that until a couple years ago wouldn't even hire snowboarders to park staff that ride with skiers. They build some sick ass features but also seem to have a thing for building cool setups that are only open for snowboard only rail jams and then torn down before reopening to the public. Maybe it was an insurance thing, maybe the cooler stuff is a pain in the ass to maintain but damn it was annoying.

Other than that I have a bunch of boarder friends that are really chill and fun to shred with.
 
they’re all pretty cool at my local, but like someone less said they’re all like 25-35 years old and do hard drugs
 
topic:beck_shredz said:
what are some good or bad interactions you've had with snowboarders?
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there's a local snowboarder/skater who lives in my area that I see sometimes at my local mountains, he's extremely talented and a super nice guy. Half the time I'm pretty sure he's sauced out of his mind.
 
I hate snowboarders, those beer drinking idiots. Always playing their damn rock music. I avoid interactions with them at all costs
 
My gf boards and its cool. Tried it and didn't care for it, but like others say, its just a person who loves to be on snow like skiers
 
14485408:bootspace said:
they’re all pretty cool at my local, but like someone less said they’re all like 25-35 years old and do hard drugs
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Yeah i see a lot of them boarders smoking out of those bong things at my hill. I just don't want my poor ski brain to get corrupted from that hard stuff
 
last year the first time my sister went skiing at an area allowing snowboarders she asked what all those ppl skateboarding were doing (shes 5) and i just told her they were evil people and that's what she knows of them
 
Maybe it was a Mt hood thing. In the 90s. It was 50 50 skier to snowboard ratio. I've rode with more snowboarders than skiers in my life I can say that safely. I remember when parks were snowboard only and I snuck in on my snowblades and said they were not skies and then hit a jump. I never understood the beef of it. When I was 28 I learned to snowboard. It's a ton of fun. I'm not as good at it as I am skiing. But it it a ton of fun and I get why it's a preference for some.

But in my 32 years of skiing. I've delt with more cranky ass skiers than snowboarders.
 
14485323:theabortionator said:
I mean it's still a thing, but it's not as big compared to skiing at the base line anymore.

Snowboarding was the counter culture. It was the sketchy dude you let show up to the BBQ sometimes. It had some jokes, maybe would do a flip off the balcony, but inevitably get too drunk and disrespect your grandmother.

They built up the parks to give them a place to go, to get the fuck away from skiers trying to do ski things. Skating was back on an uptick, winter xgames showed up in 97 as did some other contests. I feel like Out Cold was pretty late 2001 ish, but even that was during the big wave/last big push of snowboarding. that was a major ish movie too.

With televised events, movies, friggin Johnny Tsunami squashing the beef in 99 it was a growing thing. I remember at the local when I first got a real board in 98 I think there was only 1 other snowboarder and 2 older dudes that did both sometimes. Tbar lift with a steep headwall, no grooming. It was what other places experience a couple years before I think. We were small town late but still it was a huge wave. 2001-2005 everybody was getting into it. I remember a season where I knew 10+ friends(at a small friggin mtn) all on their start falling leaf mode down the hill.

Skiing and snowboarding kinda hashed out the beef over the years, skiing progressed a ton. Especially 2005-2010. You had to snowboard to ride park at one point. I mean some parks were legit snowboard only, but I mean skiing wasn't that accepted. That's why this place was born. You saw people with twin tips and it was a novelty almost. Now they're both related but also independent. People can grow up skiing and then move into park and kill it. There isn't a weird push to need to snowboard.

That said, it's cool when people dabble in both. My buddy that's our park sup now and living with me up at Crystal just posted an edit doing a front 4 off a flat tube. Didn't know he could do it. Idk, I know a lot of dual rippers. It's pretty sick.

Was hoping to get boots this year, but I fucked up my leg and had medical bills and am too broke to do it. I want to asap though. I'm prolly never gonna be decent at jumps again, but I like the feel of trying to spin on and off rails, be a bit of a kook on the smaller features.

I think skiing is similar to rollerblading in one way at least. It used to be hated on, but now you see a rollerblader at the park, everyone has mad respect. The park is just a place, do whatever. If you ski or board it doesn't matter, if you're a kook you're a kook, if you're cool you're cool. Most people ride with a mixed crew.

That was way too many words for this, apologies to anyone that read all that.
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U know justin?
 
I do them both pretty evenly (haven’t ridden either that long tho). Started out snowboarding, now I like skiing more. Probably something to do with it to me being more challenging to carve well and having more control on rails. But I love them both they’re fun in different ways. Plus all of my friends who do ride snowboard including my little brother.
 
Decided to take a gamble on day and leave deer valley for a day… I know, crazy. Saw one in the lift line and couldn’t help but stare, it started to yell at me, then started barking, chased me to the parking lot on all fours. Will not be skiing Brighton again.
 
14485323:theabortionator said:
I mean it's still a thing, but it's not as big compared to skiing at the base line anymore.

Snowboarding was the counter culture. It was the sketchy dude you let show up to the BBQ sometimes. It had some jokes, maybe would do a flip off the balcony, but inevitably get too drunk and disrespect your grandmother.

They built up the parks to give them a place to go, to get the fuck away from skiers trying to do ski things. Skating was back on an uptick, winter xgames showed up in 97 as did some other contests. I feel like Out Cold was pretty late 2001 ish, but even that was during the big wave/last big push of snowboarding. that was a major ish movie too.

With televised events, movies, friggin Johnny Tsunami squashing the beef in 99 it was a growing thing. I remember at the local when I first got a real board in 98 I think there was only 1 other snowboarder and 2 older dudes that did both sometimes. Tbar lift with a steep headwall, no grooming. It was what other places experience a couple years before I think. We were small town late but still it was a huge wave. 2001-2005 everybody was getting into it. I remember a season where I knew 10+ friends(at a small friggin mtn) all on their start falling leaf mode down the hill.

Skiing and snowboarding kinda hashed out the beef over the years, skiing progressed a ton. Especially 2005-2010. You had to snowboard to ride park at one point. I mean some parks were legit snowboard only, but I mean skiing wasn't that accepted. That's why this place was born. You saw people with twin tips and it was a novelty almost. Now they're both related but also independent. People can grow up skiing and then move into park and kill it. There isn't a weird push to need to snowboard.

That said, it's cool when people dabble in both. My buddy that's our park sup now and living with me up at Crystal just posted an edit doing a front 4 off a flat tube. Didn't know he could do it. Idk, I know a lot of dual rippers. It's pretty sick.

Was hoping to get boots this year, but I fucked up my leg and had medical bills and am too broke to do it. I want to asap though. I'm prolly never gonna be decent at jumps again, but I like the feel of trying to spin on and off rails, be a bit of a kook on the smaller features.

I think skiing is similar to rollerblading in one way at least. It used to be hated on, but now you see a rollerblader at the park, everyone has mad respect. The park is just a place, do whatever. If you ski or board it doesn't matter, if you're a kook you're a kook, if you're cool you're cool. Most people ride with a mixed crew.

That was way too many words for this, apologies to anyone that read all that. My bad
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nah man thats some dope input
 
I like riding with snowboarders because I’m always on the same pace with em. I always gotta buckle my boots back up when I get off the chair and they gotta strap into their bindings.
 
14485653:weatcoast said:
I like riding with snowboarders because I’m always on the same pace with em. I always gotta buckle my boots back up when I get off the chair and they gotta strap into their bindings.
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Why are your boots so tight? Let the blood flow bro
 
14485156:PsychicMigration said:
It’s fun to let them know they’re inferior as I rip by in the flats. I definitely tend to meet a lot more boarders doing hard drugs at mountains and getting way to fucked especially in the 28-35 age bracket. Older and younger guys are pretty chill.
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yea 100% BROSKI, I always see the boarders (only in the age range of 28-35(I ask before assuming)) shooting up on the chair

GET THESE BOARDERS OFF 'ER LAND
 
14485704:BingPow said:
yea 100% BROSKI, I always see the boarders (only in the age range of 28-35(I ask before assuming)) shooting up on the chair

GET THESE BOARDERS OFF 'ER LAND
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I have never in my life seen a snowboarder who isn’t addicted to meth
 
Snowboarders are the only ones to ever offer me a beer or some weed on the chairlift, generally they just have good vibes and aren't so ego driven. Skiers are more likely to be arrogant, or angry, and more likely to shit on anyone else sliding the same snow, for whatever reason. I wish it wasn't that way, because I prefer skiing, but that just seems to be the way of things.
 
14485716:weatcoast said:
So I can have maximum control over my skis
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Trust when I say I get you. My feet have been a constant battle my whole life. Lately, I've been closer to the "two finger pressure" rule (with the exception of ankle buckle (palm pressure)). I can say I've noticed a decrease in pain and potentially an improvement in my skiing. All of this said, I am for damn sure no expert. Mainly running with my intuition. (not liners ;) )
 
14485860:HSmith said:
Trust when I say I get you. My feet have been a constant battle my whole life. Lately, I've been closer to the "two finger pressure" rule (with the exception of ankle buckle (palm pressure)). I can say I've noticed a decrease in pain and potentially an improvement in my skiing. All of this said, I am for damn sure no expert. Mainly running with my intuition. (not liners ;) )
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Yeah I buckle my shits so tight the buckles will bend and then fracture. Super annoying. I have to pull on my top 2 with my opposite hand behind my leg so I can actually pull it shut. If I try same hand on same leg I can feel my shoulder popping out a little bit haha.
 
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