Snowboarders Switching To Skiing

time to start a new page and add some deeper perspective

I skied from 1979-1987

Started boarding the day it was allowed at my hill (Okemo) 1987-1995 - US open half pipe comps in a HAND DUG stunt ditch

1995/96 - Oh shit new skis/real sidecut and parks started building the first big step down tables - I won a pair of elan SCX 169cm skis and started skiing again as a joke - I was blown away, years of carving/buttering and playing on a board transeferred over to skiing - everyone looked at me and shook their head, I skied with snowboarders (US Open top ten finishers) and started finding my own groove on skis -

1996-97 - Started switch skiing on my elans (I cracked the tails and bent them upwards) - Also got picked up by Salomon for snowblading!

1997-98 - 1080's came out for team members and the shit hit the fan

1999-02 the scene just exploded -

02-06 - getting crazier and crazier, you kids are fucking nuts out there -

But I guess it all started from snowboarding - without boarding the ski industry never would have gotten their tight pants, narrow stance asses out of the snow -
 
No way...theres just as many skiers as snowboards who are going big as those who are starting out...and park means nothing, i see way to many boarders and skiers that can do a rail but look like shit going down the hill, people are forgetting the basics
 
my mtn doesnt even have a park, and there are a ton of poser snowboarder kids this year with twins. they are mostly tools though.
 
i'm not, but ever since i started riding twins, i've convinced two of my boarder friends to get twintips. its awesome.
 
I started out as a boarder, went to skiing (didn't sell my board) and now I just do both, but prefer skiing... but it's harder on my body.
 
i skied when i was younger and never really got into it because i didnt want to race or do moguls, and ive been skateboarding since before i can remember so i snowboarded mostly for like 3 or 4 years and then got into freeskiing last year.
 
You should try it a couple times so you can shut up all the snowboarders that say how hard it is. I have to break out the snowboard at least once a year to show them up
 
Snowboarded for about 7 years and became an expert freerider but barely got into park at all.

I Picked a Pair of AR5's this year, with the intention of getting into park and I already have 5 trips in, just started learning how to do switch.

Skiing is a shitload of fun although snowboarding is too, when ever there is pow I will be on my board but otherwise I'm gonna try and ski.
 
ive been boardering for like 5 years... then last year i just started to ski here and there... then i just went out and bought some twins this summer.. so ill be rockin those all season
 
i definatly agree. i do both and i gotta say park skiing is just easier. i think its just because skiing is more natural than snowboarding. on the flip side though backcountry is way easier on a board than it is on skis
 
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