Snowboarders to skiing

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fs04leoaksfny

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I know people are prob gonna say search but i figure theres prob more people on the site now then there was in the past. So i was wondering how many people on here had gone to snowboarding from skiing and had stayed a skier...Cause im lovin skiing and i dont even know how...When im shreadin the park i always let you guys go infront of me so i can watch you rip the rails and stuff...It just flows so much narlier then a snowboard.Mostlikly tonight im going to learn to ski it will be an expierence lol but i waterski and all that stuff.so i dont think it will be too hard...But i dont know if anyones like me who went from snowboarding to skiing i would like to know if you stuck with it and stuff...Im pretty sure i will be stickin with it...
 
I went from skiing to snow boarding then back to skiing. Skiing is hard to learn and takes more time then It does to learn how to snowboard. Stick with it
 
alright heres my equation:

snowboarding is harder to learn, but easier to get better at (to a certain point)

skiing is relativly easy to learn, but way harder to get better at (ie-spinning onto rails, turning off, spins with grabs, riding switch)

so just try it out for a little while man, do what you think you would enjoy more.
 
i learned to ski first then switch to boarding...and several years ago hit the freestyle scene on skis.....i thought skiing was pretty easy to progress quickly. especially if u play hockey or are a good skater
 
I know whatcha mean but its not just the whole "park" side that i like about skiing. Skiiers just flow a mountain so much better then snowboarders. Im always going to the mountain with my cousin and friend they both ski. Im struggleing to keep up with them in the runs with out park oriented shit plus when most boarders get into some speed lets face it. Its in no way as smooth as skiiers we are all like bobbing up and down on bumps and everything... Haha plus i dont wanna be the 50year old snowboarder haha
 
Perfect! thats what I have been telling people for a long time when they ask about one or the other. But I always end my opionion by saying skiing is unlimited to how cool it can get.
 
I switched from snowboarding 2 seasons ago and ive never looked back once. I was nervous about the idea of starting to ski again but i just started from the bottom (learning how to make controled turns again etc) and now im doing bs sw ups on kinked rails and hitting jumps switch and all that gnar gnar
 
nice man...But in all honesty...how long did it take you guys to rip skis not park or anything but to go down the mountain minus black dimonds cleanly and smoothly...I tend to catch onto some sports well...I waterskiied for 7 years i used to rollerblade and all that junk... Some people say if you can do them it helps learning...
 
i skied for like 6 years when i was real little before i snowboarded.... but i dont know how much that helped. Probably not too much except for stopping. If you can waterski and snowboard and all that shit making some turns down a groomer wont be hard.
 
If you go hardcore everyday, it wont take long. But if you go like five times a season, then it will take a while to get good.
 
i skid for a few years when i was little then snowboarded and then just came back to skiing midway through last year and this year i realy started hitin the park
 
I got 2 of my friends to switch from snowboarding, and they were awesome snowboarders too. They learned pretty fast but both of them said that it is definately harder to master skiing. I still do both, and I'm better at skiing, probably just because I've done it more.
 
yea ill have to wait and see....tobad i gotta use some shitty boots 2mara but i got some ghetto blasters...there pretty small but i dont know its a start and they where free
 
i ski and i tried snowboarding like 3 yrs ago and got lessons and all but it sucked. besides 'most' snowboaders are posers
 
just make sure that you can make turns and do shit outside the park. i went snowboarding a few times, i'm decent at it, and sometimes me and my boarder friends switch for a bit if we've built a backcountry kicker. it's rugged, just do both for a while and see what you like the most.
 
when i was little i was a ski racer repping nancy greene then i stopped now i snowboard but i like to go ski for a laugh and have fun, snowboarders care whos better than who way too much.
 
i skied when i was little. after a while i wanted to jump and spin and stuff and started snowboarding and last year i came back to skiing. started hitting jumps at mi first run and it was so fun. only thing i miss is riding powdersnow with snowboard. but skiing more fun and i will do this the rest of my life
 
Yeah I made the switch to snowboarding, but it never felt right to me. I teach both, but when I get up in the morning. Skiing is what I think about. When we get a new feature in the park, I hit it on skis. Thats how I knew. I still ride occasionally. I dont see anything wrong with switchin it up.
 
I dont think it would not help. I assuming you one foot ski though. I guess turning is the same kinda, but on water skis you go more back seat to float, which is a no no on the snow. But I'd say it would help especially if you used those tinny trick water skis, that would help allot come to think of it.
 
Mikael Des. was almost, if not a pro snowboarder before he skied i think* correct me if i am wrong (and he deff can cuase in Exact Science he like butters aross the June wallride on a snowboard with ease)
 
eric pollard used to snowboard, and he switched to skiing, now hes like a ski god, jsut stick with it, but teqhniques hardly anything to do with water skiing to be honest from past experience, but the balance will help
 
my buddy learned skiing as a child, snowbaordered like from 8-16 now, and jsut bought some twin tip heads. HE says he enjoys it more.
 
i disagree 100%.

before i learned to ski i skateboarded for years, water skied for years, and biked for years. THe timeing and coordingation, pivoting, even edging(leaning on bike, cutting in on water ski), and mostly stance and balance. Because i was already familiar with these 4 of the 5 fundamentals of skiing, i was able to pick it up in a jiffy.
 
No, wakeboarding will help you more than anything... waterskiing might help you if you were hitting kickers and rails, but even then it probobly wouldnt, wakeboarding will help you with balance and strength and integridy towards hucking your body into the air. wakeboarding rocks.
 
i am gonna raise my kid skiing before he knows what is good for him. Then at around 7 or 8 start him snowboarding. He was gonna butter, press, bonk, poke, ollie, nollie, gap and transger any bump, knoll, stump, log, rock, kicker, rail, box, water tank, staircase, fence, lift rope, spine, hip, tree, bush, chair, car or cliff that comes in his path. He is also gonna rock oversized flannel jackets and 3 xl oakley pants whether he likes it or not. i am gonna feed him super athlete food and his going to be the crossover rider i always wanted to be.
 
being able to ski well, not tricks, but fundamentals ie. holding an edge, is way harder to learn then snowboarding fundamentals ie. toe turns.
 
yea so i shouldnt be in horrible shape...from 10 years of waterskiing,4 years of wakeboarding,3 on snowboarding but oh well we will see..i might go tonight its 56 degrees out tho
 
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