Snowboarding on my mind, please help!

Vincenzo

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Well, as the title discribes snowboarding is all I can think about. In the last couple of weeks I've literally stopped watching ski movies and gone all in on the snowboarding scene. I skate and surf abit so I'm kinda baffled to why I chose skiing over snowboarding in the first place, it might have been because of my skier friends. It just seems as it would fit me so much better. It would improve my balance on a skateboard and surfboard alike. It would make my chinbang go away. Snowboarding would make me be able to hike rails everyday with the ability to walk and run with comfy boots on my feet. I also see this as a huge advantage when going into the resort resturant. Grabs would feel smoother, I would be able to feel the surface of the snow better. Powder! OMG, powder on a snowboard man, that's what I'm all about. Surfing down a mountainside and then hitting a perfectly built kicker further down. I feel that skiing is more on doing drops and not so much about crazy air when it comes to powder. You might not get what I'm saying, but just look at Art of Flight and That's it That's all, has that really been done in skiing? Somehow I feel that snowboarding is abit more evolved when it comes to powder. I've been skiing now for about 2 seasons, I'm pretty decent at it, I would say. Had real progression the second season and evolved to the point where I could throw cork 7's and 9's on big kickers and feel safe afterwards. I orginally started out as a snowboarder and learned how to throw 3's 5's and backflips, pretty much the basic stuff. Now I just feel this urge to get back on my board. I've tried to give skiing the best chance, but I really don't feel the same smoothness as snowboarding is giving me. I guess this is also and natural feeling aswell, also those hours I've spent out in the surf and on my skateboard, going sideways is in my blood. My body screams get on that board, but my hearth still has a place for skiing. I'm so confused right now, should I dust off my snowboard or just stick with skiing?
 
Dont do it!!! if u choose snowboarding you wont be able to do a screamin semen! the best trick in the world. Na dude if u want to go for it
 
In the closet snowboarder.... traitor. Chinbang huh... I'm sure your snowboarder friends can help you out with that one. Sry... left yourself open for the chinbang comment.
 
Why not try it out? If you don't like it you can always switch back after all. Plus, the boots are way comfy and easier to put on. Yeah I've been having the same thought lately.
 
Just a few things. Do you ski on 120 mm or more wasted rockered skis? I'm guessing no. Also, how can you say that snowboarding is more evolved in powder (I'm guessing you mean bc in general)?? In every ski video I've ever seen, they charge harder, drop bigger cliffs, ski sketchier spines, and sometimes actually SKIN up the hill and earn their turns. Also if you come to a slow spot while snowboarding in pow or just want to traverse a little, you can't. In every almost way skiing is better for powder. Just my $0.02 for that.

But if you want to snowboard go for it. You sound like you want to so why not?
 
Who cares what you do? Have fun.

Also, I just saw art of flight at my friends a few weeks ago, I feel like it's extremely overrated.
 
Word I know plenty of people who snowboarded just because it was the "cool" thing to do then they tried out skiing and loved it! Sounds like you're just doing it backwards. Go for it.
 
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Go for it then? There's nothing wrong with snowboarding. I haven't done it in a long time, but from what I remember I found it totally different to skateboarding. Maybe pow snowboarding is similar to surfing, I wouldn't know I'm from jersey... But on groomers I don't think it's similar either. Maybe more so than skateboarding just cause you can lay into a turn so much.
 
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