Tubby Beaver 209 Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 My bro was a ski and board instructor, he went to Tahoe 1 year on holiday and bought a couple of boards (The US is way cheaper then the UK), i saw a couple of films on TV with snowboarders thot it looked cool and I wanted a piece of it. Convinced him to take me and a couple mates up the mountains where he gave us some pointers and let us get on with it!! Awesome, I love boarding, I'm still not that good but I can get down the mountain without falling....usually!! Last year i learned to ski as part of my job, which was pretty cool. Skiing is fun but I prefer boarding. Also had a try with snowblades, good fun but couldn't do it all day Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 It always seemed like a luxurious (for want of a better word) sport and more than that looked like fun. So I wanted to give it a go, and my family took me on a ski holiday to Banff. Loved it straight away. (How can you not??!) Link to post Share on other sites
1 4 Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 I was provoked by a skiing vid I saw. Can't remember the name now but it looked incredible. At first I thought I would be skiing but when I went my friends were boarders and so I tried that (free lessons!) so that's how I ended up snowboarding. Link to post Share on other sites
fireboy 0 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I always thought it looked fun but my family never took me (ahhh), but when I was at college I went and had a lousy first time out. Things improved second time though and I started to really enjoy it. Link to post Share on other sites
Zoltan 0 Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 When I was younger (from the ages 7 to 12) I lived in Austria and my parents took me skiing a fair bit, that's how it started. Snowboarding didn't exist back then. Link to post Share on other sites
---- 0 Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 I was brought up skiing - from Colorado. Link to post Share on other sites
Snow-Woman 0 Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 I actually had to be dragged into it by some friends. I wasn't keen at all at first. I like being warm. I was soon hooked though as I had so much fun. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 I started at age 14, that's 22 years ago now (god I'm getting old). I started alpine skiing with school but did a couple of days XC and gave telemarking a go and was hooked. For the next 10 years or so I mainly skied backcountry in Victoria and numerous trips up to the Main Range in NSW. As I got older and fatter and less fit I started skiing more and more at resorts again but I still love getting backcountry. The changes in Tele gear have been amazing over the years and now I spend my winters tele'ing the powder at Niseko. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 You must be gutted May tele'ers in Niseko, Go Native? Link to post Share on other sites
snowboarding-sam 0 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 My family first took me and I got hooked pretty fast. Part of the fun is the challenge to get better. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I've been at it since 1975. I'm always trying to get better. Last season was an off-piste breakthrough. Yo powder Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Did you change gear last season soubs? Good to see the fossils breaking out into that pow. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Yes I did. Three seasons here and I've stepped up a level. At 55, I've made a big improvement in my technique. Enough for me to spend the moolah on on dedicated powder skis. Roll on winter Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Good for you. What skis did you get? Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 I bought a pair of K2 Apache Chiefs. 182cm long and 131/98/116mm wide. I'm going to put some Naxo touring bindings on them. Patrol won't be able to catch me. Link to post Share on other sites
SCRUBBER 0 Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Parents took me, so I have them to thank! Cheers M&D! Link to post Share on other sites
Manj 0 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Same here. Family holiday. I got hooked real quick. Link to post Share on other sites
mildbitter 0 Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 The girl I liked was a skier. It was part of my strategy. She's not my wife and I'm a good skier. Link to post Share on other sites
iiyamadude 6 Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 Japan provoked me. Link to post Share on other sites
Oyuki kigan 0 Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 I didn't have a choice, my Dad had me on skis when i was 2 or 3. And i grew to love it, i started in the downhill racing school at my local hill when i was about 12 or 13. Around the same time, snowboarding was starting to pop up in Warren Miller movies, and looked kinda fun. But i was pretty much dedicated to skiing, so i didn't pay much attention to it. Until Christmas, my Dad came to pick my bro and i up from the hill one day in the holidays. We had been waiting for him, and were a little pissed because he was pretty late. He pulled up, and pulled out a snowboard from the back of the truk, and told us that it was our Christmas gift, and to give it a go. So for about 30 painful minutes, we fell down the bunny hill in our felt sorels trying to figure out what to do, since there was no snowboard school at our hill, and i'm not sure i have even seen a real snowboarder before that. Well, that was not too much fun, but the next time i tried was at a hill called Fernie. It had just snowed a little, and i managed to turn a little in the chopped powder. I was sold, it was way funner that skiing, and felt so much freer without the poles and 2 seperate planks. I was in love, and it pretty much continued like that for the next 17 ywinters or so. Until 2 years ago, i was an instructor in Whistler. I had been thinking a while about snowboarding, sk8boarding, and surfing. I was wanting to explore bindingless riding, and heard about noboarding. i gerry-rigged my own noboard (its just a snowboard with a big stomp pad and bungee cord on it. You hold onto the bungee cord, and surf powder, not groomed runs) by tying 4 bootlaces to my collapsed bindings, and took a run in an area called Flute Bowl. There was about 20 cm of powder, and it was perfect, i had never experienced such a thrill snowboarding before, and decided that that is what i want to pursue. So its still changing, i guess. Link to post Share on other sites
Ewok 2 1 Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 Lucky that u started so young oyuki, what provoked ta-chan? She's a little ripper! Link to post Share on other sites
smokingmario 0 Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 I won a holiday in Whistler. That was the first time I had even considered skiing. Link to post Share on other sites
llloi 0 Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Winning a holiday in Whistler sounds good. I went skiing with a bunch of friends when I was 17 and that was how I started. To be honest I wasn't mad keen at first but I was soon converted. Link to post Share on other sites
liver 0 Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 I always wanted to ski from when I first saw it. It looked looked like a lot of fun. So I was out there as soon as I had enough cash when I was at college with a few mates. Link to post Share on other sites
fiifii 0 Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Another family trip story. Parents took me to France on a skiing holiday when I was 13 and I loved it straight away. Haven't looked back since. Link to post Share on other sites
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