fuku 0 Posted February 7, 2002 Share Posted February 7, 2002 Interested to hear comments on here as to why the boarding contingent prefer boarding to skiing? I can't really explain it apart from "it feels good". Wondering if anyone is more articulate than poor me! Fuku in Bandai Link to post Share on other sites
telly 0 Posted February 7, 2002 Share Posted February 7, 2002 I don't - I prefer skiing! Link to post Share on other sites
riddles 0 Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 Coz it's fab. Short and simple. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 In a word, simplicity. The elemental harmony of human and board ... the balance of risk and reward between slide or slam. I never fancied skiing as it looked so ungainly. Look at the pictures of people skiing that are supposed to be cool, especially jumps. Actually they look like praying mantises in flight (I guess some of you city kids have never seen that, but it's not elegant). The skis stick out or hang down at awkward angles and there seem to be poles everywhere. Contrast that with an airbourne board - a simple flying wing with a suave aeronaut attached. It's the same on the slopes. A skier digs those poles in with a jerky rhythm, and carves with a slightly hysterical bouncy motion. But boarders swoop, with a graceful edge to edge rocking. Obviously skiing came first, but boarding shows the ineffable and benevolent hand of Evolution at work. Even in disaster, the board holds up better than skis. Sometimes you'll see a boarder cartwheeling down a hill only to recover and proceed jubilantly down in full control again. Try doing that when one of your skis has come off and is lying on another part of the hill. The survival of the fittest I suppose. And have I mentioned Fashion? Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 snowboarding is just so much easier, allowing one to carve and ride deep powder in 'only two seasons'. Unfortunately, few boarders get to realize that an even greater high can be got from the two plank slide, just not the fixed heel ride. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 miteyak, what's that, telemarking? If you that's what you're into, why don't you tell us a bit about it? I've often wondered what the attraction is. Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 snowboarding and telemarking. Much better at snowboarding, but the telemarking catching up fast. Too much time on the board recently, however, teaching friends. Telemarking, a real freedom of the mountains? I think it has the free flowing feel of snowboarding, but with a certain naturalness gained from a stance not unlike someone striding down a hill. None of the stiffness of downhill skiing. You know the 'whooping' feeling one sometimes gets from a great powder run on a board (I'm British, it dont come easy!), when I first got that telemarking, it was so much more intense. Maybe it's the added sense of achievement, when one finally gets those two twitching, crossing, infernal planks, held to one's foot by a li''le spring, to stay together in deep powder. Biggest reason is it's versitility, though. For backcountry telemarking's perfect. Just a brief description, like most things, it's a feeling, hard to describe. I think telemarking and boarding are complimentary, although now I can ski in powder, conflict brewing. Of all the skier/boarders I know, most prefer boarding. The same can't be said for boarder/telemarkers. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 Hmmmmm... As a Brit who sometimes rides with Americans, I often wonder whether I should whooping too, and whether rebel yells improve the experience. Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 it's involuntary, honest! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 15, 2002 Share Posted February 15, 2002 .......just,,,,,,,,,bcos!! Link to post Share on other sites
barok 0 Posted February 15, 2002 Share Posted February 15, 2002 cuz it's better in powder, and more intense in general - you are really strapped in to that board. plus when i was a kid, i liked it better cuz you didn't have to drag 4 sticks around, just one Link to post Share on other sites
el diablo 0 Posted February 15, 2002 Share Posted February 15, 2002 i agree with barok. snowboarding is better in powder. makes it much easier to get away from all the damn grizzly bears. try ski-poling away from a 400 kg grizzly bear. good luck. . . Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 16, 2002 Share Posted February 16, 2002 I prefer skiing, so there! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 17, 2002 Share Posted February 17, 2002 Just find it more fun. Thats all! Link to post Share on other sites
doggy-style 0 Posted February 18, 2002 Share Posted February 18, 2002 .. it kinda has the feel of riding a surfboard..(turning from rail to rail) but easier.. in a sense where there's no need to paddle and get up.. because you're already up and ready to go. Oh, you don't have to worry about drowning, getting eaten by sharks, or getting swallowed by the tube. Link to post Share on other sites
CubedOne 0 Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 Quote: The elemental harmony of human and board ... the balance of risk and reward between slide or slam Whats this about then anyone? And with skiing more difficult, doesnt that make the rewards of being good more satisfying? (I do neither, first season coming up) Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 'Od's bodkin, did I really write something as pretentious as that? Well, the boarding stance is quite natural, hence the proliferation of board sports. And as for sliding or slamming, on a snowboard, if you are proceeding down the hill at say 30 mph, and one of your edges catches in the snow, all of your forward motion is suddenly transformed into sideways motion. This means your body slams into the ground at 30 mph, either forwards or backwards, the wind is knocked out of you, your goggles fly off, and boy do you see stars. But that's really just a first season thing. You get very good at recognizing the edge-catch feeling and correcting your slide before it happens. As to your last question, the answer is 'Well I suppose so'. If you've committed yourself to the delayed satisfaction involved in skiing, then you have to congratulate yourself on having stuck it out. It's a psychological defense mechanism. The snowboarder doesn't need one. Just a helmet. Link to post Share on other sites
Gellar 0 Posted May 16, 2002 Share Posted May 16, 2002 I don't - I prefer skiing. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 Coz it's well cool. That's it. Link to post Share on other sites
insomnia 0 Posted August 10, 2002 Share Posted August 10, 2002 I'm a boarder, that's Y Link to post Share on other sites
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