Why board?

[dmc]

Only an hour or so to go until 'Tini time!

I got a friggin 530 work call with the west coast

 

[Marc]

Why do I get the feeling I've been ridiculed?

 

[ski_resort_observer]

...another 30 or 40 boards, a box of nails, a few hammers, and a crowd of AZ'ers, and we can build a box around you and your insane obselescence.....just where you, my friend, have belonged since your very first post. The project could be called "Habitat for Insanity"...

P.S. Come to think of it....we should probably build a box for me, too....

Wow..."obselescence" is one big ass word!

 

[smootharc]

It's not ridicule, Marc....

Why do I get the feeling I've been ridiculed?

...it's tough love. An intervention (3 weeks at Mica Heli) might need to be staged if you don't turn your life around.

P.S. That's me skiing at MH, you paying.

 

[smootharc]

Yeah it is....

Wow..."obselescence" is one big ass word!

....and I don't know if I spelled it right, or really know what it means. But I must have got it right on the SAT. I was spoon fed for success on standardized testing, hence I know nothing about learning, meaning, or thinking. Sweet !

 

[RIDEr]

Real easy answer DMC... snowboarders have more fun in the powder.

 

[dmc]

Real easy answer DMC... snowboarders have more fun in the powder.

True - to a certain extent.. But unless you've tried it in powder - how would you know or even begin to understand..

You know how people get all "type A" about powder... Even though they may be having the worst day of their lives they still claim it was the best day...

 

[RIDEr]

True - to a certain extent.. But unless you've tried it in powder - how would you know or even begin to understand..

You know how people get all "type A" about powder... Even though they may be having the worst day of their lives they still claim it was the best day...

While boarding I ski with a great skier. He usually rips up the pow, but in the end our boards float on the stuff (from experience) and flow a lot smoother.

 

[Powderhound21]

Why do I board?


I have never set foot on a ski. Never in my life. When I was 6, I went to my first ski resort. Only I wasnt riding. I saw these people that were turned sideways going down the slope. I remember thinking "That looks so cool", theyre different from everyone else.

I remember myself at that age as an adventurous child. I did almost anything that had to deal with extreme sports.

The winter of 98-99, I stepped into my first board. My friend that was 3 years older than I got me hooked. We went up to the homesteads that one January day. I will never forget it.

Now it is so much more to me than turned sideways on one less plank. Snowboarding has its own style. Its its own culture almost. I have nothing against skiiers (Well except for the snobby stuck-up ones). In my 6 years of riding, I have progressed enough to air a pipe, and get a 360 with a grap, get massive air off of snowdrifts (love em), and can air a 30' table. I love snowboarding. Everything about it.

 

[Brettski]

What i love about riding powder is the freedom... You get this feeling that your just standing on the board - you don't feel any stress from your bindings... You apply a little toe or heel pressure and your turning
Absolutely sublime!

Dude, just get a pair of free riders...my rockets are awesome in pow..which I was in last Wednesday....

I will never board.....

My kids are all skiiers...my youngest daughter seems to have the boarder gene though

 

[PowderDeprived]

I think the image of that old guy wearing a sweater hammering down a bump run, on a mile long pair of strait skis with exaggerated pole and hip movements drives allot of people away from skiing. Or the images of older skiers with their knee tight stance skidding away quarter turns looking all tacky, with riders carving beautiful arcs next to them as well.

As a skier, to me there is no better feeling than carving a great turn. I really have to thank snowboarders for that. I really don't think one is cooler than the other, but more or less people were drawn to snowboarding, as now they are drawn to free skiing to set themselves apart from old farts, and rich snobs. The only thing I envy about snowboarding is the boots, but even a ski boot can be pretty comfortable after a good boot fitting.

Skiing in deep pow just takes skill. As for style, you don't have to look like some dork skidding your way down the mountain on skis, and now with shaped skis you can ride, and so weather you prefer skiing or snowboarding, 2 boards or one, it is all riding. As for which is better, it

 

[dmc]

I will never board.....

I don't like the word "never" when it comes to things that are fun on the snow..

Never means you could be missing out on something thats fun!!!


I feel bad for you...

 

[jackstraw]

if you haven't skied, ski. if you haven't snowboarded, go snowboarding. if you haven't tele skied, go tele skiing. they're all great in their own way. i haven't tried the snowblade thing...and have to admit i'm not really open to it...type 'A' in me rising to the surface.

 

[skibum]

Why board?
Because it is the most evolved, efficient, and elegant form of downhill sliding sports. Remember that skiing started as the Norwegian Snowshoe, used for cross country travel. When people decided going downhill was more exhilirating, they changed the equipment to suit their needs. Lifts were built, heels were locked down, boots were stiffened, and poles became vestigial appendages. Boarders have just combined the sliding surfaces into one and lost the poles.
So why didn't we become monoskiers? Because it is an inefficient way of turning the sliding apparatus and pressuring the edge. Too much hip angulation and and too many spastic movements involved. Boarders can initiate and finish a turn with much less effort. Also, think of hiking down very steep terrain. Most people will turn themselves sideways to stay more stable. Facing the fall line will often put you on your ass.
Then think about sliding on an ice patch or on a waxed floor in your socks. The natural way everyone does it is sideways. If you do it facing forward and crouched with your feet together like a skiier, you just look like a goon. Tom Cruise would not have looked half as cool in "Risky Business" had he done it that way.
So if you want to travel across a horizontal landscape in snow, use cross country equipment. If you want up and down, go telemark. If you are riding lifts, then snowboarding is the apex of downhill glisse design.

 

[awf170]

Why board?
Because it is the most evolved, efficient, and elegant form of downhill sliding sports. Remember that skiing started as the Norwegian Snowshoe, used for cross country travel. When people decided going downhill was more exhilirating, they changed the equipment to suit their needs. Lifts were built, heels were locked down, boots were stiffened, and poles became vestigial appendages. Boarders have just combined the sliding surfaces into one and lost the poles.
So why didn't we become monoskiers? Because it is an inefficient way of turning the sliding apparatus and pressuring the edge. Too much hip angulation and and too many spastic movements involved. Boarders can initiate and finish a turn with much less effort. Also, think of hiking down very steep terrain. Most people will turn themselves sideways to stay more stable. Facing the fall line will often put you on your ass.
Then think about sliding on an ice patch or on a waxed floor in your socks. The natural way everyone does it is sideways. If you do it facing forward and crouched with your feet together like a skiier, you just look like a goon. Tom Cruise would not have looked half as cool in "Risky Business" had he done it that way.
So if you want to travel across a horizontal landscape in snow, use cross country equipment. If you want up and down, go telemark. If you are riding lifts, then snowboarding is the apex of downhill glisse design.

Maybe the evolved and elegant for of getting down the mountain, but defiantly not the most efficiant. Skiing is overall faster, a lot easier to get over flat spots on the mountain, and takes a lot less effort. In skiing I can stand there and just go straight down at mach 10 with no effort what so ever, with boarding you always working hard and can ever stand up and rest.

 

[dmc]

Maybe the evolved and elegant for of getting down the mountain, but defiantly not the most efficiant. Skiing is overall faster, a lot easier to get over flat spots on the mountain, and takes a lot less effort. In skiing I can stand there and just go straight down at mach 10 with no effort what so ever, with boarding you always working hard and can ever stand up and rest.

You couldnt be more wrong.. About some of the stuff..

Skiing does take a lot less effort when it comes to skiing stuff - but for the actual riding part.. I like it much better...

Skis are faster.... Thats why I still ski...

 

[awf170]

You couldnt be more wrong.. About some of the stuff..

Skiing does take a lot less effort when it comes to skiing stuff - but for the actual riding part.. I like it much better...

Skis are faster.... Thats why I still ski...

Just out of curiousity, where am I wrong. I have never snowboarders but this is what I got from skiing with 2 snowboarders for a day.

 

[skibum]

Maybe the evolved and elegant for of getting down the mountain, but defiantly not the most efficiant. Skiing is overall faster, a lot easier to get over flat spots on the mountain, and takes a lot less effort. In skiing I can stand there and just go straight down at mach 10 with no effort what so ever, with boarding you always working hard and can ever stand up and rest.

Yes, skiing is more stable at high speeds. No, I can't skate or pole, but I plan ahead and have no problems. Effort involved is probably debatable to the end of time. I was really trying to compare monoskiing to snowboarding at that point of my little essay. When skiing or boarding I can initiate a turn with very little body movement. But in the middle of a turn I would say skiing requires more effort into that one leg rather than the two legs of boarding. Yes, you can go limp on your skiis and still slide down the hill, but that ain't much fun. If you went limp on your board you would catch an edge quick, which would be even less fun.

 

[trailertrash]

i thought the question was "why board?" not "why do you not board?" if you havent snowboarded you have no reason to even post in this thread. if you are that insecure about your method of sliding that you need to prove that yours is "better" in this thread maybe theres another issue involved.

 

[dmc]

Just out of curiousity, where am I wrong. I have never snowboarders but this is what I got from skiing with 2 snowboarders for a day.

Snowboarding is fun and free.. . When your snowboard - you turn your back on eficiency..

Skiing was started due to nessecity... Delivering mail - attacking the town in the next valley..

Snowboarding was started only for fun...