Skiing VS. Snowboarding

ok for years skiiers and snowboarders have had an ongoing rivalry. im a snowboarder and at mtn creek in new jersey where i ride, the entire south peak is a terrain park. we have been more or less running it since open last year (07/08) and now the shitty ass skiiers are trying to do all the shit we can do and it pisses us off. if ur not on one board, ur not cool.

For an article published on a snowboarding site, I have to hand it to the author for remaining unbiased.

That said, I''m also surprised that the author thinks skiing could be learned more easily. I think it is way harder to learn to snowboard than it is to learn to ski (I do both, or used to, now I just snowboard). Also, snowboarding is way more fun than skiing once you have learned.

I live in colorado and have a season pass to six defferent mountains. Vail is one of em. Mike you are a faggot. I love snowboarding but i also have friends that ski. Skiiers are always going to be were we board. Get over it douche bag. Your probably one of those kids that think they fucking rock because they can throw down a pussy 360. You suck balls, get over it queer.

SNOWBOARDING IS THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD

if you want to do some real snowboarding or skiing get out of the terrain park and onto the mountain, all you guys do is sit and watch your friends go off the jumps boxes or rails then you go and say man that was sweet go out and enjoy the snow use the mountain and the lift ticket that you paid for

dear fsnowboarders
maybe some people actually like to do rails and boxes instead of going down the snow. i personaly like both but some dont. so what others like is fine yu dont have to be there controler just cause their area of experties is different.

i agree with most of ya, but i just like to cruise and mind my own business. i like to jump and rail and all but i mostly love the way the board makes me feel when im goin down the mountain. i dont care about the rivalary, i think we should just mind our own business. like me

Both riding and skiing are fun. You do what you enjoy. I enjoy ski jumping up in Vermont, flying over 300 feet in the air. Never tried it on a board, and probably never will. I''ve spent many hours skysurfing. I think that''s so cool. Anyone who snowboards shouldn''t have a problem with skysurfing unless you''re yella.

Skiing!, few snowboarders are just loud pussies who think they''re hella sick by doing gay 360s and most are fine. I want to try snowboarding and I never have. But I''m not going to go around and yell at 5 year old skiers cause they are in the terrain park. Why don''t wake up and take some anger managment classes. Mike

"If ur not on a snowboard ur not cool". Sounds like something somebody from New Jersey would say. The fact is a skier with actual skill can do anything a snowboarder can do in the park. About 25% of the skiers that ride Squaw Valley, my home mountain, are pros. About 10% of snowboarders are pros. There is mutual respect there, b/c if you''re bad ass, you''re badass. So shut the f up and stay in New Jersey. I''m sick of this 1990''s debate.

i am so with snowboarding. snowboarding is better. skiing is for wimps that need all the equipment for them to get around. and i disagree with skiing being easier to learn. on my second time snowboarding i went down blue runs without falling. 3rd time snowboarding i did my first grind. 4th time my first jump. heck i even landed a 10 ft jump. and seriously im only 9 yrs old. skiers are also SO SO SO annoying. they''re like "i''m going to go down the terrain park and block all of the jumps and rails" or "lets go down this run while going back and forth blocking all the snowboarders going down". i mean some skiers are cool, like bobby brown, but ALL snowboarders are cool. i would say skiing is for wimps that want to take it easy (except if your a skier that actually does tricks) and snowboarding is for cool kids that love shredding and watching giant waves of powder flying up behind them.

hi,i got my first downhill skies when i was 5 years old,i have not been skiing for over 20 years.now im 40 years old and i have started with snowboarding,this is my first season.im totaly crazy about snowboarding,i will not go back to downhillskies.

Anyone who says ''Skiers suck, snowboarding is way better'' have obviously never seen freestyle skiing. Skiers consistently go bigger over jumps and pull some ridiculous tricks (0 spin backwards airs... crazy). I''ve been snowboarding since I was 8 and could never ditch snowboarding for skiing but this stupid skier vs. snowboarder thing has got to stop. If you push the limits with either sport you deserve tons of credit.

I''ve tried both sports, but I preferred skiing as it was more thrilling (to me anyways) as it''s easier to go off-piste.
I like to snowboard too, but skiing will always be number one for me.

Just writing a paper on contested spaces of mountain resorts and caught this link. What I don''t get is boards were created by a skier thanks Sherman. Secondly as a boarder whenever I am in a whiteout some place I don''t know well I follow the tails of the skiers because they get down quicker. Thirdly when skiers push spring slush to the piste edge and youre surfing the soft thank em and fourthly when your''e busted up and your shoulders hanging out or your''e legs bent the wrong way who cares if its a skier or a boarder who gets to you first. Rivalry is inexperience, and ignorance for when the young french skiers are lining up a jumps in places you never considered showing you the way thank em

SNOWBOARD ROCK!

I started skiing in 2008 as a beginner skier, then it went into January 2009, and then i finished, and started up again 2009''s December, and now it''s into April 2010, and i went skiing today, then halfway through the day, me, my sister, and her friend decided that she would teach us snowboarding, so we all rented a snowboard each, and went on the bunny hill. I thought it would be very tricky, and as we were going up my sister''s friend was telling me how to control. I got to the top, put my other foot in the board and tightened it up, i stood up to wait for my sister and her friend to put on their snowboards, i started moving down the hill, i freaked out and fell over, then realized that that won''t help, so got up and went the rest of the way. IT WAS THE FUNNEST THING I''VE DONE IN A LONG TIME! I did enjoy skiing, but snowboarding so much more, i did fall on my butt alot, but because of the snowpants it didn''t hurt at all, just make sure you have waterproof gloves, mine were wet afterwards. I didn''t fall over as much with skiing though.

I''ve been snowboarding for 6 years, and before that I skied.
I hold no animosity for skiers, and they are welcome in the park. In fact, I am very impressed by a lot of skiers in the park. The only problem for me is all of the little kids in the park who can''t ski or ride any of the features, and are simply getting in the way. Unfortunately, most of these kids ski, mainly because their parents do.

wow. are all snowboarders so homophobic? all the "gay" and "queer" slurs are unbelievable.