snowblading, with your pants down

Why do boarders always ask this question?

Yep now I agree with that, it's a pain constantly unclipping. When skiing you only unclip when stopping for a pint and bite to eat.

I a nutshell:

Skiing is faster, easier to go uphill (both on your steam and surface lifts), faster.

Boarding is cooler (it feels cooler I'm sorry but it just does), looks better in the park and is easier to have more fun in deep powder.

And that's just the obvious ones.



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Exactly. I don't give a shit, and it really doesn't matter, we do wintersports to have fun, not to 'be cool'. I can do both, prefer to ski (better at it) but what i find with boarders (most of my mates) is that they think they are so much cooler for boarding, which in my opinion makes it so much more UNcool. It's like when your dad doesn't understand the meaning of cool and says "son, i'm a cool dad eh"

The answer is surely Telemarking is the coolist. You can rip the piste (notice I said 'you' do everything the boarders and skiers do plus an extra turn, and tour to get properly off piste.

Don't know about the chicks though..............the demographics seem to favour boarders........


(I think it doesn't matter, it's all good..............)

The more I see of people, the more I like my dog.

There are tw*ts who snowboard and there are tw*ts who ski. It's the people who are either cool or not (not the discipline). Tbh if you're concerned about whether you're cool or not then you're probably not.

What I find cool is people who are technically really, really good. That's cool to watch, whether they are decent people or not is a totally different matter.

There's only two reasons to ask the question - 1) trolling for arguments, 2) needing to big up some self-image problems

spot on

I have seen videos of people going down slopes in a canoe

that seems way cooler than the controlled methods adopted by skiers/boarders/bladers...etc


Blind skiers get my vote.....cool to be so brave and trusting

behaviour on the hill makes you cool not what your feet are attached to

Be Nice to Skiers, they have it hard enough already

While we're on the subject.....

What is it with people in shabby or cheap clothing on the slopes?

They disgust me to be honest, have they no shame? When I'm up the cairngorm and find myself standing next to some cheaply dressed oik on the train, I can feel their shame. I try not to look at them because they must already be feeling inferior when they look at my new expensive gear

These people need to try harder

Grumpy you sound like a little douchey snowboarder.

even better

Ah...that will be me then...It's always my luck to stand next to b*ll ends on the train.



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