Snowboarding is easy right? It’s not like skateboarding where quick, tiny, precise movements run the show. Or surfing where you’ve got consistently changing conditions, drowning, sharks, locals, and your wimpy arms keeping you from getting better. Snowboarding generally is big, sloppy, unprecise movements, and a chairlift handling all the physical effort. There’s a lot of room for error.
Coordination is coordination. Balance is balance. Sure you can practice and improve both. But some people have more than others. Still, it’s much easier to reach an advanced-intermediate level on a snowboard relative to a skateboard or surfboard (wakeboards do not and will never count–sorry, i don’t make the rulz).
I have a few friends from Maui. Ripping surfers–grew up there and everything. They’ve come over to visit a few times and are always hyped to go snowboarding. One of em, never been on snow before, 50-50ing rails day 1. Other ones, riding Alpy BC like nothing. Jumping, dropping n shite. The basically reached an intermediate level day 1. I was kinda offended.
Check out this video of Clay Marzo (from Maui) and Travis Rice as snowboard instructor. http://surf.transworld.net/2009/02/04/is-clay-marzo-the-worst-snowboarder-in-the-world/
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it’s a rock/paper/scissors on a few key elements…
the only thing that everyone’s sure of: YOU ARE A RETARD.
totally. the amount of posts this site churns out is inversely proportional to the amount of pow in the mtns.
i just locked a heli trip. suck it.
Where are the results or stories on the MBBS? Where are the pictures of bikini girls and dude throwing up? This is whot you deliver the loyal readers of this forum?
Holy shit lets focus on REAL news with REAL impacts..
Obama just had a major news conference and he appointed you secretary of gay. oh man.. burn (To be fair Peelers thought that one up).
Anything with bindings is training wheels, thats just the way it goes, yea it’s easier with training wheels. I think that’s a big difference.. take the bindings off the snowboard, or use a snowskate and you level off with the skateboarding, minus the pain and long term injury factor of snow vs. crete. Also to some degree to surf you should probably know how to swim or not be afraid of water.. snowboarding and skating you just need to know how to stand. It’s all apples to oranges. I don’t care how good your ballance is, to surf you have to put up with a lot of shit that people like me just are not into, like cold water, spiderman suits, and traveling forever.
i didn’t make it to the MBBS. it was shit conditions on the mtn, and the surf was firing. i have my priorities Strait.
all that you really need to know about the MBBS is that Dolak beat Clem. Again.
SWAPPY JUST CALLT HE-MAN LAIRD TOWING INTO 9000-FT (HAWAIIAN) PEAHI ON SOME TRAINING WHEELS SHIT
AKA SWAPPY IS TARDED
LOGIC BURIES SWAP AKA A-MANNE WINNAR
RE HELITRIP: WHAT MTNS WHAT OUTFIT AND WHAT OUTFIT YOU FINSTA WEAR? UNLESS YOU GET A MAVERICK HELI OUTFIT YOU CAN KINDA GET CHERRY CHERRY POWPOW PICKED AKA THEY TAKE YOU ON THREE SILVER FIR RUNS FIRST AND THEN LET YOU PAY FITTYBONE SEXTRA FOR “BONE US VERT” AFTER YOU’VE PROVEN THAT YOU SHRED HARDER THAN THEIR GUIDES… CAT TRIP ALLOWS FOR DAY-IN DAY-OUT GET TO KNOW YOU TYPE INTIMACY WHICH LEADS TO STEEPER AND DEEPER AND ALTOGETHER CREEPER
OR MAYBE THAT’S JUST ME
PS CLEM NEEDS TO START LISTENING TO C89 DANCE MUSIC IF HE EVER WANTS TO BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN MARCEL MAR-SLOW
OH SHIT THAT WAS TITE MARCEL MAR-SLOW HOLY SHIT WI-FIVE ON THAT ONE BLUD THANKS
drex, I must disagree with “it was shit conditions on the mtn”, regardless of how *strait* one’s priorities were or were not.
And…
a-man is dead on center w/ “CAT TRIP ALLOWS…”
i’d love to see you two get UFC in some fat suits, that’d be sick
and yes. snowboarding is easy, skateboarding is most painful, and surfing is plain stupid
…im just pissy cause i didn’t get in the slalom.
thanks for reading.
yep. i’ve accepted the fact that my BS results will be mediocre for the rest of my life. Considering most of my training days this winter have been done on a surfboard, i’m ok with this. All that really matters is that I seem to place just good enough to keep doing it year after year. All you haters can suck it.
This year the course was the gnarliest I’ve ever seen it. Exposed roots, ice, ruts, and fast as fuk. A lot of the usual suspects in the top five were forced down into the twenties. Crashes on your run didnt’ necessarily put you out of contention either. ‘Everybody’ was crashing. Even DB crashed, whose times in pro would have easily smoked our class.
AS for cat vs. heli……….they are probably both better than scratching along in the chair 2 line for sloppy seconds. So who really cares. or mabye that’s just me because I haven’t done either.
Snowboardings for pussys or for when there is no surf. Shred-
who is DB? The Eel was in this shit? WTF???
Just found out which outfit Drex is birdin with: I think they’re hellza diesel. BigTimin! (and I know which outfit he’ll be wearing–my old gear, as he buys all his shit from the skratch’n'dent at REI–thanks Ki for the skoop! LOL) Should be as good as it’s gonna gets…
I got woozy in the cat, and kinda pissed off in the heli (snowfarming tactics, low-angle cheezeball for three runs before they let us semi-wile out, etc), but they are indeed both better options than alpen fucking tal ARRRGGGHHHH!!!
ps drex says “forward never straight!” all the time, in his little lisp…
No. Isn’t the eel broken again anyways. Tough to do a banked slalom with twisted limbs. DB is somebody else that is faster than me and you.
are there open seats on said heli trip?
@Swappy -
there was only one seat avail.
also phater i did get rid of the pinch from my belt buckle gettin in shape for the banked. someone needs to take mar slow down snowbomber was claim some heavy shit while drinkin a beer on friday. he might be able to if he ever gets that big chip off his shoulder. thanks for tunin my board that i never used friend hope that animal beer went down nicely
” faster than me and you.”
I HOPE YOU KNOW I’M FASTER THAN YOU. I WILL FRAG YOUR NOOB FACE, OR WHATEVER.
TRUSSIT.
Don’t doubt the mad-xlive skillz bopwilling. I fragged you before you even spawned in that shit. Don’t even go there. You can’t bring anything to the table to that effect.
You might be fast, that’s fine. Get on it next year, I know snowman will be applying too. We’ll see then.
I HAVEN’T TRIED FOR 15+. IF I WERE TO TRY: BITCH, IT’S CURTAINS.
TRUSSIT.
PONGCHAMP_83 OUT.
nobody kid yourself. surfing is way more difficult than snowboarding. done deal bros.
boust to frag some foolz!! hitting costco today after work to pick up on some 360 radness finally and a brand spanking new 42″ .. thats right! i’ll be hunting down clem in no time..
Dbrandt right? fast mofo!
i bought a sled cuz i can’t skate, snow or surf worth shit anymore.. i can fuckin go BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPP tho.. and run your asses over.. just like i’ll be hunting down clem soon and fraggin his ass!