Which winter sport is easier to learn: snowboarding or ski?

Answer 1

Based on personal experience, skiing was easier to learn the basics on (as coordinating your body movements to stay upright on a single board was very difficult.) However, once you learn the basics snowboarding is easier to control tricks with.

Answer 2

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Which winter sport is easier to learn: snowboarding or ski?

Answer 3

I have to disagree with the other posts so far. As an very experienced skier I believe that snowboarding is much easier to learn. I have been snowboarding twice and I was already starting to be able to find my way down the hill without any trouble. Skiing, on the other hand, took 10-15 times out before I started feeling comfortable. The main reason I say this is snowboarding you only have one board to worry about whereas skiing you have to worry about crossing tips. Also, once you fall it is MUCH more difficult to get up with skis. Skis also come off making it even more difficult. You can crash on a snowboard and immediately hop right back up and be ready to go.

Answer 4

Neither one is easier. Skiing is easier in the beginning, but harder to become good at. Snowboarding is initially more difficult to learn, but once you learn the basics it's pretty much the same. And anyone who skis will tell you snowboarding is easier and any snowboarder will tell you skiing is easier. This is because it's much easier to learn to snowboard after you learned to ski or vice versa.

Answer 5

Skiing is much easier to pick up. After skiing for a bit, I switched to snowboarding. Snowboarding isn't that hard, it's just the first day of falling and getting up a lot. Overall, skiing is easier, but in some cases snowboarding is easier like when going down a steep hill. In skiing, you have no choice but to somewhat go down straight or do a "S", but in snowboarding, you can go down toe, heel, or right in the middle.

Answer 6

It depends on the individual. Some pick up skiing faster, and some pick up snowboarding faster. It depends what feels more natural.

Having done both, skiing was easier for the first 2 or 3 days, but then it became harder to progress. Snowboarding was much more difficult the first several days, but then the learning curves reverse, and it seemed much easier to progress and move on to more challenging terrain (steeper runs, jumps, jibs, etc.) on a snowboard.

I prefer snowboarding, by far. Most of my friends do, too. But, a few of them have done both and prefer skiing.

Answer 7

Skiing tends to be the most popular answer due to dual foot control and you're facing forwards at all times I skied for a little longer than six years but after i got my first snowboard i haven't touched my skis. I personally believe it depends on the person some people will find snowboarding easier and some will find skiing easier. people who roller blade, and or ice skate easily tend to pick up skiing faster than those who don't and people who skateboard often pick up snowboarding faster than those who don't . But it depends on you. My advice to you find a mountain with pretty good rentals for both try each one about three times and see which one you like best (skiing or snowboarding). Also it can be helpful to start out on a green slope than move to a blue after a few runs because you will learn quicker because you will feel you have to learn to get down those slopes more so than you will on the bunny slopes at most mountains. Most ski or snowboard instructors like my dad would probably disagree but I have found that most people really don't learn most basics solidly untill they do at least a blue (intermediate) slope. And i must disagree with the guy above me because the switch from skiing to snowboarding was very difficult because with one you are alsways facing forward and your balance is changing fairly often, with the other you're usually sideways and your feet don't come apart.

Answer 8

i grew up skateboarding extensively. The 1st mountain i went to i rented a snowboard thinking it would be a cake walk. After a long, long day of falling over and over I decided to try to ski the second day. By the end of my second day ever on snow i was skiing down double diamond blacks without a problem.

those two days were my only time on a mountain for years.
after years of surfing thrown in with the skateboarding i finally had the opportunity to go to a mountain again. This time i went straight back to a snow board and it clicked on my 1st day. Since then i have stayed on a snowboard.

It seems skis are more intuitive to get down the mountain at 1st.
However, i would suggest start with the one you are more interested in and just stay with it.

Answer 9

I would say skiing is definitely harder ,I started off 4 years skiing, now been snowboarding for 10. Skiing was definitely more painful and longer time to adjust to it. Although once you get the hang of it it's very simple, boardin is fairly easy to learn and gets easier as you learn more as well. As for the statement above though, that skiing attracts more athletic and dedicated members. maybe dedicated in the fact that it takes more time to learn but once a true boarder... like myself, I will never ski again, boarding is way too much fun to waste time on ski's when I could be boarding, and I think alot of true boarders will tell you the same. As for more athletic, I HIGHLY disagree. in my experience of skiing and boarding, after become familiar with both, it is always far more a workout, and I'm completely exhuasted and the end of a boarding day. Skiing I could do every day of the week. I've been on 14 day ski trips, where 11 of the days were ski days. Snowboarding, I'm too exhausted to do more then 5-6 days in a row. And it's not because I'm out of shape, I'm a 22 y/o male in the military, and quite in shape. the positions and strains you put your body into during boarding are far more extensive then in skiing, requiring more athleticism.

Answer 10

I'm just now learning to Snowboard.. I've been wanting to for several years, but this year was the 1st chance I've had to start. I'm 29, never been very active and I'm tired of being sedentary.. I'm sore as crap from my 1st day yesterday, but you know what I'd go back tomorrow if I could :) If the human mind wasn't capable of learning new things after a certain age, we'd all die at that age. :) Get out there and HAVE FUN.. Fenix