SNOWBOARDERS: Where did you learn how to first snowboard and how old were you?

Question

I first got on a snowboard at 23 in South Korea. It wasn't until I was around 26 that I went to the West Point Ski School and really learned how to ride. Life-time love now.

Answer 1

I wanted to teach snowboarding, so I volunteered at "Sky Tavern" which is a non-profit to teach kids at Tahoe. I started when I was 35 and have taught for 6 years and now.

Answer 2

First time for me was at Crystal Mountain resort on Mt. Rainier. It hadn't snowed it a while and was hard as a rock. I fell hundreds of times. I was just shy of my 38th birthday. I didn't really learn to snowboard those first 2 days. I went home and a couple weeks later went to Mt. Hood Meadows. I took another lesson. Then I just kept going up. It took me quite a while to really "get it". But 6 years later I am doing well and completely obsessed with snowboarding.

I went 50-60 times last season despite working 50-60 hours a week and staying home for 4 weeks recovering from a car accident, and we missed the first couple of weeks due to the road being washed out.

I have my season pass for this year, my snow park permit, chains, shovel, and new gear. I am leaving for Austria on Friday and have a new Nitro snowboard, bindings, boots waiting for me. So I'm quite excited for the season to start up.

I have been snowboarding in Tignes France (twice), Val Senales Italy, Saas Fee Switzerland, Mt. Bachelor (Oregon), and am looking forward to Kaprun Austria. But almost all my snowboarding has been on Mt. Hood.

I know I'm not the oldest snowboarder out there, but @ 44 (nearly 45), I feel pretty good about having learned it at my age, and having stuck with it, and making it my winter exercise program.

I've also taught my two nieces how to snowboard and they go up with me 2-3 times a week.

Answer 3

I was 24 and I learned at Snoqualmie Pass in Wa. I went the very first day of ski season...more ice than snow...my tailbone still hurts a year later!!
We only live 30 min from the slopes so we get to go just about every weekend!! I wish I had learned earlier...I was missing out!

Answer 4

i think of it lovable and it is soooo lots less complicated and much less painful to study early. I purely taught my seven year old sister to snowboard final week. If absolutely everyone is going to instruct a baby tha small o snowboard it is significant to instruct them the thank you to fall (sure, there's a applicable way), and whilst to fall (whilst getting out of control). I did that previously she even have been given on a snowboard. I defined that she replaced into going to fall and it would take time to study. She in trouble-free terms had a million frustration outburst that's astonishing. She shorter you're and the fewer you weigh, the softer you fall. My sisters 1st time snowboarding replaced into way much less painful than mine and that i began later. the problem with 7 year old snowboarders is a number of the mothers and dads do no longer instruct them the thank you to be courteous on the slopes or they positioned em on a snowboard and enable them to pass. they do no longer continuously comprehend inheritor limits so it is significant somebody keeps to be with them

Answer 5

I was 18 when I learned to ride at Greek Peak in upstate New York.

Answer 6

Ski Beech,NC 17 or 18 years old.

Answer 7

i was about 10, in St. Anton in Austria. been doing it for over 8 years, and even going to the alps for a season in december. im glad other people appreciate! we heart snowboarding....we heart snowboarding...we heart snowboar...you catch my drift?

Answer 8

killington mountain in new england when i was 11, No lessons, no helmet, nothing. It was a very painful experience, but now i'm 16 and still totally into it, and i'm pretty good too.

Answer 9

i think when i was 9 or 10 i took lessons at mount seymour
in bc and then stopped and started going agian last year

Answer 10

i was 12 turning 13 and i learned at Mt.Ashland.