Which snowboard?

Don't try to ridicule me because you hold the same opinion as Joe

Get back to The Attic...

Opinion is irrelevant.

I just find it irritating when people do the whole anti-snowboarder routine, just for the sake of it. I match absolutely none of the criteria you specified, just as im sure you arn't german and wear bright one-pieces.

Or perhaps you are and dont like the fact that snowboarders are way cooler than you.

I've met hundreds of snowboarders and never met one kid that wants to be a computer character :spangled:

the same kids that snowboard tend to skate and bmx, allies desperatly trying to project the correct image

Re: A new tack...

the same can be said about any long term skier...

accident statistics are pretty much level between the sports... I had to look into it when I took a girl snowboarding - she refused to do it as it looked "more dangerous than skiing"... pssshhh

Re: Re: Re: A new tack...

There's no shame in wearing a helmet

For the record, I used to skate (briefly) and I used to BMX.

If I'm brutally honest, I'll admit that I really fancied snowboarding when I started skiing, but that soon faded after I nearly ran into about twenty of them who had fallen over on my first day on the slopes.

snowboarding is harder to learn, but after your first day on a board you can stay on your feet.

Its kind of like comparing inline skating to skateboarding - when your starting out you'll get more out of rollerblading - but after a while it becomes boring, where as skating is harder to pick-up but once you've nailed the basics there is much more room for progression.

although in the last few years skiiers have got a lot more adventerous.... when I was a nipper you'd never find a skiier in a park, I like the fact that parks are full of them now

Point here. Fair play

Joe - taking a girl to the slopes!!

go to the states or canada too....don't b a wuss...if you've got the pennies then go

you could write the ski/boarder places to visit for lonely planet & i'll write up on the warm countries

I couldn't fill one page with my travels - I'd feel somewhat inferior.

joe i've always wanted to learn how to snow board is it expensive?

now i doubt that Joseph

after 3 hols this winter you'd be right

or a tenner in sunderland

depends where you go - I'm going on two eastern european holidays for about £800 (with passes but I already have the gear).

You can go away for £300 (including everything excpet the gear), you can then hire the equiptment and clothing for under £100

You can go away for well under £500.

is that for chavs though, i think i prefer brids way

i need a good hotel

not at all, its where most boarders are heading as the budget holidays aren't touching the slopes yet.... the alps have huge lift queues, pompus crowds, crowded slopes, shitty apres ski.

Most eastern european resorts are manned by their olympic teams - the tuition is first rate

I guarentee that over the next few years they'll start filling up... one of the reasons I'm going this year is because I wnat to expeirence ranges like the Tatra's before the masses ruin them.

I hate the alps, I love the mountains - but the resorts suck.