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Why is skiing better?

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BioGeorge
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straight up.
I am writing and essay about why skiing is better than snowbaording and i plan on getting 100%. If you snowboard, feel free to say why you think boarding is better- so I can write the shootdowns everyone else thinks of against you. .. well that being said, lets hear why you think skiing is the superior

examples:
faster paced (no binding undoing and doin up)
better for the body (not sideways)
safer (releasable bindings)
was created first
etc.

Oct 15 2007 8:42PM
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BioGeorge
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...and i actua;;y have no personal grudge on boarders, just thought it would be an easy topic.
Oct 15 2007 8:44PM
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[~_~]
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Your argument makes no sense.

They are both awsome sports and a great outlet for people to express themselves. Most of the things we all love about skiing manifested from snowboarding, and in turn, snowboarding manifested from surfing.


This is why I have unconditional respect for snowboarders, surfers, and skiers alike.






Why not write an essay about how they are both rad? Why not demolish the typical skier vs. boarder rivalry?
Oct 15 2007 8:46PM
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switch_9
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I think there are a lot more trick possibilities on a snowboard, which makes skiing that much more interesting because you have to really be creative and use the terrain in front of you to make up a new trick or new kind of line or something.
Oct 15 2007 8:48PM
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K-Thomas
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exactly. they both feed off of one another, and neither would be where they are today without the other.
Oct 15 2007 8:48PM
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switch_9
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true that
Oct 15 2007 8:49PM
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BioGeorge
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ok yeah, i get that point and i completely agree. its just an essay- i dont actually hate snowboarders or anything its just that it was an easy topic i figure i could get some good response from it here...
Oct 15 2007 8:51PM
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316
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skiing and snowboarding are both really dumb when you think about what ur doing. 
Oct 15 2007 8:54PM
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Klick_2_klaim
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Ive become so accustom to riding with snowboarders that I always kinda get weird around skiers.
Like when I see a sick skier... im too boogie to go talk to them. hahaha
Oct 15 2007 8:55PM
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K-Thomas
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i assume it's some sort of an opinion essay, in which you have to support yours with facts? not trying to hate, but i think it's going to be harder than you think to come up w/ legit backing for your topic. hopefully this will give you some help...but here's some reason's why i like skiing better than snowboarding (not that it is better/worse) I feel that there's always something more for me to do, in various aspects of the sport and therefore havent switched to snowboarding. i like having 4 edges as opposed to 2, to turn sharper/more control. and like you said, i like going either forward or backward, not sideways.
Oct 15 2007 8:57PM
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Krush
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Oct 15 2007 9:12PM
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404404
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Stupid paper, i hope you fail. You cant compare them, thats like saying football is better then base ball or any sport.
Oct 15 2007 9:32PM
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DJSTEVEINNIAMIXX
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how can u make a argument,its your choice if you like either.besides there both awsome sports.snowboarding is awsome and i hate how skiers are always hatin on it.
Oct 15 2007 9:38PM
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steezyjibber
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snowboarding puts strain on my legs
snowboarding is slowly decreasing among young ones
Oct 15 2007 9:42PM
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twintipteles
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and safer??? That's a pretty terrible argument to make. Snowboarding has a ton of wrist arm injuries. Skiing has a ton of blown knees. Both have a decent amount of spinal injuries. I don't see any conclusive evidence that skiing is safer.
Oct 15 2007 9:42PM
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steezyjibber
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in snowboarding's defense, i'd like to add that skiing gives me horrible shin bang and sometimes i want to snowboard b/c it gets so bad.
Oct 15 2007 9:44PM
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BEARS.
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safer. (bindings release) 
faster. (facing forward)
more tricks. (crosses)
Oct 15 2007 9:45PM
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B.Snow
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boots are wayyy more comfy for snowboarding 
Oct 15 2007 9:47PM
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Alex_G
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Hey that's a little harsh bro... Be easy man, the kid just needs to write a paper for school and just needs people who chose to ski over snowboarding to tell them why they did so.
   
I did, because my dad made me ski and never let me snowboard (only once he let me, but ive pulled the switcheroo a couple of times with my friends). I fell in love with skiing because i perfected it. That's one thing I think makes skiing different than snowboarding. It takes much longer to perfect. Snowboarding at first, is a really tough thing to do. It takes a good 3-4 days to learn how not to fall on your ass all day, but after that it's not really much different. Skiing however, you have to learn from the time you are really young (3 years old for me) till about 7 years to get to skiing parallel, and after that you have to learn how to carve properly and all of that, and once you perfect that you can learn how to hit the park and other jumps. Skiing also allows one to bring their own style. I see a lot of different styles now in skiing than in snowboarding. For example, T-wall slides rails differently than Travis Heed does, even though they are sliding with the same basic idea, like how T-wall has one ski slanted and one flat. In snowboarding, you can only 50-50 one way, boardslide one way, and press one way.

That's just what i've seen and I don't have anything against snowboarding, good luck with your paper brother.
Oct 15 2007 9:54PM
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spwrozek
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^^snowboarding is a lot harder to perfect then you make it out to be.  When I sit at the top and watch people board most of the time you watch people ride poorly.  They do not carve, they slide turns. They ride a stance that doesn't work for them.  They can't ride switch, which is huge and something someone who has "perfected" snowboarding has to be able to do and it has to be flawless, not being able to tell reg from switch. 

Personally I prefer to snowboard.  More mellow, carving on a board just feels nicer more like you are part of the mountain.  When you want to be fast you can be in bindings in no time flat. I feel safer in a snowboard crash then a skiing crash.  I know where my board is and how it will react.  In a skiing crash you hope to lose them before you lose a knee.

In the end though I love them both and that is why I do them both.  When I get the chance to ride with my dad I usually pop on skis and kick it with the old man.  Usually I snowboard pow more.  50/50 on groomers.  They are  both great and I don't think there is a way to say one is better then the other. whatever makes you happy.
Oct 16 2007 12:34AM
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Holte
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My parents ski.
Oct 16 2007 12:40AM
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Aenigma
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I don't think you can outright say one is better than the other, there's pros and cons to them both.  I actually thought of switching to snowboarding at one point, but then I realized that the mountain I ride at the most is full of moguls and traverses.  That, and I like to backcountry ski, which is a little harder on a snowboard.  However, I would LOVE to try snowboarding on a powder day or hitting a big jump if I had any skill at all.
Oct 16 2007 12:55AM
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vzdz
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You could argue how the giant community in snowboarding is completely commercialized and trivialized to the youth masses where the beauty and fun of surfing a mountain (where snowboarding stemmed from) is neglected and it's all about wearing the latest gear and wearing mirror tint goggles.... which is completely biased and way judgemental because snowboarding has its roots too.... it's just way more commericialized (look at southern california)

and say how the genre of freeskiing is completely new and innovative, where the direction of the sport is still up in the air (ha like my pun?) and the smaller community of freeskiiers can still potentially steer the direction of the sport than say, the huge corporations that dominate snowboarding. just argue how the community of skiing is less industry based and more about the skiing not the selling.
Oct 16 2007 1:39AM
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holyDINOSAURS
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cool story hansel but if you actually stop and look at snowboarding holy crap is there some mad diversity going on in their tricks. compare the way joe sexton and MFM do a nosepress. retarded.
Oct 16 2007 3:07AM
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cottonwoodarmada1651
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sorry but sounds like a lame paper. skiing is gay, especially compared to snowboarding (though my snowboarder friends tell me that snowboarding is gay compared to skating, making skiing gayer than i can even comprehend)
Oct 16 2007 3:37AM
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bob_dole
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and then you ski. so are you jsut fucking with kristie or are you legit homo?
Oct 16 2007 3:56AM
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djty111
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you have 2 boards to controll insted of two
Oct 16 2007 5:07AM
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Literature
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It isn't.

Same culture, goals, and types of people.

And if they are trying to divide you from people you share things with, fuck 'em.
Oct 16 2007 5:31AM
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anti-mogal
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watch dumont x games half pipe run and then shaun whites and you will see why skiing is better
Oct 16 2007 9:34AM
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BioGeorge
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thank you.
I didn't think that it was gunna be this hard to get simple answers like these. i feel like a broken record, i dont hate snowboarders and i agree we both spawn off of each other. i guess i am just looking for PROS for skiing.
thanks again
Oct 16 2007 9:40AM
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