Women's skiing compared to women's snowboarding

Women both in skiing and snowboarding definitely do face the same challenges. But can push each other to further and to progress my sport. The girls who are in park at my hill are snowboarders and they are my biggest inspirations.

We can all learn from each other to make each of our sports better.

and snowboarder chicks are badass as hell.

Why aren't those girls wearing helmets!?


It might just be that I'm a skier, but I feel like women's snowboarding is an even smaller demographic than women's skiing. I do appreciate some lady knuckle draggin though.

nosnowsnakesWhy aren't those girls wearing helmets!?


It might just be that I'm a skier, but I feel like women's snowboarding is an even smaller demographic than women's skiing. I do appreciate some lady knuckle draggin though.

Really?! It might just be where Im from but there are a way more girl snowbaorder here. I've met about 8 in the past 2 years whereas I have yet to see another girl skier from my area. I'm not completely up to date on whats going on in women's snowboarding but from what I know it seems they have progressed more than we have in urban and comp riding. I could be wrong though.

At the mountains around here the only time I see ladies in the park they are almost always snowboarders. I even still hear people on the lift refer to the park as "the snowboard park." Even though it seems like park skiing has become pretty popular, plenty of people still think it's a snowboarder thing and they pass this on to their children.

Snowboarders on the other hand, are almost expected to go into the park because it's a part of snowboarding culture. I think this is why I think I see more female snowboarders jibbing or jumping than skiers. Either way I'm always excited to see any lady throwing down in the park whether or not she's on one plank or two.

The rest of the mountain is another story, and I'd say it'a pretty even split.

nosnowsnakesWhy aren't those girls wearing helmets!?


It might just be that I'm a skier, but I feel like women's snowboarding is an even smaller demographic than women's skiing. I do appreciate some lady knuckle draggin though.

Women's snowboarding as twice the following (outside of the sport) verse women's skiing. And living in Keystone and Breck I've always seen way more snowboarder ladies than skiers. Not to mention the multiple all female filming crews like as mentioned Too Hard, Outta tha Kitchen, and Jetpack 500. I want to see more of this in women's skiing!!

I'm getting old and can't figure out how to post embed codes on here if someone can help me out haha respect to the knuckle draggin babes though!

https://vimeo.com/116781878

https://vimeo.com/88199595

Where im from there are way more girls snowboarding in the park that skiing.

SkiVermont3Where im from there are way more girls snowboarding in the park that skiing.

Ayy how'd you post this? Haha but yup that's how it is like everywhere I've ever been.

Ha. I guess you guys are right. I think I just choose to pay more attention to women's skiing. More all women crews (both ski and board) would be rad!

nosnowsnakesHa. I guess you guys are right. I think I just choose to pay more attention to women's skiing. More all women crews (both ski and board) would be rad!

Check out our crew!! http://www.lostgirlstribe.com We're all about combining skiing and snowboarding to make more fun edits, and play off each other. There's no reason in my mind to separate the sports. I started skiing park with snowboarders, and I generally see more women snowboarding in the park than skiing. I am going to be working on some edits next winter that involve both!

So my husband snowboards and he's a smaller guy and he had a revelation this season about snowboarding that should help some of the women on here who snowboard or who know girls that snowboard.

I mention a while back on the forums about women's skis not scaling correctly when they are sized down, and how the dimension get distorted. Well a similar thing is happening with snowboards, in a different way. The issue is not with the sidecut, like it is with skis, the issue is with the width. My husband has smaller feet 25.0 mondo, and for years he's hated riding in firm conditions of any kind because he has to work so hard to get the board to lean over and bite. Well this season he was tired of being pissed ridding ice, so he figured he needed to find the most narrow board possible. Having small feet he realized it's hard for him to get leverage over his edges, he barely has any toe overhang.

In his quest to find a narrow board that would give him good edge leverage he was willing to try a variety of women's boards, any board really if it meant it would be narrow enough to get good bite. Well he found out that the women's boards barely scale down at all. Many of them aren't any more narrow then the men's boards, unless you want to get something stupidly short and even then... Waist width caps out for narrowness at about 243 for a 150ish length board. My husband thinks a 230 width would be about right, but that board doesn't exist, anywhere. Even if you get the shortest smallest board available you can't find a 230. He has a friend with the same small foot problem that felt so strongly about he had a board custom made with a 230 waist.

The moral of the story is if you have small feet (like most women do) it is way harder for you to get leverage on your edges, especially the kind you need in firm conditions. There are literally no snowboards out there that address the needs of adults with smaller feet. Women's equipment is falling short here yet again.

TL;DR: Shrink and pink is just as prevalent in snowboarding as it is skiing.

nattytokesCheck out our crew!! http://www.lostgirlstribe.com We're all about combining skiing and snowboarding to make more fun edits, and play off each other. There's no reason in my mind to separate the sports. I started skiing park with snowboarders, and I generally see more women snowboarding in the park than skiing. I am going to be working on some edits next winter that involve both!

I already follow Lost Girls Tribe on the instagrams - I definitely dig it!. Can't wait to see what you have in store for next winter!

CyanicenineIn his quest to find a narrow board that would give him good edge leverage he was willing to try a variety of women's boards, any board really if it meant it would be narrow enough to get good bite. Well he found out that the women's boards barely scale down at all. Many of them aren't any more narrow then the men's boards, unless you want to get something stupidly short and even then... Waist width caps out for narrowness at about 243 for a 150ish length board. My husband thinks a 230 width would be about right, but that board doesn't exist, anywhere. Even if you get the shortest smallest board available you can't find a 230. He has a friend with the same small foot problem that felt so strongly about he had a board custom made with a 230 waist.

This is pretty interesting! I work for a women ski and board company but I'm mostly involved on the ski side. I just double checked our snowboard specs and sure enough our narrowest waist is 247. I'm definitely going to bring this up as we move into designing future boards.