Snowboarding going out of fashion - Snowboarding Forum

sponger606 · 01-22-2013, 11:21 AM

Saw this.

Snowboarding losing popularity, while skiing heats up - Yahoo! Travel

Debate!!!!!

zk0ot · 01-22-2013, 11:22 AM

seeing at the shop... more skis out the door than boards this year for sure

grafta · 01-22-2013, 11:25 AM

Snowboarding sucks. Competition drinking is where it's at.

Extremo · 01-22-2013, 11:32 AM

I'd have to agree with the article that skiing is easier. For every snowboarder throwing 5's in the park there are 15 skiers. Grandma's and 4 year olds are jumping off side hits everywhere, which would be impossible on a snowboard.

People jumped all over snowboarding because it looks cooler. People are leaving it because they found out its difficult.

grafta · 01-22-2013, 11:39 AM

Oh hey! There's a thread here on the original article by NY Times that fucking yahoo just regurgitated for us.

http://www.snowboardingforum.com/sno...ding-lost.html

Thread merge perhaps?

sponger606 · 01-22-2013, 11:39 AM

Only for the hardcore!

backstop13 · 01-22-2013, 11:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sponger606

Only for the hardcore!

Thread mergers or snowboarding??

**Donutz** · 01-22-2013, 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by backstop13

Thread mergers or snowboarding??

Yes!

10-bleepin'-char

grafta · 01-22-2013, 12:10 PM

Sorry, I'm back from threadmergingforum.com

Did I miss anything?

schmitty34 · 01-22-2013, 12:22 PM

I think part of it is that skiing picked up a little more "cool factor" once freestyle skiing became more prevalent.

When I was younger, snowboarding seemed like the cool young sport with tricks and baggy pants while skiing was just older people doing boring turns with lame "tricks". The X Games came along and both snowboarding and skiing became even cooler. Now youngsters probably see both sports equally as cool.

I also think ski tech has made big leaps in the last several years that have evened out some of the advantages to snowboarding (i.e. riding switch and more powder float).

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01-22-2013, 11:25 AM	#3 (permalink)
grafta Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 1,752	Snowboarding sucks. Competition drinking is where it's at.

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Extremo -LIFETIME MEMBER- Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: NH Posts: 3,122	I'd have to agree with the article that skiing is easier. For every snowboarder throwing 5's in the park there are 15 skiers. Grandma's and 4 year olds are jumping off side hits everywhere, which would be impossible on a snowboard. People jumped all over snowboarding because it looks cooler. People are leaving it because they found out its difficult.

01-22-2013, 11:39 AM	#5 (permalink)
grafta Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 1,752	Oh hey! There's a thread here on the original article by NY Times that fucking yahoo just regurgitated for us. http://www.snowboardingforum.com/sno...ding-lost.html Thread merge perhaps?

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sponger606 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Colorado Posts: 111	Only for the hardcore!

01-22-2013, 12:10 PM	#9 (permalink)
grafta Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 1,752	Sorry, I'm back from threadmergingforum.com Did I miss anything?

01-22-2013, 12:22 PM	#10 (permalink)
schmitty34 Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Probably at work wasting time Posts: 869	I think part of it is that skiing picked up a little more "cool factor" once freestyle skiing became more prevalent. When I was younger, snowboarding seemed like the cool young sport with tricks and baggy pants while skiing was just older people doing boring turns with lame "tricks". The X Games came along and both snowboarding and skiing became even cooler. Now youngsters probably see both sports equally as cool. I also think ski tech has made big leaps in the last several years that have evened out some of the advantages to snowboarding (i.e. riding switch and more powder float).