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#1 ·
I will start this thread.

I am 24 years old, live in Toronto Canada.

I grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan (where there is a ton of snow) so naturally i have gone both skiing and snowboarding.

I'm still a beginner snowboarder, but hope to learn lots at Snowboarding Forum :D
 
#3,262 ·
Howdy, I'm 34 years old, been a boarder since I was 14 so this marks 20 years now. I live in Texas though and I doubt I've even made 20 trips total.

I owned a rode a Ride catalyst 160 for the last 12 years and recently acquired a new Rossi board but no bindings yet. Will submit those questions in the equipment sections.


Happy riding everyone.
 
#3,263 ·
Hi everyone,

I'm keen to learn how to snowboard / ski so I'm a major newbie and super green. I want to know all the tips and tricks before I go on my first trip to a snow resort. I know how to ice skate a bit (am into ice hockey) and was thinking of learning to skateboard to improve balance for snowboarding.

Please PM me if you have any helpful advice.

Thanks!
Thierry
 
#3,265 ·
Hey everyone,

I'm 24 years old and I've been snowboarding for the last 6 years. Since I live in the Midwest I usually only snowboard once or twice a year, however, I just got back from my first trip to Keystone and it was amazing! While at Keystone I took the opportunity to visit a professional boot fitter. It was eye opening - I was wearing an 11.5 boot when I should have been wearing a 9.5! I picked up some new boots in the 9.5 and it made such a huge difference in turning ability and comfort!

Stoked for next season!
 
#3,268 ·
I feel your pain, serum. I’m an even older guy (42), and since the kids came along I’ve cut back from up to 20 days/season to just a few. They’re at least getting to the point where I can get them out now, so that’s something.

I got on skis for the first time when I was around 30. Started riding only about six years ago, and finally went out to get my own gear this season, after years of borrowing my buddy’s old setup. Making a trip from the East Coast to Colorado though next weekend. Hoping it looks a little better than the forecast seems on paper, but I’m sure the wife and I will have a blast.
 
#3,271 ·
Hey everyone,



My wife and I just learned this season and proud to say we have 27 days under our belt. 30 yo, based in Boston, spend a lot of time in N. Vermont at Sugarbush.



Just returned from a week in Park City - had a blast and improved a bunch!



Looking forward to participating in the forum.



Allen


Welcome! I'm in Boston as well. Hopefully this little weather system coming through will breath a little life.


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#3,277 ·
Hi,

Injury-prone n00b here.

I had a few lessons in the Alps (L2A) in Jan 2015, cracked my tailbone clean in two. After 18 months(!) of healing I finally got back on a board for Beginner lessons last autumn, on an outdoor dry slope.... then I tore my rotator cuff tendon (didn't know I had those) and was out for a couple of months. Been heading up once a week for the past month, I'm getting my confidence back, heel edge is feeling alright, just gotta get those toe edge turns up to scratch.

I live in Edinburgh, a 3-hour drive from Glenshee resort in the Scottish Highlands. Think I might have missed the boat on this season but plan on using my local dry slope to practice, the indoor slope in Glasgow to get some snow back in my life, before hitting up Austria next winter with pals.

No idea what boards/boots/bindings I'll be after, holding off on buying until I get back from a holiday at the end of April. I'm 4.5 (UK), hiring a 146 board (was 149, but I'm 5'5" and was recommended the smaller one last time I went up. It seems to be going well so far :grin: )
 
#3,278 ·
:welcome: aaah, Edinburrrrrgh... my favorite city :).
Hope your injury stretch is over and you'll enjoy next season carefree!
 
#3,282 · (Edited)
I live in the French Alps and I'm almost 40 y/o. I'm old...
I've been surfing since my 15 y/o, snowboarding since my early 26 y/o, because, before that....I...was....:crying:....:crying:.....A SKIER...OOOOH GOOD THE PAIN OF ADMITING THIS....:gaah::gaah::gaah::gaah::gaah::gaah::gaah::gaah:

Yes I ski since I was 16 and took me a long time to move to snowboard. It should have been more or less logic since I was a surfer but bad influences made me dwell in that horrible horrible world before I moved to the snowboard world.

My first board was a Burton and since then I'm a fan. I believe that a lot of brands have very good material, even better than Burton but I'm just used to it by now.
My riding style is mostly backcountry and groomers. I do some jumps and jibbing but not a lot since all the boards I choose are normally not very good for jibbing since whenever I go up, to the mountain, I go on days with fresh powder or sunny days so my primary pick for boards are all mountain boards.

Next year I will start my adventure in the rad old snowboarding people trend: randonnee (ski hiking) on a split-board. Why? I really don't know. It just seems appropriated in my age to start wasting a full day of ski to go up a mountain and go down in a 1 single run.
 
#3,283 ·
I live in the French Alps and I'm almost 40 y/o. I'm old...

Yes I ski since I was 16 and took me a long time to move to snowboard. It should have been more or less logic since I was a surfer but bad influences made me dwell in that horrible horrible world before I moved to the snowboard world.

My first board was a Burton and since then I'm a fan. I believe that a lot of brands have very good material, even better than Burton but I'm just used to it by now.
My riding style is mostly backcountry and groomers. I do some jumps and jibbing but not a lot since all the boards I choose are normally not very good for jibbing since whenever I go up, to the mountain, I go on days with fresh powder or sunny days so my primary pick for boards are all mountain boards.

Next year I will start my adventure in the rad old snowboarding people trend: randonnee (ski hiking) on a split-board. Why? I really don't know. It just seems appropriated in my age to start wasting a full day of ski to go up a mountain and go down in a 1 single run.
Welcome! I love your attitude. You seem like a lot of fun :) I don't live near the mountains so I am very jealous of your European lifestyle.
 
#3,284 ·
been lurking here for several days. Just doing alot of reading. I've been interested in trying snowboarding for years but never got the chance. I've skied several times and used to skateboard when I was a lot younger. I'm 40 now and finally have several friends that just started to learn this past season. I'm planning to learn next season. I usually join forums to do research on things I wanna try or interest in. Happy there's a community with so much info.
 
#3,286 · (Edited)
Greetings from the Last Frontier

Yo. I'm from Alaska. Born and raised here all 27 years of my life, and haven't hardly ever left. Here's my little story about why I'm here:

I'm a college biochemistry student of humble means, but over spring break, I received a birthday present of a completely paid-for (rental gear, lift pass) first-time snowboarding outing. You see, I had been tangentially intrigued by snowboarding for some time, but felt cut off from the pursuit by the barriers of buying/renting costly gear and resort passes. I still have memories of high school acquaintances of a decade ago going to the nearby mountain and talking about their cool boarding adventures, which I remained ignorant of.

It was my first time doing something fun outside all winter, and I NEEDED the fresh mountain air and scenic views, let me tell you. After the rough first day, I had managed to barely link one or two precariously-performed "S" turns, and despite all the falling (like every 30 seconds) that day, the experience of starting to learn a challenging and cool new skill was liberating. Invigorating, even. I can't remember the last time I felt like such a giddy little kid about something like this. Even after falling repeatedly on my butt with great force and semi-spraining my dainty, girly wrists, I was hooked already. After that day, I expediently acquired my own cheap used board/bindings (but new boots), flew into an unforeseen frenzy of research into all the fine details of this wonderful sport, and managed to go back for four more FULL days before the season ended. And each time I made great progress and had exponentially increasing fun. Already, I can go down most any blue square run and link my turns with relative ease (but still have LOTS of room for betterment!).

I figured I would join this forum because I've pondered many questions during my recent and enthusiastic dive into snowboarding, and I figure there are probably some experienced riders on this site who may be able to offer me a little guidance at times.

Anyway, I'm into the kind of snowboarding where you just shred down the mountain, and don't really have much interest in "park"-style things (there are virtually no places with unnatural or urban terrain here, anyway). My mountain of choice is a totally small-town type of place, with a cool old base lodge, tire-chained old school buses for a lift system, and frequented by lots of interior Alaska's hippies. The mountain is well-wooded with black and white spruce forest, with an intricate network of runs weaving through it. It's where I've done all of my snowboarding so far, so I consider it my domain of sorts.
 
#3,288 ·
Hi everyone! Just starting out in the fun adventure this season. Long time skier, but I've traded in the skis for a snowboard (why did I wait so long?). 50 Year old skier, although I look and act about 20 years younger everyone tells me, LOL. I live in the geographically and snow challenged Olympic city of Atlanta (OK, Summer Olympics...), but I have managed to hang out in some nice cold places this winter when I saw all the snowboarders having so much fun and decided I had to start too.

This winter went to:

- Verbier, Switzerland (opening day) - didn't run into Prince William or Harry though.
- Bromont, Quebec (almost every night a couple of weeks - I actually have a season pass for there)
- Mt. St. Bruno - Montreal (took 1st snowboard lesson)
- Niseko, Japan - most awesome powder! Most unique overall snow experience
- Lech, Austria - most awesome ski town with best glam apres ski
- Meyerhofen, Auatria - best Euro. party ski town - fun, fun! (took second snowboard lesson)
- Sunshine VIllage, Banff - best conditions!
- Greek Peak, NY - Took third snowboard lesson the day the March blizzard dumped about 3 ft. powder - had my first
"breakthrough" moment on board where I started linking turns -
- Woods Valley, NY - little localish hill where I went and practiced my but off one night on snowboard
- Back to Sunshine Village and Winsport Park in Calgary (took fourth lesson on board at Winsport) - learned turns better
- Brighton, UT (just arrived home on the redeye flight this morning) - Awesome powder weekend with fresh powder dumps -
took 5th lesson - trying to get turns smoother, less stiff and ridgid on board and smooth out back end of turns . Still doing green trails, although I have done a coupe of "small" blues.

REALLY want to get good at this, and even though the winter is running out in Northern Hemisphere I am going to Spain next week (Sierra Nevada) to close it down and also to Mammoth Mountain memorial day.

Ride a Ride Manic 161 board - I'm 6'2" and about 185 lb.

Just soaking it all in now and trying to practice as much as possible. My wife is also going to try it after skiing for many seasons - she got a Solomon Sight 150 we picked up really cheap brand new for $75 complete with the matching bindings at an end of season sale - now she just has to learn to ride it!

Just soaking it all up here. Look forward to exchanging ideas with you all!
 
#3,300 ·
Just wanted to say hi, I'm new to the forum. I found it thanks to the amazing advice offered on boot fitting.

A bit about me. I grew up surfing in South Africa and only saw snow for the first time when I was 22. Now I live in the south of France and have the southern alps 2 and a half hours away.

I tried snowboarding for the first time in 2008 and rode for 4 days in 09/10. I had to take a bit of a hiatus while being pregnant or having tiny babies during the season and badly torn stomach muscles. This winter I was able to ride for a total of 6 days and with a couple of lessons progressed nicely and looking forward to next winter to be able to progress even more and ride as many days as possible.

Now that the youngest is old enough to go to ski school we are going to get season tickets for our closest smallish resort and try to head up every weekend.

I'm really looking forward to the eldest being able to start riding as she is super keen to ride with mom.
 
#3,302 ·
Well I found this forum from an online search last year and joined so I could view a post but am just now getting around to an introduction. I started boarding 3 years ago and now its my favorite thing in the world. I never thought sliding down snow could be so fun, and the more I progress the more I love it. :)
 
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