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I did opposite, grew up snowboarding, and then switched to skis. Never looking back lol! Snowboarding is really rough, and honestly it was designed for the park. If you want to dominate in the park and then do some powder runs pick up the board, otherwise you arnt missing anything!! lol

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Hitting a nice not too steep good condition slope on the correct board can be a lot of fun.

Once I got my first actually wide board that I could really carve like a mad man it opened a totally new world of fun for me.

Ryan Knapton on youtube has had some really nice videos about this for a long time now. For example https://youtu.be/1a-oj70PFqc

With "actually wide" I mean not what most manufacturers call "wide" but proper 31cm wide or more from the narrowest point for my mondo 29 feet making sure I will never catch my toe or heel when carving really hard.

wow that made me smile on this "Monday" here at work.

here to say +1 watch this! and thanks

So happy to read this. All I have ever done is snowboard... 25 years of it. I am going to try skiing next month and I am just excited to not have to strap in on every run! I don't care that I will have to walk all dumb around the restaurant, lol.

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