Do mostly middle class kids snowboard, really wealthy do the more patrician skiing?

[Anonymous]

Sort of seems like it at my dd's school. What is the allure with snowboarding amongst mid income kids? Skiing is seen as too preppy?

[Anonymous]

it's more like skateboarding, so more appealing imo to kids who board
lift tickets and gear are the same costs

[Anonymous]

If there is no cost differential, then you're barking up the wrong tree. If there is a financial contrast, then yes, you could be right.

I prefer walking. This is what the aristocracy does

[Anonymous]

Get a life OP.

[Anonymous]

I learned to snowboard in 1991, when it was still pretty new and not yet mainstream, after ten years of avid skiing.

I started because I was drawn the counterculture aspect of it, but continued (and still do as a 40yo mom) because it's fun. I've done both. Snowboarding on fresh powder, there's nothing like it. And I know I'm not "cool" for it anymore.

[Anonymous]

Umm, my rich as shit friends’ kids in Big Sky and Aspen all snowboard.

You have it wrong. It’s not a division of wealth and non-wealth—it’s youth vs old. Old people only ski.

[Anonymous]

I don't know why anyone starting from zero in both would choose snowboarding, and I'm a snowboarder.

In the 90s, snowboarding was seen as cooler, but that's not true anymore.

Snowboarding has annoying aspects (doing bindings every run, having to skate on flats), and skiing does not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I learned to snowboard in 1991, when it was still pretty new and not yet mainstream, after ten years of avid skiing.

I started because I was drawn the counterculture aspect of it, but continued (and still do as a 40yo mom) because it's fun. I've done both. Snowboarding on fresh powder, there's nothing like it. And I know I'm not "cool" for it anymore.

I'm 22:43. Is it really that different than skiing power on really good powder skis?

[Anonymous]

Has snowboarding popularity waned?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why anyone starting from zero in both would choose snowboarding, and I'm a snowboarder.

In the 90s, snowboarding was seen as cooler, but that's not true anymore.

Snowboarding has annoying aspects (doing bindings every run, having to skate on flats), and skiing does not.

Snowboarding seems to draw...for lack of better words, slackers and douchebags and stoners. Is that accurate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I learned to snowboard in 1991, when it was still pretty new and not yet mainstream, after ten years of avid skiing.

I started because I was drawn the counterculture aspect of it, but continued (and still do as a 40yo mom) because it's fun. I've done both. Snowboarding on fresh powder, there's nothing like it. And I know I'm not "cool" for it anymore.

I'm 22:43. Is it really that different than skiing power on really good powder skis?

Yes! At least, I think so. It feels like a more fluid, graceful movement to me. Hard to describe the difference. But something about the act of leaning forward and vs side-to-side just works better for me, it's like flying over the snow rather than skimming over the top of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why anyone starting from zero in both would choose snowboarding, and I'm a snowboarder.

In the 90s, snowboarding was seen as cooler, but that's not true anymore.

Snowboarding has annoying aspects (doing bindings every run, having to skate on flats), and skiing does not.

Snowboarding seems to draw...for lack of better words, slackers and douchebags and stoners. Is that accurate?

Maybe slightly. Depends on location. Plenty of these types ski, and plenty snowboard, too.

Nearly everyone in VT and Breck are stoners. Nearly everyone at Aspen and DV are d-bags.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I learned to snowboard in 1991, when it was still pretty new and not yet mainstream, after ten years of avid skiing.

I started because I was drawn the counterculture aspect of it, but continued (and still do as a 40yo mom) because it's fun. I've done both. Snowboarding on fresh powder, there's nothing like it. And I know I'm not "cool" for it anymore.

I'm 22:43. Is it really that different than skiing power on really good powder skis?

Yes! At least, I think so. It feels like a more fluid, graceful movement to me. Hard to describe the difference. But something about the act of leaning forward and vs side-to-side just works better for me, it's like flying over the snow rather than skimming over the top of it.

I guess I need more powder days then. Get me out of DC!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why anyone starting from zero in both would choose snowboarding, and I'm a snowboarder.

In the 90s, snowboarding was seen as cooler, but that's not true anymore.

Snowboarding has annoying aspects (doing bindings every run, having to skate on flats), and skiing does not.

Snowboarding seems to draw...for lack of better words, slackers and douchebags and stoners. Is that accurate?

Well, it kind of originated as the snow version of skateboarding or surfing, and thus attracted a similar culture. Skiing drew the condescending types who couldn't believe that a *new* sport would invade their mountains. I always saw the snowboarders as laid-back and adventurous, and skiers as uptight.

But, you know, there are individuals in both camps. We don't all conform to the stereotypes.

(I do both, but prefers snowboarders as a group of people. Also, skiers treat snowboarders far worse than snowboarders treat skiers - conclusion drawn from 25+ years of doing both.)

[Anonymous]

The truly wealthy do whatever they feel like and don't worry about these bougie concerns, IME.