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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

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

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.)[/quote]

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