Happy New Year!

same with me gs i would wtach it all but my parents wont buy any of te sports packages on tv!!

Happy new year to everybody!
First post after a long time i know. I'm sorry... i promise to be more active again now. But all those skiing and sledging in the alps...

I want to go skiing....even if it's not in the Alps.

Do people actually ski in Switzerland? Here most of the idiots snowboard instead

catbox_9 wrote:

I want to go skiing....even if it's not in the Alps.

Do people actually ski in Switzerland? Here most of the idiots snowboard instead

Most of the people ski. There are a lot of people that changed back from snowboard to ski because it's more fun (it's what they say). I never tried snowboard though. Have to believe what they tell me.

swiss_tiger wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

I want to go skiing....even if it's not in the Alps.

Do people actually ski in Switzerland? Here most of the idiots snowboard instead

Most of the people ski. There are a lot of people that changed back from snowboard to ski because it's more fun (it's what they say). I never tried snowboard though. Have to believe what they tell me.

I tried snowboarding once, I didn't like it.

I used to go skiing a few times a year before I went to college. I was never that good, but it's a lot of fun. My sister was an expert skier but switched to snowboarding She's a decent snowboarder. She used to go down double black diamond slopes on skis but not on snowboards....


....I just checked. Europe doesn't use the same difficulty classification system as the US. I guess she skied the equivalent of your black or orange slopes.

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It also seems like bad snowboarders are worse than bad skiers. Bad skiers are generally fairly cautious and stay out of the way. Bad snowboarders try to be cautious but still end up all over the place. I remember when I was first learning to ski (I was maybe 7 or 8) and a guy on a snowboard came flying down a hill and ran into me. I was afraid to ski for a long time thanks to him.