Snowboarding or Skiing?

Though snowboarding was always seen as the sport of kids and teens, things changed in the recent time. Older people are more and more seen riding snowboards. Yet there is a fine line between 'Forever Young' and 'get the f--- out of here with that bull---- pops'. You really don't wanna see your grandma doing a 540 Cork over a huge kicker in the funpark, do you?

These two sports have several differences. One would be that Snowboard riders frequently have to be seated or put forth energy to maintain on edge while at a stop, unlike in Skiing which makes use of poles to aid the skiers in moving downhill and to serve as support when in upright position. Snowboarding is also a lot easier on the knees as compared to Skiing, yet snowboarding can cause massive pain in the calfs is your bindings aren't adjusted properly. For the record, knee accidents and injuries are mostly on Skiing. However, Snowboarding could be more dangerous on the wrists.

If you are looking for nothing else but speed, it would be surprising to learn that given a rider and a skier, in terms of velocity, Skiing beats Snowboarding. Comparing speed records and statistics, skiers will be faster than riders.

Moreover, in terms of learning, anticipate backside pains and literally eating snow during the learning stage of Snowboarding. I guess the same goes for skiing, with the slight difference that you don't bail all the time. If you really want to learn either of them and you put some time and effort in it, you will do good and learn it soon.

Skiing wasn't really popular in the last couple of years, but it kind of has had its comeback. Even the teens start digging skiing again and share the funparks and slopes with the riders.

My final conclusion would be, even if you aren't 20 years of age anymore, you should go ahead and give snowboarding a shot. And if you are some snowboard dude who thinks skiiers are stupid f---, you should consider thinking outside the box once and forget about your antipathy.