Skiing is much easier to learn for sure. I started skiing after 12 years of boarding just for fun and it's great to be able to do both. A lot of the techniques are very transferable between the two. I don't think one is better than the other. They all have pros and cons and very condition dependent. I found I love skiing more in the morning when the snow is hard and fast. When the snow gets softer towards noon and afternoon, I like boarding hitting sidehits and park.
After skiing and snowboarding for over 25 years, it wasn’t until last season that I started liking snowboarding over skiing. I think it’s great to be good at both and have the choice for whichever one you’re in the mood for (sometimes both in one day). It’s nice to ski with skiers and ride with riders. They’re similar, but two different activities to me.
As someone who has snowboarded since the 90s and will be trying skiing this year, I'm glad to hear this :) I rollerblade a lot and people said it's really easy to learn skiing if you do that as well.
Loving your videos Bag o', I love that you ask the question in the beginning of the video and immediately answer it, after which you explain very well why. The build up of your videos is nice, clear and not too long. I like the way you use your own experience and make it very clear to understand how it feels to do the things you explain. Keep up the great work, my man!
I've tried both. I'm from Brazil and living in Canada, and I had never seen snow until 2/3 years ago. My father-in-law is a skier, and he taught me both. I tried skiing first, but I kept falling because my feet were always positioned wrong and man the ski boots is so uncomfortable. With snowboarding though, I was able to stay up and ride down the bunny slope for at least 50-100 meters. I'm an intermediate snowboarder now. I can ride on blue runs, and this season, I'll try my first black run. This next season will be my second full season because I was introduced to skiing and snowboarding in March 2022 and only had about two months before the season ended.. I'm in my second board my first was Rossignol Evader and I bought Burton Custom full Camber
It's crazy timing for me that you just put this out cause I was JUST having this discussion with a friend who's never done either (I've tried both). I totally agree with your assessment. Skiing just felt more intuitive for me, and I feel like it likely does for most people. Still enjoyed boarding too, but this is great advice for anyone consider which to try for the first time. Great vid man, now I can just refer newbies to this explanation lol
I started with snowboarding but after I went to Vail, the long traverses hit me hard when I saw my skier friends were able to skate through it no problem
Just started snowboarding at the beginning of this year. Never done any board related sports or skiing. It was really weird and difficult to keep your balance. And you keep looking at your feet. Now after a few times I kinda got the hang of it. I can do some basic turn, but still far from smooth.
Skiing is easier - the downside? You’ll look like a fruit cup the whole time on the mountain twisting your hips like a princess Snowboarding downside? You’ll be stuck on the bunny hill for atleast 2 days
I’ve been skiing for 24 years, and have the level 3 ski instructor degree in Austria. Have snowboarded for around 6 years as well. Skiing is definitely easier to learn, though skiing has a way higher skill level/ceiling than snowboarding. With snowboarding once you master carving, I would say the park is the next step
Nah. Snowboarding has a lot of nuance and snowboard masters are extremely rare. Just because someone can do a shit turn or even a carve, doesn’t mean they’re a master.
The other point of skiing is the risk of injury. I see a lot of beginner skier being too confident too fast then they start to go at a speed that they cannot control. It resulted a nasty fall and they injuered their knees. Meanwhile when beginner snowboard, they fall very often and by that they start to develop the fear of falling also developing awareness of how to fall properly and in which speed is controllable.
Bro I love your content and thanks for making a great video..... but there is a difference between skidded and carved turns and calling skidded turns carves is a rookie mistake that matters. So many people learn to skid and think they are done learning and never get to carving.
As an observer I noticed when a snowboarder really carves they can lay almost complexity flat with the snow! Then come right out of it and go so fast while doing all this. I watched skiers carve and I would describe it as a bunny hopping back and forth in a field. Take a guess which looked more enticing and fun to me having never done both at the time😂 Hint: I chose snowboarding and have no regrets.
@ 🤷♂️ I guess so. Snowboarders just arch down like a bullet to do this. Idk if either is grabbing to me. Both are capable of being a bullet going down a mountain just as much as the other
That double back flip without leaving the ground looked painful as hell! I've fallen backward downhill (no flip) and was too shell shocked to ride on my toe edge for the rest of the day. If that double back flip happened to me, I might not recover for the rest of the season!
last season was my first. I did both all season and took a beating snowboarding finally switched to skis anddddd tore my ACL AND MENISCUS so im kinda nervous to ski this year thinking snowboarding might be easier on the acl
I used to ski and it depends who u are, it was super easy for me to pick up skiing because I played hockey, but I wanted to snowboard instead but maybe a person who likes to skateboard more will pickup snowboarding quicker and think it’s easier because they are more used to the position of being sideways
Excellent video. 5/5. Question: which one offers better turning around trees? I snowboard and only skied once. I guess that it is skiing, but what do you think?
Honestly I think snowboarding is easier because I was able to go on black diamonds in 3 days but with skiing it took me around 3 years where I would ski 3 days each year
So I’m someone who is kinda interested in doing either I don’t wanna be great but I wanna be able to comfortably go down hills how long does that take ?
I've been a skier ever science I was a little rat kid and last season I decided to start snowboarding. In my personal experience, snowboarding is a lot harder when you first start and gets exponentially easier to progress as you learn. Its a lot easier in my own personal experience to go from black to double black than from green to blue or blue to black on a snowboard. Because of this I was able to go from strait up beginner to expert in just a season. Skiing however, is the exact opposite and is really easy to teach beginners and my friends when they first start out but a lot harder to get them good enough to start hitting the big stuff. It also helps to be good at one or the other because you can take a lot of basic knowledge like edge transition, early edge engagement, and carving from one into the other. This my just my personal experience tho :/
I thought for sure you were going to say snowboarding was easier. I was an expert skier and took a 3/4 day intro SB lesson. I flailed at first, as bad as my first day on skies, but by the end of the day I was doing swing turns down groomed black diamond runs. So my vote is SB is easier. Did I say I was also an accomplished surfer.
@@bluestone1106 🙄I know firsthand it's not harder, as for ''cooler'', that's in the eye of the beholder. And by experience, I know there's a hardcore boarder group of totally rude riders.
@@_permanence Swing turns is a skiing term which is why you don't recognize it, they're a series quick frontside-backside turns straight down the fall line. And I'll agree, from what I've seen of a lot of snowboarders, the don't know what good boarding is.
Skiing is much easier to learn for sure. I started skiing after 12 years of boarding just for fun and it's great to be able to do both. A lot of the techniques are very transferable between the two. I don't think one is better than the other. They all have pros and cons and very condition dependent. I found I love skiing more in the morning when the snow is hard and fast. When the snow gets softer towards noon and afternoon, I like boarding hitting sidehits and park.
You’re living the dream bro. Shred on 🤟🏾
A saying I heard before "Skiing is easier to learn yet harder to master, snowboarding is harder to learn but easier to master"
Yes but change one thing, snowboarding is harder to learn, easier to get decent at and learn some tricks but also very hard to master
Did you hear this from me because I’ve said that same exact thing like 10 times before
@@TweegTimothy No clue, I just heard it on an Instagram post haha
Real
Only skiers say that.
After skiing and snowboarding for over 25 years, it wasn’t until last season that I started liking snowboarding over skiing. I think it’s great to be good at both and have the choice for whichever one you’re in the mood for (sometimes both in one day). It’s nice to ski with skiers and ride with riders. They’re similar, but two different activities to me.
Took a while but finally seen the light 😅
As someone who has snowboarded since the 90s and will be trying skiing this year, I'm glad to hear this :) I rollerblade a lot and people said it's really easy to learn skiing if you do that as well.
Loving your videos Bag o', I love that you ask the question in the beginning of the video and immediately answer it, after which you explain very well why. The build up of your videos is nice, clear and not too long. I like the way you use your own experience and make it very clear to understand how it feels to do the things you explain. Keep up the great work, my man!
I've tried both. I'm from Brazil and living in Canada, and I had never seen snow until 2/3 years ago. My father-in-law is a skier, and he taught me both. I tried skiing first, but I kept falling because my feet were always positioned wrong and man the ski boots is so uncomfortable. With snowboarding though, I was able to stay up and ride down the bunny slope for at least 50-100 meters. I'm an intermediate snowboarder now. I can ride on blue runs, and this season, I'll try my first black run. This next season will be my second full season because I was introduced to skiing and snowboarding in March 2022 and only had about two months before the season ended.. I'm in my second board my first was Rossignol Evader and I bought Burton Custom full Camber
It's crazy timing for me that you just put this out cause I was JUST having this discussion with a friend who's never done either (I've tried both). I totally agree with your assessment. Skiing just felt more intuitive for me, and I feel like it likely does for most people. Still enjoyed boarding too, but this is great advice for anyone consider which to try for the first time. Great vid man, now I can just refer newbies to this explanation lol
@@LingYao9001 thank you!!
I started with snowboarding but after I went to Vail, the long traverses hit me hard when I saw my skier friends were able to skate through it no problem
@@jonathanzou7180 one of the worst parts of snowboarding for sure!
Just started snowboarding at the beginning of this year. Never done any board related sports or skiing. It was really weird and difficult to keep your balance. And you keep looking at your feet. Now after a few times I kinda got the hang of it. I can do some basic turn, but still far from smooth.
Skiing is easier - the downside? You’ll look like a fruit cup the whole time on the mountain twisting your hips like a princess
Snowboarding downside? You’ll be stuck on the bunny hill for atleast 2 days
I’ve done both and I like skiing more.
I’ve been skiing for 24 years, and have the level 3 ski instructor degree in Austria. Have snowboarded for around 6 years as well. Skiing is definitely easier to learn, though skiing has a way higher skill level/ceiling than snowboarding. With snowboarding once you master carving, I would say the park is the next step
Nah. Snowboarding has a lot of nuance and snowboard masters are extremely rare. Just because someone can do a shit turn or even a carve, doesn’t mean they’re a master.
@ it still remains easier to master than skiing
The other point of skiing is the risk of injury.
I see a lot of beginner skier being too confident too fast then they start to go at a speed that they cannot control. It resulted a nasty fall and they injuered their knees.
Meanwhile when beginner snowboard, they fall very often and by that they start to develop the fear of falling also developing awareness of how to fall properly and in which speed is controllable.
Huh? Snowboarders tend to have more injuries than skiers. Not hard to confirm from research papers.
Bro I love your content and thanks for making a great video..... but there is a difference between skidded and carved turns and calling skidded turns carves is a rookie mistake that matters. So many people learn to skid and think they are done learning and never get to carving.
As an observer I noticed when a snowboarder really carves they can lay almost complexity flat with the snow! Then come right out of it and go so fast while doing all this.
I watched skiers carve and I would describe it as a bunny hopping back and forth in a field.
Take a guess which looked more enticing and fun to me having never done both at the time😂
Hint: I chose snowboarding and have no regrets.
The equivalent of extreme carving for skiing is practically sitting on your skis while going downhill. First time I saw that I was amazed.
@ 🤷♂️ I guess so. Snowboarders just arch down like a bullet to do this. Idk if either is grabbing to me. Both are capable of being a bullet going down a mountain just as much as the other
That double back flip without leaving the ground looked painful as hell! I've fallen backward downhill (no flip) and was too shell shocked to ride on my toe edge for the rest of the day. If that double back flip happened to me, I might not recover for the rest of the season!
Unfortunately, my feet are allergic to ski boots. Absolutely torture. And yes, I’ve had everything from blowouts to custom made boots.
Both is nice
I have kached so many edges on snowboards but
I have snowborded only one season last season but it's fun
last season was my first. I did both all season and took a beating snowboarding finally switched to skis anddddd tore my ACL AND MENISCUS so im kinda nervous to ski this year thinking snowboarding might be easier on the acl
U must have been doing something very crazy to do that damage or your DIN settings weren’t appropriate. Or both.
I used to ski and it depends who u are, it was super easy for me to pick up skiing because I played hockey, but I wanted to snowboard instead but maybe a person who likes to skateboard more will pickup snowboarding quicker and think it’s easier because they are more used to the position of being sideways
Excellent video. 5/5. Question: which one offers better turning around trees? I snowboard and only skied once. I guess that it is skiing, but what do you think?
100% agree
@snogo is much easier than both. You can ride down blues on your first day!
Honestly I think snowboarding is easier because I was able to go on black diamonds in 3 days but with skiing it took me around 3 years where I would ski 3 days each year
I do a lot of skateboarding and ripstik so skiing was much harder for me and snowboarding is kinda natural
Snowboarding on the east coast isn’t worth it , you’ll be on ice more often then fresh powder so having two edges on skis makes for a better time
I did a black diamond after my second day of snowboarding
So I’m someone who is kinda interested in doing either I don’t wanna be great but I wanna be able to comfortably go down hills how long does that take ?
Skiing is easier because left and right is symmetrical. Any technique on the snowboard requires mastering on both heel and toe side separately
Bruh. U your two skis work independently. Which is what makes (non beginner) skiing harder than snowboarding.
True. Plus skiing has 2 edges to balance on instead of 1, so it’s way easier.
I've been a skier ever science I was a little rat kid and last season I decided to start snowboarding. In my personal experience, snowboarding is a lot harder when you first start and gets exponentially easier to progress as you learn. Its a lot easier in my own personal experience to go from black to double black than from green to blue or blue to black on a snowboard. Because of this I was able to go from strait up beginner to expert in just a season. Skiing however, is the exact opposite and is really easy to teach beginners and my friends when they first start out but a lot harder to get them good enough to start hitting the big stuff. It also helps to be good at one or the other because you can take a lot of basic knowledge like edge transition, early edge engagement, and carving from one into the other. This my just my personal experience tho :/
Skiing is easier but snowboarding is more fun.
I thought for sure you were going to say snowboarding was easier. I was an expert skier and took a 3/4 day intro SB lesson. I flailed at first, as bad as my first day on skies, but by the end of the day I was doing swing turns down groomed black diamond runs. So my vote is SB is easier. Did I say I was also an accomplished surfer.
😂 you know snowboarding is harder and cooler you just can’t say it
@@bluestone1106 🙄I know firsthand it's not harder, as for ''cooler'', that's in the eye of the beholder. And by experience, I know there's a hardcore boarder group of totally rude riders.
Any kook can do a “swing turn” whatever the hell that is. Most people don’t know what good snowboarding is if it hit them in the face.
@@_permanence Swing turns is a skiing term which is why you don't recognize it, they're a series quick frontside-backside turns straight down the fall line.
And I'll agree, from what I've seen of a lot of snowboarders, the don't know what good boarding is.
I feel like skiing is easier on groomers but harder in the park and snowboarding is harder on groomers but easier in the park
Why are there so many people and trees in the way. Canceling snowboarding trip immediately.
Can I have the name/number of the snowboarder in the brown coat? 😂
Jesus loves yall!
bro you sound like waffle ... do you play cs too?
@@chrispapa9510 nope but waffle sounds like a cool dude
This guy clearly doesn’t know much about snowboarding.
Unless you grew up skating/surfing....I probably wouldn't recommend snowboarding, imo.
Skiing
did you watch the video?
@@Mr_Meow64
By the look of the answer they probably did watch the video, did you watch the video🤷