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Skiing or Snowboarding?

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PBurke:
good idea schro. snowboarding can be a blast. it can also be brutal. with your fitness level, you should be good. when i was snowboarding i was giving private lessons as well. the most common injuries were wrists, elbows and shoulders. not so much legs cause they can't move around like on skis. i would suggest taking a class together with your son. may be a good way for you two to laugh at/with each other. and the memories will be priceless as you well know. good luck bro. let us know how it goes.

Robmeister:

--- Quote from: PBurke on November 08, 2008, 05:49:21 AM ---
i would suggest taking a class together with your son. may be a good way for you two to laugh at/with each other. and the memories will be priceless as you well know.


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Agreed.  Never tried the boarding thing.....love skiing......will prolly do the lessons with the kids....that would be fun regardless.

champ007:
Schro,
Last X-mas my son and I decided to go snowboarding. I was a big skateboader in my teens and can water-ski. I can say it was not what I was expecting, but I did have a hour instruction session before I attempted it on my own. My son is a big skateboader and he benefited more from the lessons than I did. The only injury I sustained was in my knee, so I would suggest wearing a knee brace as a precaution. I will say it was a great father-son experience that we both will remember for a long time... so yea, its worth it. By the second day, we did a 2 day ski, I had it down pat and believe I only fell once the second day. Can't say how many times the first day but it was alot!! Oh, and instead of falling on my butt I tended to land on my back more or my knees. I say do it now while your still young!!

skiking:
First off, I am not the one to ask about injury potential, I would get hurt no matter what I did, but I am sure that you aren't as crazy as I am when it comes to cliffs, trees, and full throttle down the mountain

I have done both skiing and snowboarding, and I prefer skiing.  If you try snowboarding but don't like it, you could always try telemark skiing, talk about working the quads, and it feels like a more fluid motion but if you legs aren't strong it will be hard to stop.

and you aren't nuts, last winter there was a 70 year old guy that snowboarded every day of the season at my hill

Mikekoz13:
I've never boarded and I don't ski anymore.....

But when I did ski, my preferred method was to ride the lift up the mountain, jump off the lift and point the skis down the mountain, go as fast as I could to the bottom of the mountain. They called me the "Kamikazee Skier".

That's probably why I never really enjoyed it..............

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