| Let me tell you all about the time that I learned | | | | over the ski's. I think my background with a |
| snowboarding and why I absolutely think that you | | | | surfboard may have had some sway too. I do not |
| should go out there and do the same as me. When | | | | know if everyone will understand what I am talking |
| you take snowboarding lessons it can boost your | | | | about, but I believe that a snowboard feels so much |
| self-esteem and give you a great sense of well | | | | more responsive than ski's do. Do you know what I |
| being, and can also result in many hours of fun and | | | | mean? Am I making sense here? |
| enjoyment that can come as a result of the new skill | | | | At our local ski slope there is only 100M of ski run, |
| that you have just learned. When I was only 16 I | | | | that is roughly around 300 feet when you work it |
| really liked watching winter sports on television and | | | | out. Over this sort of distance what can you actually |
| although it may sound stupid, it was actually surfing | | | | do on a pair of ski's? If they had some kind of |
| that drove me to want to learn to snowboard. I | | | | complicated slalom set up then that would be |
| always liked surfing, and as I lived by the coast, it | | | | different, but just going down a hill on ski's to me |
| was a sport that was easily accessible for me. You | | | | seems slightly dull compared to what you can do |
| see, where I lived it was absolutely impossible to go | | | | over the same distance on a snowboard. A |
| snowboarding, skiing or sledging, so surfing was | | | | snowboard appears to be more thrilling, and seems |
| pretty much the done thing for me and my friends | | | | to have a much more dangerous image, which is |
| to take up! I think this is why when I had to move | | | | totally cool! That is why I decided to choose |
| away from home to attend college, coupled with my | | | | snowboarding, but don't get me wrong, I still think |
| love for watching winter sports and snowboarding on | | | | that skiing can be great fun, and as I visit the skiing |
| television, that I decided to learn how to snowboard. | | | | slope regularly every other week or so I have |
| I bet by now you must be wondering why I made | | | | actually started to do a little skiing for a bit of a |
| the choice of snowboarding over skiing. The main | | | | change. I am actually not as bad at it as I thought I |
| reason for this was because when I moved to | | | | would be. |
| college, I made a lot of new friends that did | | | | You see, once I learned how to snow board with |
| snowboarding but none of them did skiing at the local | | | | getsnowboarding I had some transferable skills, such |
| ski slope. The slope caters for both sports very well, | | | | as an ability to use the ski lift, how to handle the |
| so I suppose the decision really had to come down | | | | speed, knowing when to slow down, how to stop |
| to me. Back home I had always likes watching | | | | etc. That is why I am glad that I learned how to |
| snowboarding on television much more than skiing, so | | | | snowboard first. If I had skied first, then I would |
| I decided to go out their and choose snowboarding | | | | probably have found it a lot more difficult to learn to |
| and I would be lying if I said my friends were my | | | | snowboard. |
| only influence in my decision to choose the board | | | | |