[Closed] Snowboarders ?

Its because you have more time to bond with each other whilst you sit on your rrrs (in the middle of the slope) watching all the "less cool" skiers fly by!

It's that extra special close male bonding you only get with snowboarders when they have to double up on the T Bars.

Play nice? Hmmm.

Classic, childish article by Chris Moran in Whitelines:

Is it just me, or does anyone else hate the word ‘boarder’? I don’t believe I’m alone. When did you hear Terje refer to our wonderful sport as ‘boarding’? When did Jenny Jones last say, “I go boarding all winter long”? And when was the last time you read in this very magazine the words, “we had a great time boarding around the three vallees”?

I’ll tell you when: never. NEVER!

NEEVVVEEERRR!

And why? Because no self-respecting snowboarder on Earth should ever – ever! – refer to this life-changing sport by that filthy, utterly depraved moniker that is: ‘boarding’.

Eurgh, just typing it makes me want to kill ants.

I know I’m inching towards being a ****er, but I don’t care. My pride is long gone. I don’t mind being ridiculed, but I don’t want to be a ‘boarder’ any more. I’m a snowboarder. I ride my snowboard and am therefore also a rider. And I’m damned proud of it. Here are some points you can choose to read or not read, depending on whether you’re a ‘boarder’ or not.

[b]Why shorten it anyway? [/b]
“I remember talking to someone in a pub and they asked me if I’d seen the footie last night,” said comedian and famed football pundit Frank Skinner in a recent interview, “and I knew straight away that this guy wasn’t a fan. If anything, he was a ****er.” The quote says a lot. Why do sport names need to be shortened anyway? Point to remember: don’t call it boarding.

[b]It just sounds wrong.[/b]
No-one has any idea how these things work, but poetically, boarding just doesn’t sit well. Consider this – in English we call two-way radios Walkie Talkies. But in France they call them – and don’t laugh too loud – Talkie Walkies! Ha ha! How ridiculous is that? Now yes, technically there’s not much in it, but come on, Talkie Walkie sounds ludicrous. It makes them sound like a toy! Point to remember: don’t call it boarding.

[b]The Daily Mail refer to it as ‘boarding’.[/b]
And they tried to ‘Ban This Killer Craze’ back in 1992. **** them. Point to remember: The Daily Mail newspaper was originally conceived in order to count the number of ****s in the kingdom. The figure is printed on the front under ‘circulation’.

[b]‘Boarding’ as a verb is already common currency.[/b]
Genuine people who ‘board’ are usually living at a public school because their parents hate them so much they’ve shipped them off for a couple of years. Here they will undergo a course of buggery and peer-group torture and be deluded into thinking it’s all good tuition on how to run a country. But the truth is their ‘boarding’ is simply a device so their parents can get some peace and spend a bit of time organising some decent wife-swapping parties. Point to remember: don’t accept an invite to stay at an aunt’s house in Dorking unless you know for a fact that the paintings don’t have moving eyes. And don’t call it boarding either.

[b]It’s not cool. [/b]
People who think they’re cool say things like “yeah, I’ve just had a fantastic week ‘boarding’ out in Verbier. I did all the blacks by Wednesday” Point to remember: don’t call it boarding.

[b]Want to sound like a snowboarder? Call it riding.[/b]
I ride a snowboard. I’ve been riding in France quite a lot, I rode down the Vallee Blanche last year and it was flat as ****. I avoided all the black runs in Chamonix because any self-respecting snowboarder knows they’re utter shite. I met some boarders in Bar’d Up. They were a bunch of utter ****s. Points to remember: the pen is mightier than the boarder.

[b]Famous boarders. [/b]
Simon Cowell – salopettes pulled up to his nips with a bulging crotch from the self-wedgie he’s inflicted – would try and chat up some chalet slags using his enormous wealth and opulent digs and the word ‘boarding’. I reckon. Point to remember: the X-Factor is only good during the audition rounds. The voting part is entirely shite. And don’t call it boarding.

Marty Pellow.
Marty Pellow from Wet Wet Wet probably goes ‘boarding’.

[b]Wishing I Was Lucky.[/b]
The name of our sport is snowboarding. Right – I’ve got an idea. If you’re read this and agreed, you’re all on ‘boarder patrol’. The concept is simple. If you catch anyone blaspheming our sport by calling it by the name which shall forth-right never be mentioned again – you have one mission. Take a picture of them with your phone (or draw them in ash on a pub table – we just need a likeness) then send it in to us at White Lines. We’ll publish all the photos under a new ‘name and shame’ campaign I’ve just invented.
Who’s in? Point to remember: let’s stop the rot.

[b]Sweet Little Mystery.[/b]
That’s it. Yes I know there are probably better things to be doing with our publishing space, but like George Bernard Shaw said: “Football isn’t life and death. It’s less important than stopping every ****er on Earth referring to snowboarding as boarding. Get your pictures into White Lines and support the campaign.”
I’m paraphrasing of course, but you get the general idea. You know the address: boarding@chairman-of-the-board.theheadhonchoboarder.board-meister.cock

Brilliant, haven't seen that in a while!

We obtain our superiour camaraderie by joining together to mock skiers in one-pieces or wearing sunglasses with their helmets... 😉

If you just call it "riding" on here though, you're going to create a world of confusion. It's "riding" when you're in resort, "Boarding" when you're home, and (I'm afraid to say) "skiing" when talking to your grandparents.

Snowboarding culture is heavily aware of it's original "outsider" status, and it's fraternal links to Skate and Surf. This attracts a some mellow people, and a lot of people who want to pretend to be.

Also we don't have poles to jab and gesticulate with.

skiers are the chavs of the snow world

like to fink deya poshah dan wot dey are innit by doing an inferior outdated sport only championed by the inbred royal family.

snowboarders are the mountainbikers of the snow world, ever welcoming and non-discriminatory....

skiers are like middle-aged roadies, hate everyone else and wear awfully outdated and ill fitting clothes.... the kind of people who buy hunting dogs and flatcaps despite being from high wycombe and the only thing they've hunted in the their life is a benefit cheque.

(have i trolled enough yet?)

Just is init. Old farts on sticks, young kids doing tricks.

I thought the 'kids' were now veering towards skis again with all the new blades out?

The attitudes between skiers and boarders is only some thing that comes about in the intermediate to advanced level boarders and skiers who think they are bloody fantastic but in reality are just average.

Those who can ski or board don't see any difference and just get on and ski/board together. They also dont draw attention to them selves in lift ques (unlike many just fantastic boarders and skiers) etc or strut around the restaurant/bars willy waving.

Just an observation...

I thought the 'kids' were now veering towards skis again with all the new blades out?

The ski press has been trumpeting this particular guff for at least 10 years...

What a load of tosh - using that logic, I think I will go out on my 'two-wheeled velocipede designed for non-smooth terrain and moderately steep gradients' later this afternoon.

Just to avoid any confusion with a road bike like ..................

[i]wear awfully outdated and ill fitting clothes[/i]

Apart from those who wear clothes copied from snowboard styling. (ie. most of them) 😉

As a good snowboarder told me "its simple skiers can only ski where as a(snow)boarder gets to ride" rad innit but ya know its simples 8) He also said check out the lift lines and its normally the skiers who are the stressed/pushy/up their own arse types with English skiers setting a particularly bad example 😥

Snowboarding stopped being cool 20 years ago when it went mainstream. Now it seems to be the province of middle aged men and kids with their trousers round their ankles; I'm sure they're having fun but they're not cool.

If anything the cool people are out freeride skiing or maybe using a split-board somewhere well away from the resort where you won't see them. 😉

stumpynya(ge?)12

Not a bad troll for your age 😉

Strange how some who have found a 'camp' they fit into see fit to criticise those who have chosen another eg. mtb/road, walker/mtb, skier/boarder.

Is it borne from a lack of personal identity or basic insecurity? I happen to partake in all the above so I'm guessing that makes me soooo insecure that I have to do things which try to fit in with [b]everyone[/b].

Pity I'm not bisexual really.................................double the fun !

ummm i hate to say it, but you're all obviously not cool enough to know:

the cool people arent on the slopes, they're in the penthouse suite pouring cocaine over stupendously hot ladies... or smoking behind the bike sheds.

fact.

Troll me ? you must be mistaken sir....and I'm a Yorkshireman, you cannot get cooler. I dont really fit into any camp but I do like to promote a bit of fun on here. I switched to snowboarding after several years as a skier and its just way more fun IMHO 🙂
Not knock man love its rife in SS world.....

yorkshireman?!?!?!

Thats it I cant join in a thread with someone that uncool.

uncool by virtue of your place of birth... unlucky dude 😉

Snowborders = ghey's on trays.

Snowborders = ghey's on trays.

Skiers = 2 plank w*ankers

"Jenny Jones"

?Did he mean Jeremy Jones?

It should never have evolved beyond snowsurfing; that was cool. In fact do the French not still refer to it "ski-surf"? But then "skate boarding" would be called "urban surf". Actually that *is* cool.

If snowboarding is still cool, it's because it's more fun than should be legal. End of.

JENNY Jones:

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and there are 2 jeremy jones...

one is usually doing big mountain stuff in alaska, the other doing lots of spinning stuff in a park somewhere.

I stand corrected

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Surely you don't 'ride' a snowboard? That's just silly.

In fact do the French not still refer to it "ski-surf"?

The French have never called it "ski-surf"!

It's just "surf" or "surf a neige". Even "le snow".

The coolest thing is they've nicked our verb and now say "rider" = to ride! (bikes as well as snowboards).

Surely you don't 'ride' a snowboard? That's just silly.

Of course you do, what else would you do? 'Snowboard' a snowboard? That's really silly! 😉

You also ride surfboards.

Its because you have more time to bond with each other whilst you sit on your rrrs (in the middle of the slope)

Depends what you paid to do. Sitting on the slopes and having fun with friends seems like a good use of time to me.

The lovely Jenny Jones
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Snowboarders sit down in the snow for the same reason that dogs lick their balls....

You stand on snowboards. Not the same as riding. If you're sitting on a horse, are you necessarily riding it? No.

Riding to me implies sitting on and controlling something that's powered by some kind of engine.

Skiiers don't ride skis, do they? They ski. So snowboarders don't ride snowboards, they snowboard. End of.

boring pedant 😉

If everyone calls it "riding", "riding" it is.

Sitting on the slopes and having fun with friends seems like a good use of time to me.

here we go
skiers v snowboarders
mountain bikes v roadies

what is it about human nature that makes us want to start some elitist rivalry thing?

I find it childish

the main reason why I stay well clear of football, all the bickering between teams

I snowboard, I used to ski when I was at school, but I really couldn't care less if someone snowboards, skis, hikes, mountain bikes, wears womens knickers, likes macaroni cheese or wears a fez to bed

take people as they are. I don't find snowboarders any more friendly or cooler than skiers, there are tosspots everywhere, and occasionally nice people too 😉

Riding to me implies sitting on and controlling something that's powered by some kind of engine.

Your bike's got an engine, does it? 😉

BTW, this is great banter, but I both snowboard and ski - in almost equal amounts these days.

Snowboarders sit down in the snow for the same reason that dogs lick their balls.

Because they've got an itch or need to clean themselves?

I usually sit down in the snow to wait for my skiing buddies to catch up.

My gran calls it ski-boarding, i usually laugh but it actually makes sense

I ski and my enduring ski buddy boards. The only time he wishes he was on skis is when we hit long flattish sections, or button lifts/T-Bars come into view. He prefers gondalas and cablecars because chairs with a board are a pain in the butt. Conversely, skiers prefer chairs because you haven't got to stop, take you skis off, shuffle up and down stairs in long queues etc etc.

Off and on piste, each have their own merits. Our groups tend to be a mix of skiers and boarders ranging from 3 to 12 people. We are all very wary of novice boarders who's confidence exceeds their ability. It takes much longer to become competent on skis than it does on a board, so boarding can give a "rider" false sense of security and they reckon they are pretty cool, when they simply are not!

There are no real tensions between competent experienced skiers and boarders, but there's always a tiny minority who like poking fun - boring! It's a ****in holiday guys, not a competition, relax!

And me and my mate have some serious up to date ski wear which your average fashion victim would/could not to afford. It probably goes unoticed to most which is cool. All I know is that I stay warm and dry regardless of the conditions and the gear will last for years.

What does irk me are groups of boarders who decide to have a sit down and spread out across the middle of the piste, usually in the most dangerous spot possible.

I usually sit down in the snow to wait for my skiing buddies to catch up

You need to get some friends who can ski then 🙂

Your bike's got an engine, does it?

Yes, it just happens to be the lower half of the same thing that's controlling it, but the two are unrelated. Just ask a tandem stoker.

boring pedant

Bored troll actually - get it right 🙂

jools - this is just complete silliness, no-one's taking board vs ski seriously on here 🙂

And besides, you can't XC snowboard.. or can you..?

You don't ride the snowboard. You ride the mountain, maaaaan.

And besides, you can't XC snowboard.. or can you..?

I wanna be on the first lift in the morning

FWIW, me too but since I can happily stop mid ride (mtbs!) and have an hour long chat with mates, I can perfectly well understand why boarders ( 😉 ) might do the same.

What does irk me are groups of boarders who decide to have a sit down and spread out across the middle of the piste, usually in the most dangerous spot possible.

I am a boarder and that pisses me off too.

I like the bit where NO skiers will sit next to you on a chair as they expect to be wiped out when you get off ? To date I have never taken a skier out as I was taught how to get of lifts from day one. I have however had to stop/ride around or assist in untangling ski pile ups at the top of chair lifts.

I dont get pissed off, live and let live as long as everybody is having fun in the snow and heh I ride with however wants to play.

I like the bit where NO skiers will sit next to you on a chair as they expect to be wiped out when you get off ?

I like the bit where intermediate (snow)borders have to go on a certain side of a lift 🙂

Yep live an let live, I know some real good borders and love riding with them (on my skis 🙂 )

Ha! I'm keen that chair lifts should be fully occupied when there is a queue. So I take a spare place next to a bunch of skiers. Very often they all hold back and I'm on the chair alone! The lift attendant never moans about this.

Snowboarders frighten a lot of casual skiers. Mwwaaahahahahhaha!

Lifts? You lazy buggers.

molgrips, you'd probably enjoy this film from teh aforementioned non-lazy bugger, Jenny Jones:

Watching that right now...

PSA BTW - it's free on the cover of Onboard this month... if you can face buying Onboard....

I am a snowboarder and Mrs Jimbo skis. Incredibly, we get on just fine. Imagine! The sitting down thing is because it's quite hard to stand stationary on a board, ski-ists have poles. As for the sitting down in the middle of the piste thing, that perplexes me too.

Now show me a skiing vid that makes me go and get my hats, goggles, boots and board etc out of the cupboard and fiddle with them. Not going to happen is it.

Thanks for the link ......sick real sick... rushes of to wax board YAHOOOOOOOOO !!!! its will soon be ride time....

Heh Swede you a boarder & a niche then ?

whoops !!! double post finger slip...

I like the bit where NO skiers will sit next to you on a chair as they expect to be wiped out when you get off

Boarders do seem pretty sketchy getting off but I tend to avoid them if the queue allows for reasons. The board sits across the chair which is pretty uncomfortable for skiers and the chairlift seems to be a good place for a cigarette break or to shout into a mobile phone. The second one is more about being rude than being a boarder but they seem to go together. We usually ski/board in a mixed group so I know plenty of polite, friendly ones, too for balance.

Sort of Stumpy. Have only been in snow domes and local hills in the white stuff though so a newbie really but off to Flaine on new years day for the first time abroad. Can't fing wait.

Boarders refer to it as riding as they never get to ride for real. Well not the male ones anyways, I've shown a few of the female ones how to pole plant. I think there is a reason why those boarders need to rest all day, it's because they spend all night in the toe edge faceplant position with their "riding" buddies. Did you know there is actually a plural for snowboarders now? Yes, it's called a felching of boarders. I do like their original clothing though, how come no one else in history thought of padded jacket and trousers for wearing in cold weather? Genius that one. Now if they could only come up with something for keeping our heads warm they would have got it dialled. Or is it sorted? I dunno it's so confusing with all these new words being brought into the English language by those innovative chappies. Laters dudes.

TheSwede - Member
Now show me a skiing vid that makes me go and get my hats, goggles, boots and board etc out of the cupboard and fiddle with them. Not going to happen is it.

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Skiiing is where it's at. All the cool kids are skiing. What has made me happy of late is that I was pondering becoming a ghey on a tray, as everyone knows that wakeboarding is waaaay cooler than waterskiing. However....The nu skool (As I believe de yoof dem spellz it) are all skiing not snowboarding. Check out Mr James "Woodsy" Woods to see what I mean. (Nice guy, too!)

Skis are just cooler. Tw@s poncing around in uber expensive ski clothing braying about how they spent ages in the sidecountry at Cham, daaaaahling are not, but skiing is.

Steve: is bloody Deeper bloody free with bloody Onboard? Just spent £25 on that! Wouldn't usually, but I've been looking forward to it.

TheSwede, this any good for you? bit of a ****y intro, but it gets better. I love the roll at 2:17. not the biggest or skillest, but pretty steezy.

And if this doesn't make you realise that it's all cool, nothing will. Alpine skis, Telemark skis, Snowboards, Speed Flyers, Monoskis...

Now show me a skiing vid that makes me go and get my hats, goggles, boots and board etc out of the cupboard and fiddle with them. Not going to happen is it.

Skiing is more about doing it than watching other people. Maybe that's why boarders sit in the middle of the slope.

Nope sorry, tried to watch those but it's like watching golf to me. I used to be a skateboarder as a [s]youth[/s] yoof so boarding just seams right and skiing doesn't interest me one bit. I'm sure it's just as much fun for you guys but the feeling of carving on a board does it for me and besides those tricks on skis just look soooo goofy.

Terje and Jeremy are such sick dudes.

There's nothing wrong with skiing really. Particularly if you can do the free-heel thing, it's very practical. I found skiing harder to master and generally more technical. Snowboarding just feels more basic and direct. Mostly I forget about the board by the first turn and just feel my interaction with the terrain. I didn't feel that so strongly with skis. But each to their own game.

My gear is fairly drab - mostly brown or black - I lust after some lime-green pants. But that really clashes with my snowboard which is blue. Maybe I should for that reason?

Nedrapier - nice link

anyone remember Olofssons section in TB10 to Weezer when he tumbles and tumbles , and tumbles and tumbles ..... one of the best sections ever.

buzz, Just bought kermit green DC's 😉
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Nice. These Ripcurl are also sick.
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Not baggy enough 😉

Stevo! Need to reserve a watch of that dvd in January!

anyone remember Olofssons section in TB10 to Weezer when he tumbles and tumbles , and tumbles and tumbles ..... one of the best sections ever.

Yeah, his section in TB9 is still the best freeride section I've ever seen... there's one particular couloir where he pops a 180 off a windlip into it, straightlines the couloir, then reverts out at the end - then you realise that he's straight-lined the couloir switch... 😯

Steve: is bloody Deeper bloody free with bloody Onboard? Just spent £25 on that! Wouldn't usually, but I've been looking forward to it.

Sorry dude, purchased it at our local magazine emporium last night and just watched it! Guess it's not quite free as the mag was 7€ and will be going directly to the cat litter tray... (although it did have a half-decent article about Terje & co in Kamchatka...)

nedrapier, that is indeed very cool (apart from the soundtrack).

That's how you appreciate mountains. Not having someone bulldoze them for you and put in lifts to haul your sorry arses up all day.

Sacrilege.

Imagine they took out the climb at Afan and put in a lift. You lot would be up in arms.

mountain bikes, wears womens knickers, likes macaroni cheese or wears a fez to bed

psychic, or just stealing the cctv feed to my dungeon?!

i'd rather hang around with some of the skiers i've met than most of the boarders i've met i have to admit... boarding, because of its (rightly aquired) extra-cool and so much more awesome than skiing status seems to attract some real c0cks.

the kinda people who wore 140quid trainers to school, and post retro looking photos from their iphone app on their blog about going to house-parties in london with other people who pretend to work in the music industry.... EUGH!

but then again there''s nothing more frustrating that the skiiers not understanding why you're wearing a jacket from TKmaxx... "couldnt you just call up daddy and get him to buy you one?!"

😀 having fun going down hills, tis what its all about!

Skiing/Snowboarding
BMX/MTB
Bodyboarding/Surfing
Rollerblading/Skateboarding
Rugby/Football
Xbox/Playstation
Tea/Coffee

Do I need to keep going?

If it's fun, what's the problem? I started snowboarding in 1991 and skiing in 2002. I like to do both and there's no real difference between the two any more (although skiing means more control = more speed and bigger tricks, plus you don't have to fanny about swapping between board and snowshoes).

Actually, I don't do either any more as I moved back to England and don't really see the point of going for a week or two. I do find it interesting that so many British skiers/snowboarders are full of opinion, despite only spending about 30 days on snow in their lives.

Swede…….. Now your really starting to impress me. It’s a brilliant feeling on a board and I’m sure it will all click in Flaine and you will ride like a good un. Powder snow on order for you 8)

I don’t suppose tollahs cool enough to board ?

He does actually stumpy, in a fashion. I shouldn't laugh as I landed a tiny jump on my head the last time we went.

I like the bit where NO skiers will sit next to you on a chair as they expect to be wiped out when you get off ?

1st time on a chairlift me and 2 mates we had no idea wghat to do, ended up clinging onto each other for balance and all wiped out. Next go 2 of us did OK, the third was hit in the back by the lift....carnage.

Arguing over which sport is cooler is about the dumbest thing anyone can ever do..

Watch this if you like the mountains be it on a board or on a set of skis.

[url= http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=8241014 ]Ski the 14ers with Chris Davenport[/url]

Matchstick - Skiing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm3A_3BeUbk

Absinthe - Snowboarding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRO5iStLNDs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTATBRhS8DY

The chat on here reminds me of the Crystal Holidays transfer bus, not in a good way.

Tollah,Swede & Stumpy on trays oh how gay 😯