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Learning to snowboard is a young persons game. Its does hurt. It goes against the principles of learning to ski, you need steep and flat becomes your enemy.

We could ski and ski well but we just wanted to try boarding, we go often enough, why not? I have written here before of our pain in learning but the last 2 weeks we have been out in Les Arcs (March 2013) and last week we have had good snow so we have done a lot of boarding. Finally on Friday we spent the whole day on our boards and bombed around Les Arcs with only a minor sit down.

In fairness to my wife, very few women her age would have tried boarding but she did and she fell, she fell a lot but she never gave up (ok once or twice she stomped in swearing loudly) but she got back out there and on Friday I was struggling to keep up with her Laughing Embarassed

Its taken a few years, ok we did take a few breaks from it but yes I think after our day on Friday we can officially say we have entered the dark side Skullie Toofy Grin and boy its fun gliding along.
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thefatcontroller, well done, having tried it, at an advanced age, I fully realise and applaud the extent of your success! snowHead
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Good for you and the Mrs.
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pam w, Yes my wife was referencing you last week, hats off to you both. Cool Cool

rob@rar, Thanks, it was all about learning a new skill, the skis have not been thrown out though as you will never see me on Comborciere on a board wink Laughing Moguls and boards?
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thefatcontroller, well done for persevering Very Happy I seem to remember you had a thread once saying you'd tried it but didn't get it and might give up Puzzled
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well done thefatcontroller, good on you both for sticking it out. Time to keep track of how many days you do both disciplines!
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sarah, Yes, well remembered, its been a bitter and bruising battle between us and our boards. The turning point was 2 years ago on a hot March afternoon. The snow was slushy and we don't like skiing in that so we decided to get the boards out once more. We then realised that slush is fantastic to practice boarding on. I did write at the time that is anyone is skiing in spring and doesn't like the slushy afternoon snow it is perfect to board on.

dennisp, That would depend on snow condition's. I would happily never seen my skis again as that would mean we were seeing fresh snow the whole time Cool. The second we see ice and cold then skis come back on. Bizarelly we also quite like moguls, I am crap on them, the wife is very good, so it gives her great joy to take me down a mogul field and watch me fail miserably and moguls are for skis....
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!

thefatcontroller, indeed


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Well done the thefatcontroller and welcome to the dark side. You're nearly there, you need to shed one last vestige of the two plank regime, just a slight mental adjustment, in your last post you use the word practice. With snowboarding you don't need to practice it, you just do it. (please mentally ignore any brand association there). But genuinely well done to you both for sticking with it through the pain and for what it's worth I'm with you on the moguls side of things, I can do them but they're not much fun so I don't bother with them.


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thefatcontroller, well glad you got there with it Smile If I lose some weight and get fitter I might try it!
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rogg, Fair point and in the Les Arcs thread I did refer a lot to going out and practicing on our boards but definitely after we finished on Friday we knew we had not been practicing but boarding and boy that felt good. Cool Laughing
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