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oi

i know for most its not wintersports times. especially not where i am now since
its sunny and round 20 degrees outside. however, id like to know how many
srf'ers board/ski/telemark/bigfoot/crosscountry or go on winter holidays to hike
in the snow

i myself started off skiing one week a year since i was 4 or something. i can
say ive grown to be pretty damn good at it xD. about 4 years ago, i studied
in norway for a year. we had this ski park on a 20 minute hike from school so
we were there every afternoon/evening. the slopes were too boring to do on
skis; just downhill as fast as we could, so i borrowed a snowboard and me and
some friends started experimenting. nowadays i rather take out my board than
my skis ^^

i tried cross country and mountain skis.. but my thing is to go downhill and
not uphill. uphill was only good when we were goin on long mountain trips,
but on those trips i only enjoyed the campfires at night.

i started skiing in austria since that is very skinoobfriendly, but since 8 years
or so, we been goin to italy. great places. you can ski from one village to
another and back.

so. long story. anybody else do any wintersports?

i do snowball fights if that counts tried skiing once so much fun

I can ski in a decent tempo without falling.
I generally go skiing once a year and I've did it quite a long time.
Alltough it depends on the snowquality and weather how good I ski.
Some days I fly over the slopes yet on other days I blow extremely.

im halfway decent at skiing never tried boarding always wanted to though.

avanti42 wrote:im halfway decent at skiing never tried boarding always wanted to though.

imo learning to board is 10x easier than learning to ski.

it does hurt in the beginning though, but if you know how to fall, its a lot of fun.

cin wrote:

avanti42 wrote:im halfway decent at skiing never tried boarding always wanted to though.

imo learning to board is 10x easier than learning to ski.

it does hurt in the beginning though, but if you know how to fall, its a lot of fun.

damn you summer, i wanna board!

avanti42 wrote:

cin wrote:

avanti42 wrote:im halfway decent at skiing never tried boarding always wanted to though.

imo learning to board is 10x easier than learning to ski.

it does hurt in the beginning though, but if you know how to fall, its a lot of fun.

damn you summer, i wanna board!

same here. the netherlands dont have much snow and no mountains.. but
over here they call 15 degrees cold

I wish we even had snow

I live in a desertic area hehe instead of snow we have sunburn

HyorunmarouZ wrote:I wish we even had snow

I live in a desertic area hehe instead of snow we have sunburn

cant u go sandboardin then? i saw it on discovery.

cin wrote:

HyorunmarouZ wrote:I wish we even had snow

I live in a desertic area hehe instead of snow we have sunburn

cant u go sandboardin then? i saw it on discovery.

The desert itself is a bit far away but yeah, maybe i could hehe if i don't die of skin cancer first

cin wrote:

avanti42 wrote:

cin wrote:

avanti42 wrote:im halfway decent at skiing never tried boarding always wanted to though.

imo learning to board is 10x easier than learning to ski.

it does hurt in the beginning though, but if you know how to fall, its a lot of fun.

damn you summer, i wanna board!

same here. the netherlands dont have much snow and no mountains.. but
over here they call 15 degrees cold

That's exagerated.
Let's call 10°C cold.
Anything below 0 is madness

lols xD

in my days in norway i slept in a home made snowhut with -20 for 2 nights xP

now THAT was fun ^^