The exciting thing about snowboarding isn’t the challenge it’s being able to do air time with little effort or at least I think so.
The appeal to me is based on engineering intuitions. Skis, seriously? Hook up a great big lever to apply torque to a single joint that is not intended to twist that way at all? Something seems wrong when I do that.
I’m not sure, but I think skis were designed for moving across mountainous terrain. I find the whole idea of “cross country snowboard” somewhat absurd, but have seen alpine troops chasing each other down on skis in WW2 documentaries.
The appeal to me is based on engineering intuitions. Skis, seriously? Hook up a great big lever to apply torque to a single joint that is not intended to twist that way at all? Something seems wrong when I do that.
I’m not sure, but I think skis were designed for moving across mountainous terrain. I find the whole idea of “cross country snowboard” somewhat absurd, but have seen alpine troops chasing each other down on skis in WW2 documentaries.