surfing vs sking/snowboarding

I don't see it as a "versus" thing. All are fun and can be enjoyed.

 

Well said dosxx!

 

i seen in a recently old interview with ai that he loves snowboarding and if he didn't live in Hawaii he would snowboard,but he only gets to snowboard once or twice a year,so I guess that makes him a snowboarding kook.I don't understand all the hate with these sports.i don't think theres anything wrong with a kook that has serious ambitions to get good at the sport,they just start on the bottom,but the tourists who want a surf lesson and go paddle out at a crowded spot afterwards I would consider them a kook.when I first started surfing I lived a good 60 miles from the beach and there wasn't internet forecasts and shyt like that so I would show up a few times a year and either theres no waves or its too big or whatever.aslong as ur passionate and really want to learn the sport and do it for the right reasons instead of trying to make gopro clips and get famous,that rarely works.it was a lot harder to get noticed when I started surfing the prefacebook myspace days and pre surfline and swellinfo,well surfline probably been around for decades idk,im somewhat new to the internet.

I guess its like any other sport before internet days.i skateboarded for a good 16 yrs and don't have 1 picture or video to prove it.nowadays people post everything they do whether they took a bike ride down the boardwalk or went skiing for the first time.save the clips for the pros until u get good enough at whatever that people can watch in amazement

 

This master debate is still going? What a kook tread. Snowboarding yeah I got on a mountain this winter again once but it'll compare to surfing once Starchy's prophecy comes true and ocean freeze over. Til then I'm on the wave and pave. cep I like that last post of yours. Power to the kooks that started from the bottom.

FLY A BANNER FOR SURF SUPREMACY OVER OTHER BOARDSPORTS NOT IN BOARDSHORTS

 

thing I like about snowboarding (or skiing) is the adventure. Riding in knee deep powder through the trees and off boulders and cliffs is the only thing that makes it even worth mentioning in the same sentence as surfing. Surfing can have different sizes, types of breaks, water temp and clarity, etc, but good waves are the same wherever you go.

Being strapped in also allows tricks I'd never even try on a surfboard. On a snowboard, I'm constantly doing spins off bumps, alley-oops, etc (although, the more powder, the harder tricks are). On a surfboard, I'm happy just doing lip smashes, roundhouse skashes and barrels all day...anything that's going to lessen the chances of me falling prematurely.

 

WB, don't you think there's a huge variance in wave type from one to the next? Short period vs long period, continental shelf vs no shelf, tropical water temps vs arctic temps, crumbly and mushy vs pitching, choppy vs clean, etc. I think you meant a good wave face is similar to other good wave faces and that's arguably true, however with all the other elements considered, that wave face is 1% of the experience. Just this weekend, it's amazing me how gentle duck diving through shoulder high medium period waves are when they're glassy, organized, and water temp above 60. We are hardly in a repetitive wave pool from one break to the next braddah.