Let me tell you all about the time that I learned snowboarding and why I absolutely think that you should go out there and do the same as me.
When you take snowboarding lessons it can boost your self-esteem and give you a great sense of well being, and can also result in many hours of fun and enjoyment that can come as a result of the new skill that you have just learned.
When I was only 16 I really liked watching winter sports on television and although it may sound stupid, it was actually surfing that drove me to want to learn to snowboard.
I always liked surfing, and as I lived by the coast, it was a sport that was easily accessible for me.
You see, where I lived it was absolutely impossible to go snowboarding, skiing or sledging, so surfing was pretty much the done thing for me and my friends to take up! I think this is why when I had to move away from home to attend college, coupled with my love for watching winter sports and snowboarding on television, that I decided to learn how to snowboard.
I bet by now you must be wondering why I made the choice of snowboarding over skiing.
The main reason for this was because when I moved to college, I made a lot of new friends that did snowboarding but none of them did skiing at the local ski slope.
The slope caters for both sports very well, so I suppose the decision really had to come down to me.
Back home I had always likes watching snowboarding on television much more than skiing, so I decided to go out their and choose snowboarding and I would be lying if I said my friends were my only influence in my decision to choose the board over the ski's.
I think my background with a surfboard may have had some sway too.
I do not know if everyone will understand what I am talking about, but I believe that a snowboard feels so much more responsive than ski's do.
Do you know what I mean? Am I making sense here? At our local ski slope there is only 100M of ski run, that is roughly around 300 feet when you work it out.
Over this sort of distance what can you actually do on a pair of ski's? If they had some kind of complicated slalom set up then that would be different, but just going down a hill on ski's to me seems slightly dull compared to what you can do over the same distance on a snowboard.
A snowboard appears to be more thrilling, and seems to have a much more dangerous image, which is totally cool! That is why I decided to choose snowboarding, but don't get me wrong, I still think that skiing can be great fun, and as I visit the skiing slope regularly every other week or so I have actually started to do a little skiing for a bit of a change.
I am actually not as bad at it as I thought I would be.
You see, once I learned how to snow board with getsnowboarding I had some transferable skills, such as an ability to use the ski lift, how to handle the speed, knowing when to slow down, how to stop etc.
That is why I am glad that I learned how to snowboard first.
If I had skied first, then I would probably have found it a lot more difficult to learn to snowboard.