Snowboarding or Skateboarding?

Ok for all you snowboarders or skateboards. I would like to know which one you guys prefer.
I want a reason why not just which one you like.
Tell me why you choose the one you did and have you ever tried the other one.

As for me. I love skateboarding but I'm more into snowboarding. The reason for that is because I'm a better snowboarder then I am a skateboarder. I do love both of them. But if I had to only choose one it would be snowboarding.

I don't do either, but if I had to choose, I'd say skateboarding. Snowboarding requires snow, or going somewhere where there is snow. You can skateboard anywhere, and there isn't as much preparations involved. I'm assuming skateboarding is much cheaper than snowboarding, too. I generally prefer summer sports to winter ones, anyway.

Rundeer wrote:

I don't do either, but if I had to choose, I'd say skateboarding. Snowboarding requires snow, or going somewhere where there is snow. You can skateboard anywhere, and there isn't as much preparations involved. I'm assuming skateboarding is much cheaper than snowboarding, too. I generally prefer summer sports to winter ones, anyway.

Well your right about need snow for snowboarding. And yes in some places there are skate parks that you don't have to pay to ride there, but you are kinda wrong about skateboarding anywhere. Where I live you are not aloud to skateboard downtown or like in a company parking lot since we have a skate park. If you get caught the cops will give you a ticket.

But snowboarding only cost $30 bucks if you have a college ID and $45 if your a adult with out a college ID. So its not really that much money.
I think its just the thrill of going down a big hill full of snow and hitting jumps and rails.

Snowboarding. I love it. All the jumps and slopes and speed. I never tried skateboarding, but I do go snowboarding every winter

noblemin wrote:

Snowboarding. I love it. All the jumps and slopes and speed. I never tried skateboarding, but I do go snowboarding every winter

Well you should try skateboarding it's fun too and you could possibly be good at it. But your right snowboarding is way better.

Skateboarding is a lot better, It's not as dangerous, you don't need snow, if you live somewhere without snow you can't snowboard so it's a 1 way road for me anyways XD

SKATEBOARDINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. Never even been snowboarding.

Also you're kinda a pussy about that ticket thing. I usually just leave. They always warn us before they call the cops xD

I do none of these. xD

Enjoi wrote:

SKATEBOARDINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. Never even been snowboarding.

Also you're kinda a pussy about that ticket thing. I usually just leave. They always warn us before they call the cops xD

I'm not a pussy. And its late at night when the store is close. I don't skate when there are people there, The only place I have been told to leave was target parking lot cause we had 4 cars there and I was just skating.
But most places are shitty to skate here anyways.

Skateboarding more fun because you can freestyle or do the normal style

Snowboarding is wayy fun than skateboarding but costs more.
But its safer with the soft snow to land on and stuff

Snowboarding, and the summer alternative, FREEbording.

I love the glides, drifts, and mobility of a snowboard. You can be as free and flowing as you want to be, but still be in complete control. NOTHING feels better than whipping down a hill, wind and powder blowing behind you as you bomb at 50+mph.

I spent the last 13 years snowboarding, and 4 skateboarding.

As far as skateboarding goes, I can ollie, kickflip, 180, basic stuff. But snowboarding is something I can better relate to, and do a lot more with.


Oh! And Freebording! A Freebord is basically a skateboard, as long as a snowboard, with 1 wheel underneath each truck that pivots and twists, so you can drift and turn and glide like you would on a real snowboard. It's also got 2 hooks to put your feet in to secure you into it.
Stopping is the same as it would be on a snowboard also.

VIDEO: YouTube - Freebord

EDIT: Also, if you fall, it's a lot more thrilling to be hurling uncontrollably at 50mph and feeling pretty much nothing, as apposed to hurling uncontrollably at 50mph on pavement where you feel EVERYTHING.

Raivu wrote:

Snowboarding, and the summer alternative, FREEbording.

I love the glides, drifts, and mobility of a snowboard. You can be as free and flowing as you want to be, but still be in complete control. NOTHING feels better than whipping down a hill, wind and powder blowing behind you as you bomb at 50+mph.

I spent the last 13 years snowboarding, and 4 skateboarding.

As far as skateboarding goes, I can ollie, kickflip, 180, basic stuff. But snowboarding is something I can better relate to, and do a lot more with.


Oh! And Freebording! A Freebord is basically a skateboard, as long as a snowboard, with 1 wheel underneath each truck that pivots and twists, so you can drift and turn and glide like you would on a real snowboard. It's also got 2 hooks to put your feet in to secure you into it.
Stopping is the same as it would be on a snowboard also.

VIDEO: YouTube - Freebord

EDIT: Also, if you fall, it's a lot more thrilling to be hurling uncontrollably at 50mph and feeling pretty much nothing, as apposed to hurling uncontrollably at 50mph on pavement where you feel EVERYTHING.

That is true. Falling on snow feels nice, even better when you crash in a big pile of powder snow. But sometimes it can be ice and that will hurt depending on where you land.
With skateboarding if you fall your going to get a cut almost every single time.

Halogod wrote:

That is true. Falling on snow feels nice, even better when you crash in a big pile of powder snow. But sometimes it can be ice and that will hurt depending on where you land.
With skateboarding if you fall your going to get a cut almost every single time.

Yeah. All my pants have holes in em from me sliding across the pavement after I fall =D

Enjoi wrote:

Yeah. All my pants have holes in em from me sliding across the pavement after I fall =D

haha yeah that happens. The only thing I have is just messed up elbows and hands

snowboarding,, but the downside is if you fall wrong,, sheesh that hurts man

iKiLL wrote:

snowboarding,, but the downside is if you fall wrong,, sheesh that hurts man

I'd rather fall on packed snow than fucking asphalt, man. :p

Skateboarding. I quit a few years ago, but it was just easier to get into than snowboarding since it was free, and all it required was a board, trucks, wheels and an imagination.

Snowboarding requires a pass, a 400$ board, board wax, boots, and a whole bunch of other expensive shit.

Ill stick with the cheap sport for the win.

~Souleater~ wrote:

Skateboarding. I quit a few years ago, but it was just easier to get into than snowboarding since it was free, and all it required was a board, trucks, wheels and an imagination.

Snowboarding requires a pass, a 400$ board, board wax, boots, and a whole bunch of other expensive shit.

Ill stick with the cheap sport for the win.

Yeah, but at some ski areas or resorts if you don't have a board and you don't feel like spend $400 for it. They offer a full package which includes a pass, board, boots, helmet, and lessons. That will cost you about $80 where I go snowboarding at. So that is a pretty good deal.

Halogod wrote:

Yeah, but at some ski areas or resorts if you don't have a board and you don't feel like spend $400 for it. They offer a full package which includes a pass, board, boots, helmet, and lessons. That will cost you about $80 where I go snowboarding at. So that is a pretty good deal.

Thats still more expensive than a board and a few bucks. At most it used to cost me $20 for a month or two because my board would always break when I tried a hard-flip 180 off a set. so it cost a lot less.

that and still, all you need is your imagination, nothing more. for snowboarding you need a hill, and ramps, and pipes, and quarter-pipes and shit. you dont really need that to skate. you can find it any where.

~Souleater~ wrote:

Thats still more expensive than a board and a few bucks. At most it used to cost me $20 for a month or two because my board would always break when I tried a hard-flip 180 off a set. so it cost a lot less.

that and still, all you need is your imagination, nothing more. for snowboarding you need a hill, and ramps, and pipes, and quarter-pipes and shit. you dont really need that to skate. you can find it any where.

Yes that is very true. But you can also get in trouble for skating on private property. I know some really good spots in my town but if I get caught skating there I will get finned for it.

Halogod wrote:

Yes that is very true. But you can also get in trouble for skating on private property. I know some really good spots in my town but if I get caught skating there I will get finned for it.

I know you can get pinched, but i never got caught. I would skate late at night, or in the areas of town the cops didnt really go to. So I never really got into trouble for it. I just heard a siren or something and would take off running into the woods. And since i knew the area, I would come out right near the stores.

THats another reason I never really got into snowboarding, there was no danger of getting caught by the 5-0 for it. Without a little bit of danger, theres not really anything in it for me.

~Souleater~ wrote:

I know you can get pinched, but i never got caught. I would skate late at night, or in the areas of town the cops didnt really go to. So I never really got into trouble for it. I just heard a siren or something and would take off running into the woods. And since i knew the area, I would come out right near the stores.

THats another reason I never really got into snowboarding, there was no danger of getting caught by the 5-0 for it. Without a little bit of danger, theres not really anything in it for me.

yeah, fear of getting caught by the cops is always a rush and makes you want to do things that most people wouldn't even think about doing.

Halogod wrote:

Well you should try skateboarding it's fun too and you could possibly be good at it. But your right snowboarding is way better.

Im trying skateboarding right now. But where I live there really is no where to train.

skateboarding

skateboarding simply because. you oculd skateboard everywhere and in all seasons.

Turok wrote:

skateboarding simply because. you oculd skateboard everywhere and in all seasons.

especially in the winter in the snow
i prefer snowboarding

Snowboarding. Only because I wasn't that good at skateboarding. xD

I haven't done either or, but snowboarding looks a lot more fun to me.

Skateboarding hands down...I dont like freezing my ass off or wearing 80 pounds of clothing just to do a couple of 180s in Santa Clauses yard

Kojinako wrote:

Skateboarding hands down...I dont like freezing my ass off or wearing 80 pounds of clothing just to do a couple of 180s in Santa Clauses yard

xD Straight out flipping a board around eating shit on the pavement, or Carving, flying fast, and bombing your shit out at high speeds eating snow and occasionally ice.
I dont know about you, but I prefer free movement, drifts, fluid motions, high speeds, and the wind kissing my nose when I wipe out in a vast blanket of powder.
I personally feel a lot more freedom in Snowboarding

I've tried both, I think snowboarding is way better