Snowboarding newbie question?

skiing and snowboarding are two different skillsets. You can't do anything on a snowboard with just a crash course. That's like me pushing you down a hill and telling you to figure it out. Take a lesson, learn the basics, if you like it, keep at it, if not oh well, you got a free lift ticket with the lesson.

I agree with tom, but I havent been boarding all my life, I just started last year and ive only gone 4 times. Its alot of fun but you will fall alot on your first time on the mountain. I didnt take lessons and I was going down the hill fine by the time I went a second time. But I Must warn you that you will fall alot- i probably fell like 20 times that day and my tailbone killed and so did my wrists from having to push myself off the ground so many times. I suggest maybe take a day or two of lessons to save you the pain. I'm not trying to talk you out of it and you definately should try it because it is worth it when you get the hang of it because its really fun.

you really should take a lesson, you will benefit more from that than just going up on the mountain. that would be a huge mistake, you would waste much more time coming down the mountain your first time, untrained then you would if you just took a basic lesson and spent some time on the bunny hill. trust me, i didnt take a lesson when i first started haha, it was a mistake.

if you have skiied before than you probably dont need to take lessons if not you can still try to snowboard w/o taking classes but if u keep falling and not having fun u should probably take some classes