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Snow Ski or Snow Board? Which one is harder if you have never done either?

• My teen daughter who has never snow boarded, snow skied or water skied, wants to learn how to snow board first. She is average build but a little clumbsy. Do you think she should ...show more

• Answer:

  Snowboard! If that's what she wants to do you're wasting both time and money by making her learn to do something she doesn't want to do. Boarding takes a few days to get the hang of so it may seem harder, but after that you have virtually all the skills you'll need and it's just about building technique. Skiing is easy in that in a matter of minutes you can learn how to snowplow and turn and be up and running then, on day one. After that if you want to become a good skiier then there's much much more to learn and it's not nearly as fun as boarding.