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

as pctorab said the is no relation between the 2, knowing how to do one doesn't help you do the other. Skiing is easier to learn, but it takes longer to master than snowboarding, you could master snowboarding in a few weeks of snowboarding every day but it would take probably over a year to master skiing if you skied every day, that could be multiple years too. But the point is if she wants to snowboard let her snowboard.

Skiing is easier to learn but much harder to master. Snowboarding is harder to learn but easier to master. There are few things in common between these two sports: 1. Both need the Edging and Carving skills when hit the slope. 2. Both need good sense of balancing. (in different way, though.) I ski a lot. Personally, I think skiing is classy and it goes with you in a long way once you master it. There are a lot more people at different ages do skiing. However, you don't see a lot of old folks do the snowboarding, do you? Skiing is elegant. Snowboading is cool. Let your daughter decide which one she'd like it.

If she wants to board then get her on a board! There aren't really any skills that cross over between skiing and boarding that would help if she skiied first. The only thing she'd be able to take with her from learning to ski would be how riding a lift feels and how it feels to slide on snow. That's it. Snowboarding takes a few days to pick up so make sure to be positive with her and get her lessons. The first day she'll spend moving down easy slopes very slowly with some quality falling time (make sure that she's got good waterproof clothes on and warm layers underneath) and on the second or third day it should start to click and she'll start to have a blast. Most rental shops on the mountain are really good at getting newbs set up with the right gear and the bonus of renting at the mountain is that if she hates snowboarding and wants to try skiing they'll usually swap her board out for skis during the day. Don't waste time making her ski first, that's like saying "learn to rollerblade before you go skateboarding." The two are very different and if you let her do what she wants on this one you'll get to be the cool mom!

It is slightly easier to learn to ski, but if she wants to snowboard, she should do that. If she learns to ski first, like many advise, it can be even harder to transition to snowboarding after you get used to skiing. In all, it doesn't matter what she learns first, so just have her choose what she would like to learn.

skiing is easier to learn. however, the skills are completely different. so if she plans to stick with either of the sports she should pick which ever one she wants to do. or she could try both and see which she thinks will be easier or she will like the most. good luck to her!

A lot of people that i instruct force their kids to ski first when they want to snowboard. The skills you learn in skiing don't really help at all on a snowboard, so you should start her out on which ever one she plans to stick with. There's no point wasting time with one and then starting again at the bottom of the learning curve with the other.