The best part of skiing is getting to take your boots off at the end of the day

As someone who started on skis and transitioned to a snowboard I feel this was a very fair and right on assessment.

A point on the injuries - the most likely injury while snowboarding is busting a wrist while for skiing it's blowing a knee (although the whole pole thing does cause a number of wrist/thumb injuries in skiers as well). One of the most common for both sports is head injuries - friends don't let friends shred without a helmet. Better to have a concussion than a cracked skull

I 100% agree with you. I love skiing and snowboarding so much that I’m one of the rare ones that still do both consistently throughout a season depending on what I am feeling. I do both at a high level and can’t imagine dropping one (I’ve tried). If there was one clear winner, I’d stick to one. Luckily, I don’t compete, so I get to keep up with both.

Grew up skiiing and still love it occasionally but as I've gotten a little older I really prefer Snowboarding due to the fact that I feel MUCH less likely to get seriously injured. I'd much rather break my wrist or tear my shoulder up than face an type of structural knee damage. As someone who finds happiness in staying active, i don't think I could be out of it for a year, plus the chance of a re injure. Maybe when I'm an old man who sticks to the groomers I'll switch back but while im in the trees, park, or off the rocks its Snowboard for me.

If you’re picking up snowboarding, you’re gonna eat shit off the lifts. It’s okay, we’ve all been there.

I have been skiing for 16 seasons and boarding for 2. Still lean more towards skiing because of the time bias but I can see and feel the appeal of snowboarding, the speed and flow are something else. Both are so fun.

Just wanna say, when I learned to snowboard I didn't have any experience with board sports, and I didn't know how to ski. So just don't let that deter you if you really want to snowboard, really doesn't matter that much as long as your willing to put in some extra work to learn.

Just went on my first trip to Keystone and my doctor told me I should try snowboarding because I’ve had a few knee/leg surgeries. At the end of day 1, after a couple of runs, and a couple of falls, I got the hang of it. Only thing I regret was not getting a tailbone pad!

I skied for about 10 years before switching to snowboarding, been snowboarding for 8 years now and it’s the best decision I ever made, but both are great!

Me before this video: this video will confirm that skiing is better
Me after this video and reading the comments: this is harder than figuring out the meaning of life

I came from surfing/skateboarding to snowboarding and I have to say it was hard! Having to keep your weight at the front of the board rather than pivoting over the rear was a big mental obstacle to overcome. Got there eventually.

I always say you go snowboarding if you want ease and culture, you go skiing for speed and control.

as a lifelong skier, and have wakeboarded for a while I learned to snowboard in a day, 3 hours in I was on a blue and end of the day I was carving, its all about how much experience you have with gliding sports

Good analysis! You should add too that: having 2 skis allows you to skate, and makes getting around so much easier! Once you learn to use your edges, you are basically walking around, and can get going really fast on flat open areas, especially if youre good at pushing with your poles! Also, skiers can access way more of the mountain using that same skill. Being able to traverse across the top of the mountain allows you to go toward the resort boundaries, and on a powder day can give you freshies till the lifts shut down! And in the terrain park, you can gain speed even if the slope isn't helping!

I've been skiing for 10-11 years now, started when I was 5. My parents and grandparents all ski, but it was my grandad who taught me. Safe to say that I'm experienced but still have a lot of room for improvement. I tried out snowboarding 2 years ago, had two one hour lessons, one on one day and one on the other, it was really fun and interesting because of all the odd toe movements and made me realise the difficulty of the sport. Unfortunately the second day I caught the front edge, went face first, the board dragged along the snow and I injured my right knee (ironic since people say you're not at a higher risk on knee injuries when boarding), I tore the ligaments if I remember correctly, couldn't walk without limping or without pain for about a month and a bit, even when I could walk normally I still experienced pain and mind you I kept off my leg as much as possible and didn't do anything to aggravate it. That being said, definitely going to give snowboarding a go again and would love to get as good as skiing so the thing of it being "easier" to master is music to my ears and if I do catch the front edge again I'll keep the board off the ground lmao.

Great video but definitely wouldn’t suggest driving in snowboard boots

While I agree that powder days are better on a snowboard, I can have a decent day on skis regardless of the conditions - ice, scratch, crud, corduroy, powder, moguls, trees, steeps - some conditions are more fun of course, but I never, ever, have a "bad" day😎. Only good to great 👍. My daughter can follow me anywhere on the mountain on her board, but she far prefers the powder.

One thing to say for skiing is that the difficulty to master can actually be kind of a good thing. If you like powder, freestyle, and just playing around on the slopes more snowboarding definitely gets a slight edge.

But if you’re the type who really likes pushing for better and better technique skiing is pretty sweet. Even just carving down a steep groomer there’s this feeling that you can always squeeze out a little bit more performance from your skiing. A more perfect turn, a more perfect line.

There’s also something to be said about hitting a slope in that aggressive, forward skiing position. Can feel pretty badass. It’s an experience I don’t feel translates into video all that well.

Also if you just like the feeling of facing directly down the slope in general. If you’re not into freestyle or aggressive skiing just cruising a groomer in a forward facing position can be quite nice. Once you have the feel for it skiing a blue groomer isn’t difficult in the slightest.

Skiing switch is also pretty cool just because of how much it adds a different dimension. Skiing backwards is a totally different experience as opposed to just having your other foot forward on a board.

snowboarding just so i cant do the splits 😩