Ski vs. Snowboard?
I'm doing a project where we have to design a newsletter for a certain topic and I'm doing winter stuff. I was going to do a column comparing skiing and snowboarding but I can't find this information:
- Cost of equipment: switching means spending more money for new gear, lessons, etc.
- Comfort: how important is it to be comfortable on the slopes, off the slopes, in lifts and at aprés-ski?
- Snow conditions: what snow conditions can you expect and which sport is best suited for the circumstances.
- Physical/ medical situation: your body may be more suitable for either skiing or boarding. (For example: for which joints is boarding or skiing more strenuous and which kinds of injuries are more likely for either sport.)
If you can find me any solid information about this that would be great. Thanks!
- Skiing equipment is a couple hundred dollars more just for th upkeep and there lifestyle
-Snowboarding is more comfortable than skiing. Snowboards flex easier than skis unless you do freestyle skiing. Snowboard bindings and boots are not as tight they just are more in the tied or laced fashion giving you more freedom. You will be less sore at the end of the day. The one down side is getting on to lifts on a snowboard.
Snowboarders get more abuse for ripping up the mountain, but the average snowboarder is casual and usually are just like surfers.
-Skis are good for anything just depends which skis you get. the fatter your skis are the better it floats in powder or fluffy snow. The longer it is the faster it goes. If you have twin tips you are gonna be in the powder or in the park. All mountain skis are meant to be used for groomers or Pistes
Snowboards are always good for powder. Since they are so fat they float more in powder. You will find them in the terrain park because they aren't suited for glades (tree skiing) or groomed runs/pistes.
-Skiers suffer a lot of injuries in the free skiing category. A common injury is a torn ACL or MCL which is your ligiments in your knee, this accours when you land hard off a jump or cliff. Sometimes they might suffer a torn LCL or achilles tendon in your foot. Be sides that head injuries and other random injuries accour.
Snowboarders are known for one injury, the hairline fracture. You hairline bone is in you forearm by your hand in between two veins. Snowboarders will fall and put their hands out and bash their palms and strech out their hairline bone and snap it. It hurts a little and will be bothering you untill you get a cast and x rays. Besides that they will suffer head injuries from coming off a cliff or jump and landing to far forward and getting whiplash and smashing their head.
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