The Father -Son ski-trip is fast approaching.
My 12yo is board-curious and I was pondering the wisdom of trying a half-day snowboard lesson as a change from our usual ski-ing.
I'm fit and strong for my age (deadlift 1.5x bodyweight), BUT I've always had this perception of early stage snowboarding being high-risk for wrists and shoulders. Since I've had issues with both in the past I'm feeling a bit wary of the idea.
What do people think? Is it advisable? Is a half day, realistically, even worth it?
I'm an expert skier and have always been told I'd find it easy but I'm sceptical it's that simple. OTOH, getting to manage a few basic turns would be really satisfying.
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Being a good skier you should pick it up quickly, but a half day certainly isn't much.
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I cannot stress this enough. If you're getting a lesson then they should make you wear a helmet anyway but if you keep at it then don't take the risk.
I had a snowboard accident. Slipped on an icy nursery slope, banged the back of my head, ended up with a brain tumour and major brain surgery to remove it. I was just wearing a woolly hat.
Normally I ski every year but I'm older and less interested in huge speed although I can cut my way through a steep mogulfield I tend to run out of puff quickly and need to break a few times especially at altitude.
5 years ago we were very snowed=in on a weekend in Saas Fee .2 of the old school friends I ski with are truly experts ( have been in a documentry skiing down Everest in the late 80s etc ) ...we wanted to go out although all the upper lifts were closed so we decided to get some snowboard lessons on the Lower slopes .................I was a good skateboarder as a kid so I thought I would be just about ok ...........I was fucking useless and so were they .
Being an 'expert' skier will not help you at all .
Good point about calves, @TTBZ
I'll stick to skis, then
I didn’t get any lessons though so might have been doing it all wrong.
Most of the soreness was just from using muscles in a way I wasn't used too, kind of thing. Was totally knackered after!
Bloody good fun though!
There comes a point at which you have to trade brief moments of fun against longer term comfort. That said, being able to enjoy life with your kids is worth a knock or two. Everything is a trade-off.
"You gotta - accentuate the positive, eee liminate the negative..."