What is harder to learn? Skiing vs Snowboarding 

As someone who does both, there is no competition skiing is 100% more natural for the human body. Skiing is far easier to balance, as you are in the natural direction with even body weight on both feet. Snowboarding you're facing sideways and placing 60-70% of your body weight on your back foot. Meaning every impact is absorbed unevenly.

I roller-skate and ice-skate a lot, so when I first tried out skiing, I went from stopping in a "V" shape to a full parallel stop within the first 30 minutes of ever being in skis. It wasn't technically perfect, but I definitely felt that knowing how to hockey-stop on ice-skates helped tremendously.

Couldn't have said it better or more simply myself. I do both, along with skateboarding and skiing is way easier to learn at first but snowboarding is way cooler so you be the judge lol.

Having spent time on both.....this man is correct.

I went snowboarding yesterday for the first time and I went alone. Didn’t use a lesson or anything, just took all day to learn and by the end I was hitting the highest trails. (easy ones obviously) I’m pretty proud of that, knowing how it’s hard to learn

Very nicely detailed opinion. The point about transitioning from snowplowing to parallel skiing is a good one. The only equivalent to that in snowboarding is those people who only use their heel edge and refuse to learn toe edges. Those people progress SLOWLY

Probably the most honest appraisal of the skills required to be accomplished on ski or snowboard.

Awesome, clear explanation. Well done.

I've mostly been inline skating, iceskating and snowskating. After a while decided to try out snowboarding and It was completely out of my comfort zone :D but after couple weeks I got the point and I have to admit it super addictive :D

Ski or board, both will need and benefit from full body strength and conditioning.

I picked up snowboarding in 30 minutes and get called weird because I've never been able to figure out skiing.

@lopindoosherfl No. I agree snowboarding is harder to learn as a beginner and easier to learn as an intermediate. At the top level of freeriding I think the results of competitions show us that skiing is easier. If you took an identical human being and gave him a set of skis for a run, then gave him a snowboard for a run, whichever one he could do the most impressive run on you could say is the easiest sport, since it is the same rider in both cases. In real life we can't do this because he will probably be slightly better at one sport than the other so it's not a fair test. One option for a fair comparison is to take the very best snowboarder and the very best skier and compare what they can do in one run. Since invariably in competitions the skier will do the more impressive run, as we are considering both riders to have the same baseline set of attributes, this suggests that at competitive level skiing is easier than snowboarding.

Took me a few days to figure out turning etc on tiny slopes with a snowboard, was easy afterwards

Thank you very much, straight forward short, and simple!

Best explanation, thank you. I have a question. I am operated on my ligament of my knee. So i have one protese on my right knee. Is it better for me to start snowboarding or ski? Thanks

I've snowboarded several times, should I try skiing? Is it more fun?

It’s like bmx vs skateboarding. Both great.

thanks, great info

I have been practice skiing for 11 years, it's ok to start snowboarding, right now I have 13 and I have been practice with the longboar, skateboard, penyboard, crazyboard and snakeboard. Should i start practice snowboarding?

Hi sir I’m 13 years old and I have tried skiing but it was so hard for me to move left and right for where my friends found it easy but do u recommend snow boarding or ski I did ski twice and the second time I tried slope and fell

I went down the ski lift on my first day (snowboard) it isn’t that hard to learn it

Snowboarding is hard man. Fun, but hard. Especially when you only do it once very few years

i m 22 yrs old what should i start first boarding orr skiing .... i want to master in boarding

Would you recommend skiing one snowboarding for someone with back issues?

so i do both ski and snowboard but im more new to snowboarding how hard is it to learn how to alpine snowboard also known as hard boot snowboard?

I think skiing is significantly harder than snowboarding at all levels, but especially at the intermediate through expert levels.

If I’ve been skiing for a few years, and I know how to parallel ski, how long will it take me to learn how to snowboard into the blue/black runs again, given that I am only skiing for 1 week. Can I learn snowboarding in a day?

Man I’m a black diamond skier I’ve long boarded and skateboarded before in my life but I’m scared to waste my money on snowboarding if I’m gonna suck at it and takes forever to learn

Nice I'm from Bangladesh

Very interesting video. You mentioned that snowboarding is easier to master than skiing. However, in competitions the technical difficulty of the skiing is almost always greater than the technical difficulty of the snowboarding. For example, in the recent history of the Freeride World Tour, there has never been an event in which the winning snowboard run has been more technically challenging from a viewers perspective than the winning ski run, and this pattern is repeated right down to "grass-roots" local competitions. The same is true of films, where the technical difficulty of skiing is usually harder than that of snowboarding (for example, compare Cody Townsend and Travis Rice on The Crack). How do you explain this?

Ok, Ive skied for 1 year, but now I want to change to snowboard, Do you think I could learn the basics of snowboard in 4 days? Cuz this time I just have one week to ski/snowboard

Bro I did skiing and it is so hard to turn I never did snow boarding but it’s easier for me

They both are hard as f to do

I went down the ski lift on my first day (snowboard) it isn’t that hard to learn it