What's Harder: Skiing or Snowboarding? 

I think skiing is easier to learn but harder to progress. Snowboarding is harder to learn but once you have the basics down, progression is fast.

As a 30 year veteran of both snow sports the answer is pretty much that learning to ski at a base level is easier but mastering skiing is nigh impossible. Snowboarding is terrible to get into, you’ll be sore for weeks from smacking your face into the snow, but once you get a base level of proficiency you can excel fairly quickly thereafter. It’s like an exponential vs logarithmic learning curve. They’re both hard, but at different points in the journey.

If you French fry when you should pizza, you're gonna have a bad time

Been snowboarding for 5 years and my only injury was accidentally stepping in a hole walking back to the car😂

I learnt to ski at a very young age and skied till I was about 11 the. Switched to snowboarding, I found snowboarding way more difficult but way more fun, haven't skied since.

I would say skiing is easier to learn but harder to master but it's just my pesonal opinion so please don't hate

So this is from my personal experience. I went skiing and snowboarding for the first time, and spent 2 hours on both of them. And surprisingly I found snowboarding easier then skiing. I think it’s just personal preference, I find the fact that your legs on a snowboard are fixed into one place much more easier then having the two legs seperated . So I’m going to stick with snowboarding. It just comes down to what you prefer. Try both and then decide which one is better for you.

just do what you love... personally i love to snowboard but skiing is dope as fuck too. If you love it, do it!

I’m similar to you in that I ski’d first when I was 8 and then converted to snowboarding in middle school. I’m now 22 years old and I am mainly a snowboarder but every once in a blue moon I’ll put on my skis. I think you made very good points. I don’t understand the whole “easier to learn hard to master” thing, and why it’s so well accepted because in my personal experience, I learned all the basics for skiing the first day. You have way more control when you’re facing forward going down the slope. I skateboarded before I did either snow sport and I still remember how much hell I endured to get the hang of snowboarding. I think both are equally hard to master but snowboarding puts much more emphasis on balance and skiing puts more emphasis on control and speed. In terms of tricks, snowboarding is way easier in my opinion, I’ve only been able to successfully grind a rail on skis a hand full of times, and the other times...well you can imagine how I ended up 😂

If your going from skii to snowboard the one thing that will throw you off is the sensation of having both feet stuck to one board

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definitely agree with what you said about start with skiing. i’ve been skiing since i was 6 and hopped on a board for the first time last season. it took me about two small runs until i got it. Maybe just from watching a ton of snowboarders etc it was easy for me to pick up. but i’m super happy it came easy because now i also really reallyy l love both sports

learning the correct technique, skiing is lot more difficult. I learned in one winter to control snowboard pretty good, but I ski all my life, and my technique is still beyond flawless.

i’ve snowboarded my entire life and the first day ever skiing i went down a black diamond 2nd run. maddd easy

From a beginning stand point. Only ( I instruct adaptive snowboarding and also skiing) Learning to ski you start with a control wedge to control your speed. (pizza) Then you use the wedge to control turns. End day one, Day 2 learn to incorporate the wedge turn and start bringing your skies together then back to the wedge to initiate turns. Day 3 forget everything you learned on day 1 and 2 and start skiing correctly. Has anybody ever seen an Olympic skier using a wedge or Pizza NO. Snowboarding day one, no safety wedge, learn correct technique from the very beginning. By day three typically on average your beginner can turn left and right on strong foot and do a sliding stop on either heel or toe edge. They are ready for green runs maybe blue depending on skill. Skier day 4 or 5 maybe by this point they are doing parallel turns, using slides and turns to control speed. Snowboarder is already learning this on day 2 or 3. Yes, snowboarders fall more initially, no doubt, but in the big picture I believe if you stick with it you'll get there faster with a snowboard.

depends on what you wanna do. riding on snow a couple of times each season? skiing. having fun in the park and be young and be cool? snowboarding. needing speed and exploring the whole mountain? skiing again. Very top skier can match mediocre snowboarder in the park, while very top snowboarder can carve as smooth and elegant as mediocre skiers.

As someone who’s done riding and park on both I can firmly say, this is completely factual lmao

Boarding is more fun for park/free style, and it also has more comfy boots. Skiing is better for speed/carving cause you just have so much more agility and control, but walking in those bricks are killer.

Same like you. I cannot limit myself and stick just to one sport, it’s impossible for me. When I get bored with one, I do the other. Amazing balance!

I’ve been skiing since I was 3 and snowboarding since I was 6 and snowboarding is way more fun but harder to learn

The part about learning how to go down a blue square in one year was very accurate. I have been snowboarding for four years and have not gone down a black diamond yet, mostly because I hurts reaaaaaal bad when you catch a tip and eat it, which i have a lot. I am a lot like you (with the switch in middle school). Plus my Dad skis every year for the past thirty so he would be good at teaching me how. So I think I am going to make the switch this up coming season.

Tysm, there was a field trip at school to a place and we had a choice of tubing, skiing or snowboarding. I knew I didn't want to go tubing, and the decision was so difficult, but after this vid, I knew what I wanted to do.

I’ve been skiing for a while now and just started snowboard. Snowboarding is so much harder

My first time ever snowboarding a few years ago I smashed my head

Spot on! All you need now is some time on a telemark set up. Dominate all 3. ;) Oh and I forgot alpine snowboarding. Also super enjoyable. Probably the most difficult outta the 4 impo. Thanks for the video. Cheers.

I really like this unbiased video and the comment section not just solely supporting one side

Snowboarding is harder to learn but easier to Master

It took amazingly 2 days for me to hit a blue line, and I had never had experience in any type of board. I perfectly could swerve and hit my turns and I even by my self learned how to hit a 360 on my second day. Not to Bragg, but nobody taught me anything, and I learned everything by myself in 2 days! People showed me a lot of support for my accomplishments.

I’m from Louisiana where it only snows once every 20 years. I skateboarded for a couple years and so when I went snowboarding for the first time I picked it up quickly.

I was skiing fot a few years, never really enjoyed it and never managed to be „good“ at it. With the snowboard, I‘ve been boarding for now 6 years. I always enjoyed it, even at the start.

In my opinion as a skier I definitely think that snowboarding is scarier because I feel like it would be harder to control your speed but I don't know I used to snowboard when I was little but obviously you don't have as much fear but I also feel like skiing is hard to learn because you have to control two things but I think both sports are pretty equally hard

If you're a crazy skateboard who wants to keep skating during the winter like me, drop snowboarding and pick up snowskating its alot of fun:)

When you’re young, dumb, and have a fresh, limber body, you’re not worried about how hard it is, unless you’re different and a deep thinker and trying to overanalyze it. I wish I knew what it was like to ski or snowboard as a young person! I was 41 when I started to ski in 2009 and it was 2012 before I left green runs and I’ve been on blues every since and an occasional black diamond. My dumbass teenage son was a snowboarder at the same time and did double blacks in less than 2 years! I think snowboarding looks hard being a 50 year old geezer. I can’t afford to fall on my butt if I mess up and having both feet strapped down looks pretty confining

Spot on review. Skiing is easy to learn, difficult to master. Snowboarding is hard to learn, easy to master. Park skiing is harder than park snowboarding and that is just the way it is. One is not better than the other.

I think snow boarding is easier because I do both and it took 2 years to get the hang of ⛷ skiing and not Evan a year to get the hang of snowboarding 🏂

Little bit about me I love snowboarding but I don't think you could call me a snowboarder. I was a very athletic kid and new I would be able to pick up boarding so at age 18 I went out and bought all my gear before I ever even tried it. Went maybe 4 - 6 times over a few year period at a park here in cornfield land Indiana and was like its awesome but I couldn't find anyone to go with so I stopped going. Until about 9 years later I met an older man at work one day who said he was a skier. We talked and long story short he asked if I would want to plan a 10 trip to Salt Lake city, Sun Valley, ID and Jackson Hole WY. I couldn't pass this up. Mind you I told this man about my limited handful of experiences. First ever time being out west in powder, no warm up. He takes me up the Gondola sign says experts only beyond this point. Hey I'm a beginner I say. OH you will be fine he says. To the very top we go with a 13 year old under sized board for my weight now in fresh powder. I strap in and fall over and over "Pleasant but embarrassing falls" not being able to move 20 yards before I realize I need speed that I'm not in Indiana on ice they call snow trails. Here I go first ever time really snowboarding and its a Double Diamond. I learned how to snowboard like my life depended on it that day. So if your reading this and your athletic find you some powder and you will enjoy every fall out there. I've been once since that trip and now I'm 39 years old planning on another tip out west find myself wondering should I switch to skiing hope I can still depend on my athleticism. Enjoy your life fellas.

I skated a lot so i gradually got the gang of snowboarding, although it is still very hard. I picked up a pair of skis a little bit ago and went down the green without falling. I agree with what he says in the video.

Snowboarding was harder for me to pick up. I was real good at skiing and switched to snowboarding around age 12, took me bout 2 years to get even the basics down to get down a blue run. Once I picked it up tho.. I can shred down those double blacks. Powder and trees rider ftw

Learn’t how to snowboard in 15 minutes. I could 180 over a small jump. Didn’wakeboard, skate or surf just could ride a ripstick. The ripstick really really helped and that was why I picked it up so fast

I’ve been skiing sinds i can remember. I started to ski when i was 3 years old. Now i’m 13 and i wanted to try out snowboarding a few months ago. I think it’s harder, because i’m used to skiing. But I don’t have a lot of experience with snowboarding and i’be never been skating or anything like that. Anyways i really enjoy it both so i don’t really know

The forrest areas in between the slopes is most fun, on board not on skis

It's all about keeping your balance. It's easier on skies because you can change your stance. When you loose your balance on a snowboard you most definitely will crash and break your wrist/collar bone/ skull... PS: Wear helmets!

I do both. I’m a park rat with my snowboard and I’m one of those weirdos that do backcountry ski. Snowboard is usually the hardest. But I never understood the beef between them.

I feel like skiing is easier to learn in the beginning, but it is hard to learn how to do tricks and stuff and progress.

I have been skiing for 3-4 years and a few days ago I went to a “Discover Snowboarding” lesson, and was pretty good for my first day. Yesterday I went snowboarding again (just for fun) and learned how to turn and do carving. 2nd day, and I am already carving pretty well down blue square runs.

At the time I started snowboarding I had already used skis for 5 years and was pretty good at it. I picked it up quick to begin with. I had also surfed for 7 years and skated for 2 years. When I started boarding it was extremely difficult but still amazingly fun but with the edges and things it still feels completely different to surfing and skating the only similar things were standing and turning. Snowboarding is simply just much harder in my opinion but more fun🤙

I’ve gone snowboarding three times. Two at the beginning of 2020 before the pandemic and then once a week ago. I’m already really good at it. And I’m not trying to toot my own horn or anything. I still fall a lot. But I’m considering getting normal lift tickets the next time I go instead of a beginners lift ticket.

I was able to learn how to ski in fourth grade in one day, so. I've never snowboarded, but I do consider trying it.

I tried skiing, down hill and even water skiing. I never liked the feeling of controlling two different surfaces at once. Tried snowboarding/ wake boarding, and while im not the best at either I could get up immediately and go to the top of most runs and not feel over whelmed. I guess controlling one edge at a time is easier for my simple mind. :D

I have skated four years and I think skiing is much more easy I can’t snowboard

I am actually a very good skier and it took a long time to get this good, but it took me 2 days to go down a back side hill (where I go the back side is for people who have practiced for around two years)

I've done both, learnt ski's when I was very young and finished all the ranks at the ski schools (they actually get very advanced) skiing can take longer but is better for speed. Snowboarding was more painful but quicker because of my age

i've been skiing since I was 5, been a lot of places. It's not easy, but not hard. Great for people with endurance! My dad is good, like REALLY good. He has taught me everything I know. Skiied my first double black diamond at the age of 11 I think? When did ya'll ski your first double diamond?

In my opinion I think skiing is easier to learn first, and then you should learn how to snowboard if you are interested. Yes I do agree that it's easier to do tricks on snowboards than on skis.

I'm goofy footed on a snowboard

when I started, I googled the differences and I choose I want to break my arm rather than my foot ( the most common accidents that happen in snowboarding and skiing) So, I already broke my wrist, now I wear the Level protection gloves, and I am fine. Would never try again to ski. Why have my hands busy with those sticks anyway? I bought last year the Burton step in system and I rock! click and slide! It's as easy as on ski, but cooler.

I did a little bit of skateboard. Zero experience in skiing. I snowboarded down blue trails several times on my first day.

Been a skier, been a snowboader... Snowboarding was way way WAY harder for me to learn!!!

Skiing is like eating food with a fork, snowboarding is like eating food with chopsticks

I’ve been skiing since I could walk and it’s come naturally to me so snowboarding would be hard for me to learn but whichever you do more will be easier

Honestly, I think skiing is easier even though I want to start my skiing/snowboarding career with snowboarding. Skiing just does look easier.

Im skiing pro and I don't know to snowboard but its harder and harder to took out the foot from snkwboard

I see lot more snowboarders on blacks than skiers.And they seem to be negotiating the steep descents with more ease. On green runs I see snowboarders mostly on their assers while skiers are doing clumsy pizza.

I first learned how to blade so when I got to snow skiing was pretty natural for me and definitely easy to pick up on. Never really skateboarded much so I shyed away from snowboarding because I didn’t like the idea of both of my legs being locked down onto one board and it was definitely hard to learn and outright discouraging but it’s something I wanna learn so I always try to pick up a board when I go to a mountain

for me, skiing was more difficult to learn than snowboarding, but my progress was fast, snowboarding was easier than skiing to learn but the progress was slower than skking, for other person it"s the contrary.

It is a natural link to ride sideway as I am a skateboarder.

I’ve been skiing all my life and I am completely shameless when I say snowboarding is harder. I can’t control where I’m going and you can wipeout easily

skiing is much easier for me. I love to wakeboard and skateboard but I also can skate and water ski well. the first time I went skiing I was already parallel skiing and around the 3rd time I went snowboarding I was carving. when I was a beginner skier I had the odd fall, but when I was a beginner snowboarder I fell all of the time and the falls were harsher and hurt more than skiing.

I'd say that it depends on the person since i started with skiing and it took me a long time to learn but when i switch to snowboarding i could do blue runs within a season ( a season for me is generaly 10 to 15 days where i snowboard due to my schedule)

I’m on my first year of snowboarding without skiing background I can do a 180 grab off a small jump I can also do rails it’s slot easier because if you hit them with speed they are super easy because you do t have to balance much

Peak n peak! Edit: The only thing easier in snowboarding is boxes and rails. Jumps, learning and just going down are way easier on skis.

I tried skiing once and didn’t enjoy it and I started boarding last season and probably only went a total of 10 times and by the end of the season I could carve fairly well and was hitting small jumps and rails so I personally think that boarding is easier for me

Ive been skiing for for 4 years now, this year was the first time I tried snowboarding and by the end of my first day I was going down blue squares fine, I guess its just different for everybody

I started snowboarding last year after no experience and went down a black diamond that same day (admittedly i kind of slid down it on my butt, but it's a start!)

The snow sports are awesome !!

im like that person that went skiing once and it was super hard and i tried snowboarding and picked it up like it was a piece of cake

Day 1 to 3 skiing is easier. Everything after that skiing is way harder. Becoming an expert snowboarder takes a couple weeks. Skiing takes years.

My parents put me on skies when I was 3, my ankles can’t handle the boots so I want to try snowboarding. But I’ve skied for 19 years and I’m trying to figure out how hard it is to go from skiing to snowboarding

park on a board is easier but if your going down just a normal hill skiing is easier

Skiing is easier as a beginner but harder to master, thats just going off my analysis of both sports techniques at the expert level and surf but dont snowboard.

I think of it as like the rivalry between paintball v airsoft

That’s so weird cause I found snowboard so much easier than skiing but tbh I don’t remember learning to ski

i think skiing harder i started out skiing but i found that to hard so the next day i tried snowboarding and it was super easy but i think if ur starting out start with skiing and maybe try snowboarding then pick the easier one or the one u enjoy most

Skiing you at least have more control with your legs, and can make more sudden decisions. I never snowboarded before, but I have to assume that's the case.

What should I do if I play hockey and skateboard?

I think when you get into harder stuff with skis like back country it’s harder then snowboarding

skiing looks fun

If I have years of skiing experience will I be able to learn snowboarding a lot easier?

I started snowboarding when I was 4 then switched at 13 to skiing but I do both constantly for fun

I think it depends on the person and skill level. I've been skiing for 13 years and last year I've started snowboarding and it was very easy

True with the rails but I mean it only took me three tries with my skis because someone actually taught me

I think snowboarding is way easier for rails, but skiing is way easier for front/back flips.

I did a black diamond on Skis after 1 day. About 8hrs into that day

Snowboarding is harder I learned to ski and do park in one day . I’ve gone snowboarding like 4 times and can still barely go done a decent sized hill

Ive been skiing for 5 years and used to skateboard. How hard should learning to snowboard be?

Park is 100% easier on snowboards but I think that going down blacks and double blacks is a lot harder on snowboards

uuu snow boarding, but you should compare ski tricks with snow boarding and I'm only talking about Grinding!! Lol i think when people realize they won't be as good enough as a skier and see all these guys grinding and not them, they make a switch to snow boarding so they can feel better about themselves while showing off!! XD. That's my theory...

Right on I started skiing at 3 and my parents let me switch to boarding at 7 and I have been snowboarding ever since and now I can hit boxes and rails and the big jump line I’m eleven and I’m so glad my parents made me ski first so I could get a feel for the snow

What they say is skiing is easier to learn, but harder to master but snowboarding is harder to learn but easier to master.

When u said that u taught a guy to ski in one day it really depends on the person and teacher I ski and it took years for me to master it but I was at a very young age