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Skiing and snowboarding
Alright, so last weekend I went skiing for the first time with my dad and sister. I picked up on it pretty well, I had a lesson and the instructor said I was a natural. It took me a while to finally get down a not-so-steep hill without falling, but I was going side to side the whole time and stopping occaisonally. I was so scared to just go straight down for fear of stopping too late and having some crazy wipe out. I'm going again this weekend with my friend and our dads probably, and she has skiied before but not a lot. She is just as scared as me about going straight down... so is there any thing you can tell us to help out with that or at least make it not so scary lol. Also, I really want to learn to snowboard this winter, and the season goes to the end of March. How much time should I spend working on skiing before learning to snowboard also? And any tips there? Thanks, and sorry that was so long.
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Im not sure how much I can help you with the scary part. If you bomb a slope you put yourself at risk, so the fear is logical enough. However, its also one of the most intense experiences I know. So why not start small? Choose a small hill or something like that and work your way up to longer slopes. Once you know what to expect you will feel much more in control and some of the fear will go away.
Now, as for snowboarding, thats a totally different thing. Learning to ski will not really help you snowboard, in some cases I would say it will have the opposite effect. When I was young we tried it with our ski instructor. He was just as useless than the rest of us.... maybe even more so than some of the kids. I found that I had to unlearn a bunch of things I had learned from skiing, so I decided against it. However, you might have more luck learning them both at once.
So basically its up to you how much time you want to spend skiing since it wont really affect your ability to snowboard much.
Edit: In answer to your feedback, the snowboard instructor might be a good idea. I would try it out a few times first and see if you are a natural at it as well. However, I really dont know all that much about the sport since, as I mentioned, it wasnt really my cup of tea.
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