# Snowboarding or skiing - which is easier?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowboarding-or-skiing-which-is-easier/751135
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [April 3, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowboarding-or-skiing-which-is-easier/751135 "2016-04-03T22:57:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2016, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowboarding-or-skiing-which-is-easier/751135/21 "2016-04-06T13:13:31Z")
> [@Muffin](#):
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> Sitting in a line across the hill blocking traffic. Another reason why god invented terrain parks.
I’ve always used the term “Walrus Podding” for this.
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### Author:  [@FreddyJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreddyJ)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowboarding-or-skiing-which-is-easier/751135/22 "2016-04-06T14:30:11Z")
I believe that for each person something else is easier. For me, skiing, but my brother is better with desk 🙂
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### Author:  [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowboarding-or-skiing-which-is-easier/751135/23 "2016-04-06T19:14:46Z")
> [@chappachula](#):
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> And I noticed something about them: they spent more time on their ass than on their feet.
That’s because snowboards are not statically stable. Unless you’re relatively advanced, you can’t _just stand still_ on one. You can only stay upright while moving. And even if you are relatively advanced, it takes careful balance to stand still on a snowboard on anything other than very flat ground, so it’s no good if you want to take a breather.
Snowsports are active and done at altitude. Everyone needs lots of breaks. Skiers spend plenty of time resting and not going anywhere, too. They just do it standing, instead of sitting.
Snowboarders rest in a line across the slope because they’re inconsiderate assholes, though.
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### Author:  [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowboarding-or-skiing-which-is-easier/751135/24 "2016-04-06T19:21:22Z")
> [@txst16](#):
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> I don’t know what you’re asking cause of all the fancy-ness, but snowboarding is WAY, WAY more fun. OK. If you haven’t done it. DO IT. If you want easy, go to Vegas.
It isn’t really, although I will admit going off piste in fresh powder is far more fun (and easier) on a snowboard. On ski’s that’s really just more work;).
On the groomed tracks I’ll take skiing any day. (Well, just switching between the two gives you the best of both worlds).
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