If you own a jacket and trousers already can you wear them to ski and snowboard? Snowboarding jackets and trousers have a looser or baggier fit, for more time spent sitting on the snow and for style and comfort. Ski clothes are more traditional and have a tighter more refined fit for better aerodynamics and speed. Ski jackets and snowboard jackets are similar but there are some small differences between the two. Most noticeably, snowboard jackets are looser and baggier than the ski jacket equivalent in the same size.
Snowboard jackets are also longer in length and come down over your trousers more than a ski jacket. The benefit being that snowboarders spend more time sitting on the snow to take their bindings on and off and so benefit from the extra warmth and protection. Ski jackets, on the other hand, are more tailored in their shape.
Ski jackets are still baggier than a typical winter jacket, but they do not come down over your trousers as much as a snowboarding jacket. Both jackets use the same materials to insulate from the cold and stay waterproof. Typically a warm fleece lining sits behind a fully waterproof shell. Both jackets will have internal and external zippers to store your belongings and usually an outer sleeve pocket to keep your ski pass.
Both jackets will come in a range of price points, features, and quality of build, from the beginner to the advanced mountain athlete. Both ski and snowboard jackets are interchangeable and provide excellent protection in both sports. Just like the jacket, the trousers or pants that snowboarders wear are baggier and looser than their ski alternative. This baggier fit developed due to snowboardings cultural influences — from skateboarding to surfing.
Baggy fashion crossed over into the snowboarding arena and became hugely popular. This baggier fit is an aesthetic, a look and a style, rather than something that delivers a huge boost in performance.
This body positioning is similar to the way we move throughout the world when walking or running. The learning curve for skiing and snowboarding are also quite different. Once one figures out how to do a gliding wedge on skis, it is possible to get down almost any run, and this skill can be picked up after only a few days on the hill.
Proper skiing form is more difficult to master, and involves pivoting your hips and knees in complicated but precise movements. Many beginners ski by turning their entire body, which offers far less control and precision but can help them get down tougher trails sooner. Anyone who snowboards can tell you that learning to ride is tough.
Lots of falls are guaranteed, but once you get the hang of it progression can come more quickly than on skis. Still, there are some habits that snowboarders pick up that allow them to feel like they ride better than they do. The true difference in the learning curve is therefore a matter of whether the most difficulty comes right at the beginning or a little later.
If not taught properly practitioners of both snow sports can pick up persistent bad habits. More importantly, once a skier or rider reaches an upper level the differences begin to blend, and the techniques of upper and lower body separation that are integral for mastery begin to translate to both disciplines. It is true that moving through moguls takes a bit more practice for snowboarders, however in reality both snow sports are well suited to just about any landscape.
In terms of physics, the fact that skis have four edges as opposed to two gives them better grip on icy terrain, and the large surface area of a snowboard lets is float more easily in powder. At the most elite level, skiers are also definitively faster and can jump farther. The argument can be made that it is harder to venture into the backcountry with a snowboard, however as splitboard technology keeps getting better this point is rendered moot.
In terms of accessible terrain, the choice between a pair of skis or a board is really a matter of preference. Despite the initial trepidation the ski community had towards riders, snowboarding has rejuvenated the snow sport industry. Most skiers can recount a story or many of skis crossed, poles tangled, landing in a pile of ski gloves , and goggles with cold snow down the neck. Some skiers never graduate from the pizza to french fries.
One board keeps things simple. After learning the two basic types of snowboard turns — toe-side and heel-side — most of the mountain is open for exploration. From there, speed goes up, turns get bigger on open slopes or faster in the trees, and jumps progress higher than a few inches.
The rest of the world fades away. Skiing is great fun in the powder too, but those who have mastered both sports attest to the feeling of carving edge to edge on a snowboard through deep, dry powder. Both skiing and snowboarding are tough on your body.
Any bumps in the run have to be absorbed by your legs. Steering means pushing around the board and skis through every turn. Stopping is a quick coordinated movement of your whole body.
Going faster means each movement is even more work. Snowboarding is going to be an ab workout no matter how good you are. Doing up your bindings on the ground and then getting up to ride takes its toll by the end of the day. If you want to skip ab day at the gym, just go snowboarding.
On top of that, snowboard bails when still learning can be rough. Wrists and tailbones definitely take a beating. Skiing is a little easier. Because each foot can move where it wants in a crash, knee joints are prone to injury.
With separate boards and two poles, moving around on skis is much easier. Sidestepping, skating, and just pushing with poles are relatively elegant ways to move through lift lines, along village trails, or over flat traverses.
Trying to do anything except dance the robot in insanely stiff ski boots just adds to the antics. Getting on a chairlift when learning to ski or snowboard is a terrifying endeavor to begin with, but facing forward and slinging two ski poles make it easy. Snowboarding just adds the problem of being sideways and having one foot tied to the board.
T-bars and Poma lifts make things worse.
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