I am now going to tell you about the time that I started taking snowboarding lessons and why I absolutely feel that you should go and do the same. When you study something new it gives excellent sense of well being and can end up in many hours of fun and pleasure that can come as a consequence of the new skill that you have attained. When I was at the age of 16 I really liked watching winter sports on tv and this may sound a little stupid, but it was actually sledging that got me to want to learn a winter sport. I have always liked sledging and I even went sledging when it isn’t snowing. You see, where I live it is utterly and totally impossible to go sledging 11 months of the year, and if we are lucky enough to get as much as a month of snow then I am always sure to make the most of it and go out their and sledge away! That is why, my love for watching snowboarding and sledging on television, made me decide that I wanted to go out their and learn how to snowboard for myself.

So you are most likely wondering why I decided to choose snowboarding rather than skiing as my choice for the winter sport. One of the top reasons for doing this was because a lot of my friends do snowboarding but none of them do skiing, this is done at the local ski slope. Even though they do snowboarding the slope allows both to be done and I suppose the decision really did come down to me. Anyway, in the end I decided to go out their and choose snowboarding and I would be lying if I said my friends were my only influence in my decision to choose the board over the ski’s. You see I do not know if everybody will know what I am talking about but I feel that a snowboard just appears to be so much more enjoyable than ski’s. Do you know what I mean? At our local ski slope there is only 100M of run that is around 300 feet if you convert it. In that period on ski’s what can you actually do? If it was some kind of complicated slalom then that would be different, but just going down a hill on ski’s to me seems slightly boring compared to on a snowboard. A snowboard appears to be more of a white knuckle ride. That is why I decided to choose snowboarding, but don’t get me wrong I still think that skiing looks fun, and as I now go down to the skiing slope every week or so I have actually started to do skiing some times for a bit of a change. You see, once I learned how to snow board I had some transferable skills, such as an ability to use the lift, how to handle speed, when to slow down etc. That is why I am glad that I learned how to snowboard first. If I had skied first, then I would probably have found it a lot more difficult to pick up snowboarding second. Anyway I took a snowboarding programme and it really appealed to me, so far I am not as good, nether as dedicated as some of my mates but am still really enjoying myself and that is what it is all about.

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