Skiing vs. Snowboarding: A FULL Comparison! Pros and Cons!

The best part of skiing is getting to take your boots off at the end of the day

As someone who started on skis and transitioned to a snowboard I feel this was a very fair and right on assessment.

A point on the injuries - the most likely injury while snowboarding is busting a wrist while for skiing it's blowing a knee (although the whole pole thing does cause a number of wrist/thumb injuries in skiers as well). One of the most common for both sports is head injuries - friends don't let friends shred without a helmet. Better to have a concussion than a cracked skull

I 100% agree with you. I love skiing and snowboarding so much that I’m one of the rare ones that still do both consistently throughout a season depending on what I am feeling. I do both at a high level and can’t imagine dropping one (I’ve tried). If there was one clear winner, I’d stick to one. Luckily, I don’t compete, so I get to keep up with both.

Grew up skiiing and still love it occasionally but as I've gotten a little older I really prefer Snowboarding due to the fact that I feel MUCH less likely to get seriously injured. I'd much rather break my wrist or tear my shoulder up than face an type of structural knee damage. As someone who finds happiness in staying active, i don't think I could be out of it for a year, plus the chance of a re injure. Maybe when I'm an old man who sticks to the groomers I'll switch back but while im in the trees, park, or off the rocks its Snowboard for me.

Just went on my first trip to Keystone and my doctor told me I should try snowboarding because I’ve had a few knee/leg surgeries. At the end of day 1, after a couple of runs, and a couple of falls, I got the hang of it. Only thing I regret was not getting a tailbone pad!

Just wanna say, when I learned to snowboard I didn't have any experience with board sports, and I didn't know how to ski. So just don't let that deter you if you really want to snowboard, really doesn't matter that much as long as your willing to put in some extra work to learn.

I skied for about 10 years before switching to snowboarding, been snowboarding for 8 years now and it’s the best decision I ever made, but both are great!

I have been skiing for 16 seasons and boarding for 2. Still lean more towards skiing because of the time bias but I can see and feel the appeal of snowboarding, the speed and flow are something else. Both are so fun.

Good analysis! You should add too that: having 2 skis allows you to skate, and makes getting around so much easier! Once you learn to use your edges, you are basically walking around, and can get going really fast on flat open areas, especially if youre good at pushing with your poles! Also, skiers can access way more of the mountain using that same skill. Being able to traverse across the top of the mountain allows you to go toward the resort boundaries, and on a powder day can give you freshies till the lifts shut down! And in the terrain park, you can gain speed even if the slope isn't helping!

I came from surfing/skateboarding to snowboarding and I have to say it was hard! Having to keep your weight at the front of the board rather than pivoting over the rear was a big mental obstacle to overcome. Got there eventually.

First test of my Snow Joe was a massive blizzard that dropped 20+ inches of snow with drifts well over 3ft. youtube.com/post/UgkxoHYZbq5g9fkcAtinlTqstNlje-UQk… This snow thrower is definitely not designed for this much snow but it powered through it. We did have to knock down taller drifts with a shovel and at times the chute was awkward because snow banks were much higher than it could throw, but still much easier than shoveling. The plus side of the small size is the maneuverability. Easy to lift up to walkways and works in tight spaces near cars. Highly recommend.Note: after assembling it started but did not turn. The belt wasn't in place. Easy fix.

I’ve gone skiing about 10 times. Doesn’t seem like much but I go for week long trips. Skiing is pretty decently easy to learn, but hard to master. Once you start to understand the form it gets super easy in my opinion. I love it!

I've been skiing for 10-11 years now, started when I was 5. My parents and grandparents all ski, but it was my grandad who taught me. Safe to say that I'm experienced but still have a lot of room for improvement. I tried out snowboarding 2 years ago, had two one hour lessons, one on one day and one on the other, it was really fun and interesting because of all the odd toe movements and made me realise the difficulty of the sport. Unfortunately the second day I caught the front edge, went face first, the board dragged along the snow and I injured my right knee (ironic since people say you're not at a higher risk on knee injuries when boarding), I tore the ligaments if I remember correctly, couldn't walk without limping or without pain for about a month and a bit, even when I could walk normally I still experienced pain and mind you I kept off my leg as much as possible and didn't do anything to aggravate it. That being said, definitely going to give snowboarding a go again and would love to get as good as skiing so the thing of it being "easier" to master is music to my ears and if I do catch the front edge again I'll keep the board off the ground lmao.

This was a great video. I couldn't notice any bias between the two choices and the video was very informational and an extremely helpful guide. Definitely helped me decide between the two. Great job.

Cracking comparison and very accurate. I started off skiing thinking I would hate snowboarding but after the 4th day I decided to try snowboarding. Cracked 2 ribs learning how to snowboard but fell in love with it. I definitely don't miss those uncomfortable ski boots. I actually don't mind moguls, good time to practice my turns.

I never skied and I started snowboarding late at the age of 23. The one thing I will say is I always felt that the snowboard stance was much more natural than skiing. Think about it like this, when you were a kid and you would run and slide on your snow covered driveway, would you slide with your feet side by side facing forward or would you slide sideways with one foot in front of the other? getting off the lift is def the hardest part of snowboarding when your a newbie

I've only gone skiing maybe five times in my life, so my mom always gets me to ski because its easier for beginners. However, im planning to work a ski season next year, so I'm trying to choose what sport i want to pick up when i have way more time to practice and learn. This video was super helpful! I think I'm gonna pick up snowboarding, it looks super fun!

When i started snowboarding, after 3 years of skiing i give it a try, and i abolutely love it the first day and never looked back to skiing, i was lucky bc i grab a really cheap board that came whit some flow bindigs that were like old but like some type of step on, that make me so happy

this is definitely one of the best videos out there to show comparisons for every side of each sport, but one thing to remember is that it is completely personal as to what you find easier starting off with. The first time I ever tried snow sports, I tried skiing. First time was an indoor place and a 3 hour lesson, obviously in that time I wont reach a recreational level, and I remember coming away saying I didn't even like it at all. The second time was in Canada, and I was supposed to do 3 days of lessons from like 9am to 4pm, maybe even a bit longer. For the entire 2 weeks, I was still doing lessons. I couldn't stay up on them for longer than 3 minutes, I'd be on the floor and I essentially missed out being able to go down any runs with my family. The theory side of snow sports stuck with me, but for me personally, I could not ski to save my life. After that I had 2 lessons snowboarding, and this is without being able to even skateboard properly, I was at a safe recreational level by the second lesson. I wont discredit skiing at all because in a sense, it helped me learn the fundamentals, and, whilst I've heard and actually agree that learning to ski is easier to begin with, you may just be part of that very small percentage of people who struggle even do some of the basics, and this works both ways. To this day I still struggle to ski, and, whilst it has been a few years since ive been on a board, I can do any run on one, I can hit parks no problem, I've coached my friends and had success in doing so. I really just felt like adding my own personal take on this all but in no way trying to take away anything said here at all and I 110% agree with it all. Two times I have been and done a "learn to snowboard in a day" with friends who have had 0 board and snow sport experience, one was only taught at the lesson, and one other I taught a week before at home with my old (and now sadly gone) board. Both of them made it to recreational level, and the friend I taught ended up being able to demonstrate all skills necessary to pass that L2SBIAD course whilst still having half of a day left (which both of these times have fuelled my passion to become an instructor myself, a long lost dream job I forgot about after putting up my boots years prior). The take away from this is, yes, you most likely should start off skiing first, but, you are perfectly fine with starting and even only doing snowboarding. Man I really want to get back into it asap!