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PostPosted: Mar 16, 2005 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

falling invert on snow - (well east coast ice) - disaster

fallin invert on water - not bad

catching an edge on either sucks, happens more wakeboarding

but in general the slams on a snowboard are harder

right now i got some nice back problems going from a 30 foot jump that i turned into a 40 footer, luckily it had a nice long landing so i didn't get in the flats but still got some soreness, and it was a crappy way to end my season, another 2 weeks of winter left but idon't think i'll be able to get up there again
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PostPosted: Mar 16, 2005 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

here in new zealand its coming into the winter months- yeeyaa. yeh i agree method the slams are harder on the snow, i really should get a helmet this year haha
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PostPosted: Mar 26, 2005 8:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

WOW that is a really hard question!! I think I would go with wakeboarding....no snowboarding...no...It's toooo hard of a question...I love them both!!! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mar 28, 2005 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

its crazy cause like when your snowboarding you really wanna go wakeboarding and when your wakeboarding you really wanna go snowboarding, funny that eh?!
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PostPosted: Mar 28, 2005 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lol no i just want to go snowboarding the whole time
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PostPosted: Mar 30, 2005 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i know some guy who tryed a wakeboard on the snow, dam cold feet eh?
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PostPosted: Mar 31, 2005 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lol snow is much less forgiving than water, i could see the other way around but no way a wakeboard would work on snow. well at least not the ice we have
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PostPosted: Mar 31, 2005 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeh i couldnt imagine how a wakeboard would work?!?! Method9455, yo you only got 3 posts to go until your an outlaw...im kicking your ass bo 127 now for me!!
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PostPosted: Mar 31, 2005 5:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cezza, If you're flying off a rail and eat it, you don't stop either it's more like (well okay from my experience this year) - Jump, grind on the rail, jump off the other end, catch the front toe edge, flip, flip, flip, flip - slide to a stop 10 yards later - clear the snow off of my goggles, look up and see my daughter who didn't catch her edge laughing hysterically as she asks if I'm okay, catch my breath and realize that I can't have a beer until I get to the lodge... Confused

Still, I like snowboarding better, because I don't have a boat and I've only been out wakeboarding twice...

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PostPosted: Apr 01, 2005 9:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ha true cezza i spend my time in study hall on these sites

i cna't wait to wakeboard this year although my friend gave me a skateboard yesterday and i started doing that and after about 2 hours i started getting ollies rolling down my drive way

rolling down my like 50 foot driveway gave me more of a scare then looking down a 100 m double black on my snowboard - it was crazy
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PostPosted: Apr 03, 2005 12:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeh it crazy how things can scare you eh!! well our boat craped out on us last weekend so we cant do as much riding as we would like, we got another good month of riding to go till it starts getting cold and the snow starts falling so im gutted as but we will have to scab rides off other people so we might be ok
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PostPosted: Apr 03, 2005 9:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i am very lucky i get to ride at the best places in the world for both sports... utah for shreddin and florida for wackboarding and there is no arguement that snowboarding is way better....but that is just me

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PostPosted: Apr 04, 2005 6:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love snowboardung I love wakeboarding. Its a seasonal thing for me. I like the freedom of snowboarding and i like the falls on water alot more then snow.
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PostPosted: Apr 07, 2005 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

only thing i hate bout wakeboarding is when you bail on your head- catch a nasty edge, i hava saw neck for like a week Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Apr 08, 2005 6:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Snowboarding for all the reasons mentioned here.

Another thing with wakeboarding: Too damn technical and not enough variety.....snowboarding at its most basic level (just cruising/riding) is still fun....wakeboarding is pretty much centered around all technical tricks that is a constant effort to try and land.

I think of wakeboarding like going on a snowboard and hitting the exact same jump in the terrain park over and over.

I guess if you are progressing in wakeboarding pretty fast and nailing a variety of tricks it is pretty fun.....but most of the time it seems like a big constant effort to land trick after trick....tough to get consistent too if you don't have your own boat and ride frequently.
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PostPosted: Apr 08, 2005 7:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

marcg, not entirely true. You can just ride. Its really fun to just do sprays, surfcarves, lipslides, etc.

I like wakeboarding better because

Falls arent as bad

You dont get as cold

Hot girls wear much less clothing on a boat vs. a slope

more accesible/cheaper except if you have a boat. But no lift tickets!

I love water
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PostPosted: Apr 12, 2005 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Snowboarding ....... but only sometimes like during the summer..... in the winter i always want to wake it
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PostPosted: Apr 18, 2005 1:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CrescentBarBoy, so you wakeboard in the winter and snowboard in the summer?
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PostPosted: Apr 20, 2005 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i love snowboarding but i would have to go with wakeboarding b/c um better at it and im not real good with the cold Exclamation
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PostPosted: Apr 23, 2005 1:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love both sports but i would rather go snowboarding. im a lot better ive gone more times snoboarding than wakeboarding this year. the downs to sno is that you really cant go to big unless ur good and girls have more clothing on i guess thats a big plus for wakeboarding
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PostPosted: Apr 29, 2005 8:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yea but i don't pick up chicks when i ride anyway. my usual group is 3 other guys and 4 girls from school and we ride but they're all pretty crappy so its just general riding. then i usually ride weekends alone or with 1 or 2 guys and do park. besides if you want to pick up a girl based on snowboarding, there are scars to prove you back up the talking - wakeboarding its like, i have a headache again, or stuff i can't walk i'm having knee surgery
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PostPosted: May 04, 2005 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

screw the chicks at the snow im more keen to ride than worry about them haha. last season i used to ride with my girl but didnt enjoy it as much as riding with my guy mates, she couldnt keep up with me so i guess thats why + i enjoy chilling with my guy mates up there rather than my girl. but she dumped me after last season for someone else haha
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PostPosted: May 15, 2005 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

both sport's bails can be awful. Ive broken both wrists (different times) snowboarding, and ive gotten a really bad cuncussion wakeboarding, thats just what comes with the sports. and ive often thought about this question, and heres my answer: both. i came to the conclusion that i could NEVER give up one for the other, i will ALWAYS do both.
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PostPosted: May 16, 2005 3:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

als132, so how did you break your wrists? do you wear wrist guards?
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PostPosted: May 17, 2005 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

als132, i hear you but wakeboards falls are a little more leniant. its not as easy in snowboarding to huck yourself off a booter and land upside down like nothings goin on haha
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PostPosted: Jun 12, 2005 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Jun 12, 2005 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cezza, yea it is. this time last year it happened, it was sad
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PostPosted: Jun 13, 2005 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

for me its winter time so im all excited but no one on these forums is haha
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PostPosted: Jun 14, 2005 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would snowboard if I could cause you don't need to buy a boat just a lift ticket and like marcg said it's a lot of fun to just cruise down the mountain taking in the view.
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PostPosted: Jun 19, 2005 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WyLd_ChiLd, wow, where did that analogy come from. I'd pick wakeboarding cuz you can do it basically year around where i live reguardless the amount of snowfall.
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PostPosted: Jun 19, 2005 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jay Dutton, I completely agree wiht you, ten times easier to just go snowboarding and u dont need to find 2 ppl to go out wiht u every time either! the money thign does it for me not as expensive as wakebaording
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I don't know- I love wakeboarding and wakesurfing, but you can't beat fresh groomed powder or exploring backcountry...
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snowboarding. much less of a hassle, and rails, kickers, ect. are much easier to find or to have. with wakeboarding, you need to make a slider that floats right so it doesnt tip, and you cant just take the water and a shovel and make a little kicker to do an indy on. you have the wake, but you cant really change the size of it that much. on a snowboard, you cna have a kicker thats 4 feet high, and another thats 2 feet. you can have a rail and not wory about the evp taking it away. you dont have to have a couple of people to ride the boat, and you dont have to take turns.
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PostPosted: Jul 24, 2005 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

would have have to go with snowboarding. much more freedom. I mean.....what would be easier to go out and do if your by yourself? Razz I have a boat (not the best) and a place to go not even 5 miles away. I do agree with the whole thing about bailing.....wakeboardin hurts less. you can even practice just jumping off the boat doing inverts to get comfortable with them. but it does cost more to maintain...as far as the boat. but with snowboarding its always easier to find something to work on tricks, whether its rails or jumps and more variety. only 2 seasons of snowboardin and have only been out maybe 4 times wakeboardin since last year, so kinda new to both sports.maybe my opinion will change in time....but doubt it Very Happy
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