Thanks!
I actually have some wrist guards from when I took up longboarding that I was able to use. I only fell forward once and backwards a few times so it wasn't too bad. I think longboarding helped with my balance. Still a lot to learn before I'm comfortable, but I enjoy it.

I'm headed to snowboard this weekend, super excited. I feel skateboarding does help with balance when snowboarding, but carving is a bit different.

skateboarding barely helps snowboarding.
i skated for 15yrs before i snowboarded, and i still ate **** like a mother****er

but i do fall alot, in all situations... so...

also

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I think it helped me a bit. Started skating in 1978, first snowboarded in '89. I did a lot of loose truck longboard riding BITD, though. Frontside carves are about the same for me, Backside carves are way different on snowboard - have to push my back foot behind me more.

i'll bring my skateboard to seattle and we can go film ourselves getting chased by birds.

In an attempt to get more interest, I think I'm gonna put the roadie up on craigslist complete, as opposed to just a frameset.

probably not as much as me tho

some pretty embarrassing moments this summer... in front of Ashok's shop, and then that one time on Bainbridge Island when I was going 0mph.

I had a nice zero MPH crash over the summer too. I wasn't even on my bike, was just walking it (like proper hipsters do), when I fell all of the sudden.

In my defense, it was on a dock, after metric century, after a couple of beers.

I hate that "Oh ****" moment where you're at a 45 deg angle with the ground, and you first realize that you're falling, realize that you can't stop it, and just give up.

skateboarding definitely helps the stance of snowboarding and balance not feel foreign though. i still fall a lot though, last time i went the next day i felt like i got the complete **** kicked out of me.

Today was my last day of work for a while, going back to school on Sunday. And the ride home was horrible. I actually ended up walking a little over half of the distance because riding straight into the wind, along with snow, ice, hills, and my legs being really tired, made actually riding next to impossible. Even walking, I was constantly getting blown backwards. **** you Michigan weather, **** you.

Sucks about Tiemeyer. Speaking of Tiemeyer, where has Carleton been?

I ate him.

Being an experienced skier helped me a lot when i learned snowboarding. I think the biggest learning curve is understanding the concept of "slick board with sharp edges on a slippery sloped surface" and having an intuitive grasp of how you use the board and edges to your advantage, even if the physical motions were very different from skiing. I took classes and "got it" much faster than others in my group that had never been on a slope before. I also recognized different kinds of snow/ice surfaces because of being a skier instead of being surprised when i hit a patch of ice or whatever. (I started skiing when I was 5 and went every weekend for 3 months every winter until I went away to college, at which point I took up snowboarding. In both cases it was upstate/western NY which doesn't exactly have 20" of powder and has lots of snow machine snow, "loose granular", and packed-into-sheets-of-ice.)

same here. probably didn't help that my first day on "the slopes" was on basically groomed ice. still have the scar on my chin. got to chat up the ladies of Team Burton 1989 though..... break even day.....

Going to Mt Baker, wonderful place to ski/snowboard. Currently has a 129" base and new snow is expected in the next few days!
Hate that east coast ice skiing.....

i hate it too but at the same time it's a good trial-by-fire, and, IMO, makes you a better skier. :thumb: skiing in powder is easy, if a bit tiring at times. i can ski down a double black mogul run that's coated in ice. and i only tore my ACL doing that once! :lol:

couple more days over 40 degrees and i should have enough shoulder to bike to work again.....come on!!!

today i: how to ride a fixxie

Today, after 4 years and numerous colds ive finally caught my gf's cold.

Its a particularly crappy strain of flu.

Everything hurts. I just want to sleep.

Your girlfriend's had a cold for four years?

Lol.

Shouldve written "A cold from my gf"

i havent been really sick in probably 5 years and it blows.