Beginning SNOWBOARDERS Versus SKIERS

When people try SnowBoarding their first time, a high percentage fail for many simple reasons. People who take to snowboarding tend to be skateboarders, surfers, and people who already ski. The innocent people who don't have a head-start often get traumatized that first day even in a formal lesson--they become afraid of the slope-n-snow and the lifts and everything associated with skiing. Then, because of Satisfaction Guaranteed, they try skiing on day-two, but below ground zero. PSIA gods don't see this FUBAR, and they don't care, because they aren't the ones dealing with beginners. But astute instructors notice, when a beginning skier trembles needlessly before the lesson even starts, chances are they were in a very brutal snowboard lesson the day before.