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Right ed, thats total crap:
A good skier can snowboard down a red run after approximately 1hr. I've seen it plenty of times with friends on our ski team. if you can carve, you can snowboard- same principles.
Snowboards are slower than skis, in the top level of competition maybe, but the fact of the matter is for most people a snowboarder and a skier of the same ability will be the same speed.
Ski boots are NOT uncomfortable. Trust me on that one. If i can abseil, climb and rescue people in mine, day in day out, they ain't uncomfy. Get ones that fit, and you won't even notice they are on. Snowboard boots are stupid- I learnt to snowboard before I became a skier, with hard fucking boots, way back in the day when I was 7, in 1995.
4.Snowboarding in no way = BMX, neither is skiing a track bike.
IF you're one of those idiot piste racers- who zooms around like a cunt on the (open piste- i don't mind actual racers) piste, then maybe. and if you're a park rat snowboarder then maybe.
UNSURPRISINGLY- nowadays- the definitions of both are blurred.
One thing that is clear is that skiing is more like XC mountain biking, ifyou want to make a comparison- you can more easily trek up a mountain on skis than on a board, and then ski the fuck down it with mad steeez!
I'm not really sure where snowboarding fits in anymore.