Hello to the community

Howdy all,

I just signed up to the forum and thought I'd start my first post by saying hello to the community here.

I began Snowboarding last year and haven't been able to stop since! I live in the UK so most my time is spent improving on the dry slope or indoor snow domes with the occassional chance in getting to a resort. I guess you could say I'm a late starter, I'm 29 now, but I'm glad I found snowboarding as I really enjoy it and intend to keep on improving.

Recently purchased my first board, I waited a year just to make sure it wasn't something that I would lose interest in.

And now here I am, looking for advice on good resorts and tips on improving my technical knowledge.

Cheers,
Ash.

hello :thumbup:

Hi Ashman,
It's a pleasure to meet you :D. I hope you make some new friends on here and find something interesting to read.

Ally

A warm welcome to J2ski from me! :thumbup:

As long as you don't sit in the middle of a piste on the brow of a hill having just scrapped all the powder off the slope, then we will all get along fine! :lol: :wink:

snowb4ndit wrote:

As long as you don't sit in the middle of a piste on the brow of a hill having just scrapped all the powder off the slope, then we will all get along fine! :lol: :wink:

Oh come on - he's been boarding for a year, they teach you that bit in the first five minutes of beginner's boarding school! )

Welcome Ashman though !

Hi Ashman! Welcome to the forum and to the world of boarding (and skiing if you fancy that). I've done both for numerous years, used to board all the time but have come back from the dark side to my skis, although will be having a board day when I go to VDI next week.

What resorts have you been to so far?

Hi :D

So far I've been to Arinsal in Andorra. As well as the main resort there I took the cable car to Pal. It was my first experience on snow and I have to admit, I'm hooked. I think learning on the dry slope really helped my technique but I wasn't prepared for the speed!

We had a great instructor and on the third day a few of us managed to board down Cappa. I actually didn't realise at the time where we were being led, and I'm gald, because I really don't think I would have taken the lift to it if I'd known.

I was looking to go back again next month, but I'm not sure if I should try somewhere different? I hear bad things about Bulgaria.

But I think Andorra was a brilliant introduction, it was right for me.

Hello Ashman - when my son and daughter were at uni they went with the uni snowboard club to Les Arcs and had a brilliant time. Big fun park area.