Objectively evaluate whether snowboarding or skiing is a better choice for beginners?

Let’s talk about veneers first. It's one where you have to stand up on the board.

Beginners usually learn to push uphill from the front first, so if you want to stand up on the board smoothly, you need 1. strong abdominal muscles, 2. a good sense of balance, and 3. strong thigh muscles. . You can think about it, fix your two feet on a board, and then support your whole butt off the ground with one hand until you stand up. But it doesn't mean that it's OK just to stand up. When you stand up, you need to immediately rely on your sense of balance to catch it with your hindquarters, and then push down flatly with a zama stance.

Anyway, at this stage you won’t feel much fun in skiing, only deep abuse. My husband gave up on this project after skating for the first time. I coaxed him for a long time before trying it a second time, and I found the fun this time. Once you get past this level, the advantages of veneer will come out. After mastering the basic balance, you can go directly to the domestic intermediate snow trails to practice flat pushing. It takes at least 3 days of skiing on intermediate ski trails for double skiers, and the risk factor for beginners on intermediate ski trails is higher than that on single ski trails.

For double-skiing, you stand up and walk across the board, facing the slope with your poles. Then during the descent, the plow is generally used to control the speed. Since beginners are not very good at controlling it, it is actually equivalent to letting go and directly experiencing the speed and passion of skiing. When encountering someone with obstacles or other problems, they basically rely on wrestling. This is why I say that learning to wrestle will ensure safety.

The next step is to learn simple direction control based on the plow pose. This process is quite repetitive. Some people will turn in one direction but not the other. My experience is that this process usually requires three people and days of practice before you can master it better. The advantage of double-boarding is that you can always experience the fun of skiing during the process, and the muscles of the body can be adjusted back and forth, unlike single-boarding, which is pushed flat and stuck all the time, and the whole body is always tight.

Once you have mastered it, you can proceed to the intermediate level. Going up to the intermediate trail is also where the experience of the two skating methods differs greatly.