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If you know how to ski and now you want to snowboard, then first of all, you need to understand what the difference between the two sports is. The basic dissimilarity is that while skiing, you stand on two skis but while snowboarding, you stand on a single snowboard. You are already aware of the feeling of sliding across the white snow with your feet attached to some equipment, now you have to learn to make adjustments so that you can do that on a single board in place of two separate skis.

In skiing, the weight of your body is spread across your feet which stand apart with a distance, but in snowboarding, you have to learn how to keep your balance while you are standing on a single snowboard with your body weight emphasized on the board's edge. Because there are no poles to hold onto in snowboarding, you may find a little difficulty in the beginning but with time, you will get used to it. To cope up with this, first of all you need to learn how to fall. When we are learning snowboarding, we may fall many times on the snow and get several injuries, but you can only learn snowboarding if you learn from your own falls and get to know how we can fall safely so that we do not get any injuries or bruises.

Bindings used in both the sports are also different from each other. There are standard bindings for skiing but when it comes to bindings for snowboarding, they are of two kinds: one that are used with boots in the form of simple straps that go over the top of your boots to fasten your feet to the snowboard and others are the step-in bindings that are a better choice for high performance snowboarding. These types of bindings are also available with a quick release lever. If you have decided to purchase step-in bindings for your snowboarding experience, then you must know that you will also need to purchase step-in boots from the same company.

If you want to become a snowboarder from a skier, then you will also have to adjust with the stance. The main difference is that a snowboarder stands with his feet sideways on the snowboard in the surf position. You should also know that there are no standard stances in snowboarding and you have to choose what should be the difference between your feet and what should be the degree of angle of your feet.

A skier can very easily and quickly learn snowboarding because he will only need to make a few simple adjustments. You can also choose to take snowboarding lessons so that you can quickly gain self-confidence and you will be sliding through the mountain trails very soon without falling.