Originally posted by CliffLandinSnowboarding's good.
My advice to you is to lose, the sticks and go buy some snowboarding equipment. Skiing takes a long time to be good, much like chess. Snowboarding, on the other hand, takes only a couple of weeks to be hitting the double black diamonds.
Oh yeah. Buy a helmet. Your head is worth 50 Euro.
Telemarking is better - much faster, if speed's your thing.