How does snowblading compare to skiing?
Often when skiers in particular get up on snowblades, they try to apply the same principles that they learned for skiing – lean down the mountain over your tips, for example. When skiers apply these strategies, they often comment that there is too much chattering and that they lack control and don’t carve well at speed. However, the stance for snowblading is more like the stance for skating or roller blading – standing up, not leaning over the tips. The effective carving edge for snow blades (in this sense similar to skis) is under your boots. Standing up on snow blades allows them to do their job – the side cuts and flex kick in and you can then have stability and control in carving. It often takes skiers a few runs to realize it isn’t skiing anymore, it is more like skating or even a combination of skating and snowboarding, etc. and thus, they begin to realize the incredible freedom, control and total fun that snowblading offers. The learning curve is extremely short compared to snow
