Winning Over The Sceptics.
A lot of the people I hang out with are fellow snowboarders for fairly obvious reasons. As we all share a passion for riding if we’re in the pub having a drink there’s no fear of boring each other with our snow board related conversations! Having said that it can be refreshing to talk to be people who see snowboarding through fresh eyes and there’s nothing I like more than to try to win over a snowboarding sceptic. I recently met a guy at work who was an avid skier and wouldn’t even contemplate the thought that snowboarding would be (in the long run) a hell of a lot more fun. As far as he was concerned skiing was the superior sport; it had the longer history, was more logical (after all as most of us have two legs in his opinion it would be foolish not to use both of them) and more sophisticated. I put it to him that it was fear that was preventing him from snowboarding and that if he really felt at home on the snow then he should definitely embrace the new challenge. To give the guy credit not long after this conversation he was giving it a go. All right so it wasn’t something he immediately enjoyed and in fact the first day he was incredibly frustrated by having to effectively start from scratch in learning a new sport. Of course it wasn’t quite as straightforward as that however and all of his years skiing made him a lot better equipped once he had mastered the basics. The one thing he was very enthusiastic about was not having to walk to the lift in skis, not the most graceful moments for a skier I’m sure most would agree! Now we’ve agreed to go away together and do a “sport swap"for a day in which I try skiing and he does a bit more snowboarding. To be honest I can’t wait for the challenge. I’ve even bought some new travel speakers for my ipod using some comet.co.uk discount vouchers so that we can get some tunes on the go before we leave each morning. I’m thinking the Rocky soundtrack would be appropriate!
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