Educate me on carving hardboot snowboarding
This year I started longboard skateboarding downhill laps, and it made me want to rail corduroy turns on a snowboard. In my mind that's the hardboot/alpine board...but I don't really know shit about snowboarding.
Part of this is that I'm stuck here at a little flat hill of corduroy, when I can't get up to bohemia, and trying to keep life interesting.
If I want to rail alpine carving boards, but I've only skied, surfed, and longboarded....what's the best way to go about that? Bearing in mind I don't have a big budget, so just forking over for a bunch of new gear probably isn't going to happen.
Is it unrealistic to try to use some old alpine ski boots for this? Am I going to take some hard slams trying to learn, or does the feel of riding skateboards and surfboards sort of mix with the skiing and carving background and gel pretty quickly?
Any thoughts?
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