Hey, skiers can behave badly too... at least over here young people have found skis again. I've always liked the sport for the sport itself, not the after-ski stuff, so I was like a elderly person when I was 15 already. I use both a board and skis, but I'm not into the half pipe or jumping, I prefer off piste. My dad has also done slalom all his life, I think I was about two or three when he first took me to the slopes. In the early nineties, or maybe late eighties, snowboards started to find their way to Finland, and my dad was eager to try from the get go. He's now 60 years old and has been snowboarding for over 20 years. Although, it's probably almost 20 years since I first stood on a board too, those things have come pretty far from those day. I learned to board on hard bindings, that's probably why I never learned to like the jumping part, even though I switched to boots and soft bindings pretty quickly. I tried to learn at some point, but it ended in a broken wrist. So I stick to boarding in the forest, when possible.
