Snowboarding on the Decline?

Is Snowboarding Declining?

The real issue is that snowboarding is A LOT harder to learn than skiing. The addage "Skiing is easy to learn but hard to get good at -- Snowboarding is hard to learn but easy to get good at" is true. I was a life-long skier that learned to snowboard a few years ago. Learning to snowboard means accepting those 100 falls before you can even begin to move with some control. And those are those extremely hard and painful caught-an-edge-slammed-to-the-ground-and-couldn't-catch-myself type falls, that most -- except for some teenagers -- just won't put up with. Eventually, I found that once I could control those edges, it was just a matter of repetition. The more reps, the faster I progressed. I boarded 60+ times last season, and now I look forward to screaming down those black diamond runs and launching gap jumps. Still, it ends up being much easier on skis -- but I just happen to enjoy the surf-like floating feeling you get from riding a snowboard...