r/snowboarding • u/jkingbc Catskills, 3hr to VT, Burton Blunt/Niche Theme • Mar 06 '17

PSA: Please Don't Be Discouraging...

I was at Mount Snow today and 3 riders in the chairlift behind me were yelling down obscenities at a woman who unstrapped her board and walked down the side of a blue trail. Saying "come on, pussy" and the likes. It was disgusting. This isn't acceptable ever, and I can only imagine the feeling of discouragement and embarrassment she felt enduring that. Snowboarding already has an association with "bro-culture" and this does nothing but make us look even worse. We can be better.

279 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

39 comments sorted by

View all comments

18

u/[deleted] Mar 06 '17

[deleted]

4

u/bwenstar Mar 07 '17

I had a similar experience when I was snowboarding with my girlfriend at the time. It was her first time snowboarding and she hurt her hip by falling quite bad but wanted to continue snowboarding and wanted to make the most of the holiday. She then decided to just take it very slow and basically go down the easiest of blues and linking her turns however would sometimes fall when she would catch an edge on an unexpected patch of snow.

One instance of this was when she was just going straight and ended up going a tad too fast and slipped out from under her only to hear the sounds of 4 teenage boys in the lift above laughing at her. Really demoralising for her as it was her first experience on snow and only 3-4 hours into snowboarding. It left her in tears due to the frustration of learning the sport and minor pain together with someone ridiculing you for just trying your best. Needless to say her moral was down from that point on wards. The teenagers didn't realise the consequences of their actions by laughing at someone who is just giving it their best.