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This is an essay i wrote for my English class, I know it’s not well written but  I don’t care. I don’t think the whole thing is true BTW

There is a problem in the world today, a problem that has been going on for a long time. The problem is skiers. Everybody seems to know that snowboarders are better than skiers, except for the skiers themselves.

Skiers think they are above everyone on the mountain. They think that just because they are on skis they own the slopes. For example if there are three friends and they are all on skis and three other friends all on snowboards and a full singles line. The skiers would not even think of letting one of the people in the singles line on the lift with them whereas the snowboarders would let anyone on with them even if it was a skier. The snowboarders might even start a conversation with the skier and convince him to get a snowboard.

Anybody that has ever seen a skier fall should know that a snowboard would be a good idea because when a skier falls it is quite a sight. When they hit the ground skis fly off in different directions and the poles go up in the air and the skier slides across the snow. When the skier comes to a stop the people on lift usually yell “yard sale!” because the skier lost so much equipment that the hill looks like someone is having a yard sale. When a snowboarder falls the most they lose is their breath. As you can imagine it would be very annoying for a skier to pick up all of their gear after a big wipeout, especially since they are probably in a lot of pain. As for snowboarders they probably wont be hurting as much because their limbs cant go flailing around and they don’t have to pick up all of their equipment because it is attached.

Now all of the skiers reading this will probably be saying that skiing can be hard. Nobody would disagree with that, some types of skiing can be very hard. Freestyle skiing looks very difficult but I know that it is actually not that hard. One of my friends thought that he would try to ski one day on the hill. So he got a pair of rental skis and started going down the hill. He didn’t even fall his first couple of runs so he was fairly confident. He was so confident that he thought he could hit the rail, so he did. Now this doesn’t sound very smart because doing rails looks hard on skis but it obviously is not hard because he landed it on his first try. If freestyle skiing was actually as hard as it looks how would somebody that has only been skiing for half an hour be able to do a rail on the first try? The same person that tried skiing for the first time took a whole month to learn how to do the very same rail on a snowboard. This proves that skiing looks hard but it is actually much easier than snowboarding and that makes it less rewarding and also less fun.

If someone ever tries to convince you that you should learn how to ski you should remember this paper and tell them no. you should tell them that snowboarding is a much more fun sport and it is also much more rewarding when you learn how to do it because it isn’t easy. Snowboarding is much better than skiing and the only people that would disagree would be skiers.