Skateboarding vs Snowboarding vs Surfing, which is the most difficult?

I give respect to all three disciplines and don't think one is better than the other when you look at them overall. However, when you look at each of them I think that:

A. Skateboarding requires more precision and more technical skills than snowboarding or surfing. Flipping and twisting a board that's not attached to your feet takes a lot of practice.

B. Snowboarding requires more guts. Anyone can learn to snowboard, but to throw yourself off a fifty foot cliff or a huge table top kicker jump requires some part of your brain to be different than the norm, and now doing that off a cliff or jump is the NORM for decent snowboarders.

C. Surfing requires strength and patience. Surfers have to earn their waves and don't get a free ride to the top, but once they're riding that wave, there's only so much they can do for 20 seconds, if they're even lucky to get that much time.

Which do you think is the most difficult among the three? Remember, all three of those disciplines, regardless of opinion, deserve respect unto their own.

Unicycling. I just can't see how some people can ride that thing everywhere they go.

Longest I rode was about 2 minutes.

Ive tried all three. I used to skate all the time before hurting my ankles one too many times. I go surfing every chance I get, though we don't have the best waves here in Florida. As for snowboarding, I've only tried it once while in North Carolina in Feb. 2006.

I think skateboarding is the most difficult of the three. Snowboarding came pretty easily to me. I was feeling pretty comfortable riding down the hill after just a few hours.

I give respect to all three disciplines and don't think one is better than the other when you look at them overall. However, when you look at each of them I think that:

A. Skateboarding requires more precision and more technical skills than snowboarding or surfing. Flipping and twisting a board that's not attached to your feet takes a lot of practice.

B. Snowboarding requires more guts. Anyone can learn to snowboard, but to throw yourself off a fifty foot cliff or a huge table top kicker jump requires some part of your brain to be different than the norm, and now doing that off a cliff or jump is the NORM for decent snowboarders.

C. Surfing requires strength and patience. Surfers have to earn their waves and don't get a free ride to the top, but once they're riding that wave, there's only so much they can do for 20 seconds, if they're even lucky to get that much time.

Which do you think is the most difficult among the three? Remember, all three of those disciplines, regardless of opinion, deserve respect unto their own.

jt222_us

Skateboarding is the hardest, snowboarding is the funnest. I just perfected my switch 360 flip. Yeah...been working on that for months.clh_05

Doesn't it feel great when it finally comes together?? :)

Unicycling. I just can't see how some people can ride that thing everywhere they go.

Longest I rode was about 2 minutes.

GiygasFanima

Skateboarding is the most difficult and snowboard is the easiest. I found snowboarding to be boring. Plus it's expensive. Surfing falls inbetween.

But then you grow up and don't have any time to do any of if. Not unless a tennis shoe company or equipment company pays you to do it. But that's only if you're good enough to make kids idolize you and buy the cloths & shoes you wear. And buy the equipment you use.

I used to surf quite a bit, and I can tell you you better have good shoulder and neck muscle strength. It's an awkward position to consistently have your back arched like that with your head held up while paddling, not to mention on an unstable board for hours on end. Surfing takes a while to get into, but once you're proficient at it, know how to read the currents, riptides,and instinctively get to know the perfect spots to be at to get the best rides possible, it's like no other. Reefs can really suck though, as can Vana (sea urchins).

Anotherthing that kinda sucks about surfing is that depending on where you go, the other riders may become very agro if it's apparent you don't know what you're doing. Of course, some beaches are known for beginner spots, but if you rent a board as a novice and head out into someplace you shouldn't be or aren't skilled enough for, other surfers are going to let you know very quickly.

As for skateboarding: really, this has got to be the most difficult of the three, with the greatest repercussions for mistakes. How many bones has Tony Hawk broke? Must be dozens. Watching them flip the board like that is almost unbelievable. A really great skateboarder is awe-inspiring, IMO.

Snowboarding: haven't tried it, but want to. Looks cool though.

Yes.....I'd have to say skateboarding looks the most difficult, but as for personal preference and fun factor, it's surfing all the way.

If you can skateboard wellyou can snowboard. It's much easier. You don't have to worry about the board when you 360 or 540 so it makes executing them much easier since you don't need to pay attention to the board. But snowboarding can be real sippery if you lean a little too far one way or the other. Atleast you don't fall on concrete. I take take the concrete anymore. My guess is when you're a kid you're bones are soft so it doesn't really hurt when you fall on the pavement.

Skating, god that hurts. Thank god i stoped doing it when i did :D

out of all those surfing is definately the hardest.

I think snowboarding is more badass and surfing is probably more fun, but I think skate boarding is the hardest.needled24-7

Really?

Not taking "awesomeness" into account, only difficulty, I've never tried surfing, but between skateboarding and snowboarding, I thought skateboarding was way easier considering you weren't connected to your board.

Snowboarding was pretty difficult, I thought. I'd like to try surfing, but probably won't for a while considering there are no oceans in North Dakota.

Snowboarding out of those but i prefer skiingmarkop2003

Skiing is so much fun, I love it.

I would say surfing... asphalt you would be skateboarding on is fixed... the ocean's surface however.... raven_squad

This all Depends on how big your going Snowboarding is by far my best, Skating sorta here and there but the most technical stuff is beyond me and surfing barely at all cuz East Coast is very surfing deprived, but on a Pro scale the Big wave surfers who ride 25 30 footers out of a rope tow deffinately deserve my greatest respect over the biggest air anyone gets on a skateboard and a snowboard not sayin ppl like Danny Way and Terje Hakonsen arent nuts bc they deffinately are too

You should have asked which one would be the hardest to get good at. Mostly everyone could ride around on a skateboard without doing any kickflips or anything, but when you try to do trics aswell it gets WAY harder. Ive got no idea how hard surfing is but it seems really difficult. I tried Snowboarding for 10 mins before, i ride left foot forward. It was simple to turn left but i couldn't turn right, so i quit.

Skateboarding is the hardest by far.

Surfing seems like the hardest. Any one could get on a snowboard or skateboard and move straight in like 5 min. Not so with surfing.

Though skateboarders have the abnormal ability to attract painful accidents.

I'd say surfing, cuz I can't do it worth diddly squat! :P

i'd say skateboarding is the hardest in that the injury from falling is usually more severe... hitting pavement tends to be worse than hitting snow or water.comp_atkins

Oh yeah. That's a good point. It's the hardest hitting.

I never tried snowboarding or surfing but skating takes a few guts and practices sense there is a higher chance of you getting injured.

I do all three and surfing is easily the hardest, surfing a wave is like dropping into a moving quarter pipe, plus the ocean is dangerous, I've seen plenty of good surfers get pulled out by lifeguards after a bad bail and ive heard of people getting arms and legs broken in shore dumps.

Skateboarding has a steep learning curve but most people can learn to do basic tricks such as ollies and kickflips and anyone can ride one around.

Same goes with snowboarding, surfing for me took a much longer time to learn, you only have a two second window to get it right on a wave.

Skateboarding is probably the most difficult and hard hitting once you get into the more advanced, riskier areas. My non-existant tailbone can atest to that. I miss him. :(

Purely in terms of learning how to stand up on the board, surfing.

Skating, because concrete is much more painful that snow or water. (Yes, I know that snow is water)