My Background

When I was younger I skied until I was about nine years old, and then I switched to snowboarding.  I have been snowboarding since then and I believe that this culture has affected my life.  My mom and my grandparents both ski, so I was aware of the stereotypes about snowboarding since I first started.  When I was younger, it seemed to me that my grandparents thought that snowboarders were annoying kids.  They gave me the image that they were just punks.  At the time I didn’t give much thought to what they said because I was so young and it didn’t really bother me at the time, snowboarding was fun and I liked it and that was all that mattered to me.  I have been lucky to be exposed to the culture and be a part of it over the years that I have been snowboarding.