What’s Snowboard Culture?

Too many people get caught up in “snowboard culture,” being “real” instead of a “poser,” and so forth. Fortunately for us Grays on Trays, we’ve left high school a while ago.

Here’s what I recently wrote in a forum (not on graysontrays.com) in which someone (a youngster, I believed) had asked about identifying “real” snowboarders.

Snowboard culture? What’s that?

Seriously, I pay no attention to it. I just go out and ride whatever suits me at the time–gentle cruising, bombing it down the hill, experimenting with the pipe, watching some people do freestyle tricks that I will never attempt, let alone master. As long as I treat people with respect, I figure that life it too short to worry about social status, pecking orders, whether or not somebody is a “real” snowboarder, or what anyone else thinks of my riding gear, clothing, skills, etc.