Snowboarding helps develop several very important traits that come handy when you do geek-stuff: * increase focus (otherwise you fall) * learn to be aware of b

Snowboarding helps develop several very important traits that come handy when you do geek-stuff: * increase focus (otherwise you fall) * learn to be aware of body and mind * do not stay too long down when u happen to fall (because u freeze, but the message is the same on abstract level) * falling/being down is part of the get-going (in snowboard more than other winter sports, in engineering this is to try again and to accept failures as part of the process) * be in the moment, be in the flow * never look back when you move forward (do not regret, do not ruminate) I can tell this, because I've been doing snowboarding - both free-ride and some freestyle (park) since 2004 and it never ceased to amaze how beautiful this sport and everything about it is. my degree is in computer science, but I also took some three years in the sports academy, for the love of it. one thing that sports teach you in general, that most engineering academic institutions do not, is team-play (even though ski/snowboard is solo sport). for the record - I also do skis, and appreciate them a lot, but snowboarding have always been much more fun tbh.