The first couple of days snowboarding are really really rough. While you can learn how to ski down easy tracks without falling once, the first couple of days sn

The first couple of days snowboarding are really really rough. While you can learn how to ski down easy tracks without falling once, the first couple of days snowboarding you'll be tumbling down the mountain more often than not so expect lots of bruising. However once you learn how to brake and leaf down, which happens at day 2 or 3 you're suddenly able to go down every single track, including reds and blacks safely. The whole mountain opens up and you'll have enough control to be able to fall back to breaking in most situations so stuff stops being scary. Plus at that time you still don't have enough control to be able to carve so you won't be able to get up to scary speeds yet. Other than the first couple of days, the mechanics of snowboarding do make for a pretty good learning environment.