YA EITHER LOVE IT, OR HATE IT?????
Jeremy = Shane Warne x 2000
Sex and the City = best show ever!
While we’re at it, people who don’t know the difference between to and too.
Also - lose and loose! Argh!
It’s OK Mizu - I still love you 
Lanox too!
But I is good on spellng!!!!!! 
Yes, you sprecken the engrish!
And me is a good teacher!
I hate that people are starting to write and say “I wonder what is install for me?” (instead of “in store” obviously!) WTF??? what is that? where did it come from? arghhh!!!
Hey Chucky… I thought Ride became a general term to use that means all of us on the mountain, riding the mountain not my ski’s - but yeah I agree switch sounds lame!
Skiers could theoretically ski “switch” - but it would entail still skiing forwards, but crossing their legs.
As far as the use of the word “ride” goes, basically it sounds cooler, so many skiers tried to adopt it - along with our clothing, our technology and a lot more of our terminology - while still (ironically) thinking that snowboarding is a lesser snowsport and treating us as such. Not all skiers, of course, but many. It didn’t help things that Warren Miller (always one to jump on a bandwagon) decided to get in on the act. And don’t get me started on those nazis in the FIS!
It’s really just another example of the ski industry trying to cash in on snowboarding - while, in reality, looking embarrassingly like a middle class white boy trying to act ‘ghetto’.
Besides, when you’re in control of a motor vehicle, do you ‘drive’ or ‘ride’ it? Does a pilot ‘fly’ a plane, or ‘ride’ it? How stupid do people sound when they talk about “driving” a motorbike or bicycle? And seriously, how much grief do you think you’d cop if you joined a bunch of ice hockey players in strapping on some skates, then insisted you were “riding”, not “skating”. Certain words have specific meanings, and that’s just the way it is. Why fight it just for the sake of it?
The problem lies in taking an already established term and insisting on changing it, instead of simply inventing a new one. Still, that kind of contemptuous plagarism doesn’t seem to bother many skiers - look what they’re doing to their own long-established “freeskiing”.
Skiers who say they “ride” their skis.
<font size=“6”>WANKERS!!!</font>
Memo to skiers, you DON’T “ride”, you ski - and it’s NOT “switch” for you, it’s backwards! Seriously, if you’re so ashamed of your own identity and are so desperate to mimic snowboarders, just ditch those stupid planks, and go ride a snowboard!!!
Did I do it right, Mizu?
Okay I get the whole “ride instead of ski” thing. There’s no reason for that at all.
But what’s wrong with skiers saying “Switch”??
Would you rather them say - I just landed a backwards 540?? That’s pretty lame.
Just my opinion anyway
Also since we stole it from skating, and we don’t ‘switch’ our stance when we do it… we really have no more right to say it then skiers do.
In fact if you ride with your stance back from center, then you would probably be more correct to call it fakie.
But lets be real here. We’re not skateboarding, we are strapped in and skiers are in bindings too. We need a word for performing tricks and skills backwards and that word is Switch 
So turn around, tweak it out, even skiers have got to shout. Baby got switch!
. . . what’s wrong with skiers saying “Switch”??
Would you rather them say - I just landed a backwards 540??
Simply because, by definition, it’s not “switch” but it is “backwards”. It’s the correct word.
To ride “switch” is to ride with your left foot where your right foot is supposed to be (and vice versa) as if riding forwards. Therefore, “switch” for skiers requires crossing their legs (ie. you “switch” your feet while still skiing forwards).
Would you rather them say - I just landed a backwards 540??
They don’t have to say “I just landed a backwards 540”, they can be original - and come up with their own term instead of trying to distort someone else’s. That’s the point.
If they’re too lazy and unoriginal to come up with their own term, how about simply “reverse”? That works perfectly.
I hate it when people say aks instead of ask!!! Grrrr that really grinds my gears
Also since we stole it from skating, and we don’t ‘switch’ our stance when we do it… we really have no more right to say it then skiers do.
We do switch our stance. Skiers don’t.
In fact if you ride with your stance back from center, then you would probably be more correct to call it fakie.
No, because it relates to switching your feet, not your fore/aft position on the board.
Although “fakie” and “switch” are often confused, they are different. You can land “fakie”, but if you ride out still with your ‘other’ foot forward (and as if riding forward) then you’re riding “switch”.
Another thing, I’ve been skating since the early eighties (and worked for Australian Skateboarding magazine in the early noughties), and I don’t recall “switch” being used as a skating term until snowboarders started using it? Can anyone else shed some light on this?
The term most likely originated from surfing, the original board sport!!!!!