Your experience of pain long boarding reminded me of my first snowboarding day where I spent 5 hours trying to stand and kept falling! I came home with a purple lower body full of bruises nd when my sister who was hoping I'd learn so we could do it together asked me "How was it?" I took my pants off and showed her my swollen, bruised legs, thighs and butt and told her I would do it all over again next weekend. Loved the pain of trying to learn to balance on it but you are right, I would much rather fall onto the snow