Used to ski as a kid in Austria in the 80's. Always wanted to try snowboarding. Never did (had a bad skiing accident that kept me away from all Wintersports until last year. Started on softboots feb 2020. Got started on a capita mercury (after one day on a rental) - and quickly realized that the funnest part was being on the edge (didnt know yet that this was called carving lol). Kept pushing it on edge on ice and washing out even though the mercury is known to be “good” on ice. Googled stuff and saw a bunch of eurocarve type videos and was HOOKED. then found this site and bought a used board, bindings and boots in the for sale section - then mountains shut down - spent all spring summer and fall reading, researching, buying a bunch more boards - and was out the first day local mountain opened. Now go as much as I can anytime I can and even when I technically can't or rather shouldn't (kids, wife, a business etc)