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Why are park skiers so small?
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it seems like a lot of the good park skiers are small-- is that cause they're young-- or cause small people have a higher propensity to be good in the park?
I'm 5' 11" 160--- and that's bigger than the av... I'm not a big guy by any means.
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It's because when they stomp sick tricks, their bodies compress slightly. Over time, they just shrink until they are miniature.
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idk im 5'4 and i like dropping cliffs
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the same reason male gymnists are tiny.
i'm 6'3". i don't like skiing park.
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first off you spin faster when you're smaller and a lot of park skiers are younger like me
and im 5'5 and i drop cliffs too
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There is the occasional tall person.....such as Peter Olenick who is 6'1"
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or luke van valin who is 6'4".
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thye aren't all that small... i'd say most of them are like 5'6 - 6'1 or so... besides like spong, dumont, and other young kids.. but like rory, tj, andreas, peter, michael, d-dawg, cr, kristi, and aton others are all of good size
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dont forget liam, sooooooo steezy. Dont know how tall he is but hes so sick
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smaller people have a higher rotation easieness (that was scientific). anyways its easier for them to huck their bodies in the air and twirl around bc they usually have less mass and length of limbs to make it easier and quicker to grab. its easeir/quicker for a guy that 5'9'' to pull his knees up to his chest than a guy thats 6'3'' just purely on size/length alone
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they arent small. you only notice when they are small though. Plus everyone wears such baggy cloths that they look short.
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thats really stereotypical i dont wear really baggy clothes at all when i ski
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well he is talking about the good park skiers and most of them do wear baggy clothes.....he isn't talking about the everday skier such as yourself
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who would you consider a really good park skier? u havent even seen me ski so dont be calling me an everyday skier ok? i know what you're talking about though im just ranting
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and in the pacific NW not too many people even if theyre good wear baggy clothes
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im 6'3"
i wear baggy clothes (for my relative height, its hard to find shit that's baggy on me)
haha im really bad in park though. so dont count me.
i guess ill just tell people its not my fault and that i suck because im tall.
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Rant away, I was just clearing up what he was referring to, so its not really my topic to elaborate on.....but I would guess really good means
1. Someone who is sponsored
2. Someone we have herd of
3. A skier who places high in good comps
4. Seen in magazines and movies
5. and....Someone who wears baggy clothes!
I know this list sucks but someone else can define "reallly good" for him.
P.S. the fact that you are taking offense to being called a everyday skier is hilarious. I also live in the PNW and I see plenty of baggy clothes. And I am an everyday skier (meaning not fitting most of my list above)
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thats not true. im 6' 140, at 14.. so i have a lot to grow
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Hmmmm... and here's my scientific view on the matter: Stop talking.
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^haha very deep yet so profound
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it's true, all of them are short........ but it doesn't matter cause skillzzz are skillzzz, and the tall people are going to destroy. the reason being everything is way smaller when your tall, especially rails....
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im 6 feet, and i ski alot of park. its just harder to be more compressed and stylie in teh air, but i deal with it. look at pete olenick, for example. he is tall, and has alot of style too. just takes practice.
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liam is like 6'6" i think
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are u kidding me? I thought he was like 5'11 or 6 but fuck he's big..why is he on 180 msps and not 187?
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we all be small little pimp midgets!
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with a lower center of gravity, it is alot more easy for guys to spin and slide rails...it gives them better balance.
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center of gravity is relative. It's in about the same place in the body for tall and short people.
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well you see, i believe in equilibrium. there has to be some sort of balance in the universe. that having been said, smaller guys have bigger balls, whereas taller guys have smaller balls, thus preserving my theory of equilibrium.
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i agree we small guys rule
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i was going to say that exactly hah
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I'm 6'1".
I can never get enough rotation on my spins though...
Its probably more my fault for sucking than it is my height...
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maybe its just because you ski at a mountain with a lot of 10 year old park skiers
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i don't think there is ne thing different between a tall and short skier cept the ski size john spriggs 6'4'' threw the same switch 10 as everyone else dave chrition 6'2'' he is one of the sickest skiers ever
im 6'3'' and i can spin off jumps and rails and do everything plus some of wut my shorter friends can do
it's all good with height just as long as a 6 ft guy aint rocking ne thing smaller then a 180
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shortys just dont have ups and if you watch them hand railing they got a mogul air on to the rail
short people also cant play any other sports unless you want to horse race
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ill prove you wrong: I ski, play lacrosse, swim, and play soccer, tennis, karate tourneys, etc. I'm 5'5". So be quiet about how short people cant do shit. Cuz we can.
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you just said you didn't rule cuz you don't wear baggy clothes, i quit this
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u are also good at argueing over dumb shit on the internet. I guess ur just the man , u wana cookie.
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cuz short peeps is thuggin....im 16 and 5'2
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im 16 and 6,1. I think tall people can be thugin to, look at the olnicks. to bad msot comps dont make xxl clothes cuase we need it
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its so when you do a sweet back flip you dont hit your head on the jump
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no not you
what are you talking about?
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o wait i get what youre saying, no you dont suck, i was just responding to the guy that made this thread
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I hate being tall, whenever you do a trick it looks way smoother on a short person. You can see everything when I flail.
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^hahah yea, everyone in the NW wears massive clothes. come over to the Hood and see for yourself
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