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Remember your first pair of skis ever?
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I was just in my ski closet in the basement putting away stuff from this season when i found my first pair of skis ever. Really tiny Sunny skis (white with neon pink) with old as hell salomon bindings and my name stamped near the tip of the ski. i got them when i was 6. it got me thinking about how much fun i had on those as a kid and the real reasons i love the sport. these days its so easy to get caught up in the new equipment, whats the new style, how can i make my spins look better etc. while all of those points are a part of progression sometimes its good to remember your roots and not take things so seriously. so anyway anyone else remember or still have their first skis?
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first pair i ever skied on: atomic spitfire (when i was 11), first pair i owned: rossignol 9s 205 cm when i was 16
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i had rad dog extremes. i dont remember who made them and i gave them away at a fundraiser for our fire department so i can't go look at them :(
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the first pair of new skis i ever got were "DINO-stars" they were like dynastars with a dinsaur on them they were sooo sick i was hot shit.
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rossingnol vipers i think they were called, such a fun ski, had them when i was like 4-8 and ya ur right its good to remember what started u, what made skiing a part of ur life. it was bombing around and doing spread eagles off mogals and hitting the little jumps and having fun, those were the good old days
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Me too! Best graphics I have ever seen, dinosaurs and bright colours.
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Hey, my first pair were dinostars also!!
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my first skis were some dynastars, only 6 years ago. they were my sisters old ones and she quit so i used them
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my frist pair of skis were these red plastic ones that had white straps so that you could strap you snow boots onto them...thats when i was like 2, then i got some real skis and got some hot pink rossis with white boots and white poles!!! i was 4 and it was 1988!!!
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hahaha yeah the 80s were great, my white and neon pink sunnys were from 1988, i dont even know what Sunny is
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I skied on old school straight skis until I was probably 13, when I got Rossignol Bandits. Those were so light and so fun just to screw around on.
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my first pair of skis where dynastar 4x4's. i thought they where sick cause they had flames on them.
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I first rented some weird Rossis. I can't remember what theyre called. I was 4.
Then I got some atomic GS race skis (the first pair I owned; I got em when I was like 9) and I still own them. I busted the tip off somehow and I have it all ducttaped/ghetto. I wanna rip around on them now cuz I reajusted the bindings to my boot size. Theyre like snowblades!
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I think I had those too. They were straight skis right? can't remember the graphics exactly but there was purple and pink i'm pretty sure.
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didn't they have paw prints on the bottom or something? i think i might have had a pair...
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i believe blizzard's but im not quite sure.
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mine were sweet as rossi's, with the rooster on the front. they were straight skis that were blue, with red and white writing on them. I think they were 1990's
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hahah i had some of those..but mine were yellow with black straps...when i was like 5. then i got my first real pair of skis, some blue atomics. now those are my moms and i got fujatives:)
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Nice!!
my first skis were rad dog extremes too, i got them at a garage sale.
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my first pair were white with green and blue Fischers. my first twin tips were there origional 1080s.
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yea, I had plastic skis at the age of 3
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I also had the plastic skis when I was 3 or 4... I went skiing behind my shed in my yard. Oh man I can remember it pretty well. Jeeze things have changed a lot around here.
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lets see... i started skiing when i was five...when i was seven i got rossi cut 130's still got them...i skied those til i was ten when i got k2 escapes 2500 160's, that was a big jump i think i was like 4'6 when i got the k2'... ive skied those thru this year. im getting eitherfujatives or ar5's next year.
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the further I remember was skis with mouse skiing on them....but it all started when I got the elan airtwist, my first twin...I kept those, theyre dead...but stillits nostalgy, when I did my first rail, it was considered THE shit, now every 9 year old can do them
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I know they were Rossi. not sure what model though. I dont think I knew skis had names back then
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oh shit! in between those, I got arc's too, red...the shittiest skis ever, loike 1000lbs, metal.
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the cheap plastic ones for learning and then i had some like 98 cm black rossignols then some rossie moguls then volkl legends then volkl expressions then trouble makers
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Head Cyber Carve X Or something like that
I was 13
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i had these bangin ass volkl's they were straight and single tipped in about 2001. and i was about 10 and i was like "hey what if i could ski backwards"? so i took my dank racing skis and i took a ski iron and tried to melt the back of the ski up into a twin tip. that didnt work so i tried to cut it into a tip shape but i just cut my hand really bad. i was a smart kid.
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