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Most progression you've seen or done in One Year

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CoFreeskier369
Posts: 43 - Karma: 10
Just wondering if you have a friend that caught on fast or you had a sick year when you learned tons of new trick just wondering where you started and where you finished at the end of the year... From a 360 to a switch 5, just anything lets hear it...
Feb 12 2007 2:49PM
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forfun
Posts: 4916 - Karma: 66
At the beginning of last season my friend could do 5s, at the end he could do switch 10s and pretty much is better than any other skier now at Mt. Hood
Feb 12 2007 2:54PM
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CoFreeskier369
Posts: 43 - Karma: 10
damn thats crazy..
Feb 12 2007 2:57PM
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FigmentFilmski
Posts: 1639 - Karma: 266
my friend just started and can do any spin up to 7 with grabs and can do 450's off of rails and stuff. he can do switch spins up to 5 both ways, he's ill
Feb 12 2007 2:58PM
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hawaiiansteeze
Posts: 3255 - Karma: 3,226
last year i could barely do boxes or a 1 it was my first year, now im working on 5's and im pretty good at rails
Feb 12 2007 2:59PM
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Alkyy
Posts: 2839 - Karma: 149

at the begining of last year a friend couldnt land 3s or slide a rail to save his life, now he can pretzel and do most things on rails, cork 7s and almost any grab with any spin switch regular or right side upto 7's

Feb 12 2007 3:22PM
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skierlun
Posts: 87 - Karma: 41
at the begining of this year i could do double twister now i can do triples
Feb 12 2007 3:24PM
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shrEddie
Posts: 5117 - Karma: 65

in one day last year i went from 180's to 540's

Feb 12 2007 5:32PM
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CoachG
Posts: 2546 - Karma: 448
last year i was a fagget snowblader, this year im a twintipper and can do everything i could do on snowblades and more. Thank god i stopped that shit.
Feb 12 2007 5:34PM
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CoFreeskier369
Posts: 43 - Karma: 10
I think its talent but also your local mountain. if you ride a keystone or breck everyday then you have the rails and jumps to push yourself...
Feb 12 2007 5:34PM
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scientist
Posts: 6920 - Karma: 348
uhh well in one season i went from learning how to ski, no rpior snowboarding or anything to corked 5 and backflips mid season. I'm a claimer.
Feb 12 2007 5:49PM
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norbastradamus
Posts: 358 - Karma: 11
shit you guys progress crazy, hopefully i can get to a 5 by the end of this season
Feb 12 2007 5:52PM
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Ceru
Posts: 1879 - Karma: 101
i couldnt even do a 180 last year, and this year so far i can 360, slide rails, and do a backflip. sick shit
Feb 12 2007 5:55PM
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fcspiteri
Posts: 65 - Karma: 14
i used to only be able to do daffys and spreads but now i can do a daffy-twister-spread all in one jump!!
Feb 12 2007 5:56PM
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MRICK28
Posts: 388 - Karma: 13
i learned to 360 540 and switch 1 and 3 in one day and my friend in skate boarding could air out of a 16 foot vert ramp in his 3rd week of skate boarding
Feb 12 2007 6:02PM
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Getter
Posts: 467 - Karma: 11
I went from pizza wedge to kangaroo flip in a week
Feb 12 2007 6:05PM
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watchmefall15
Posts: 1902 - Karma: 11
hopefully i will get cork nine or switch 7 by the end of the year. at the beginnign of the season i could 5
Feb 12 2007 6:17PM
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snowboardkid21
Posts: 182 - Karma: 10
i did all this in one week i learnd all this. 180,360,540,720 well sorta 720
Feb 12 2007 6:19PM
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HeathR
Posts: 4359 - Karma: 1,382
damn!!! props on that you must have pushed really hard to improve that much.
Feb 12 2007 6:20PM
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Thomson.
Posts: 4634 - Karma: 227
Kaya Turski wins the quicket progression award...  The only person that become a pro the same year they start skiing...
Feb 12 2007 6:34PM
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Holte
Posts: 10740 - Karma: 7,816
probably when I was 3 or 4. Went from being able to stand on skis to being able to ride blue runs. It's hard stuff.
Feb 12 2007 6:37PM
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cooper861
Posts: 62 - Karma: 13
i could only slide rails and boxes and do a 5
now i can 270 rail and boxes, 450 on to boxes(got the rotation but havent stuck it yet) switch up backside and opposite, 270 out both ways and cab 3 and 7 and bio 270 haha still gotta work on that lookin for a 5 or 7 with that
Feb 12 2007 6:37PM
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mariob
Posts: 1036 - Karma: 36
i started two years ago i learned a 3, 5, backflip all one year
Feb 12 2007 6:49PM
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Trashpuppet
Posts: 529 - Karma: 123
last year i could only do a 540 as my biggest trick... i learned sw 5s, 1080s, and a corked 7s by the end of it...

and last year i could only slide a rail and ive got so many tech stuff on rails...

just ski a whole lot and try new stuff... and if u cant learn a certain trick keep trying but different ways to do it...
Feb 12 2007 6:50PM
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CMF
Posts: 1918 - Karma: 16
is it scott rowley?
Feb 12 2007 6:50PM
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Sholte
Posts: 2929 - Karma: 12
haha
Feb 12 2007 6:54PM
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Canuker
Posts: 4730 - Karma: 165
griffin, griffin, griffin(sigh)
Feb 12 2007 8:25PM
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Canuker
Posts: 4730 - Karma: 165
^^ wow you guys are super progressive i wonder if half of itd true??

well ive been skiing 5 times and ive gone frome learning how to ski to 180's, and boxes. Im trying a saftey grab and a 360 next time i head out.hopefully it works out well
Feb 12 2007 8:27PM
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snowboardkid21
Posts: 182 - Karma: 10
brian brian brian... fuck you bitch
Feb 12 2007 8:27PM
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Canuker
Posts: 4730 - Karma: 165
^^ your just mad cuz i fuked laura
Feb 12 2007 8:28PM
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MadSteezin
Posts: 4572 - Karma: 936
Kanja Turski or w/e went pro after only one year of ever skiing. now thts progression
Feb 12 2007 8:32PM
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steezyjibber
Posts: 15967 - Karma: 11,026
almost 7 from a 3
Feb 12 2007 8:39PM
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InitialG
Posts: 1505 - Karma: 14
I went from never riding skis (but was an expert boarder) to doing rails midway through january, haven't got into spinning yet beyond 180's since the small jumpline at keystone blows and I don't wanna experiment on the bigger jumps haha.

kaya turski has to have the fastest progression though, noob to pro in a year.
Feb 12 2007 8:46PM
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49566738265
Posts: 0 - Karma: 7,704
last year I learned how to ski switch, barely. this year i am practicing threes and i did some 5's by accident. i'm getting really comfortable on rails and boxes of all sorts as well.
Feb 12 2007 8:50PM
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zeus
Posts: 38 - Karma: 10
its kaya, and not to hate cus she kills it but its easier for a girl to turn pro and she was already a really good rollerblader
Feb 12 2007 8:51PM
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seider
Posts: 958 - Karma: 23
last year was my first year and i did 3s, 270 off rails, sw 1,3,5, and i think thats it
Feb 12 2007 8:51PM
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Schoening
Posts: 14332 - Karma: 1,268
i rode with him this summer at hood. kid kills it
Feb 12 2007 8:55PM
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skier24
Posts: 1216 - Karma: 11
this past saturday i went from being able to do a 3 to a 5 and 7 and switch 1 and backside 1 and 3.
in one day.

the beginning of the season all i could do was 180. now i can 720. and im going to work on sw 3s and 5s
Feb 12 2007 10:44PM
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Tha_Grouch
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 14
I saw some kid 2 years ago.. who went from just sliding rails.. maybe 270 boxes.. in 2 hours learn 270 on/off rails both ways. Switch ups both ways, and 450 on rails.. same with boxes.

I was appaled. My progression is at a snails pace.
Feb 12 2007 10:57PM
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CoFreeskier369
Posts: 43 - Karma: 10
It's all in the park you ride how quick you can learn new tricks.... And the people you ride with...
Feb 13 2007 1:34PM
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switched
Posts: 417 - Karma: 10
so true.
Feb 13 2007 1:52PM
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-justice-
Posts: 1808 - Karma: 37
in the course of last year i went from starting skiing again (knowing nothing) to 5's and fails.
Feb 13 2007 2:38PM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
not even two months ago my friend started skiing.

he can already slide almost every rail in the park, do 360s and 180s, and last week he started doing 540s in the pipe.
Feb 13 2007 2:51PM
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pales
Posts: 1125 - Karma: 25
my brother went from doing 180s on rollers to 720s on 20 footers in one weekend. he just never bothered trying before
Feb 13 2007 2:53PM
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freeskier2424
Posts: 178 - Karma: 11
i went from never skiing before last february, to my first twin tips this season. i can hit long rails, c boxes, ski entire runs switch, 1s and 3s with grabs. i'm loving skiing right now
Feb 13 2007 2:56PM
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tribefan226
Posts: 2122 - Karma: 209
this is my 1st year. so far i can get 1s, switch 1s and 3s about half of the time. as far as rails go i can do duoble kinks and hit some easier rails and boxes switch. hopin to get 5s by the end of the season
Feb 13 2007 3:26PM
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quixotic
Posts: 6937 - Karma: 2,978
Last year was my first year on twins, Now I can spin 7's and switch 3's. 2 out of rails and stuff. I love skiing and I wouldn't be where i'm at if it wasn't for the people I ride with to push me.
Feb 13 2007 3:35PM
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DDrem.
Posts: 3552 - Karma: 24
jake covert (a friend of mine who doesnt care for pizza)
1st day skiing- learned to ride
2nd day skiing- landed 3's and rails
Feb 13 2007 4:01PM
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SnowMedic
Posts: 2132 - Karma: 25
my friend could barley slide rails at the start of last year and at the end of the year he was doing rodeo 5's
Feb 13 2007 4:03PM
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bondi011
Posts: 135 - Karma: 10
one day i could just hit jumps and air it out


then the second day i could do spread eagles...its pretty steezy
Feb 13 2007 4:15PM
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LostValleyPowMan
Posts: 820 - Karma: 17
me too
Feb 13 2007 4:17PM
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