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1st year freestylin

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ginty
Posts: 1073 - Karma: 163
i just started freestylin this year just wonderin where i should be? i can do boxs mad easy (can do like 1 switch up) 180's 360's( still kinda sketchy though)grabs, rails w/ like 1 kink still workin on th d-f-d. am i good for just startin?
Mar 21 2007 8:48PM
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philipc
Posts: 6651 - Karma: 1,286
dont worry about it
Mar 21 2007 8:49PM
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tjski
Posts: 5859 - Karma: 44
ya not too bad for starting off, just remember you dont want to be a parkrat.
Mar 21 2007 8:50PM
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ginty
Posts: 1073 - Karma: 163
na i was just wonderin if i im doin like what other ppl were doin their first year
Mar 21 2007 8:51PM
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ginty
Posts: 1073 - Karma: 163
i kno i love to hit the glades for 1/2 the day and just hit the rock n shit
Mar 21 2007 8:51PM
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*monsterskier*
Posts: 2671 - Karma: 61
hm. wow. that's a variety. lol. i mostly hit jumps. i like bein in da air.
Mar 21 2007 8:55PM
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Abes2009
Posts: 1144 - Karma: 58
whats wrong w/ parkrats
Mar 21 2007 8:55PM
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Colt45er
Posts: 1650 - Karma: 336
i can ski but were im from nothing is more fun
Mar 21 2007 8:56PM
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Bigwoods
Posts: 3116 - Karma: 76
honestly
Mar 21 2007 9:15PM
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Microcosm
Posts: 4765 - Karma: 153
That's more than me, but I barely spend time in the park unless I'm with friends.
Mar 21 2007 9:38PM
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.d.
Posts: 927 - Karma: 12
at my mountain the park is the only thing to do cuz the mt is so small, so i guess i am a park rat at my home mt.
Mar 21 2007 9:38PM
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49566738265
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just have fun. who cares what other people can do
Mar 21 2007 9:41PM
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MadSteezin
Posts: 4572 - Karma: 936
why would u care? ur just average...
Mar 21 2007 9:42PM
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Shpadoinkle
Posts: 10437 - Karma: 84
what's wrong with parkrats...hmmmmmmmm
how can you ride the same lift over and over again?
how can you do the same thing over and over again?
i personally need some new scenery.
Mar 21 2007 9:58PM
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ijibgoremtn
Posts: 4221 - Karma: 13
at some mtns that are huge like out west and even some mtns here in the east i can totally see where your coming from but my mountain is terrible and they suck at grooming the trails so i go to the park and hang there a lot, and if im not doing that im probably doing glades with cliffs but if i lived in like Whistler id prob be like 50/50 park/powder instead of the like 80/20 i am here
Mar 21 2007 10:09PM
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Albino
Posts: 1400 - Karma: 123
i understand ur frustration, but as the guy above sez, its easy for us at big hills with big terrain.

if i rode a little hill id totally be a park monkey.

as it is, thats why i can launch a 40footer, but cant do a switch up.
Mar 21 2007 10:14PM
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dr_phil
Posts: 1698 - Karma: 95
word to that
Mar 21 2007 10:17PM
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aronSKIP
Posts: 124 - Karma: 11
If you like Park. Ride park. If you like Pow. ride pow. And if you like both then ride both. Who gives a shit wat u ride and if you're a "park rat".

And for the actual topic of the thread this is my first year and i hit basically the same thing, +2 outs. It all depends on the steeze with which u stomp tricks.
Mar 21 2007 10:25PM
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Brimstone
Posts: 356 - Karma: 18
Don't worry about how you compare. As long as you're pushing yourself you should be fairly content.

About the whole park thing...
Before there were parks we would spend half the day just trying to find jumps. Now I don't have to, they build them for me, and better than anything we can find. Skiing groomers isn't much fun. Unless it's a pow day the park is where it's at.

Mar 21 2007 10:29PM
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Keenbo
Posts: 404 - Karma: 66
you should just quit and never ski again if you cant 7 yet... you suck and will most likely never be good.
Mar 21 2007 10:35PM
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WeK
Posts: 1894 - Karma: 11
My mountain is no good for anything but park. Considering the mountain itself the park is pretty decent. If I'm not doing park, there's only 1 other lift I can take to summit.

Today I think I took 1 run before I went park to warm up, then went park all day. Thinking it was my last run I went to the other lift for a summit run, went down some dumb path, skied over scattered rocks, and dodged bare road cause the run goes down a road. I don't really like the bumps, my favorites are glades, but far as I know my mountain doesn't even have a glade run.
Mar 21 2007 10:36PM
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WeK
Posts: 1894 - Karma: 11
oh and this is my first year too, i can pretty much same thing but i can sw3 on smaller hits, and i can 2off.
Mar 21 2007 10:39PM
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ajax
Posts: 2852 - Karma: 1,245
You sound fine for your first year.
Mar 21 2007 10:42PM
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mtbakerteacher
Posts: 4185 - Karma: 20
note: before you finish this season, land a sw 180 or sw-on to a box/rail so that you get the feeling
Mar 21 2007 10:46PM
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doublexl
Posts: 8407 - Karma: 27
my first year i got sw 10s and cork unatural 9s. i guess your good though.
Mar 21 2007 10:54PM
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tribefan226
Posts: 2122 - Karma: 209
thats about exactly where i just finished my first year except i couldnt grab 3s but i could do double kinks and go switch onto rails.
Mar 21 2007 11:07PM
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Shpadoinkle
Posts: 10437 - Karma: 84
true true
Mar 21 2007 11:10PM
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Abes2009
Posts: 1144 - Karma: 58
who cares if you ride the same lift and go down the same trail. its lame if you dont do shit, but i mix it up and always try new things and just throw myself and see what happens. also going inverted counts as new scenery in my book.
Mar 22 2007 5:53PM
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Dalonte
Posts: 367 - Karma: 28
it's a known fact that park rats can't hold their bladder they just piss themselves, especially the ones at Killington
Mar 22 2007 7:11PM
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Dalonte
Posts: 367 - Karma: 28
the whole park is fucking yellow, and the rails get iced over too
Mar 22 2007 7:12PM
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artfullydodged
Posts: 8358 - Karma: 1,674
yeah that's decent for first year 4sure
Mar 22 2007 8:43PM
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Shpadoinkle
Posts: 10437 - Karma: 84
chill
Mar 22 2007 9:58PM
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Kgallacher
Posts: 736 - Karma: 471
just keep pushing yoursleff
Mar 22 2007 10:58PM
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A@ron
Posts: 1320 - Karma: 86
dont worry about the tricks you do just try to be as stylish as you can but that kinda comes with time sooooooooo ya just have fun and ski hard
Mar 22 2007 10:59PM
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BoomSkier
Posts: 305 - Karma: 17
thats just about where i am, and this is too my first year and this weekend is the last weekend we're open for the year and i'm going for the iron man (9am-9pm) and try to get down 5's, 270's off, maybe onto boxes and such.
Mar 22 2007 11:36PM
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StReEtPIRATES
Posts: 1378 - Karma: 138
Thats also about where I am.Except I can cork my 3s and do really sketchy fives.
Mar 22 2007 11:46PM
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c-olin
Posts: 40 - Karma: 16
doin goood
Mar 23 2007 10:14AM
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EL_FINRE
Posts: 2486 - Karma: 52
youre doin just fine, just work on your sw shit before the end of the season and youll be good to go
Mar 23 2007 11:10AM
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jason.
Posts: 99 - Karma: 10
you cant hate on park rats, i live in minnesota and there is nothing but park so thats all i do. progressing in the park can and will help you everywere else on the mountain.
Mar 23 2007 12:08PM
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A@ron
Posts: 1320 - Karma: 86
how is skiing ice going to help ski the steep and deep?

its totally different it my enable a person to do some tricks in the backcounty but other than that skiing park doesnt really help u outside of the park

i could be wrong, thats just the way i see it.
Mar 23 2007 1:09PM
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Abes2009
Posts: 1144 - Karma: 58
???
Mar 23 2007 8:46PM
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TheWorst
Posts: 7883 - Karma: 17
i think you should quit.
Mar 24 2007 1:12AM
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