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PcSkIeR828
Posts: 64 - Karma: 28
ok so i go to the winter sports school in park city utah and there are alot more racers then there are freeriders and u can def tell the division between us wu are ur takes on ski racing? any stories?
May 11 2008 2:06AM
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Squirrel_Murphy
Posts: 2195 - Karma: 1,165

Racing is fun as hell.  Going super fast and making hard carves definetly can get the adrenaline going.  I raced for one year of high school and it really taught me to carve aggresively and how to transfer your weight and keep my weight forward etc.  I definetly owe a lot to racing, but I quit because the other people that were doing it were stuck up snobs that cared waaaaaay to much about it as if they were gonna be in the top 5 for states or some shit.  I had fun skiing, but not so much skiing with the rich little pricks who had their parents pay for every single little thing.  I was the kid that was riding used gear and didnt really care about what place I got.  I mean yeah I  was always in the top 15 but I would have rather been going off cliffs and hitting jumps and rails in the park, not trying to see if I can do run same course one tenth of a second faster.  I was more stoked on gettin air and learning rails, cuz of the FUN FACTOR.

May 14 2008 2:23PM
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SnowRidgeParks
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I used to race and I have no shame in saying that. I can thank racing for giving me a super solid background and the confidence/ability I need to ski the terrain that I like to ski. The point you raise is definitely an interesting one, with the noticeable division between the freeskiers and racers at your school. I used to love racing, it was super fun and I was pretty decent at it. The reason I got out, however, was because of the people involved. Not only was it the other racers, but the organizers, coaches, etc... They weren't people that I wanted to associate myself with for a number of reasons which I won't get started on because I'll rant for hours. I've always wondered what it would be like to go to a school for freestyle, but the thought never crossed my mind for racing. In closing, racing is fun and deserves a ton of respect. Racers themselves (for the most part) are douche bags and don't deserve the credit that they receive.
May 14 2008 6:17PM
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Squirrel_Murphy
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HAHAHA I just saw that movie for the first time not too long ago.  GREAT ASSOCIATION!    +10 karma
May 14 2008 6:26PM
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mellifluous
Posts: 1682 - Karma: 68
true dat.
May 14 2008 7:29PM
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BMskier
Posts: 3363 - Karma: 365
racing is a g sport. when there is a racer in the family the whole family starts to become thugs...look a bode miller...his cousin shot a cop and hes just a straight g.
May 14 2008 10:35PM
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ghosfacekilla
Posts: 533 - Karma: 72
I raced for a couple of years and man it takes skill and focus. For me i quit cuz its super repetitive and i cant take that but my bro races on the FIS circut and he trains like 10 day a year.
May 14 2008 11:38PM
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C.J.
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I dont know where all these, "kids who cant ski and just do park" are. Everyone I see around here skis just fine and shreds the park and pow.  LOTS of boarders who do that, but no skiers.
May 15 2008 1:27PM
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Scott~
Posts: 2551 - Karma: 49
That statement is over-generalized, but it has a lot of truth to it~
May 15 2008 4:12PM
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rj.
Posts: 3323 - Karma: 28
so many present day pros began with racing
May 15 2008 5:26PM
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dugger.
Posts: 227 - Karma: 309
racers are gay because they think they can just go in to te park and get in every bodys fucking way
May 15 2008 5:30PM
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i.ski.troll.
Posts: 4692 - Karma: 247
i respect them that it takes so much conditioning for it, but i fuckin hate the vibe they give off!  they think there all that.  and when they come in the park they dont have any style at all. grrrr
sorry if i offended any of you but im not a fan of it
May 15 2008 5:36PM
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MEGAZORD
Posts: 4531 - Karma: -7
The retard is high in this post.
May 15 2008 6:54PM
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danbrown
Posts: 11939 - Karma: 21,826
I'm 20, I've been skiing pretty much my whole life. At this point in time I wish I could've raced so bad, given the base and fundamentals it provides you. I'm a pretty damn good skier but I feel like if I raced a couple years of my life I would be significantly better. I'd start racing now mostly for fun if it wasn't so fucking expensive though
May 15 2008 7:45PM
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titsLOL
Posts: 7485 - Karma: 396
racing definitely makes you a solid skier and is real fuckin hard to be good at.
May 15 2008 7:48PM
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poiuytrewq
Posts: 216 - Karma: 7
i'm primarily a racer, and just started messing around in the park this year.  The freeskiing/park community is so much nicer.  There is always the feeling of "I'm better than you" while racing.  In the park, its mostly everyone helping eachother and giving eachother tips.  I also don't know of any racing site as cool as this or any racing movie that is longer than 10 minutes that I could watch.
May 15 2008 8:36PM
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tBatt
Posts: 9632 - Karma: 580
hahah wordd.

im racing for my school next year and senior year, i used to be all anti racers but now i dont really give a shit, except my mountain caters to them.

they give them almost all the money they make, the trail they race on basically gets closed if a racer decided they want to ski on it, they have speakers down the whole trail, and it would be the best trail on the mtn for a park.

so other than them being obnoxious/gaper in the park and stealing our trails, their not bad.
May 15 2008 9:27PM
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chazz.
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word! ive been racing 3 years and in freestyle for like 1, maybe 1 1/2 years, kids who freestyle for the love of the sport are usually so much more chill than fellow racers.
May 15 2008 11:16PM
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