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Your first "i-am-a-skier"-moment?

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feihlination
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basically, title says it all. what was the first second that you thought by yourself "hey man, youre kinda good/good enough to call yourself a real skier"?

for me it was 2/3 years ago when i first landed a 5. a 5 always had been this trick for me, idk, just the first of the "serious" freeski tricks.

and two days ago, i rode out a cork 7 cleanly (in the words of 2009: i afterbanged the shit out of it), which again gave me a feeling of just having entered another exclusive club...

Mar 16 2009 11:51AM
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rc21tj
Posts: 115 - Karma: 15
my first k fed and pretzel on an urban rail in my park were monumental but i first felt like a was a skier after i did my first legit urban rail
Mar 16 2009 5:38PM
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looneygeorge
Posts: 633 - Karma: 14
I've been skiing since I was five. I guess when I was that young I just considered just standing on two planks to be 'a real skier'
Mar 16 2009 5:42PM
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skiercam
Posts: 48 - Karma: 10

last year i used to snow board and i never wanted to go but this year i decided to ski and i went like 4 times a week all seoson and it never got old

Mar 16 2009 6:17PM
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Smilemon
Posts: 421 - Karma: 43
I've always been a skier. I don't think I've ever been considered bad, when your 5 no one cares, and I learned to parallel turn by the time I was 7 or so. I've always been able to ski at a fairly competent level for my age.
I felt pretty good about myself this week, I went skiing seven days. Telemarked for one of them, and rode my board for two. I can ride anything you throw at me, with the exception of a mono ski...
Mar 16 2009 6:17PM
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Treestman
Posts: 3049 - Karma: 300
since when do you have to be "good" to call yourself a skier?
fuck this thread.

ive been a skier since i first put on skis.

seriously, youvw got some problems if you cant call yourself a skier until youve reahced a certain benchmark of trickery.
Mar 16 2009 6:22PM
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DirtYStylE
Posts: 3652 - Karma: 8,888
when i stomped a 5 landed a 270 on and off
all in the same day
Mar 16 2009 6:47PM
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jsaya_SagStraps
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I think the first time you start trying to get as many days in as possible makes you a real skier. I think I felt this at like 7ish.
Mar 16 2009 6:47PM
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Shlogan
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when i tryed a back for the fist time for sure. or in the last month when i started getting good with jibs. or at least desent
Mar 16 2009 6:55PM
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John_Hoeplinger
Posts: 634 - Karma: 19
When I started doing my own tune ups
Mar 16 2009 7:00PM
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Gnarwall
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When I started skiing harder then the kid who introduced me to it, lol.
Mar 16 2009 7:01PM
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wasatch_rat
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ive had a couple. my first one was when i raced and i just did a run so perfect i suprised myself. next was my first 5, then my first backflip.
Mar 16 2009 7:02PM
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Slinger1x1
Posts: 8853 - Karma: 66
that

and when i could legitimatly rip groomers with complete control and have a ton of confidence in myself. also when all i wanted to do was ski BC lines in knee deep pow, and that all i thought about/watched in my free time
Mar 16 2009 7:19PM
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Mrvic.
Posts: 1033 - Karma: 154
once i knew what afterbang was i felt enlightened
Mar 16 2009 7:23PM
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Peter.
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1st day on skis
Mar 16 2009 8:09PM
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Crack.
Posts: 6020 - Karma: 84
when I rolled up to the mountain and said "this is where I belong", cheesy I know.
Mar 16 2009 8:10PM
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HamFaceGirl
Posts: 5242 - Karma: 2,676
when i bought my first tall  tee and put a NS sticker on my helmet i thought i was pro
Mar 16 2009 8:13PM
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AlexGaynor
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1) when my family developed a leaving the mountain plan that involved me, and only me skiing until lifts closed, and then skiing to the car.(we lived on the mountain.)

2) When i skied all day everyday by myself adventuring every single little stash of my mountain. I think i know as much as anyone.

3) This year when i discovered NS, and realized I instantly lost 3 hours out of everyday, that i used to have as spare time.
Mar 16 2009 8:34PM
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Shredneck
Posts: 2051 - Karma: -32
When I got the -I AM A SKIER- T-shirt lol
Mar 16 2009 9:25PM
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Smuffy
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when my dad joined ski patrol and i started getting free season passes. thats when i really think i started skiing. i guess i can mark that because thats when i first made friends solely through skiing, not school or something else.
Mar 16 2009 9:34PM
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simmers
Posts: 1004 - Karma: 397

Hyphy Spring Break 2009 Edit from Henrik Lampert on Vimeo.
Mar 16 2009 9:35PM
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Smuffy
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^bump much?
Mar 16 2009 9:37PM
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hanklambo
Posts: 6422 - Karma: 233

Hyphy Spring Break 2009 Edit from Henrik Lampert on Vimeo.
Mar 16 2009 10:01PM
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Balto
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hmmmm i'd have to say my salomon sponsorship a few years back. it was for racing mind you....
Mar 16 2009 10:26PM
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TheMoostafian
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exactly

hah i still suck in the park but i can probably ride anything outside the park a lot better than my friends that kill it in the park
Mar 16 2009 11:39PM
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~~JEFF~~
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werd to ya mutha.
Mar 16 2009 11:43PM
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Delphi
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My first I am a skier moment was when I was like, 5. I did a mute grab off a jump and knuckled the shit out of it. I was stokedddd. Then when I was 8 I skied Tuckerman ravine and my grandfather was so proud that he bought me new skis! I've been shredding the big stuff since.
Mar 16 2009 11:57PM
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Funnel
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When I dropped a 20-25 fot cliff and rode away like it was nothing, one of my best landings ever off a drop.
Mar 17 2009 12:17AM
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MistahSmith
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i defiantly think you can call your self a skier when you learn corks and start hitting up hand rails. it opens so much for the rest of your game, esspecially rails if you can start to slay rails with ease you can get your career jump started, then just work on jumps
Mar 17 2009 12:20AM
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Malarky
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My first true, I am a skier moment was last year when I sent a 40-ft corness. I didn't stomp it, I made a huge hot tub, rolled once. Then stood up with all my gear still in tact thinking "FUCK YEAH!"
Mar 17 2009 12:47AM
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TRSkier415
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I think the first time I would call myself a good skier (not amazing, awesome, or unbelieveable, but good) would be when I landed my first cork 7. Ever since I started skiing park, I told myself that I could never consider myself a good skier until I got corked 7s being that I grew up watching all these kids in Telluride throwing them (among other spins). I think that now, looking back on it, my goal should've been a little different, such as rodeo 7s or sw. corks, but nevertheless it was a goal that helped my direct my progression and has helped me reach the level I am at now. And for that, I'm super stoked.
Mar 17 2009 1:20AM
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Goglines
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i know i'm a skiier because i live for that moment when everything is perfect, you're in that one point in time where there is nothing else around you but yourself and the snow. no problems, no people, no outside distractions. that moment that you don't have to worry about what's right because it just is and the feeling you get when you did what you came to do with perfect execution, whether it be ride away from something new or get to the bottom of the mountain.

it shouldnt be about what you do to make you a skiier, it should be how it affects you.
Mar 17 2009 1:55AM
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prontocuts.com
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When I started to actually fall in love with skiing instead of being pissed off at how hard some runs are and trying to manage my way down them.
Mar 17 2009 1:59AM
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jibbinc
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when i stomped my first three of a step up after trying for 4 days straight.
then again when i stomped it off the 45" step down at my mountain.


Mar 17 2009 2:03AM
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sick-as-aids
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word, i know 14 year olds that spin 1440s, then hit the pow, ride back seat and cant turn..... i say someone can consider thereselves a "skier" when they feel like they are at all level that they think they can pursue being a skier further from.... with that said, i started to call myself a skier when i filmed for a snowsports tv program
Mar 17 2009 2:39AM
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Austeeze
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when i first clicked in
Mar 17 2009 7:34AM
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WeK
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at each of the particular moments:
stomping first 270 out
hitting the d-f-d and urban single barrel

Mar 17 2009 9:02AM
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1tenthmoney
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it came @ th end of this season wen i took a 20" stepdown and afterbangd th shit out of a rightside cork 9
Mar 17 2009 9:30AM
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OhMyBosh
Posts: 5056 - Karma: 171
this thread = fail



you dont need to be good or land cetain tricks to be a skiier.

you either have it inside you or you dont. you know if youre a skiier no matter what.
Mar 17 2009 9:53AM
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garygohard
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i came in 1st overall in a comp
Mar 17 2009 11:15AM
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hanklambo
Posts: 6422 - Karma: 233

Hyphy Spring Break 2009 Edit from Henrik Lampert on Vimeo.
Mar 17 2009 12:38PM
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Steezius_Maximus
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when i landed my first front 2 weeks ago...
Mar 17 2009 12:46PM
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Moostafa
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i know that feeling too well hahah
Mar 17 2009 1:47PM
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Bamski
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After being talked in to trying snowboarding when I was 11. I learned my lesson very quickly and stuck with skiing.

A close second is my first real back country experience I had two seasons ago. I finally got to experience hucking in to bottomless pow.
Mar 17 2009 1:55PM
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jamiebrowne
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when i popped outta tha womb mo' fucka!
Mar 17 2009 4:50PM
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holyDINOSAURS
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did you jusst say lolz?
Mar 17 2009 5:25PM
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Drummy_skis
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prolly when i did a creek gap it was prolly 30ft and i land i was thought to my self well damn i love this feeling that i can do what i want and im not scared of it.... so i just went non stop sense then and just hitting hand rails and just random shit then goin to big mountain and wat not just an awsome feeling i coulnd tget ne where else...but i havent got my self in to inverted trick... i did a lincon loop.... so i am scared of breaking my neck :\... 270s on and off was a good achivement for me as well....

but god damn do i love this sport

Mar 17 2009 5:42PM
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Turner.
Posts: 1987 - Karma: 11,892

hiking/hucking into superbowl at K-horse.

rad moment.

Mar 17 2009 5:48PM
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OGHolliday
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Comimg from tiny ass Butternut in Massachusetts to Copper and still tearing it up.
Mar 17 2009 6:00PM
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tbayjibber
Posts: 326 - Karma: 62
I've always been a skier but the first time i realized that i couldn't live without it was recently when i realized that i might go crazy this summer without skiing
Mar 17 2009 6:16PM
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g.rich
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jeez butternut must be tiny cuz i live in MA and have never even heard of it haha
Mar 17 2009 6:23PM
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