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mrmarks
Posts: 393 - Karma: 143
... salomon came out with the "first mass produced shovel-back ski" 11 years ago in '98??

Just watched the IF3 recap from last year and was thinking about the 10yr. anniversary party for the 1080 and what that started...

i was 20, in college, skiing sugarloaf when twintips came out. they actually had gap jumps in their park that year, i believe... like, small, but you actually had to make the landing.

most of you were probably in elementary school, but...
Jun 9 2009 11:54AM
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summersover
Posts: 5777 - Karma: 233
i was seven haha probably just starting to carve up the black diamonds
Jun 9 2009 11:56AM
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nickyp
Posts: 5673 - Karma: 215
I was still on race skis, lapping slalom courses :( Bad times.
Jun 9 2009 11:57AM
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Nicholas.
Posts: 10905 - Karma: 60
i was 8, jus fuckin killin it.
Jun 9 2009 12:00PM
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quixotic
Posts: 6937 - Karma: 2,978
I was 9 and had been skiing 2 times in my life at that point.
Jun 9 2009 12:07PM
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deleted5
Posts: 14507 - Karma: 13,507
I was 6 on the thuder rige race team
Jun 9 2009 12:08PM
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GreenHorn
Posts: 4896 - Karma: 1,209
i was 4 and eating big macs
Jun 9 2009 12:26PM
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luc
Posts: 1000 - Karma: 607
i was 12, my only year on snowblades :P damn FAIL
Jun 9 2009 12:27PM
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Moses
Posts: 1849 - Karma: 564
either in grade 5 or 6, skiing every Saturday and practicing the daffy
Jun 9 2009 12:29PM
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Aaaron.
Posts: 11817 - Karma: 903
i was 6.
living in Ventura County
boogie boarding my heart out.  just about learning how to surf
probably had only seen snow once or twice.
Jun 9 2009 12:29PM
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Casey
Posts: 7849 - Karma: 24,317
I was in 8th grade, everyone thought skiing was gay. Me and my buddy were getting inspiration from FREEZE and Moseley to start grabbing our skis. Our mountain had a tiny ass park, I think technically snowboarders only, but the enforcement was about as regularly as the maintainence (completely non-existent). We didn't think you needed twin tips to ride switch, you just gotta lean foward. Then Freeskier dropped, and JF Cusson, JP  Auclair, Mike Douglas, Vinnie Dorian were all doing the most gnarly shit on 1080's that I had ever seen. It changed my life. I started doing Japans, and Huntony's, I still didnt' think that doing rails was "skiing." I demoed a pair of 1080's at Hood that summer and learned how to 360 in the public park.
Jun 9 2009 12:39PM
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GreenHorn
Posts: 4896 - Karma: 1,209
at my school, everyone still thinks skiing is gay.
Jun 9 2009 12:43PM
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TotallyTrevor
Posts: 4379 - Karma: 26,364
thats an epic tale

i was 7 and just skiing urrday in wisconsin
Jun 9 2009 12:44PM
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grapesoda
Posts: 999 - Karma: 31
i was ten years old and enjoying a nice plate of freshly sliced cheese.
Jun 9 2009 12:44PM
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Steezy_E
Posts: 537 - Karma: 648
8 years old rockin out snow blades and got a pair of  720s the next year and was hooked like crack
Jun 9 2009 12:49PM
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I_Am_Mod
Posts: 13214 - Karma: 3,753
i was 8, 3rd year skiing, this year my dad took me to some shoulderdeep powder (hence i was 8) and i loved it alltough my dad had to tow me through :D
Jun 9 2009 12:50PM
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dave44
Posts: 11052 - Karma: 113
I was 5... just started skiing then.
Jun 9 2009 1:04PM
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Blandct
Posts: 1858 - Karma: 37
ten and doing 360s off the most righteous side booters
Jun 9 2009 1:28PM
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hurrisun
Posts: 6284 - Karma: 49
word
Jun 9 2009 1:35PM
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no_steeze
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i was 6 and had already been skiing for 4 years /CLAIM

i actually had a pair of the first salomon twins, i rented them in switzerland when i was like 8 and i hated them so much haha, i was used to race skis and they didn't carve how i liked
Jun 9 2009 1:37PM
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blackoutbill
Posts: 2918 - Karma: 282
I was 5 and had never been skiing before
Jun 9 2009 1:37PM
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cool.
Posts: 3457 - Karma: 1,724
i was 5 and shredding everything i saw
Jun 9 2009 1:38PM
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jibbinc
Posts: 804 - Karma: 33
i was 4 starped on a harness to my moms back being pulled down hills.
Jun 9 2009 1:40PM
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...WIBBS...
Posts: 77 - Karma: 30

I was 11 and killin' it on blades...!
Jun 9 2009 1:40PM
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Celone
Posts: 1998 - Karma: 114
I was six and broke my femur skiing that year.  Not my best season of all time.
Jun 9 2009 2:48PM
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MayorWest
Posts: 1596 - Karma: 160
i was 10. not skiing and never had skied
probably building a fort of some sort with my homies
Jun 9 2009 2:50PM
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Chronic_
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i was 5 still shreddin on rentals and gaper tuckin
Jun 9 2009 2:52PM
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Midwestjibski
Posts: 1676 - Karma: 77

I was 4 and probably didn't know what skiing was yet. I went for the first time when I was like 10.

Jun 9 2009 3:20PM
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Balto
Posts: 25985 - Karma: 4,404
i was 5 and was falling in love with skiing
Jun 9 2009 3:24PM
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Malcolm
Posts: 15951 - Karma: 9,451
i was 6 and went skiing once a year with my mom
Jun 9 2009 3:39PM
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_CC_
Posts: 3890 - Karma: 747
i was six and falling in love with skiing.  with my dad pushing me down GS courses haha
Jun 9 2009 3:39PM
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james44
Posts: 3323 - Karma: 578
i wouldve been 7 and learning how to not turn at all the entire way down the hill so i could beat my friends in races
Jun 9 2009 3:40PM
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knal
Posts: 505 - Karma: 43
i was 8, fresh outa the caribbean no clue what the hell america was about
Jun 9 2009 3:44PM
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*TURBONERD*
Posts: 15081 - Karma: 9,158
i was four, livin in slc. sadly i didn't ski much, though i'm told i went to alta a few times. i wish i still lived there...
Jun 9 2009 5:51PM
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jblaski
Posts: 5566 - Karma: 1,078
I was 14, and still had another 4 years before I was even involved in snowsports. And I got into snowboarding, not skiing. I didn't even realize there were twin tip skis for my first 2 years. (I learned to snowboard in NW Wisconsin on a hill with 13 runs)
Jun 9 2009 5:54PM
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sick-as-aids
Posts: 3453 - Karma: 1,007
i was 8.... chilling out with my gaper steez shredding the mountain finding little jumps to get 3 feet of air off! pimp
Jun 9 2009 5:59PM
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*steeze_is_good
Posts: 2886 - Karma: 721
Was in kindergarten, still in a car seat, yeah..
Jun 9 2009 6:12PM
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danbrown
Posts: 11939 - Karma: 21,826
That makes two of us
Jun 9 2009 6:20PM
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rj.
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i was slaying the loaf as well in 98 ;)
Jun 9 2009 6:25PM
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suckmyjagon
Posts: 142 - Karma: 22

I will never forget being at greek peak watching JF throw that switch 7 in the X Games.  Shit was mindblowing to me.

Jun 9 2009 6:48PM
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sklermang
Posts: 2981 - Karma: 1,954
i was 6, probably picking my nose and doing the rope tow
Jun 9 2009 6:50PM
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Jamie_Baril
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i was 5. still in buddy warner.

haha. i am just waiting to hear the first person to say that they werent born yet.

Jun 9 2009 6:59PM
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dweezileast
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i was 11 and wouldn't step foot in a terrain park for at least 4 more years
Jun 9 2009 7:00PM
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sirskizalot
Posts: 4370 - Karma: 161
I was 5 practicin my pizza and learnin to french fry.
Jun 9 2009 7:12PM
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SirFryanator
Posts: 11149 - Karma: 1,415
I was 7 years old, racing for my first year that year, first time on the west coast as well. I skied Sterling Forest, NY before that. Didn't know what twintips were until I was 9 and I didn't get my first pair until I was 14 (still raced until I was 13 and had a pair of directional twins that year).
Jun 9 2009 7:16PM
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HangThePope
Posts: 749 - Karma: 19
I was 6 and had only skied once in my life
Jun 9 2009 8:18PM
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Luc.
Posts: 7540 - Karma: 59
i was 8 so whats that like the 2nd or 3rd grade?

problllyyyyyy....playin alot of dodgeball, working on my pokemon army, and or course...skiing!
Jun 9 2009 8:29PM
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.SimonB.
Posts: 1959 - Karma: 713
i was 6 and i almost went skiing with my neighbors family, but then her mom had a heart-attack and we didn't go. :(

And i didn't ski till the year later.
Jun 9 2009 9:01PM
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.peter
Posts: 1222 - Karma: 63
I was like 11 wishing I had a pair of ski-blades since those were the shit
if you ere 11 at the time... also learning how to snowboard when I saw two
guys throwing misty 9's in the park at BROMLEY!

I stuck with skiing, didn't get ski blades, and got a pair of the old Dynastar Troublemakers
when those kame out a few years later.
Jun 9 2009 9:56PM
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wintersway
Posts: 5115 - Karma: 128
probably scraping snow off my rad dog's onto snowboarders below the lift. i think it was my first year up to an actual resort (i was 7)
Jun 9 2009 10:06PM
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