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DO SOME REAL SKIING ON REAL MOUNTAINS!!!!!
But seriously, do. The better skier you are outside the park, the better your park riding will become.
DON'T BE A SPECTATOR
Skiing with people better than you helps sometimes but it can also hurt. A lot of people just follow around the best people at the mountain and they get into a routine of spectating rather than attempting shit on their own. Then they start hitting the features and trying the tricks they can't do yet that the other person can do. But then you miss out on hitting all the features that pushes your skill set and focusing on harder tricks that aren't being done all the time but are a personal improvement for you. Yea a 900 is cool but maybe a 5 with a difficult grab you've never done before is going to help develop you more.
YOU ONLY GET A FEW CHANCES
Practice, practice, practice doesn't mean shit. I have tried tricks 20+ times and couldn't get them. You can hike and hike and hike but eventually your gunna get worn out and your gunna end up teaching your muscle memory the same bad form over and over again. When you try a trick, you need to have FOCUS and actually plan on doing it correctly and landing it the first time. If you can't get it in a few tries, don't just keep doing the same wrong thing. Realize that your doing something wrong and fix it. If you can't, move on to something else and get back to it later. People never seem to realize that if you can land an amazing trick 1/100 times your not as good as the guy whose constantly doing good tricks and landing them. Consistency is a hugely underrated factor in being a good skier.
FEARLESSNESS VS SKILL
So many people think that if they just had the balls, they'd be a great skier. What you really need is the balls and the skill to back it up. The way progression works is that you take baby steps so nothing is that much more scary then before. The reason people can get good is because they progress at the right times and have the confidence to move forward. If you can land switch 5s pretty easily then its time to step it up to a switch 7. Yea there's some scary moments - your first backflip should be terriying (but their so damn easy) but for the most part you need to learn to take baby steps.
REPETITION
I know I said the practice, practice, practice model doesn't work. But that's only for a trick you can't get. Once you land something you need to hike back up and do it again. Do it 5 more times. Do it every lap. You learned something now put it into your muscle memory. Nothing is worse for you that finally getting a trick and not trying it again, your taking a step forward and a step backward. The best skiers always do a new trick at least a few times to get it down.
OFF MOUNTAIN
Rollerblading, trampolines, skateboarding, running, biking, eating healthy etc. any sort of fitness or physical activity especially those that involve balance or similar motions (rolloerblading) has to help so much. Peope forget that skiing is a sport. Also we are forced to take months off at a time, so if you can crosstrain in the off season, that has to help your skiing so much.
DISCLAIMER
I suck at skiing.
