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Hey,

so this year is my high school's second year of having a ski and board race team.  Last year i didnt join because i had just started skiing but a few of my boarder friends did and they said it was a blast. 

Its not serious racing, i would prob say its the lowest level but the cool thing is that the team gets to skip school to go to sick mountains around ontario.  Do one or two races then shred the rest of the mountain for the rest of the day.  I never thought much of racing but i thought hey maybe il join it for fun and maybe get more comfortable at high speeds.

According to my friends the skiers are a medley of twin tippers, regular carving skis and then there are a few kids with serious racing skis and the whole outfit/setp.

Two questions:

One, i ride a full symetrical twin tip center mounted..will i suck? (i to do well because the more you do well, the better mountains we get to visit).

two. last year they didnt really care what helmets you wore as long as they had the regular soft earpads like every other helmet.  But apparently this year, they might put in just for skiers a requirement that you need a hardear helmet.  Is this typical for all levels of racing, even the lowest most ameteur where everyone joins just to have a day off of school to ride?  I dont want to buy another helmet :(