Replying to I feel old

since feb. 03 i've been a member of this site. I'm 21 now and started skiing when i was 7 years old. I'm not even sure how i came across newschoolers but i remember getting into freeskiing when I first saw PBP Propaganda. From there on out i got some salomon 720s and a few other buddies got twins as well. When we first started filming i was a freshman in highschool using pinnacle studio 8 and my dads high 8 cam(which sadly i still sometimes use). We didn't have terrain parks only a couple rails our local hill lonesome pine trails made. We didn't have much but still tried to do the best w/ what we had and we made some decent edits. When Neil Sotirakopolous came out w/ wicked that's when I really got addicted haha. I was working at a grocery store and doing all i could to get a sony vx2100. I finally got one and started filming alot more downstate and took a couple trips to vermont for a rail jam, ygo, and a meathead premiere. I filmed at all events but the rail jam which stephan thomas was at(one of my all time favorite riders). Of course like all skiers i dealt w/ injury along the way.(broken hand, concusions, broke left and right ankle.) I also had girl issues straight out of highschool because i wanted to go to colorado(got accepted to CMC in steamboat) but my highschool sweetheart wanted me around so i ended up making the worst decision of my life and going to school in eastern maine. I went to school and worked which didn't leave much time for skiing. My gf broke up w/ me so i quit school got an all east ski pass and worked and skiied all winter. I was alone alot which was a bummer but it was still rad. After a while i couldn't afford to live down there on my own and headed back north where i worked and made some bad choices. I got a couple duis and have since sold my camera. I work shitty jobs and ski as much as possible but i have no insurance or license so it's rough. I haven't had good equiptment since highschool and suffer because of it. My feet are to wide for my boots and i have the most painful bunions(NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU) I broke my ankle at dumont cup last season which was my fault because i didn't wax and still suffer alot because i couldn't afford physical therapy. through all of these struggles skiing is still my life and always will be. I am happy with what i have but i know what's out there and want to experience it before i'm really to beat up. I'm sorry to rant i just wanted to get that off my chest and kind of thank newschoolers for being there through it all. hopefully in another 7 years i will have a post like this with a much more exciting ending. and hopefully i can get some good skis by dumont cup so i can redeem myself. last year man that was some shit. got there on the 11th because i didn't have cash to ski the day before(it was a 2 day pass and i didnt know becuase i'm dumb). so i hit the course a few times opting to hit the small jumps and then they start the qualifying so i decide to go for the big jumps which scared the living piss out of me. I'm used to jumps i build by hand not ones you see in joss videos. anywho i man up and go for it..i wanted a rodeo 5 on the first hit but had so much airtime i did a 7 and landed clean at the top of the landing. i cruised into the second jump which was even bigger and go for a cork 7 but through it way to hard for the size of the jump and do almost a cork 10 and came up a little short..breaking my right ankle and knocking me da fuck out.see video: funny thing was at ygo back in the day at stratton i broke my left ankle on the last jump in qualifying. but that was dope i met jlev and mike nick..along w/ joe shuster and some other ppl i looked up to at the time. anyways NS i love u..just wanted to let u know.