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How did you become a park skier?

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.R-Lohin
Posts: 1686 - Karma: 117
I'm intrested in how other people chose to go do freestyle instead of doing other types or skiing. I started after at a young age doing jumps and the big butter boxes, after a while of quiting park for at least 2 years I came back to it, and advanced a bit better then after starting getting good, I realized that this skiing was more fun than any other type, and stuck to freestyle progressed. Now im hooked on it and do at least 90% park. :P

Care to share to? I search bar'd and nothing came up. sooooo if this is a repost then lul. :3
Sep 2 2011 6:54PM
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Inline.
Posts: 4424 - Karma: 432
don't assume everyone on here is park skier.
Sep 2 2011 6:55PM
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.R-Lohin
Posts: 1686 - Karma: 117
Not assuming. Majority of the people are :)
Sep 2 2011 6:56PM
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ajax
Posts: 2852 - Karma: 1,245
When I was a little kid I always like hitting all the little jumps on the sides of runs. Once our mountain got a park, that was just the next natural step. Essentially I just started because I kept doing what was fun.
Sep 2 2011 7:01PM
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Panda_with_Guns
Posts: 3040 - Karma: 1,620
Honestly, this site. My dad got me a pair of twin tip skis, the rossi troubled youth i think. I had no clue what they were for so i googled "twin tip skiing" and "free style skiing" and came across this site. now, i, on here 5+ hours a day and skiing is my life.
Sep 2 2011 7:04PM
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TPalms
Posts: 859 - Karma: 252
My girlfriend at the time got me into it actually haha.
Sep 2 2011 7:08PM
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Broseph_Stalin
Posts: 3745 - Karma: 179
same here.

the skiing can get boring in the east. keeping it fun
Sep 2 2011 7:08PM
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Gnarwall
Posts: 1180 - Karma: 50
one day there was no pow so I hit a jump.
Sep 2 2011 7:32PM
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CassiusClay
Posts: 1757 - Karma: 2
I always skied, hitting any drops, jumps, whatever I could until the first pair of teneightys came out. I snagged a pair, and have since just really enjoyed freesking.
Sep 2 2011 7:36PM
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YoungJah
Posts: 1106 - Karma: 66
Not skied much park since 2005.
Sep 2 2011 7:41PM
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monkatizer
Posts: 4704 - Karma: 1,518
my much older friend i was skiing with when i was about 10 or so showed me boxes in the mini park, and after that i would go in their about once a day and slide them. then i started going off small jumps and by age 12 or so i tried some grabs i found on www.niftytricks.com and tried to slide some stuff sideways. after that i was hooked, although still on non-twins, i tried to learn a list of grabs and stuff. it wasnt until the season of 09-10 when i got my first set of twintips, jr. fischer addicts. and thats when i first really began skiing mostly park. now, 1 year later, im addicted...
Sep 2 2011 7:44PM
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cheener12
Posts: 2881 - Karma: 5,887
Didn't really do much park until I sacked up and hit some rails. Now I love it.
Sep 2 2011 7:45PM
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.squirrely.
Posts: 7563 - Karma: 7,546
always tried to go through the mini parks while skiing with my parents was i was a little kid and i would go straight on the boxes and off the sides of jumps haha i was quite the joey then i started skiing more park and learned how to actually hit jumps and boxes and ive been doing that ever since
Sep 2 2011 7:51PM
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Noah_W
Posts: 810 - Karma: 3,238
Peer Pressure! :)
Sep 2 2011 7:55PM
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Algebra
Posts: 5215 - Karma: 1,677
used to race, probably like when i was 8 mabye 9 i went over to the park before my race to go over jumps and kids tried to teach me to hit a rail. they told me it made my race skis go faster too. raced a few more years, quit. now ski park all of the time.
Sep 2 2011 7:57PM
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LeadThug420
Posts: 869 - Karma: 26
Moguls are exhausting.  Park is not. 
Sep 2 2011 7:58PM
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bdarb207
Posts: 3057 - Karma: 438
I watched a racer one time. I've loved the park ever since.
Sep 2 2011 8:01PM
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TastyZ
Posts: 491 - Karma: 45
Saw xgames on espn
Sep 2 2011 8:10PM
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TACO-DOG.exe
Posts: 11989 - Karma: 12,264
I first got a pair of twin tips because they made a cool rooster tail effect with the snow. My dad bought me a pair and I found out what they were actually for.
Sep 2 2011 8:10PM
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DrZoidberg
Posts: 5675 - Karma: 4,269
Probably from skateboarding.
Sep 2 2011 8:18PM
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.RYAN66
Posts: 5381 - Karma: 237
yeah because some people know hwo to ski pow just because they have cr's.
Sep 2 2011 8:46PM
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james6345789
Posts: 4763 - Karma: 467
hahahaha
Sep 2 2011 8:55PM
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PartyHon
Posts: 2019 - Karma: 425
my mom dropped me on my head when i was a baby is how
Sep 2 2011 8:59PM
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DGski
Posts: 3491 - Karma: 2,328
me and my best friend, since like 7 years old, would always sneak into the park while we were in racing and hitting boxes straight with our race skis. then after racing was done we would run to the locker and switch to twintips and go have a good time in the park. watching videos of like '1800' and 'crazy train park' and 'double misty 1440' is what really helped us get into it. 7 years later, still loving it. im DGski and this is my story.
lolz
Sep 2 2011 9:01PM
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twsnow22
Posts: 1285 - Karma: 488
so i could get girls.

Sep 2 2011 9:12PM
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SKIU4EA
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I like getting cheers from the chairlift.
Sep 2 2011 9:18PM
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.R-Lohin
Posts: 1686 - Karma: 117
This, and plus great stories guys! Always fun to know how other people grew to love the sport everyone of us does.
Sep 2 2011 9:26PM
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Yinzer
Posts: 1011 - Karma: 73
no pow, got bored
Sep 2 2011 9:30PM
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roddy116
Posts: 10635 - Karma: 7,506
started racing all I wanted to do was ski in the park so I quit racing once I got from trying my school race team and just stopped racing and now all I do is park ski.
Sep 2 2011 9:52PM
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A.Eberhard
Posts: 4426 - Karma: 415
Did racing till I was about 13, got a bored of it and took my race skis to the park. Bought a pair of twin tips and it just started. All my friends got into it and it's been pretty awesome. Can't imagine life without it.
Sep 2 2011 9:58PM
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tbayjibber
Posts: 326 - Karma: 62
Always was a racer but switched mountains and my one buddy there started skiing park more so i joined him now I still coach racing but when i'm not making money doing that I'm in the park
Sep 2 2011 9:59PM
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Shenanigans
Posts: 868 - Karma: 455
I saw an episode of TC.
Sep 2 2011 10:03PM
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baz1
Posts: 287 - Karma: -37
Definitely watching the "cool rooster effect" was a deciding factor.
Sep 2 2011 10:15PM
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Jeffmnicholas
Posts: 821 - Karma: 42
living in new jersey and having friends that snowboard
Sep 2 2011 10:15PM
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crab_pretzel
Posts: 3919 - Karma: 622
definately after the dusty diller edit
Sep 2 2011 10:28PM
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CassiusClay
Posts: 1757 - Karma: 2
I DECIDED TO START FUCKING SHIT UP- THATS WHY I STARTED SKIING.
Sep 2 2011 10:49PM
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jamodeo
Posts: 3040 - Karma: 663
well started skiing before i could walk got on the racing track ill i was 5 then picked up snowboarding when i was 12 i decided i wanted to buy some "twintips" just to dick around when i got tired of snowboarding, i ended up growing out of my snowboarding shit which i was super bummed about and since i had no money because i dropped it all on skis i had to do it full time tried to snowboard again the year after and felt although i had forgotten everything so i kept up skiing and now here i am
Sep 2 2011 10:55PM
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Tree60
Posts: 1438 - Karma: 4,961
i was always hitting the jumps on the sides of runs and stuff, and i always liked watching snowboarders in the park, tried snowboarding once, realized that it sucked, and bought some twinners. i like pow better tho
Sep 2 2011 11:54PM
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jexy12
Posts: 31 - Karma: 13
Always liked hitting jumps, learning new things and also showing people new stuff. So ever since l was little l would hit jumps try to get all my friends to because l found "regular" skiing boring, for the last 3 years l have only done park l love the risk but also getting better.
Sep 3 2011 12:48AM
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[~_~]
Posts: 20239 - Karma: 1,273
After 18 years of skiing, I still can't ride park. Maybe that will be my new years resolution...
Sep 3 2011 1:09AM
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[creative]
Posts: 539 - Karma: 128
well the story of how i started skiing was the ski trip in like 4th grade i went fast and got air over a bumb and iv been hooked ever sence!
Sep 3 2011 1:13AM
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Splice.
Posts: 1381 - Karma: -192
You know, it's kinda funny..... my friend and I were skiing in Big Sky Montana, and we had an awesome mentor, Dan Greene. I had just gotten a pair of twin tip k2s and wanted to learn how to ski backwards, so Dan taught me, this summer, I spent a week at Windells Session 6, Megan Gunning was my teacher.... and I got to sesh with Tom Wallisch.... it was so awesome.
Sep 3 2011 1:19AM
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GILLSKI
Posts: 1250 - Karma: 361
Well iv'e loved tall tee's since birth, but I wasnt born black, so I needed a legitimate reason to wear one.
Sep 3 2011 1:21AM
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Splice.
Posts: 1381 - Karma: -192
Tall Tee's are the way to go, always
Sep 3 2011 1:27AM
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.R-Lohin
Posts: 1686 - Karma: 117
YARP
Sep 3 2011 1:39AM
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Jibbin_Ur_Face
Posts: 2536 - Karma: 763
Started skiing when I was like 4 and hit every side jump, cornice, drop whatever all very small obviously. Then like 3-4 years ago just realized how cool it was ridin up the lift watchin bros throw down and then I started skiing park and Now I slay harder than anyone... ever /claim
Sep 3 2011 1:44AM
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POWDER.RANGER
Posts: 1698 - Karma: -24
well through the start of my skiing career i was always under the impression that park was where all the snowboarders go to injure themselves. until one time up night skiing my uncle who was on the ski patrol took me through the park, just airing over the rollers. after overshooting to flat a few times i sacked up and hit a jump. and it didnt hurt!! and after that night my view on the park had changed forever.
Sep 3 2011 2:01AM
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skiskate
Posts: 787 - Karma: 823
Saw a dude hitting a rail in the "snowboard park" with the bright orange 1080's, in like 99? Had never realized what they were until I saw a pair at a store. My brother got some and i just naturally followed, dont really touch the park anymore though.
Sep 3 2011 2:07AM
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lukemeahan.
Posts: 1689 - Karma: 330
Simon Dumont, and just a friend who's really good. He taught me everything, i'm very thankful for him.
Sep 3 2011 2:11AM
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bgould
Posts: 1306 - Karma: 24
I SNOWBOARDED LAST YEAR THEN I DECIDED TO TRY SKIING. HIT A BOX AND EVER SINCE THEN I HAVE BEEN HOOKED
Sep 3 2011 2:41AM
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