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How did you become a park skier?

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.R-Lohin
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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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Jibberino
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What?


Didn't start skiing till I was 22, mostly started because of the parties you get doing seasons. Couple of years later started noticing people throwing down in the park ( i was reppin some dope straight airs, and thought I was the shit) and got interested. Went on some camps, kept getting hurt, but I never really looked back since. Freestyle skiing is my life, and even now at 31, i can't imagine my life without it.
Sep 5 2011 6:40AM
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HolySchimmel
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was just skiing casual since like 10 years, maybe a week a year or if I was lucky 2 weeks. Disliked racers from the start on (they would always close the best slopes ;) ) so this year, I started taking it to the park, bought a pair of twintips there we are :D Since im 20 now, I guess its a pretty late switch, but making the best of it and trying to ski waaaaaaay more from now on :P

Sep 5 2011 7:51AM
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stupendous-man
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i started out as one of those coo kid boarders a few years ago, and mabye went up 4 times a year if i was lucky. one of my friends who was a skier said i should try out skiing, because he had done both and liked skiing way better. i only started skiing around christmas last year, and decided to go into the mini park on my 2nd time ever skiing in janurary and it was love at first shred. i still suck quite a bit at it, but im progressing.
Sep 5 2011 1:52PM
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Pow.yuHdig*
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i grew up racing but always loved taking fat air once my hill got a terrain park and racing got super serious freestyle took over big time
Sep 5 2011 1:58PM
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TNORTS
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I raced for a year and I was like fuck that shit so i got some twin tips and started hitting jumps and rails
Sep 5 2011 2:29PM
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Timotheezy.
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I had always dabbled with skiing on occasion when i was younger, then i started going more often and saw all the parks and park skiers. Got park skis the next season and have beening skiing religiously ever since
Sep 5 2011 7:57PM
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DBL
Posts: 1405 - Karma: 2,218
I started out into racing which made me a well rounded skier, but then I some guy got twin tips at my home mountain (small hill) and that was when i got twin tips and started doing rails and stuff, so yeah, thank god that guy had gotten twin tips!
Sep 5 2011 8:15PM
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ownsthepark
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One of my friends was a snowboarder and he took me into the park when i was just a young lad. I hat a few butter boxes and little jumps. I was instantly hooked
Sep 5 2011 8:20PM
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Prophet30
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Thats how got into it was in my friends backyard. Now i am hooked.

Sep 5 2011 8:30PM
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d00d
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Started when i was like 6...i have to admit i hated skiing then, would ski once in a while not much. And at about 11 my mom bought me some twin tips and i was like "sweet why do they look different though" my mom said that you could ski backwards in them...of course i didn't know how to then. Skied with them that year just hitting side jumps and screwed around like any other 11 year old who barely skied. Then the next year when Jr.high ski club came around i went with that and was like "ima be cool and snowboard like all of my other cool friends" (lol). Well, on my first day of learning i fractured my wrist...which sucked didn't go back on snow rest of the year cuz i was like "screw this". 8th grade went by and just kinda became a gaper doing the tuck and what not think i was pro. But 9th grade half way through the year i did my first 3 off of a 25-30 footer and was just Stoked...loved it since :)
Sep 6 2011 2:11AM
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Brock.
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I moved to a place when I was in 7th grade where skateboarding, snowboarding, biking, and skiing were things that people did for fun, not play video games and other lazy shit I would probably be doing if I never moved out of the city. In fact, I really did not enjoy skiing when I started. My friends would always have to pressure me into hitting rails and shit because I was way to scared to go anywhere near them.

Also the first ski video that really got me hooked was Twall's super unknown titled "this is what jesus would look like if he skied" on youtube, then I subscribed to freeskier podcasts on Itunes, and then I started going on newschoolers.
Sep 6 2011 2:46AM
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sammy_
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my older cousin got really into it when i was younger and she showed it to me and i looked up to her so of course i tried it and i fell in love with it.
Sep 6 2011 11:31AM
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bambooze
Posts: 65 - Karma: 50
For me, and countless others skiing pow on big mountain is obviosly the best way to go. But unless your one of the lucky few who can ski it everyday, we have to come up with other options. Park is the most common place you'll find me on a bluebirld cordoroy day. But i get on skiin zipper lines at Mary jane all the time!!!
Sep 6 2011 11:36AM
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.R-Lohin
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Threads to keep this up more stories please :D
Sep 8 2011 2:56AM
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sip166
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I started as a gaper lol. I must have pissed off so many people
Sep 8 2011 11:03AM
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ParabolicSidecut
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I grew up on a mountain, so I was a skier years before park skiing existed. I raced and skied moguls in those days, and watched ski videos with Glen Plake and Brad Holmes. Finally, my home mountain got a terrain park (snowboarders only), and then a few years later, twin tips came out. Once the park opened to skiers, I learned to hit rails and jumps.

However, I still consider myself a skier, and not a park skier. I enjoy trail bombing, BC and pow, as well as hitting rails and jumps, and I even enjoy taking a race lap every now and then. If you're outside, and having fun with your friends, that's what its about.
Sep 8 2011 12:50PM
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sip166
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This minus ski blades!
Sep 8 2011 3:47PM
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davecarp
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I'm still not really a park skier. I learned when I was 5, and did the occasional day on the mountain until this year (I'm 18 now) when I went to whistler. Was so overwhelmed that I really got into the backcountry, but now back in NZ where the only snow near is indoors so want to learn park on the rails and jumps there.
Sep 8 2011 5:08PM
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.R-Lohin
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Same hahaha! I remember going to the park when I was like 9 or 8 and cut in front of a kid landing on a rail, I wish I had the chance to go back and say sorry.
Sep 8 2011 9:21PM
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84891jnf92048
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hahahaha going back to earliest park experiences... my dad asked some dude how to hit a box, and then passed it on to me, and I ate shit.
Sep 8 2011 10:47PM
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Emma_Watson
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some kid showed me LINE TC, hooked on that shit like crack. Then i bought all their shit before i even skied park.
Sep 8 2011 11:02PM
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Jamie_Baril
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You become a good park skier by becoming a good skier first and then transitioning into the park
Sep 8 2011 11:12PM
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bgould
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THAT IS DEBATABLE
Sep 9 2011 1:26AM
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bakedpow
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Fuck that shit, i shred pillows.
Sep 9 2011 1:45AM
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J-roun
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E park is always a flat easy run if u don't hit any of the feature so I'd go down the run and ride off the jumps when little and I'd see my dad go and do a shifty and thought it was the coolest thing ever so I kept trying and got used to big air and stayed in park for jumps and would just hit rails on my way to jumps and now I'm 90% park dooin lincols and 720 mutes and the sickest trick of all... The shifty
Sep 9 2011 1:52AM
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Radio
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yep exactly.
Sep 9 2011 1:57AM
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.R-Lohin
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Whats up buddy was I supposed to include big mtn and racers to oh im sorry I dont give a flying fuck
Sep 9 2011 2:21AM
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bakedpow
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Cool your jets.
Sep 9 2011 2:43AM
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ILLinoisance
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Went skiing with the family for the first time in Colorado 5 years ago. Came back after the week long trip, got a pair of skis for Christmas, built a jump the next day, 360d it, and decided I wanted twin tips. Got the twin tips and it's been so much fun since.

Kids around here have no idea about the twin tip scene. Don't think anyone in my high school of 3000 kids had every skied on twins. Kinda sucked, but I have since converted a few of my friends. I need to move out west. It really sucks here.
Sep 9 2011 3:03AM
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7-11_Slurpee
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The midwest forced me.
Sep 9 2011 8:59AM
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K_Ruhde
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I got a really good deal on a pair of twin tips, just to use as "beaters"...started riding switch, now i ride park

Sep 9 2011 9:29AM
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jksl
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watched 13 after mogul practice. my mind was blown, and slowly stopped skiing moguls and started skiing more park.
Sep 9 2011 9:58AM
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lukemeahan.
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CR Johnson
Sep 9 2011 10:10AM
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crab_pretzel
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YES! THIS IS IT! this is the one that started it for me, and i looks like for many poeople too
Sep 9 2011 10:31AM
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SteezoSaurus
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Yessss for sure. His segment waay back in the day in Pop Yer Bottlez got me super stoked to be tryin new stuff.
Sep 9 2011 11:17AM
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FerrisBueller
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Mr. Kip Roughrider introduced me :)
Sep 9 2011 9:23PM
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Mcfottley
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i saw twin tips and started going backwards. then everything was switch and now im here in my backyard for a summer set up.
Sep 9 2011 10:02PM
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maxter-paxter
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Sep 9 2011 10:13PM
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LDV
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I didn't want to be the friend that followed my friends around not doing anything. So I nutted up and tried shit. Park laps are for cruddy days when the powder is missing, but it is fun to get some rails in.
Sep 10 2011 12:39AM
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Mr.Gaga
Posts: 2021 - Karma: 542
I was born this way.
Sep 10 2011 1:49AM
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.R-Lohin
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Threads for overnight
Sep 11 2011 11:10PM
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Epillz
Posts: 279 - Karma: 384
, and living in the midwest where snow inst abundant
Sep 11 2011 11:14PM
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SkierPT
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Yes I regret blading
Sep 13 2011 7:32PM
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PON3
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I live in Kansas, so all I can do is ride park. yeaa....
Sep 13 2011 7:41PM
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802Valley
Posts: 625 - Karma: 309
park can be good
but pow is where its at , so fluffy and i feel like floating alot
i want pow right now
Sep 13 2011 7:49PM
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Deluge
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all the cool kids were doing it
Sep 13 2011 8:06PM
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406
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i was born into it
Sep 13 2011 9:20PM
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Jamie_Baril
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i quit racing...then the next fall i went to the 7 sunny days premier with  family friends whos older brother proceded to show me this sight and all of the top rated videos. and i was hooked

Sep 13 2011 9:30PM
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RAEL
Posts: 252 - Karma: 23
my neighbor and i use to skate when we were little, and then he started rollerblading because it was more like skiing and i didnt ski park but i just did what he did because he was a little older than me. then when i went skiing the next season i realized i could hit rails pretty well and from then on ive thought it was the coolest thing ever and i stopped rollerblading and just skiied all winter

Sep 13 2011 9:53PM
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Thenowhereman42
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I switched to snowboarding for a few years in highschool then saw a video of THall doing some gnarley urban and was like lolwut park skis? Immediately bought a pair. Nowadays you see park skis everywhere but growing up in SoCal I didn't know they existed till I was about 17. Learned to ski switch on carving skis jeaaaaaaa.
Sep 14 2011 2:52AM
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