The Cons of Being Pro: The Inner Worlds of Professional Athletes

sweet...i just found out i'm a pro skier!!  suck it bitches!!!!!!!!!

but in all seriousness (and not to get too far off topic because this actually is a really sweet thread), I still don't consider myself a professional skier.  you guys are trying to turn it into an issue of semantics but its not.  when people ask me what i do i say "I'm a ski instructor" not "i'm a pro skier check me out."  when i think of my job description it is not "go ski and get paid", but rather "teach others to ski."  sure it involves being on the snow and skiing but that is simply one of the perks of the job.  there is a fundamental difference between what i do for a living and what someone like tammy whamsticks does.  so to all the other instructors out there, maybe we should use a little discretion when throwing the whole "i'm a pro skier" thing around....even if you happen to have a business card from whistler that says "ski professional."  its sort of like being a TA but telling everyone that you are a professor. 

Your looking way too deeply into something completely irrelevant. threadboskier doesn't actually consider himself a pro in the sense that newschoolers or competitors do, it was a sarcastic epithet used to relate and make a point on the larger issue being discussed. enough with this digression and lets keep the thread moving.

I dunno man, my intermediate parallel demos are pretty fucking spot on...