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How did you get into skiing

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DaffyDaDak
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Sorry if spelling is bad I'm on mobile How did you come into the world of skiing. For me it's a pretty basic one I used to snowboard and my friends got me into it.
Oct 21 2012 2:10PM
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[hamnuts]
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My dad is an avid skier and he put me in snow school when I was around 2 and a half. I was one of those tiny little kids who never pizza'd and always French fry'd and would go speeding down the hill and fly into people on a regular basis.
Oct 21 2012 2:14PM
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Puns
Posts: 2052 - Karma: 429
My parents made me at the start. They even made me a newschoolers account in which I have to post at least 5 times a day.
Oct 21 2012 2:14PM
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Andyktm
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my parents taught me how to ski when i was 2 and half years old and then a few years ago my friend got me into newschool skiing and i decided to join a ski team at the mountain i ski at the most
Oct 21 2012 2:22PM
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PhaedeD
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My parents figured if I could walk I could probably ski. Have been riding since.
Oct 21 2012 2:36PM
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roddy116
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i was in colorado during the winter for a family christian group thing. and my parents said either hockey or skiing, not knowing what either of these were (i was 2/3) i just picked skiing.
Oct 21 2012 2:43PM
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skeedle
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my grandparents were two of the first ski patrollers at Whistler, and then my mom became a groomer and my dad was a mechanic at hemlock so I started skiing when i was 2? I snowboarded for a while, but then i went back to skiing because it is soo much better :D
Oct 21 2012 2:48PM
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act.resist
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In the sixth grade I went to visit my aunt and uncle who lived near a ski slope and i went to lessons one day with my cousin. Then I moved to where they lived and started skiing a lot more.
Oct 21 2012 2:59PM
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Dragonite.
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My cousin did park and I thought it was really cool, so my parents brought my brother and I skiing. We were 8 at the time. Been skiing ever since.
Oct 21 2012 3:01PM
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midwestpowhunter
Posts: 2198 - Karma: 189
I used to snowboard...then my dad got a job
Oct 21 2012 3:20PM
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Round-Four
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my dad had all of his children on skis as soon as we could walk. in fact even before i could walk he would often carry me in a baby-carrier backpack thing. ive pretty much loved it since day 1.
Oct 21 2012 3:22PM
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NotGhood
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i don't remember i was very young at the time
Oct 21 2012 3:29PM
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rareison
Posts: 10263 - Karma: 219
this thread again?


but I used to snowboard, then one day I bought a Freeskier magazine and decided to switch.
Oct 21 2012 3:32PM
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DaffyDaDak
Posts: 864 - Karma: 433
I sb and nothing came up
Oct 21 2012 3:45PM
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De-Clan
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When I was little I used to ski only on vacation, then when I was 10 I started to go skiing every weekend now I go every night after school and every weekend
Oct 21 2012 4:52PM
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Wallisch_pl
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this, but I got into freestyle around 6-7 years ago?
Oct 21 2012 4:58PM
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Caspaaa
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that was me too.


i HATED ski school, but i picked up skiing really easily because i played hockey even before i learned to ski. within a few weeks i was that tiny kid flying down groomers and, sadly, going off the rail lips as jumps. needless to say i soon started hitting actual jumps, but it took my a while to start hitting rails. i consider the first rail i ever hit as my entrance into the freestyle skiing world.
Oct 21 2012 4:59PM
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rzarector
Posts: 590 - Karma: 70
I started reposting in the wrong forum and I've been hooked on skiing ever since
Oct 21 2012 5:00PM
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snakerton
Posts: 2434 - Karma: 1,977
i started at fiorini ski school when i was in 1st grade and 10 years later I'm an instuctor at fiorini
Oct 21 2012 5:02PM
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