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What age did you start skiing?

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Ski_The_E
Posts: 1036 - Karma: 944
I started when I was 2, but I didn't really get into freestyle until I was 8.
Nov 2 2012 11:37AM
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kingsskier
Posts: 6212 - Karma: 2,100
Well I first went skiing at like 8 but growing up in ohio and a non-skiing family, I didn't start until 14?
Nov 2 2012 11:40AM
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buttrapinpirate
Posts: 497 - Karma: 225
I've been skiing since I was four. And now it's become a main motivating factor for where I go to college
Nov 2 2012 11:58AM
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FerrisBueller
Posts: 8280 - Karma: 5,173
My mom taught me how to ski the day i learned how to walk, she put me down the driveway with little skis and no wiggle worm and she said i couldn't stop laughing and i was having too much fun haha.

So i was about 10 months old
Nov 2 2012 12:01PM
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skiingonskis
Posts: 2076 - Karma: 262
this, except in steamboat.  my favorite part of skiing back then was the shuttle ride from the parking lot..haha
Nov 2 2012 12:02PM
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stupendous-man
Posts: 8637 - Karma: 13,293
I started at 12, got into freestyle the year after.
Nov 2 2012 12:07PM
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ejm
Posts: 794 - Karma: 196
16, wish i had got into it alot earlier.
Nov 2 2012 12:21PM
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KravtZ
Posts: 6637 - Karma: 2,629
started when i was 2....been putting in 40-60 days a year since then and fully rip the gnar way harder than most
Nov 2 2012 12:22PM
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Phil-X-
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3! Super proud of the fact to because I was born and rasied in illinois but all my skiing is done in colorado, people have noooo idea what theyre missing
Nov 2 2012 12:28PM
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FerrisBueller
Posts: 8280 - Karma: 5,173
Yessir this guy knows whats up! would love to shred with people like you man
Nov 2 2012 1:04PM
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SoAnG
Posts: 386 - Karma: 388
Started last year at 33.  Skated growing up because I was too poor for a car.  Went to school, landed a good job and got paid.  Now I'm trying to make up for lost time chasing that money.  Always hated winters because it was too cold so I decided to fix all that.  Best thing I ever decided to do. 
Nov 2 2012 1:32PM
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ejm
Posts: 794 - Karma: 196
i got into skiing to get me through the winter and to the start of bike season. Now it the other way around, biking gets me through the warm seasons until winter comes.
Nov 2 2012 1:41PM
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Logan.
Posts: 717 - Karma: 1,862
I started at three, didn't get into park until like 14-15, wish I started that earlier :(
Nov 2 2012 1:43PM
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joshua
Posts: 5046 - Karma: 1,280
About 13 or 14, didn't start until grade nine. Whatever, I'm still wayyyyy sicker than you.
Nov 2 2012 1:47PM
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snakerton
Posts: 2434 - Karma: 1,977
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Nov 2 2012 5:41PM
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Chinchi
Posts: 1591 - Karma: 4,211
3, i shredded off the sides of rails since a young age, but got my first twin tippers when i was 12 i think, now i shred top ched
Nov 2 2012 5:46PM
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skibeest
Posts: 419 - Karma: 103
I was born with skis attached to my feet.
Nov 2 2012 5:46PM
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.AR6rider.
Posts: 15976 - Karma: 8,799
I started the month after my second birthday.
Nov 2 2012 6:07PM
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FuckAllOfYou
Posts: 3864 - Karma: 2,518
you were probably hated in your younger years, js
Nov 2 2012 6:09PM
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a_burger
Posts: 5235 - Karma: 20,715
Age 2. Didn't start park until last year.
Nov 2 2012 6:13PM
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Stickity
Posts: 7750 - Karma: 769
15 and i'm turning 19 this month
park the whole time since i came from rollerblading
Nov 2 2012 6:13PM
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k-fred
Posts: 5363 - Karma: 1,598
sadly, 15... i wish i coudlve start skiing earlier
Nov 2 2012 6:16PM
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ForeverYung
Posts: 8385 - Karma: 2,060
2. Both my parents are avid skiers so I feel pretty lucky.
Nov 2 2012 6:17PM
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bakedpow
Posts: 8770 - Karma: 10,467
18 months
Nov 2 2012 6:22PM
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roddy116
Posts: 10627 - Karma: 7,423
we all were
Nov 2 2012 6:25PM
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milk_man
Posts: 5252 - Karma: 5,983
2 years old
Nov 2 2012 6:50PM
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Chinchi
Posts: 1591 - Karma: 4,211
Oh no doubt haha, I remember when I first started park I didn't understand the concept of calling the drop....almost got my ass beat haha
Nov 2 2012 6:56PM
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Stose
Posts: 7109 - Karma: 4,123
Started when I was 2. Started racing at 8 started freestyle at 13
Nov 2 2012 6:58PM
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EricaMN.
Posts: 2704 - Karma: 347
yeah
Nov 2 2012 7:02PM
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dropping_next
Posts: 56 - Karma: 21
11 years old. Got into park last season.
Nov 2 2012 7:06PM
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-wakes-
Posts: 358 - Karma: 201
3 1/2. Didnt really get good until i was about 11
Nov 2 2012 7:42PM
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SamLegierski
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Yeah me to, it kinda sucks though i want to go to college in Colorado or Utah. To bad out of state tuition is around 45K. Also i started skiing in 3rd grade so around 7, ive just recently gotten into freestyle however.
Nov 2 2012 7:44PM
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~4EST_B_Skis~
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i dont know what age i was in kindergarten, but we had a ski/school program
Nov 2 2012 7:47PM
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SkiBum.
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Like 18 months.

Have had 100+ days almost every year since about 6th grade.
Nov 2 2012 7:49PM
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theTRIBE101
Posts: 1175 - Karma: 856
since the ripe old age of two, loving every second of it! started park about 3 years ago.
Nov 2 2012 8:09PM
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Juicy-J
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0.
Nov 2 2012 8:11PM
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Spinoza
Posts: 12763 - Karma: 3,846
7 i think
Nov 2 2012 8:12PM
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Dunnah
Posts: 1215 - Karma: 277
Nobody in my family ever skied or snowboarded, but I decided I wanted to try snowboarding when i was 11. I did that for 6 years and then a friend convinced me to try skiing.  I haven't picked up my board since and its been 4 years. Snowboarding was a blast though, I can't deny it.
Nov 2 2012 8:31PM
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NinetyFour
Posts: 8650 - Karma: 13,409
First time I ever skied, I would have been 12 or so, and then did a few of the yearly school ski trips every year. Then when I was 15-16 or something I really got into it because my dad wouldn't let me buy a sled, so this was the closest thing to it that I could afford. Wish I would have started waaaaay sooner but whatever.
Nov 2 2012 8:39PM
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.Rybak.
Posts: 9017 - Karma: 9,864
i started when i was 13 then got into freestyle last year.
Nov 2 2012 8:39PM
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AnthonyWalsh
Posts: 1571 - Karma: 1,302
started when i was 4, got a little into park when i was 11, but only started obsessing about it last year
Nov 2 2012 8:55PM
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E__
Posts: 5751 - Karma: 4,635
Snowboarded until I was 11 and started skiing at 13 or so.
Nov 2 2012 8:56PM
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tgm
Posts: 278 - Karma: 325
Yup same here. I started skiing when I was 10
Nov 2 2012 8:57PM
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doyle.
Posts: 1624 - Karma: 596
haha same
Nov 2 2012 9:12PM
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BWalmer
Posts: 9141 - Karma: 12,883
I started skiing when I was 3, snowboarded for about 3 or 4 years around middle school/early high school, then went back to skiing and now I can't stop.
Nov 2 2012 9:13PM
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Bart.Man
Posts: 1742 - Karma: 1,952
Started with season passes when I was 6, never got into freestyle though, I just love the powder and some BC action
Nov 2 2012 9:16PM
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SeanB
Posts: 3022 - Karma: 71
Started when I was 8 or 9, got ski lessons at Grouse Mountain as a birthday or Christmas present, I can't remember which. Pretty much hated it because I don't much care for being told what to do and where to go, I just wanted to jump off stuff and that was frowned upon at the time. I quit almost immediately and didn't start skiing again until I was 14 or 15. Randomly found out that some of my new highschool friends had dabbled in skiing too and decided to go again for the hell of it. Absolutely loved it and never looked back, for most of my friends it became a hobby but for me it was my life. I skied every day after school for the rest of highschool. I almost switched to snowboarding at one point because at the time most tricks involved spreading your legs in some way and that got old but then the 1080 came out and I saw Degenerates and 13 and that was fucking that. I dicked around in university but couldn't stop thinking about skiing so I moved to Whistler.
Nov 2 2012 11:02PM
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malux94
Posts: 232 - Karma: 25
I started when I turned 3, but only got a couple of weeks a year back then. I still won a few races when I was small though. Then when I was 13-14 I moved to Switzerland and got to ski a lot more, but only got into free skiing a couple of years ago, damn I wish I did earlier too :(
Nov 2 2012 11:11PM
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ILLinoisance
Posts: 3527 - Karma: 5,398
I was 13. Our family took a trip to Crested Butte. I tried the skis on in the parking lot of our condo and skooted around like a gaper. I fell and almost got hit by a snowplow in the parking lot, because I couldn't figure out how to get up. I thought I would hate it at first, but I was sooooo fucking wrong.
Nov 2 2012 11:16PM
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homestar
Posts: 2124 - Karma: 4,197
Is it bad that skiing is the number 1 factor of where I go to college? I just can't imagine spending 4 years without skiing.
Nov 2 2012 11:23PM
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PeppermillReno
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3 or 4.

Luckily I stopped playing hockey and skiied competitively after my Soph yr of HS since I was 50-50 snowboard at that point. Looking forward to going from good to good good.
Nov 3 2012 2:04AM
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