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What made you start freeskiing?

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ttave514
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How and why did you start doing tricks on skis? Who/what made you want to ski freestyle? For me, once i randomly found this video on youtube I kney what I wanted to do with my life.
Jun 18 2013 9:32PM
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~bagelz~
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the last day of one season i learned 180s on gaper skis and me and my friend did the whole day in the park. that summer a kid from tahoe moved to kirkland and i got a pair of used dynastar troublemakers for 100$ and started. that season edias came out. good times
Jun 20 2013 7:16PM
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radish
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Jun 20 2013 7:48PM
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MaryO
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I've skied since I was 14, but got into Freestyle skiing in 09' because of my son Kyle, who introduced me to Tom Wallisch and 4bi9 via YouTube.It was love, for the sport, at 1st sight of Tom's Super Unknown edit. I rode my 1st box at age 48 haha
Jun 20 2013 7:51PM
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Heart
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That was a huge factor for me as well. Whenever I went over to my friends house we would play that, and we thought the skiing was the coolest thing ever. Then we both watched Twall's superunkown edit. Our minds were both blown and the next winter we started freeskiing.
Jun 20 2013 11:09PM
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Peachbutt
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Skied since I was 4, started skateboarding when I was 10-11, one year decided to go at skiing the same way I went at skateboarding. Also riding with friends who always rode in the park.
Jun 20 2013 11:29PM
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jimmydar
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ive been a skier all my life but i only started freestyle last season when i saw some kids at my local park, decided to try it and ended up having fun. now im addicted
Jun 21 2013 11:48AM
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Freeze!!! and damn, Dave Chrighton's alley oop Flatspin 5 at the WSI. Just Dave C. generally... dude just went so hard, and hey was so freaking cool. That's what did it for me.

A close second are CR Johnson and Candide Thovex out-boosting Shaun White in the 2000 (?) X games, with CR going for a GIGANTIC 1080 and decking, and Thovex just keeping things big, casual, and smooth in the pipe.

Man, that was a long time ago!
Jun 21 2013 12:34PM
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FIRETHECANNONS
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0KOShIJqs0

Skiing the Midwest with Ahmet Dadali, Mike Hornbeck, and Edollo


When my friend took me into a terrain park in third grade, I saw him slide across these odd white things. For some reason i thought they were gravestones for people who died there...
I got into free skiing about a year later, but that introduced to it. The edit above was and still is one of my favorite edits that got me pumped to ski
Jun 21 2013 1:48PM
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FIRETHECANNONS
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oh yea I also tried the odd white thing ( a box) and it was like 6 inches of the ground. I washed out but was beyond stoked i hit it.
Jun 21 2013 1:51PM
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Notorious_LMP
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I watched happy dayz at least 3x a week back in the day. That and the release of the 1080s are what got me going.
Jun 21 2013 1:59PM
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250r
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being stuck on the east coast with inconsistent pow...i guess you could call pow skiing freeskiing too though.
Jun 21 2013 4:15PM
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Drail
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which led me to buy Salomon 1080's and watch Degenerates (PBP's second video)
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the rest as they say.
Jun 21 2013 6:43PM
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Noha
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The parfraceing boringsnesss
Jun 21 2013 6:55PM
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