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How do you explain park skiing?

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Balbertt
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How do you explain the aspects of park skiing to your friends and family? the style of clothing, what you actually do, and everything that has to do with it?
Jul 22 2013 4:18PM
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Wolfgang.
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I tell them to watch the 2014 olympics.
Jul 22 2013 4:27PM
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Balbertt
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I hope thats a joke.
Jul 22 2013 4:28PM
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Coxworth
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a less cool version of snowboarding
Jul 22 2013 4:35PM
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CarrotSteeze
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its impossible, people really cant comprehend the stupid shit we do on skis, and i dont care cuz i love that our community is small and we dont have to share with people
Jul 22 2013 4:35PM
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*TURBONERD*
Posts: 15082 - Karma: 9,170
It's like white people trying to be black by listening to rap with the added element of baggy clothing and attempting to emulate blackleticism by doing gymnastics on jumps and rails.
Jul 22 2013 4:36PM
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One.3
Posts: 165 - Karma: 539
gold
Jul 22 2013 4:42PM
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The_Polock
Posts: 345 - Karma: 1,280

Technical skiing ability lost out to kids doing "cool" tricks of little jumps they shouldnt even hit yet...

Jul 22 2013 4:47PM
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Byron_tha_gr8
Posts: 4573 - Karma: 14,299
Snowboarding + Skateboarding + emulating black "gangster" culture + lots of parents money + biggest trendwhores on earth + skis with tips on both ends = freeskiing
Jul 22 2013 4:50PM
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Rodigan
Posts: 1302 - Karma: 1,868
Really? Is skiing not your sport, do you not prefer your sport?
Jul 22 2013 4:53PM
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SnowMiser
Posts: 801 - Karma: 3,150
I love it.

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Jul 22 2013 5:01PM
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fredyferl
Posts: 2948 - Karma: 14,862
A mom once asked me in the lift line: why do you all wear clothing that is too big for you, and I responded : for the same reason people are wearing Canada Goose
Jul 22 2013 5:41PM
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milk_man
Posts: 5252 - Karma: 5,978
This is perfect.
Jul 22 2013 5:52PM
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Dr.Dickless
Posts: 2620 - Karma: 1,392
I tell them it fucking sucks

nobody gets my humor
Jul 22 2013 7:10PM
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GrahamGould
Posts: 713 - Karma: 2,439
A bunch of sheltered white kids doing air ballet with giant brightly colored clothes that their grandma bought for them.
Jul 22 2013 7:15PM
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werd.
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I just say the way I dress is satirical. Obviously my parents know I'm not actually ghetto
Jul 22 2013 7:44PM
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jkelly
Posts: 430 - Karma: 991
We drink beer and smoke spliffs.
Jul 22 2013 11:02PM
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Mr.Bishop
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Skiing's answer to snowboarding.
Jul 22 2013 11:03PM
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Pigeon.
Posts: 2366 - Karma: 3,980
clothing: i turn black as soon as i touch skis so i need to be dressed adequately.
park skiing: i do tricks
Jul 22 2013 11:45PM
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M.M
Posts: 1696 - Karma: 4,494
i explain it by starting with:
A guy goes to the place and does the thing then jumps and does the other thing with all the things on meanwhile he is doing the thing with the thing on the other thing, and then he goes and sits on the thing and goes up the big thing and does the thing and watches the people do the thing while he does the other thing then he gets of the big thing and does the thing all over again with the thing and the thing on the thing and goes there and than back and does the thing for a while until the thing is very much a thing but at the end of the day he just does the rest of the thing with his friends. understand?
Jul 22 2013 11:53PM
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GrahamGould
Posts: 713 - Karma: 2,439
The ski world seems to be pretty perfect right now. Im really worried the olympics is going to change that, but i guess we just have to enjoy it while it's here
Jul 23 2013 12:10AM
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Trojan~Man
Posts: 1996 - Karma: 1,357
that is pretty solid. i will remember this!
Jul 23 2013 12:42AM
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MEDSKI.
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This
Jul 23 2013 9:48AM
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Mr.Bishop
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Its a super easy way to get non-skiers to understand. They all know who shaun white is.
Jul 24 2013 9:30AM
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Troy.
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Just doing big ass stunts
Jul 24 2013 10:20AM
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*TURBONERD*
Posts: 15082 - Karma: 9,170
A flying tampon is pretty remarkable, even from a skier's standpoint.
Jul 24 2013 10:33AM
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RubberSoul
Posts: 11249 - Karma: 14,642
unfortunately the easiest way to explain it to a gaper is to alert them that skiers do rails/jumps just like snowboarders.

no sense in trying to mention that skiers have been doing tricks, hitting jumps, and dropping huge cliffs/lines since decades before snowboarding was invented, just with a different mentality/style....

but yeah theyre the same damn sport
Jul 24 2013 12:36PM
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EvanMeyer
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since when does listening to rap music and wearing baggy clothes make you trying to act black? I have loved hip hop music since I was a youngin when my dad would play big daddy kane in the car. its ignorant to say EVERYONE wearing baggy clothes and bumping rap music are trying to be black. Skiing is a form a self expression and I also like to express myself is through music since I love both of them. Baggy clothes are comfortable and I wear baggy ass clothes in my everyday life as well as skiing. So with that I conclude my tangent by saying you are stupid and your views are jaded.
Jul 24 2013 1:26PM
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Furrer92
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To be honest I feel most people understand what freeskiing is now, though they couldn't name off a single pro they're aware the sport exists at least North Americans/most Euros.
Jul 24 2013 1:57PM
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B-Right-On
Posts: 570 - Karma: 532
I had a weird conversation the other day when my mom asked why I was cutting down my poles...
Jul 24 2013 2:03PM
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Huck_Norris
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Lol... I don't understand that either. If they're too short to make a pole plant, just fucking give them away and ski switch all the time.
Jul 24 2013 2:11PM
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troll_boy
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wow that is exactly it
Jul 24 2013 2:28PM
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Mr.Bishop
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YOu'd be surprised. I meet guys that are like the husbands of my wife's friends, or parents of friends and there's a high percentage that really don't even know that there is skiing in the X-games. There is a surprisingly large delay of when mass popular culture seems to get the differences of these things.
Jul 24 2013 2:54PM
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johnnyBuz
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"I go off jumps and do tricks and slide on rails" explains it pretty well to people.
Jul 24 2013 3:03PM
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TNORTS
Posts: 2077 - Karma: 2,761
this. The fact that people feel like they need to explain the clothing like it is an integral aspect of freeskiing is hilarious.
Jul 24 2013 3:27PM
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errrka
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I usually ask if they've seen skiing in the X-Games, and if they say yes then I say like that, but on a smaller scale, and if they so no then i say this^ and usually try to find a photo of me on my phone
Jul 24 2013 3:29PM
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tri_photo
Posts: 1530 - Karma: 7,195
I tell them that park skiing is an art form, and that each park skier likes to express themselves by there style of clothing, and the way they shred. Some try to copy others style, while others create there own.
Jul 24 2013 4:34PM
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thebeesknees
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Jul 24 2013 5:06PM
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Byron_tha_gr8
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whatever your motivations are, the baggy trend came from skate/snowboard culture, which directly took it from black culture. I dont think its a bad thing, but you have to realise skiers just didn't invent tall t's out of nowhere. So maybe you dont mean to, but you're still ripping off black culture.

Same with the old school hip-hop. It was made by black people for black people, and while i think its great that we are all free to enjoy it, make sure you remember it wasn't made for you. Just like country isn't targeted at black people.

So keep self expressing yourself through trends from the hood, but don't be so ignorant as to say you aren't emulating a culture you will never be part of.
Jul 24 2013 5:53PM
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sNaubi
Posts: 1633 - Karma: 2,357
It's simple, we kill the batman.
Jul 24 2013 6:25PM
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Dabid
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We jump things. Slide things. and FSU
Jul 24 2013 7:53PM
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SEEL
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a bunch of silly people doing a bunch of silly things
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Jul 25 2013 10:01AM
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KennyD
Posts: 264 - Karma: 537
over the years i've learned to speak the language of the blind and resort to "i go down the mountain, go over a bump, fly through the air, go upside-down, and land on my feet." It usually works pretty well unless I say I land backwards then all of a sudden it all just becomes a big mindfuck.

Still learning their language for rails. those are strangely more difficult
Jul 25 2013 4:42PM
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stushoshi
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one thing i'd add is when i compare the difficulty of skiing compared to snowboarding is that you have more control of your body then your skis on skis and you have more control of your body than your board on snowboards thats why fo most people crashing on skis is easier to get out of
some flips are easier on snowboards like frontflips and backflips and things like corks and flatspins are easier on skis also because of the more control u have of a board rails are a little harder
Jul 25 2013 7:49PM
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stushoshi
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one thing i'd add is when i compare the difficulty of skiing compared to snowboarding is that you have more control of your body then your skis on skis and you have more control of your body than your board on snowboards thats why fo most people crashing on skis is easier to get out of
some flips are easier on snowboards like frontflips and backflips and things like corks and flatspins are easier on skis also because of the more control u have of a board rails are a little harder
Jul 25 2013 7:49PM
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Phansy
Posts: 1131 - Karma: 492
Its true how it all started with black culture.
Despite this, actual black skiers are complete boners w/ no steeze, and wear small jackets.
Pretty funny. Who's gonna talk shit though?
Jul 25 2013 9:40PM
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Shifties4Dayz
Posts: 1657 - Karma: 553
You just show them 4bi9 house videos. Cause that's what park skiing is
Jul 25 2013 10:17PM
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panojibber.
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Usually I just get them to watch this:


Pretty good demonstration of the sport, plus you don't have to explain the clothing aspect.
Jul 25 2013 10:44PM
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Lemon
Posts: 75 - Karma: 154
Word.
Jul 26 2013 12:09AM
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alden.
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hey i do this thing,
its not as cool as snowboarding, skateboarding, surfing, tying shoe laces,
but it is cooler than getting mugged and having all of your teeth curb stomped out of your skull
Jul 26 2013 12:57AM
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mstevo
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and we'll also be able to enjoy it afterwards
Jul 26 2013 7:39AM
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