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Society's view on freeskiers Game

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AHREN*
Posts: 153 - Karma: 2,031
What do kids at your school or adults think when you tell them you are a freestyle skier? I'll start:
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Oct 10 2013 8:53PM
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Aladeen
Posts: 257 - Karma: 412
Cultura's "freeskiing" video basically summed it up perfectly
Oct 10 2013 8:55PM
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Alpacka
Posts: 116 - Karma: 260
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Oct 10 2013 8:57PM
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AHREN*
Posts: 153 - Karma: 2,031
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Oct 10 2013 9:01PM
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Anchorfilms
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"Don't only snowboarders go in those 'parks'"
Oct 10 2013 10:19PM
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Casey
Posts: 7887 - Karma: 24,831
People usually think you do whatever their limited experience with skiing is. "oh I hate the cold its so expensive bla bla bla,"... good great stay off the mountain there's way too many people doing this shit as it is.
Oct 11 2013 1:01AM
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AHREN*
Posts: 153 - Karma: 2,031
And if we think the parks are crowded now, just wait until after the olypics...

Oct 11 2013 7:25AM
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AHREN*
Posts: 153 - Karma: 2,031
Olympics*^
Oct 11 2013 7:51AM
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ny300z
Posts: 1299 - Karma: 1,708
skiing is just skiing to people around here.

they think im just up there casually cruising down a green/blue trail repeatedly the whole time and drinking hot chocolate. And if i say i hit jumps or something they think it means i hit little bumps in the snow and catch 3-5inches of air. 

not a big free skier presence on long island
Oct 11 2013 8:53AM
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K-Dot.
Posts: 3749 - Karma: 7,836
People think I'm tom wallice
Oct 11 2013 9:11AM
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jack22-2
Posts: 16 - Karma: 61
me: I'm a park skier

society: so you snowboard

me: no i ski

society: oh, so you are a racer
Oct 11 2013 1:53PM
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steezburgereddie
Posts: 1059 - Karma: 1,945
they just assume this
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Oct 11 2013 4:59PM
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CaptainObvious.
Posts: 5712 - Karma: 20,638
Me: I can't wait to ski.
Society: Do you ski or snowboard? (looking nervous I'll say what they don't want to hear.)
Me: I ski
Society: Thank god. The young crowd needs to keep skiing alive.
Me: Yeah....but....I mean....I basically spend all my time with boarders. And I do a lot of what you don't like.
Society: Oh........so you're like a snowboarder.
Me: *slap the shit out of this asshole*
Oct 11 2013 5:36PM
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casey_cope
Posts: 675 - Karma: 3,398
All the kids at my school say, "oh you ski park, thats gay." then they talk about how much better baseball and shit is.
Oct 11 2013 10:16PM
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.mnr.
Posts: 324 - Karma: 772
this one kid from school goes, "oh, are you one of those skiers that dresses like snowboarders?" i fucking died
Oct 11 2013 11:34PM
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ski0
Posts: 2321 - Karma: 5,370
lol . thats actually hilarious.

this kind of stuff used to happen all the time before I moved to whistler. I think thats why people come here.
Oct 12 2013 1:01AM
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appa
Posts: 2249 - Karma: 1,739
"dude are those twin tips???" (i seriously never thought i'd hear that one again)

"that's sick my family has a house in deer valley so i'm pretty good"
Oct 12 2013 1:07AM
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ErryB
Posts: 138 - Karma: 1,685
me-"yeah i mostly am a freestyle skiier"
them-" oh so can you do a backflip and grind on that rail?'
Oct 12 2013 2:59AM
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Spiri7o
Posts: 2163 - Karma: 1,100
"So you do the jumps?"
Oct 12 2013 9:24AM
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AHREN*
Posts: 153 - Karma: 2,031
Exact same thing happened a my school
Oct 12 2013 9:37AM
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Flowbear
Posts: 339 - Karma: 828
This is dead on. Hahah happens every time someone asks me if I ski or snowboard.
Oct 12 2013 9:48AM
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*DUMBCAN*
Posts: 2447 - Karma: 5,628
If you say you ski in England this is immediately what most people think:

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Oct 12 2013 10:55AM
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EARL
Posts: 598 - Karma: 3,052
You can use skis in the halfpipe?
Oct 12 2013 2:33PM
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AHREN*
Posts: 153 - Karma: 2,031
btw im from springs and the streets is amazing
Oct 12 2013 2:42PM
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deletedelete
Posts: 474 - Karma: 1,464
"can you do a black diamond?"
Oct 12 2013 9:24PM
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PKchu
Posts: 1158 - Karma: 5,943
This is my life in a nutshell, thank you NS community.
Adding to the fire, "Where do you kids store the moguls?"
Oct 13 2013 12:49AM
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stushoshi
Posts: 32 - Karma: 470
dude i got moved to some shit private christian school in hawaii after skiing and snowboarding for 7 yrs, think about that - the popular thing is magic n bowling now
Oct 13 2013 1:59AM
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bnewbs6
Posts: 1919 - Karma: 1,463
FUCKING THIS.
Everytime I tell people I compete in park and pipe I have to explain this. My usual response is. I do what shaun white does but on skis...
Oct 13 2013 3:00AM
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theabortionator
Posts: 51784 - Karma: 163,984
What the hell does that have to do with "Society's view on freeskiers Game"
Oct 13 2013 3:37AM
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emopoppins
Posts: 3996 - Karma: 269
lucky ass
Oct 13 2013 10:18AM
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BigDog
Posts: 712 - Karma: 815
Apparently backflips are the most impressive and challenging trick
Oct 13 2013 10:29AM
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MKeller91
Posts: 153 - Karma: 219
anytime I talk about skiing my friends insist that skiing is gay and snowboarding is way cooler because boarders can do tricks...face palm.
Oct 13 2013 12:28PM
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NotGhood
Posts: 2809 - Karma: 1,255
"so do you use those forward-backward skis?"
Oct 13 2013 1:27PM
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milk_man
Posts: 5252 - Karma: 5,978
My dad: "Why are you trying to dress like a snowboarder?"

Little kid watching Bobby Brown triple: "Oh...thats pretty cool but snowboarders can do like way better tricks!"
Oct 13 2013 1:37PM
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whackhouse
Posts: 736 - Karma: 939
My Friend: "I ski a lot too, me and my friends get out like 6 times a year"
Me: "I ski 4 times a week"
Oct 13 2013 2:10PM
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PapDaddy
Posts: 532 - Karma: 661
your friends? wow you picked such a nourishing and encouraging group of kids to spend all your time with
Oct 13 2013 2:59PM
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imakestickerz
Posts: 477 - Karma: 673
Only 4?
Oct 13 2013 3:04PM
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That_One_Dude
Posts: 1050 - Karma: 760
Watching any ski video in public, "Dude is that you?!"
Oct 13 2013 3:22PM
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Shermanator
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Oct 13 2013 3:32PM
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DonMac
Posts: 95 - Karma: 387
(One of my favorites)
Me - "I usually ski the park"
Person = "Yea we head down to the state park and cross country ski every once in a while too."



Oct 13 2013 3:54PM
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WU-sconsin
Posts: 565 - Karma: 1,301
They just assume you rent around me because barely anyone skis or snowboards.
Oct 13 2013 7:16PM
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mike3535
Posts: 210 - Karma: 1,105
"oh so you do the big air helicopter spins, your crazy"
Oct 13 2013 9:22PM
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Amarino
Posts: 218 - Karma: 2,417
When I show girls ski vids at school "oh he's cute"
Oct 13 2013 11:26PM
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-W-Raich
Posts: 73 - Karma: 251
Kid: Wait so can you like do a backflip?
me: yeah
Kid: EEERRRMEHHHHGAWWDD.. what else can you do??!!
me: cork 9s rail tricks ect
Kid: Oh...(Fucking gay)..... CAN YOU DO A DOUBLE BACKFLIP??


Oct 13 2013 11:36PM
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TRASHTALK
Posts: 324 - Karma: 493
them: "Is it hard to ride backwards?"
me: "no."


EVERYDAY.......
Oct 13 2013 11:43PM
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AT-AT
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My bro has almost the exact same one piece, and scarily similar facial hair.
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Oct 13 2013 11:58PM
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duckets
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Nuff Said
Oct 14 2013 1:21AM
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whackhouse
Posts: 736 - Karma: 939
im 14 i dont have much control over it haha
Oct 16 2013 9:04AM
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MKeller91
Posts: 153 - Karma: 219
Im from arizona man they don't know any better down here
Oct 25 2013 6:58PM
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AcidKneeDrop
Posts: 890 - Karma: 279
Society has no clue what the hell we do... At my school in md I'm pretty sure kids think i ski backcountry or some shit I don't even know
Oct 25 2013 7:07PM
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