I 've only recently been active on here due to a need to vent my rage until I'm off my ankle monitor and can actually ski, and I've been wondering; any other parents on NS? I'll be 20 in December and my son was born September 13th. Might be TMI but sitting in the operating room while the docs perform a cesarian and seeing my son pulled out of my girlfriend, hearing his first scream, was seriously an adrenaline rush only comparable to stomping something or skiing a line that made you shit your pants. Anyway, I was shuffling around on a pair of plastic Kharus you strap your snow boots into as soon as i could walk and I can't wait until he's doing the same.
It got me thinking; I was born in 93, I remember watching ski movies in the Stitzmark (bar/restaurant at the bottom of Alyeska) while I ate nachos and my dad had a beer, and over the years seeing the transition of Glenn Plake and 210's to Pep Fujas and twins. I remember it was 6 years of skiing switch on race skis 6 sizes too big for me until I got on a pair of twins when I was 13. I watched skiing change, and now my son is born into an era where I'll be building mini-versions of the pvc rails i slide every year as soon as the first snow falls for him.
What will this generation of "freeskiers" kids be like? How much different will they be from us? Look at your parents. Mine remember the days of leather lace-up boots with as much ankle support as a pair of converse all-stars. My parents remember when Warren Miller was actually legit and moguls were cool. Who will my son look up to in the world of skiing, if he so chooses to immerse himself in it as I have?
I learned to ski powder on pointy-tipped skinny skis back in the 90s, while my son will have the option of a rocker'd ski by the time he's 7 (which he won't get unless he can actually ski powder without the assistance of modern ski tech, he's gonna learn it right, like I did)
I guess what I'm getting at is; any other's on here with kids? Kids who will look at Partly Cloudy as a "classic"? What kind of offspring will a generation of tall-t wearing (myself not included) backwards riding, rail sliding, double-corking, pot-smoking skiers produce? I know mine will be sliding pvc when he's 3.
