I'm a season pass holder at my mountain and I've been skiing for several years , but I tend to stay in the trees most of the time when I can, and when there isn't enough snow or terrain is closed or whatever, I just bomb groomers or cruise through some moguls. I've never really set in foot in the terrain park because I find it intimidating with all the people around and I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to park. So after years of skiing, I shred hard on the mountain, but look like a total noob in the terrain park.
My mountain just opened a few days ago and they barely have any terrain open, and nobody was at the mountain today. Like the place was DEAD. So I got the decided to venture into the terrain park since there wasn't any snow in the trees, and most of the mountain isn't open yet. There was nobody around, so this was my perfect opportunity to try new things without the intimidation of other really good park skiers/boarders watching.
Result: Did a flailing, gaper-esque straight air and landed sloppy. Tried again: Little better. Again: A bit better once more. Finally, by the end of the day, I was hitting some 10-ft (approx.) tabletop jumps with straight airs totally all tucked in, arms weren't flailing, stomped the landing... looked like a damn gymnast. 10/10 would win gold medal
TL;DR - I finally did something in the terrain park and got good results
Tell me about what to do now that I can do a straight air pretty nicely. Should I try to get shifties down? I'm not super comfortable skiing switch yet (I've only had twin tips for a season). Should I just try to straight-air bigger jumps and get comfortable in the air? What do I do now
