Define a Newschooler

ha.

I worry about the answers you'll receive lol. Id say its kind of hard to define really. The easiest parallel would be to say we are all freeskiers I would have to say. Beyond that maybe...someone who wants to see the sport come into the modern era. So many of the people I ski with on a regular basis (ski instructors at my mountain) do not particularly understand why we dress the way we do, why my skis are mounted dead center or why I use short poles. They are steeped in their ski tradition and extremely resilient to change. We are the ones trying to change that tradition.

This is a damn hard question my man, good thread.

I'm expecting a lot of, "wow nice repost" "I fucked op's mom" kind of responses. That way I can quote them and show how immature and childish all of us are hahaha, but ya never know maybe I'll actually get something good out of this

This haha

id say the common newschooler is a bunch of sarcastic, immature kids

I always like the urban dictionary's definition,

^^^^^^^ my new favorite post

I think the main thing to being a 'newschooler' is to look at the mountain like a playground.

Once you have that mentality, it sticks with you.

This is nothing more than a resurgence of the original hot dogging movement, which had the same philosophy.

this is literally perfect

A nerd that gets hated on at Alta and normally fits in better with snowboarders
(aka myself)

newschooler : freeskiing = basketball jones : basketball

A newschooler is a skier who is free. They are the people who created freeskiing by doing what they wanted to do.

Newschool is a state of mind

 Freeskiing, or Newschool skiing is a specific type of skiing. It is a subset of Freestyle skiing, although many participants view it as a separate sport and do not refer to it as freestyle. The sport does not require participants to compete, but there are competitive events available at every level of the sport. There are currently two Olympic freeskiing events, Half-pipe skiing and Slopestyle. These events make up two of the four Olympic freestyle skiing events. The sport has seen continual growth since its inception in the late 1990s. An entire industry has been created with this rapid popularization. As a result of this growth, there is currently a growing number of professional freeskiers. Most are highly competitive skiers, usually specializing in a certain freeskiing discipline. There are however professional skiers who do not compete, and rather produce and star in videos. Freeskiing or Newschool skiing involves tricks, jumps, and terrain park features, such as rails, boxes, jibs, or other obstacles. This form of skiing resulted from a combination of the growth in popularity of snowboarding as well as the progression of Freestyle skiing. "Newschoolers", or those who specifically ski in this style are often found in terrain parks, which are designed specifically for tricks. History In the 1990s freestyle skiers, discouraged by restrictive laws placed on the sport by the International Ski Federation, began trying their tricks in what were at the time snowboard-only terrain parks. Early newschool skiers were very aware of the developing style and attitude of snowboarding, and adopted these for their own sport. The Newschool Skier is related more to the snowboarder in his/her style than to the traditional skier's style. The FIS freestyle skiing events were governed by restrictive rules that were unpopular in the growing ski community, and slowed down the progression of the sport. Such rules included a ban on inverted tricks in mogul runs, a limit on the number of flips in aerial competitions, and a lack of ski park or pipe competitions. The "Newschool" movement was a breakaway fraction of the freeskiers who were unhappy with the FIS. The breakaway faction was led by the New Canadian Air Force, which included the "Godfather of freeskiing", Mike Douglas, and others such as JF Cusson, Vincent Dorion, JP Auclair and Shane Szocs. Also contributing significantly in these early days were Julien Regnier and "the Three Phils", namely, Phil Larose, Phil Belanger and Phil Dion, all of whom were teammates at Dynastar. After helping Salomon develop their first twin-tip ski, the "1080", the New Canadian Air Force began jumping and filming in traditionally snowboarder dominated terrain parks. In recent years, many ski resorts have introduced terrain parks where skiers and snowboarders can attempt tricks. These parks include many features like rails, boxes, jumps, hips, quarterpipes, and halfpipes. It is now quite common for 'Newschool' skiers to use urban features in towns and cities to perform tricks also done in the snowpark. A popular choice of equipment for this terrain is the twin-tip ski. Twin-tip skis come in all shapes and sizes, and were originally made specifically for newschool skiing. The varieties of twin-tip skis are now more versatile, being marketed towards skiers of all styles and abilities. Twin-tip skis are turned up at both ends to allow for both regular and switch skiing. In 2007, the formation of the Association of Freeskiing Professionals, created a unified global tour of competitions and ranking system for freeskiing athletes. Created as a unified voice for the athletes, the AFP organized freeskiing competitions in slopestyle, ski half pipe and big air disciplines under consistent guidelines of AFP sanctioned judging and format standards. This calendar of AFP sanctioned competitions and the AFP rankings serve as a roadmap for emerging talent in the sport, event organizers, coaches, nations, and the general public in regard to the sport of Freeskiing. Since 2008 the AFP has named World Champions in each discipline for men and women. The Overall World Championship is awarded each year to the best combined ranking in all disciplines . In 2012 the AFP changed the name of the Overall World Championship trophy to the Sarah Burke Trophy in honor of the fallen women's skiing pioneer Sarah Burke who died in a 2012 skiing accident in Utah. On April 6, 2011, the International Olympic Committee announced the addition of the men's and women's ski halfpipe and slopestyle events to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Olympic status for ski halfpipe is expected to have a direct impact on the training, funding, and resources available to athletes. In January 2011, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association launched U.S. Freeskiing in partnership with The North Face, which would presumably supply Olympic uniforms. Newschool terrain Backcountry Any skiing outside the prepared or marked trails is referred to as backcountry or off-piste skiing. This form of skiing is probably the most mortally dangerous because of the high speeds, large drops, and avalanches. This type of skiing has been banned in certain areas of the world because of chances of injury and/or death Many see this form of skiing to be the most freeing, because it creates a relationship of just the skier and mountain. Backcountry skiers consist of both newschool skiers who perform tricks off various terrain features, and oldschoolers as well. Park Park is skiing on man-made features provided by the ski area such as jumps, rails, boxes, and halfpipes. According to Freeskier's 2010 Travel Guide the top resorts in North America for park are Breckenridge, Mammoth, Aspen/Snowmass, Park City, Poley Mountain, Whistler Blackcomb, Alivia, and Mount Snow Urban Urban skiing consists of sliding or grinding your skis on rails, ledges, etc. outside of ski resorts/areas. Urban has much more of a risk factor than regular park skiing due to harder terrain. You can spot urban features in such ski movies as Level 1's "Eye Trip" and Poor Boyz Production's "Revolver." Industry "Core" Ski Manufacturers There are many relatively small companies that have supported and greatly added to the progression of Newschool Skiing. These companies make skis specific for Newschool Skiing. Line is believed to be the first newschool skiing company, and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2005. In 2006, Line was bought by K2 Sports, although they are still widely considered a "core" brand because there were no large changes in the design process or goals of the company. Other popular freeski-specific manufacturers include Armada, ON3P, Epic Planks, 4FRNT, and Coreupt . Involvement of global ski manufacturers Within the last decade, traditional ski brands such as Atomic, Salomon, Rossignol, Völkl, Fischer and Head have embraced the newschool revolution and are producing twin tips of their own. Now, most of the popular and larger ski companies produce many twin-tipped newschool skis. The K2 Poacher was the first mass-produced twin tip ski to hit the market however the Salomon 1080 is considered to be the first commercially successful mass-produced twin tip ski. Dynastar's Concept and Rossignol's Pow Air were early offerings in response to Salomon success. Media production companies Video production studios Teton Gravity Research, Matchstick Productions Level 1 productions and Poor Boyz Productions have been popular since the sport evolved in the 1990s. There is also a growing number of smaller independent media groups which have found great success by using social media outlets. Notable Brands Core Ski Manufacturers Armada, ON3P, Liberty, Line, Ninthward, Bluehouse, 4Frnt, Surface, Moment, Movement, CoreUPT, Amplid Major ski brands with freeskiing specific lines Rossignol, Salomon, Atomic, Scott, K2 Sports, Fischer, Elan, Head, Line Skis, Völkl Clothing Manufacturers with freeskiing specific clothing ,,,,, Nike, The North Face, Oakley,,,, Salomon, Sessions Equipment Freeskiing requires at least three pieces of gear. Skis, Ski Boots and Ski Bindings. In addition to this, many skiers choose to use poles, goggles, ski clothing and safety gear such as helmets and avalanche gear. Almost everything used by freeskiers is designed specifically for use in freeskiing rather than ordinarry ski gear. Types of skis There are three kinds of newschool skis: Powder, All-Mountain and Park. Powder Skis Powder skis, also called big-mountain or backcountry skis, have a wide waist width, making them ideal for places with heavy powder. That extra surface area helps skiers to float above premium powder. However, they can be difficult to use on slopes with less snow or groomed trails, especially for beginning to moderate skiers. More experienced skiers—and those with some extra cash—sometimes buy powder skis as an alternate pair, to be used when conditions warrant it. True backcountry skis have a waist width of 90 to 110 millimeters, while powder skis are easily the widest type of ski, measuring from 110 to 140 millimeters All Mountain Skis Most Alpine skis fall into this category. Because the majority of skiers don't have the luxury of lugging around several sets of skis to match that day's conditions, All-Mountain skis are designed to perform in all types of snow conditions and at most speeds. Narrower All-Mountain skis are better for groomed runs, while wider styles handle better in powder and cruddy conditions. Other names for this style of ski include Mid-Fat skis, All-Purpose skis, and the One-ski Quiver. Park Skis Park skis are often designed with a more symmetrical shape to make switch skiing much easier and reinforced edges to withstand rails. Eric Pollard designed the first two symmetrical skis, the Anthem and the Invader, although he was not given much credit because the Invader was of poor build quality. Pollard now has his own pro model skis from Line skis called the EP Pro, The Elizabeth and The Sir Francis Bacon. Some new powder and all-mountain skis are created with 'reverse camber' meaning that the tips and tails are bent up slightly to make powder landings easier. Apparel There is a heavy emphasis on fashion in the freeskiing industry. Stand alone brands such as Saga, Jiberish, or Lethal Descent are very popular among skiers. Many independent ski manufacturers such as Armada also release outerwear lines. There are also offerings from large, non freeskiing specific brands which have lines geared specifically to school skiing. Terminology Rail Tricks Spin on Spin out Switch-up K-Fed Britney Disaster 50/50 Jump Tricks Spin Rodeo Misty Lincoln Loop Flat Spin Cork D-Spin Bio Slang Steeze Spin-to-Win Sandbag Solid Seven "Can you tell me how to get to chad's gap?" Gaper Cool Story Hansel Stomped Train Hucked Future Spin Afterbang Notable skiers Sylvain Saudan Glen Plake Scot Schmidt Doug Coombs Seth Morrison Shane McConkey Bill Briggs Chris Davenport Simon Dumont Mark Abma JP Auclair Ingrid Backstrom Noah Bowman Bobby Brown Sarah Burke Tanner Hall Russ Henshaw Eric Hjorleifson Kristi Leskinen Jonny Moseley Jon Olsson Sean Pettit Guerlain Chicherit Sammy Carlson Mike Riddle TJ Schiller Candide Thovex Kaya Turski Tom Wallisch Torin Yater-Wallace C. R. Johnson Janette Hargin See also Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics List of Olympic venues in freestyle skiing FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup X Games Freestyle skiing Aerial skiing Mogul skiing Ski ballet Ski cross Half-pipe Slopestyle Backcountry skiing Freeriding Extreme skiing Alpine skiing List of skiing topics External links References Bibliography: Wikipedia @baygross

I didnt even read the above post but you should prolly just copy and paste it and have ost of your essay done... BAM!

pic = 1000 words

^^ summary?

IMO, a newschooler shouldn't really be able to be defined except by well... itself. A newschooler's constantly pushing boundaries, trying new things and isn't limited to any one thing, so why define the undefined?

Well this will be a wonderful way to end my essay haha!

Gotta update that shit. They have tight pants now.

Someone who wants to use their skis to find happiness by using any and every obstacle in their site to create an energetic feeling.

Someone who is passionate about progression in the sport on the mountain, in media aad in everyday life. A Newschooler isn't defined by a set of words, rather by actions and how they view the mountain.

2008

Someone who drives a subaru

I'd say anyone who doesn't just go make turns on a run thinking that is the be all end all of skiing. Someone who sees potential in a bunch of shit. Pretty much just finding new stuff to do on the hill be it side hits, park laps, or just seeing how fast you can charge a gnarly line. It's about being open to change and welcoming variety. When skiing becomes stale and repetitive it's not fun anymore. Like j-lev says... it's just skiing, and having an attitude like that showing up to the hill for a shred means anything can happen, you can ski whatever the hell you want with no constraints. Keepin' it fun is the most important part.

a bunch of teenagers with a marjuianna addiction often wearing baggy clothing and look homeless. On the weekends the parents of these "newschoolers" drive them up to the mountains so these kids can make edits with go pros. these kids can be spotted wearing many wet and frozen cotton tall tees in the park followed by a jiberish hoodie.

A newschooler is really just someone who fucking loves skiing (almost as much as women or drugs (if not more)). It doesnt matter if you are a spinbot, a jib ninja or a rail wizard. We all share a common love for the mountain and for looking at new features and new trails with the eager eye of attempting something new until we conquer it and it becomes something that allows you to progress as a skier. A NS really just is someone who can wake up (sometimes at 6am sometimes at 5pm) run to the mountain and just feel like this no matter what tricks you stomp or how many times you fal on your face, your balls, or your pride.

fall"

the antithesis to an oldschooler.

and due to my lack of knowledge i will ask, what defines an oldschooler hahaha?

Surprising lack of dildos mentioned

I lost it at these

What would you do to get the first cease and desist? Haha

A newschooler is someone who skis and doesn't care about the destination per say, but more of the journey. We are the ones that shout "ooooohhhhhhh" when we see the guy who has been working on the insane trick on the quad kink to pole jam. We are the next generation of skiers and I'm proud to be apart of it.

A Newschooler is the kind of guy that puts on "Trap Queen" at exactly the right time and gets shit bumpin.

Also, Newschoolers ski.

OP you better post your essay here when its done

BBurt Freeskiing, or Newschool skiing is a specific type of skiing. It is a subset of Freestyle skiing, although many participants view it as a separate sport and do not refer to it as freestyle. The sport does not require participants to compete, but there are competitive events available at every level of the sport. There are currently two Olympic freeskiing events, Half-pipe skiing and Slopestyle. These events make up two of the four Olympic freestyle skiing events.
The sport has seen continual growth since its inception in the late 1990s. An entire industry has been created with this rapid popularization. As a result of this growth, there is currently a growing number of professional freeskiers. Most are highly competitive skiers, usually specializing in a certain freeskiing discipline. There are however professional skiers who do not compete, and rather produce and star in videos.
Freeskiing or Newschool skiing involves tricks, jumps, and terrain park features, such as rails, boxes, jibs, or other obstacles. This form of skiing resulted from a combination of the growth in popularity of snowboarding as well as the progression of Freestyle skiing. "Newschoolers", or those who specifically ski in this style are often found in terrain parks, which are designed specifically for tricks.
History
In the 1990s freestyle skiers, discouraged by restrictive laws placed on the sport by the International Ski Federation, began trying their tricks in what were at the time snowboard-only terrain parks. Early newschool skiers were very aware of the developing style and attitude of snowboarding, and adopted these for their own sport. The Newschool Skier is related more to the snowboarder in his/her style than to the traditional skier's style.
The FIS freestyle skiing events were governed by restrictive rules that were unpopular in the growing ski community, and slowed down the progression of the sport. Such rules included a ban on inverted tricks in mogul runs, a limit on the number of flips in aerial competitions, and a lack of ski park or pipe competitions. The "Newschool" movement was a breakaway fraction of the freeskiers who were unhappy with the FIS.
The breakaway faction was led by the New Canadian Air Force, which included the "Godfather of freeskiing", Mike Douglas, and others such as JF Cusson, Vincent Dorion, JP Auclair and Shane Szocs. Also contributing significantly in these early days were Julien Regnier and "the Three Phils", namely, Phil Larose, Phil Belanger and Phil Dion, all of whom were teammates at Dynastar. After helping Salomon develop their first twin-tip ski, the "1080", the New Canadian Air Force began jumping and filming in traditionally snowboarder dominated terrain parks.
In recent years, many ski resorts have introduced terrain parks where skiers and snowboarders can attempt tricks. These parks include many features like rails, boxes, jumps, hips, quarterpipes, and halfpipes. It is now quite common for 'Newschool' skiers to use urban features in towns and cities to perform tricks also done in the snowpark. A popular choice of equipment for this terrain is the twin-tip ski. Twin-tip skis come in all shapes and sizes, and were originally made specifically for newschool skiing. The varieties of twin-tip skis are now more versatile, being marketed towards skiers of all styles and abilities. Twin-tip skis are turned up at both ends to allow for both regular and switch skiing.
In 2007, the formation of the Association of Freeskiing Professionals, created a unified global tour of competitions and ranking system for freeskiing athletes. Created as a unified voice for the athletes, the AFP organized freeskiing competitions in slopestyle, ski half pipe and big air disciplines under consistent guidelines of AFP sanctioned judging and format standards. This calendar of AFP sanctioned competitions and the AFP rankings serve as a roadmap for emerging talent in the sport, event organizers, coaches, nations, and the general public in regard to the sport of Freeskiing. Since 2008 the AFP has named World Champions in each discipline for men and women. The Overall World Championship is awarded each year to the best combined ranking in all disciplines . In 2012 the AFP changed the name of the Overall World Championship trophy to the Sarah Burke Trophy in honor of the fallen women's skiing pioneer Sarah Burke who died in a 2012 skiing accident in Utah.
On April 6, 2011, the International Olympic Committee announced the addition of the men's and women's ski halfpipe and slopestyle events to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Olympic status for ski halfpipe is expected to have a direct impact on the training, funding, and resources available to athletes. In January 2011, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association launched U.S. Freeskiing in partnership with The North Face, which would presumably supply Olympic uniforms.
Newschool terrain
Backcountry
Any skiing outside the prepared or marked trails is referred to as backcountry or off-piste skiing. This form of skiing is probably the most mortally dangerous because of the high speeds, large drops, and avalanches. This type of skiing has been banned in certain areas of the world because of chances of injury and/or death Many see this form of skiing to be the most freeing, because it creates a relationship of just the skier and mountain. Backcountry skiers consist of both newschool skiers who perform tricks off various terrain features, and oldschoolers as well.
Park
Park is skiing on man-made features provided by the ski area such as jumps, rails, boxes, and halfpipes. According to Freeskier's 2010 Travel Guide the top resorts in North America for park are Breckenridge, Mammoth, Aspen/Snowmass, Park City, Poley Mountain, Whistler Blackcomb, Alivia, and Mount Snow
Urban
Urban skiing consists of sliding or grinding your skis on rails, ledges, etc. outside of ski resorts/areas. Urban has much more of a risk factor than regular park skiing due to harder terrain. You can spot urban features in such ski movies as Level 1's "Eye Trip" and Poor Boyz Production's "Revolver."
Industry
"Core" Ski Manufacturers
There are many relatively small companies that have supported and greatly added to the progression of Newschool Skiing. These companies make skis specific for Newschool Skiing. Line is believed to be the first newschool skiing company, and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2005. In 2006, Line was bought by K2 Sports, although they are still widely considered a "core" brand because there were no large changes in the design process or goals of the company. Other popular freeski-specific manufacturers include Armada, ON3P, Epic Planks, 4FRNT, and Coreupt .
Involvement of global ski manufacturers
Within the last decade, traditional ski brands such as Atomic, Salomon, Rossignol, Völkl, Fischer and Head have embraced the newschool revolution and are producing twin tips of their own. Now, most of the popular and larger ski companies produce many twin-tipped newschool skis. The K2 Poacher was the first mass-produced twin tip ski to hit the market however the Salomon 1080 is considered to be the first commercially successful mass-produced twin tip ski. Dynastar's Concept and Rossignol's Pow Air were early offerings in response to Salomon success.
Media production companies
Video production studios Teton Gravity Research, Matchstick Productions Level 1 productions and Poor Boyz Productions have been popular since the sport evolved in the 1990s. There is also a growing number of smaller independent media groups which have found great success by using social media outlets.
Notable Brands
Core Ski Manufacturers
Armada, ON3P, Liberty, Line, Ninthward, Bluehouse, 4Frnt, Surface, Moment, Movement, CoreUPT, Amplid
Major ski brands with freeskiing specific lines
Rossignol, Salomon, Atomic, Scott, K2 Sports, Fischer, Elan, Head, Line Skis, Völkl
Clothing Manufacturers with freeskiing specific clothing
,,,,, Nike, The North Face, Oakley,,,, Salomon, Sessions
Equipment
Freeskiing requires at least three pieces of gear. Skis, Ski Boots and Ski Bindings. In addition to this, many skiers choose to use poles, goggles, ski clothing and safety gear such as helmets and avalanche gear. Almost everything used by freeskiers is designed specifically for use in freeskiing rather than ordinarry ski gear.
Types of skis
There are three kinds of newschool skis: Powder, All-Mountain and Park.
Powder Skis
Powder skis, also called big-mountain or backcountry skis, have a wide waist width, making them ideal for places with heavy powder. That extra surface area helps skiers to float above premium powder. However, they can be difficult to use on slopes with less snow or groomed trails, especially for beginning to moderate skiers. More experienced skiers—and those with some extra cash—sometimes buy powder skis as an alternate pair, to be used when conditions warrant it. True backcountry skis have a waist width of 90 to 110 millimeters, while powder skis are easily the widest type of ski, measuring from 110 to 140 millimeters
All Mountain Skis
Most Alpine skis fall into this category. Because the majority of skiers don't have the luxury of lugging around several sets of skis to match that day's conditions, All-Mountain skis are designed to perform in all types of snow conditions and at most speeds. Narrower All-Mountain skis are better for groomed runs, while wider styles handle better in powder and cruddy conditions. Other names for this style of ski include Mid-Fat skis, All-Purpose skis, and the One-ski Quiver.
Park Skis
Park skis are often designed with a more symmetrical shape to make switch skiing much easier and reinforced edges to withstand rails. Eric Pollard designed the first two symmetrical skis, the Anthem and the Invader, although he was not given much credit because the Invader was of poor build quality. Pollard now has his own pro model skis from Line skis called the EP Pro, The Elizabeth and The Sir Francis Bacon. Some new powder and all-mountain skis are created with 'reverse camber' meaning that the tips and tails are bent up slightly to make powder landings easier.
Apparel
There is a heavy emphasis on fashion in the freeskiing industry. Stand alone brands such as Saga, Jiberish, or Lethal Descent are very popular among skiers. Many independent ski manufacturers such as Armada also release outerwear lines. There are also offerings from large, non freeskiing specific brands which have lines geared specifically to school skiing.
Terminology
Rail Tricks
Spin on

Spin out

Switch-up

K-Fed

Britney

Disaster

50/50

Jump Tricks
Spin

Rodeo

Misty

Lincoln Loop

Flat Spin

Cork

D-Spin

Bio

Slang
Steeze

Spin-to-Win

Sandbag

Solid Seven

"Can you tell me how to get to chad's gap?"

Gaper

Cool Story Hansel

Stomped

Train

Hucked

Future Spin

Afterbang

Notable skiers
Sylvain Saudan
Glen Plake
Scot Schmidt
Doug Coombs
Seth Morrison
Shane McConkey
Bill Briggs
Chris Davenport
Simon Dumont
Mark Abma
JP Auclair
Ingrid Backstrom
Noah Bowman
Bobby Brown
Sarah Burke
Tanner Hall
Russ Henshaw
Eric Hjorleifson
Kristi Leskinen
Jonny Moseley
Jon Olsson
Sean Pettit
Guerlain Chicherit
Sammy Carlson
Mike Riddle
TJ Schiller
Candide Thovex
Kaya Turski
Tom Wallisch
Torin Yater-Wallace
C. R. Johnson
Janette Hargin
See also
Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics
List of Olympic venues in freestyle skiing
FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup
X Games
Freestyle skiing
Aerial skiing
Mogul skiing
Ski ballet
Ski cross
Half-pipe
Slopestyle
Backcountry skiing
Freeriding
Extreme skiing
Alpine skiing
List of skiing topics
External links
References


Bibliography:
Wikipedia
@baygross

Yeah. I didn't read any of this. I just thought I'd be 'that guy' and quote it

Wow, nice repost OP

Also, I fucked your mom...son

someone who spends way too much time on the computer

Tom Wallisch

white elitist

DrailYeah. I didn't read any of this. I just thought I'd be 'that guy' and quote it

Haha yeah I used an automatic essay writer to write it out for me I didn't even read it myself

a newschooler is a freeskier who takes a different path than the average skier. a newschooler is not the guy who goes to keystone with his family during christmas break then racks up his/her skis for the rest of the season. no, a newschooler is the guy that meets his friends out at the local hill on a wednesday night and shreds with them til last chair is called, then hikes a sticky ass rail when it's 15 degrees outside until they get yelled at by some pissy old man to go home. a newschooler doesnt need 20 inches of fresh pow to have a good time, all he needs is a couple other newschoolers with him. when newschoolers are together out on the slopes, nothing else matters to them. no matter how much money they spend on ski gear, the fun and pure joy that skiing brings to a newschooler is priceless.

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pkicka newschooler is a freeskier who takes a different path than the average skier. a newschooler is not the guy who goes to keystone with his family during christmas break then racks up his/her skis for the rest of the season. no, a newschooler is the guy that meets his friends out at the local hill on a wednesday night and shreds with them til last chair is called, then hikes a sticky ass rail when it's 15 degrees outside until they get yelled at by some pissy old man to go home. a newschooler doesnt need 20 inches of fresh pow to have a good time, all he needs is a couple other newschoolers with him. when newschoolers are together out on the slopes, nothing else matters to them. no matter how much money they spend on ski gear, the fun and pure joy that skiing brings to a newschooler is priceless.

Does this make anyone else feel all warm and fuzzy inside?

Holy shit talk about a bump, but i wrote this essay last year around this time. Might have to sift through my old AP Lang binder to try and find it! I can assure you it wasn't a great essay but if I find it I'll try and post it

someone who loves to ski so much they dont even need a mountain, just an obstacle and a slight incline with some snow