Tipping point

and to add details I live in the east and ski park. I know backcountry is an option but I won't be able to ski in areas that have it for at least a few more years

just reel it in a little? play it a little more safe, you'll come out alright

It wasn't totally due to injury, but I stopped completely beating myself up when I realized that I have more fun not giving a shit about progressing, enjoying each moment and just relaxing and having a good time. Strangely I have progressed more since then, but yeah hucking yourself has its limitations

I had surgery on my knee opening day least season. I had the "unhappy triad" also known as blowing out your ACL, MCL and meniscus, I missed a full year on the mountain after only skiing for a total of 3 months (long story) I have decided not to spin off silks out try anything I know I can't do. This has been my first real season of my life and I've only done rails (no switch ups, or spins onto them) and I'm loving it so much. Doing what I'm 100% confident with allows me to have much more fun and mess around in trees and spin 1s and 3s ngroomers. Honestly I fucking love skiing. I thought I was going to be a park rat, but I've learned in just a fan of skiing no matter what I'm doing. You'll be alright op, just take it show and remember it's about having fun and doing what you love.

i was the same as you.
always obsessed with progression and pushing myself.

now i cant even count my injuries.

the big one for me was the first acl, when i was 23.

made me realise i had to be a bit more careful.

blew it for a second time this year ( im 26 now)

i dont know as i get older i feel the risks are not really worth it.

i have enough skills so that i can have fun in a park (especially on mid size jumps doing fun tricks like 5s, sw 5, backies etc...) without pushing myself too much.

i dont see myself hitting huge jumps all day anymore. i dont really mind though i ve learned to have fun in the pow also.

pow is more tiring than park but way less hard on your body if you re just skiing the trees.


try going to the gym also. it definitly helped me quite a lot.

but yea i feel there is a tipping point in park skiing, where you cant really progress anymore.

you might learn new grabs, do a couple new things but you re not gonna start busting double 12 if you werent before (unless you got mad gymnatics skills or something)

doesnt mean you cant have fun though i love riding the park and trying to be clean without scaring my self to death on every hit.

you're 21 dude..
get in shape and stop being a goomba

SnowshoeThompsonyou're 21 dude..
get in shape and stop being a goomba

The funny part is I'm in and have always been in good shape. High school and college athlete, always in the gym lifting and getting stronger. I always feel like I'm getting unlucky but who knows

I feel you. I took off essentially 4 years of skiing to play collegiate football. That being said my pain tolerance is pretty high, I spent the past two days eating shit on any rail I saw as this was my first real year in the park. It ended up getting me To the point where I'm going to take at least a week off now since I can barely move my shoulder and I may have a cracked rib from tacoing a rail. My first day I got pretty much all the rails at my park, the second day I have no idea what happened but I couldn't stop falling. I want to get comfortable on rails so Damn bad but I'm not sure how my body will hold up if I can't reach another progression point soon

uhh dude youre 21?

if youre getting hurt it's because of bad luck, bad decisions, or "lack of skill" as my old hockey coach used to say.

your body is at its prime in its 20s. no you don't have rubber knees like when you were 17 but if youre eating well and exercising you are still a beast. stop talking like youre 50.

now, life changing and having more responsibility/less time and money to be dealing with injuries is a real concern, so yeah that should be kept in mind when youre in the danga zone. but this boo hoo im so old my body is done talk is retarded

nick21861The funny part is I'm in and have always been in good shape. High school and college athlete, always in the gym lifting and getting stronger. I always feel like I'm getting unlucky but who knows

This might be obvious, but you know You know you have to balance strengthening with stretching right?

RubberSouluhh dude youre 21?

if youre getting hurt it's because of bad luck, bad decisions, or "lack of skill" as my old hockey coach used to say.

your body is at its prime in its 20s. no you don't have rubber knees like when you were 17 but if youre eating well and exercising you are still a beast. stop talking like youre 50.

now, life changing and having more responsibility/less time and money to be dealing with injuries is a real concern, so yeah that should be kept in mind when youre in the danga zone. but this boo hoo im so old my body is done talk is retarded

Try ending 3 seasons in a row with injury man. You sound like you've never been hurt. And look at all these crazy young kids now a days. 21-22 is not considered young in our sport

nick21861Try ending 3 seasons in a row with injury man. You sound like you've never been hurt. And look at all these crazy young kids now a days. 21-22 is not considered young in our sport

like i said, if youre getting hurt that much it has way more to do with bad luck, decisions, and/or skiing than the age of your body

and ive been hurt plenty (broken bones here and there, concussions), but if i ended my season 3 times in a row id be reconsidering my plan of action when i ski

yes there are plenty of little rippers in the park but really the top park skiers are in the 18-20something range. wallisch and hatveit are 26 and 27 i believe and they have two of the biggest bags of tricks on the planet.

you need to start being more careful and chill because there's more to life than skiing that you need to worry about. but drop the old man talk

and if youre worried about filling the void left by not ""progressing"" all the time, progress in different ways. you don't have to be going bigger and bigger and throwing huge tricks to progress. shit, there are PRO skiers who rarely do like 10s or anything bigger than 450s

find a different way to progress yourself and have fun with it