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What went through your mind before you hit your first jump?

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Dobber
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I see a lot of kids sitting at the top of a jump line, their legs shaking, debating whether or not they should hit that big kicker. What was your first jump like and how long did it take you to build up the courage to go for it?. The first time I landed a jump when I was 9 or 10 years old felt better than anything I've ever done before.
Dec 1 2014 8:42PM
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willjohnson25
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I mostly thought about speed. Then nuckled it so fuckinng hard.
Dec 1 2014 8:46PM
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danncphedran
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To long ago for me to remeber, I do know though that when I'm hitting a big booter I am always scared for the first hit cause I don't know the speed
Dec 1 2014 8:48PM
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JGWI
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Speed wasn't on my mind much because I followed someone in who was on point, however the landing upside down part scared me a bit.
Dec 1 2014 8:54PM
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B.Quincy
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When i was like 6 im pretty sure i sent it harder than i do today because i wasnt sacred of fucking anything
Dec 1 2014 9:09PM
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losh
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"i hope this works, i saw it on youtube once how hard can it be"
Dec 1 2014 9:10PM
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a_burger
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closing day in third grade. I was fearless. Me and a friend just spent all day gaping it up in the park, and by the end of the day my heels were dead. I'm going to pretend I was overshooting the jumps but I was probably knuckling them every time.
Dec 1 2014 9:11PM
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joe_dirt
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"if you turn as much as you can the jump wont be nearly as scary as it is going straight in."
Dec 1 2014 9:21PM
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johnnyBuz
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absolutely nothing. i was 9 or 10 on some shitty rental planks and just sent it. no fear and not a care in the world. i miss that youthful naivete.
Dec 1 2014 9:25PM
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Tree60
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johnnyBuzabsolutely nothing. i was 9 or 10 on some shitty rental planks and just sent it. no fear and not a care in the world. i miss that youthful naivete.


Also the youthful bounciness. I wish I could fall like I could when I was younger, that shit hurts now.
Dec 1 2014 9:28PM
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Yaraelpoof.png
Posts: 1556 - Karma: 6,418
I don't remember exactialy but I was probably thinking something along the lines of I'm so fucked.
Dec 1 2014 9:33PM
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emilell3
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stressing is the worst thing to do
hesitation is the key to fail
Dec 1 2014 10:03PM
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APunx176
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Honestly jumps aren't scary for me at all. Take a few speed checks and if it makes you feel any better, go off of it really slow a few times (don't roll over the lip, just pop over the lip). Rails are way more intimidating to me
Dec 1 2014 10:33PM
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yungsteeze
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"I'm bout to hit dis jump"
Dec 1 2014 10:36PM
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TACO-DOG.exe
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*coming into the last chunk of the halfpipe*

"im going really fast for this lol"
Dec 1 2014 10:43PM
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John18_6
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It was like the feeling I get on first hit on an urban rail. Except less intense.
Dec 1 2014 11:14PM
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Krotchs_Brother
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Can't remember my first ever jump. But I do remember hitting a 40ft booter for the first time. I was scared as fuck. It was the last run of the last day of the season. My friend called last run. All variables were pointing towards certain death. My boy went first and just sent it. I said fuck it, if I get hurt now I'll have about 7 months to recover. Dropped in, bombed it, popped off clean as fuck and stomped it. My balls tingled for the next 2 weeks. It was such a bitter sweet moment because although I was so proud, I was also so mad that I hadn't done it earlier in the season.
Dec 1 2014 11:28PM
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GrumpisPringle
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I was 12 on some shitty dynastar planks with rear entry boots. I looked up the brand of boot they were and they don't exist. I was bragging to my uncle about hitting the jump all day so he called me out on it.

sitting at the top about to drop in I wasn't even that scared. I just didn't want to fuck up in front of my uncle.

As I approached the lip I thought I had perfect speed. I came about two feet short of the knuckle and cased so hard that my boots broke. the rear entry door flopped open and I just slammed my back on the ground almost immediately.

I then proceded to jump right back up and started to yell because of pure stokeness.

Yup, I was a huge gaper my first year skiing.
Dec 1 2014 11:55PM
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msg
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WOAHOAHAHAHHH FUUUUUCK
Dec 1 2014 11:56PM
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bieberhole69.
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Was scared to kunckle. Straightlined from chairlift to jump (wasn't very big). Moment I left the ground my skis started rising further and further up until I was upside-down. Nothing I could do. Shit. Overshot it and landed in the flats on my ass.
Dec 2 2014 12:00AM
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MWG
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What would big air dave do?
Dec 2 2014 12:12AM
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GrahamGould
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I think I was 10 or 11. I don't remember what I thought before, I just remember knuckling really hard.
Dec 2 2014 12:31AM
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L0gic
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I was so depressed from being called out as a 12 year old on newschoolers. I became so depressed tht I wanted to end my gaper life. I hit the biggest kicker at my snow hoping to break my neck. However I stomped it and decided to ski park for the rest of my life.
Dec 2 2014 9:02AM
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gnarballsianm
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I think the first little kicker I hit was one of those side hits at sun valley to the iciest hardest
landing every, still have fun on that shit today
Dec 2 2014 12:10PM
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dmski
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gnarballsianmI think the first little kicker I hit was one of those side hits at sun valley to the iciest hardest
landing every, still have fun on that shit today

ahhh the gold ol days
Dec 2 2014 1:32PM
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Rachy
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My first run through the "big line" in South Park at Mammoth...

It probably took me over half an hour to get up the courage to just straight air everything. All I kept telling myself was that, "I'm just doing straight airs, the worst that can go wrong is that I land knuckle and hurt my knees, so don't speed check."

I sort of knuckled the last of the 3 jumps and it hurt a little, then I went and did it again. I'll still only straight air it, but I'm happy with that for now.
Dec 2 2014 1:50PM
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theabortionator
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Hitting smaller stuff when I was like 6. Just did it because yolo.

I feel like later on it would have been harder to hit my first jump. Also if you don't have any small jumps that can be a problem as well.

Don't over think it, just flow. If it's too big that you're shitting yourself you probably aren't ready and should hit a smaller jump and work your way up. It's like going down a double black when you can barely ski blues. It may sound cool as fuck on the bus ride home but it's kind of pointless.

In skiing you're always pushing the boundaries but it helps to do things in stages. It'll keep you healthy. If you want to go crazy you could work your way up in a day. Just having that feel of jumps similar but smaller is massively helpful. Where you have your weight and air awareness is everything on big jumps.

GOod luck.
Dec 2 2014 2:11PM
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MLJ
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I was probably 8 or 9, and I remember I was skiing down a blue run minding my own gaper business, when I came across a couple snowboarders who had built a foot tall bump in the middle of the run. They were like "Hey bro, can you test this shit for us?" They were by the jump, and i was a little bit up mountain so had enough space to get speed.



I decided not to look like a pussy in front of those "cool older kids" and sent it. Probably in total less than 2 feet, but I remember it fucking scaring me at the time. I was backseat as shit when I took off, so I ended up landing on my ass, getting up and skiing away in teary embarassment. Shit was pretty funny.

Then, this year, I finally manned the fuck up and hit a 30 footer. I sessioned the little jump beneath it for a while (probably like 15 feet), and then followed in a guy who knew the speed and went for it. I freaked out in the air, flailed like a bitch and landed on my skis and slipped out. I caught the lift back up and stomped it on the next run.



I think the key to hitting bigger stuff is pop, that's what everyone normally gets wrong.

Sorry for the essay, should be pretty funny though :)
Dec 2 2014 4:20PM
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jimmydar
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"My dad just did it so I should too!"
Dec 2 2014 6:43PM
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Dobber
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APunx176Honestly jumps aren't scary for me at all. Take a few speed checks and if it makes you feel any better, go off of it really slow a few times (don't roll over the lip, just pop over the lip). Rails are way more intimidating to me

Yeah man rails are not my favorite.
Dec 3 2014 8:22AM
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Slush
Posts: 1914 - Karma: 12,942
"Fuck those kids on the chairlift, I ain't a pussy!"
then
"HOOOOOOOOOOOOOMAGAWD I'M FLYING IMFLYINGIMFLYINGIMFLYING"
then
"Oh, that wasn't that bad, WHY DIDN'T I DO THIS EARLIER?!"
Dec 3 2014 3:34PM
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ModMommy
Posts: 10815 - Karma: 57,158
"If she can do it, I can."
Proceeded to go way too big on it.
Dec 3 2014 3:40PM
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RubberSoul
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Dec 3 2014 3:49PM
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Old-schooler.
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Some ski patrol guys built one that I just thought was a table top... Turns out I was wrong, but I ended up fine.
Dec 3 2014 3:56PM
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gnarballsianm
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theabortionatorHitting smaller stuff when I was like 6. Just did it because yolo.

I feel it man, yo fucking lo
Dec 3 2014 4:09PM
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freestyler540
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Speed. Jumps were not regulated things like today, most were pretty scarry looking and eyed up.
Dec 3 2014 4:31PM
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RubberSoul
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freestyler540Speed. Jumps were not regulated things like today, most were pretty scarry looking and eyed up.


i miss sketchy jumps and pipes. everything was a tranny find! haha
Dec 3 2014 5:58PM
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Powstagram
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"I'm gonna do a dub 10"
Dec 3 2014 7:23PM
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JahLiam
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"I can't believe its my 26th birthday already"
Dec 3 2014 9:21PM
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JTTrembles
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" gotta get tits somehow... "
Dec 4 2014 8:00AM
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johnnyBuz
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JahLiam"I can't believe its my 26th birthday already"


haha that is great dude. 27 here.
Dec 16 2014 12:47PM
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steeze4days
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Just Yolo'd it tbh.
Dec 16 2014 5:18PM
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Mr.noodle
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Back in my snowboarder days the , I was probably like 9-10 And it was my first time I went to whiteface (I usually ski gore) and I was following my dads friend and he was hitting the jump line and he said I should follow him so I did, he probably thought I would just go slow and go slow and knuckle them, but I was Droppin in quick and got scared and like absorbed the lip and knuckled the jump super hard and board dug in and I did like a front flip thing and destroyed my self
Dec 16 2014 7:23PM
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