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How do I get there?

the.wenchSo I've been ski racing pretty much all of my life and not gonna lie I'm pretty darn good at it. However I'm really interested in learning how to ski park. How many of you have made the switch? Or have you been skiing park this whole time? I know it has a lot to do with balls and I mean I have a nice pair I'm just not sure where to start...

I started park from racing. Raced for a super long time.

As silly as it is to say, the simplest thing is to just start in the park. Go hit some small jumps.

If you don't have a lot of jumping experience, the first thing you will have to learn is to pop the lips of jumps. Racers are taught to absorb rollers, and if you do this on a jump you're going to have a bad time.

You'll be comfortable at speed and confident to hit anything - but resist hitting the big jumps until you've dialed in your basic jumping technique on the smaller stuff. If you don't pop, you'll rock slowly backwards and land on your back/neck/head. Bad time.

You need to get in control of the jump vs. it being in control of you.

TL;DR - Pop small jumps in the park.

Learn to ski switch as well if you cant. It allows you to have a greater variety of tricks

starting off will just be like a learning process, not quite as extensive and precise like ski racing is, but its fun nonetheless. i don't think switching over will be hard at all, my sister raced her whole life and made the switch over, shes competed in a handful of pipe comps and loved every second of it, now she just skis for the fun of it and coaches little ones. Id imagine for a female such as yourself who has raced their whole life shouldn't have an issue at all. In fact, some of the best ex-ski racers that I know are some of the best park skiers, and just some of the best skiers all over the mtn.


Baby parks and small features are obviously the best ways to get your feet wet, I think. Absolutely no shame in spending an hour or two there to get some stuff dialed, I spent a good amount of time hitting smaller jumps this year just trying to get an air awareness mental block away, and it most certainly helped me. Don't ever get discouraged trying stuff, because that really kills the whole main essence of park skiing, and that is having fun. We all fall, get bruised, frustrated/mad, but letting that get to you just ruins your ski day.

Treat it kinda like racing, you have a bad training run? fuck it, cut your losses, hop back on the chair, and treat your next lap like its a fresh start, you know? (I personally don't know jack shit about how racing is but Id imagine its kinda the same mindsets almost.)



Hope that helps, park skiing is great because you can learn a bunch of cool things and stuff you will eventually carry over to other parts of skiing (I.e, Sending spins off of natural hits, etc)

TL:DR learn to lip on b 2

To excel in the park requires a solid base of skills and your racing will have prepared you really well for your transition into park. A lot of top level competitive freeskiers come from a racing background.

Just bear in mind everything the guys above have said, and remember that's freeskiing is primarily about having fun. When you're starting out it's easy to get hung up on progression, try not to view it as a strictly linear path it'll only stifle your enjoyment of the sport.

Just start skiing park, you'll figure it out. Its not that difficult

Just go mess around and try some tricks

50/50 on boxes and small jumps.

Buy my Gsuit

started as a racer and i sucked, so i switched to park and sucked as well.

and that brought me to where i am now, alta.

Candide thovex, Cole drexler are the two names I can immediately think of that were racers. I started in the park however. I think the only advantage racers would have is edge control.

I made the switch a few years back because as a little kid id always hit the huge kicker at my hill when i saw it going up the lift. it introduced something completely new and creative to the sport i already loved. The best way to progress in the park is to go find a few smaller jumps, boxes and rails that are short and low to the ground, watch what others do and try to do the same. Trial and error is the key and when you get comfortable doing one thing just try another one to keep progressing. Hope I helped and good luck

VD.try not to view it as a strictly linear path it'll only stifle your enjoyment of the sport.

This.

park skiing is literally 0 skill and all balls

fresh_princepark skiing is literally 0 skill and all balls

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