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How Did You Learn to Ski

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Jihaddist_jibber
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I grew up skiing on multiple teams, but I know a ton of good skiers who taught them selves
Feb 10 2016 3:03PM
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Ian_Fitz
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Trial and error I fell and pizza'd until I learned to go sideways. I then built up the courage to try going off the lips of rails. Eventually I learned rails/jumps and tricks on and off but 95% I was just sending shit and hoping I didn't eat shit bad enough where I didn't want to try the trick again for a while! Coaching helps but theirs a reason theirs an I in skiing. not a u.
Feb 10 2016 3:14PM
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.otto.
Posts: 3494 - Karma: 12,899
bought full tilts
Feb 10 2016 7:19PM
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270on420out
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Dad use to be an avid ski bum (he still is kind of). He put me on planks at age 2. I joined the race team he coached for when I was 5. I was on the race team until I was 10 or 11. They taught me how to carve, proper form, etc. I was a slow racer and I didn't like it, so I joined the mogul team cause that's what all my friends did. Learned how to ski moguls, do 360s, air awareness, etc. In between mogul runs, my friends and I went and goofed off in the parks. My one friend taught me how to slide a box, then how to slide a rail, and then various rail tricks. Then I went from there.
Feb 10 2016 7:27PM
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WhiskeyTango
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I was born and raised in the south, far from any snow. I was a member of the Texas - Colorado caravan on holidays. I fell in love with the snow, since I never saw it more than a couple times growing up. Come time for college and I go to school in NY. I've self taught myself mostly and I'm trying to teach myself some park stuff. My local hill is only a few hundred feet tall and there hasn't been enough snow for anything but one run to be open. My friends and I make some small kickers and try and practice. So I guess it's safe to say I'm still learning, and probably will be for the rest of my life.
Feb 10 2016 7:32PM
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magco1271
Posts: 236 - Karma: 376
At 12, my first time skiing, my dad took my poles and told me to ski down the bunny hill, a day later I was skiing blues no problem and even one blacks. Don't know why Iit came so natural, but now I can't stop thinking or talking about it.
Feb 10 2016 8:08PM
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shin-bang
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EbolaTrial and error I fell and pizza'd until I learned to go sideways. I then built up the courage to try going off the lips of rails. Eventually I learned rails/jumps and tricks on and off but 95% I was just sending shit and hoping I didn't eat shit bad enough where I didn't want to try the trick again for a while! Coaching helps but theirs a reason theirs an I in skiing. not a u.


Same for me. I pizzad around till Lencon took me in and we started skiing together
Feb 10 2016 8:14PM
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SteezOnSkis12
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I actually just started skiing last year and I just snowplowed to the bottom until I learned to turn correctly then just started turning more and harder and slowly got it.
Feb 10 2016 8:43PM
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SKI_LI
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I watched a tone of skiing and tried to emulate the guys I saw though trial and error. If you're not falling you're not trying.
Feb 10 2016 8:55PM
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dyer
Posts: 619 - Karma: 964
My parents taught me almost everything but I taught myself all of the park I know.
Feb 10 2016 11:42PM
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Dddsz
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Started with a harness when I was three. Those were the days before magic carpets . my dad would take me to the sledding/tubing hill by my house and carry me up the hill... He walked up that 100'-vert hill 10+ times per day while carrying me and my skis.


I've grown up in a family of hardcore skiers and they influenced me a ton. Over the last few years I have personally dialed in my carving/mogul and tree skiing and gotten the basics down in the park. Everything is so much easier and stylish in the park when you can already rip all-mountain.
Feb 10 2016 11:57PM
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NinetyFour
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I'm still not sure if I have...
Feb 11 2016 12:10AM
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Hoodliving
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Boarded understood edge control, worked the bunny hill as a lifty for a few months and listened to the instructors teach, one day picked up skis took 3 laps on the baby hill, went to the blues made it down first run only fell 3 times and j turned into one light pole padding. Everything after that was just progression. I honestly never understood how its "hard to learn" easy to learn hard to master, but I'm able to beat a handful of racers on their courses during the summer so that's something.
Feb 11 2016 3:51AM
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csteezy
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Still workin on it ha
Feb 11 2016 9:14AM
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freestyler540
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Wasted 7 years at the ski school learning how to be a gaper. Joined the freestyle team and really learned how to ski. Got my coaching level 1 and instructing levels and still found I wasted time doing that.
Feb 11 2016 11:27AM
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vailsux.com
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Never had a day of instruction in my life. Brighton night skiing taught me all I needed to know as a child.
Feb 11 2016 11:36AM
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KravtZ
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Grew up through a racing program. Started skiin gwhen I was 2 so I don't remember
Feb 11 2016 12:08PM
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a_burger
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parents taught me from 3-6, was in a racing program in elementary school which taught me alot of the basics, been teaching myself since then.
Feb 11 2016 12:09PM
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Swandog7
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Was supposed to go snowmobiling with a friend when we got a ton of snow with some friends but some of the trails closed so we stayed at his house. We built a jump and he said we should try to ski behind the snow mobile and tow him in. It looked fun and I tried it with his gear on and it was fun as hell. The next week I got my own gear and started skiing lol.
Feb 11 2016 12:19PM
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Campering
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My parents met on a plane because they both skied. It's safe to say I wouldn't be here without that. They taught me as soon as I could walk. Put me in between their legs and let me hold on to their poles.
I feel like taking lessons and having coaches would help and all... but there's nothing quite like teaching yourself how to do that trick you've been wanting to try since you started.
Feb 11 2016 12:37PM
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Deforestation
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magco1271At 12, my first time skiing, my dad took my poles and told me to ski down the bunny hill, a day later I was skiing blues no problem and even one blacks. Don't know why Iit came so natural, but now I can't stop thinking or talking about it.


So you're still 12?
Feb 11 2016 1:52PM
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Lé.Skiing
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I started skiing around the same time I learned to walk... lol

Was in Nancy Greene for a few years and the rest is pretty much self taught or friends helping me out.
Feb 11 2016 2:03PM
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Cyanicenine
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I took figure skating lessons in middle school, and have gone recreationally to the ice rink on and off into adulthood. It is a pretty gentle transition to skis, hockey stopping on ice skates is very similar, as well as edge use and foot postion. Never took a lesson for skiing, although lately I've been considering getting a lesson to help progress in the park.
Feb 11 2016 2:15PM
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Campering
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CyanicenineIt is a pretty gentle transition to skis, hockey stopping on ice skates is very similar, as well as edge use and foot postion.


People always tell me that, but I still eat it every time I try to stop on ice lol
Feb 11 2016 2:36PM
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BaconSteezburger
Posts: 114 - Karma: 713
My aunt who is an instructor taught me how to ski, but I have taught myself everything Park related in my backyard through trial and lots of error.
Feb 11 2016 2:51PM
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gapersarefriends
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started playing hockey when i was 3, started skiing when i was five. Learning how to skate and about edge control really helped me out, my dad took me up one day and i skied between his legs till lunch time, and haven't looked back since
Feb 11 2016 3:11PM
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mike759
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parents and some lessons
Feb 11 2016 5:19PM
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skiP.E.I.
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I skiied for the first time on a school trip in the eighth grade. I learned mostly by looking at the skis. I had a little experience from xc skiing a few times, but seeing the metal edges and shape of the skis I figured out that I could adjust direction and speed by putting pressure on the edges. I got told off by lifties too because I had never seen a chairlift before and didn't realize there was a restraining bar.
Feb 11 2016 7:09PM
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magco1271
Posts: 236 - Karma: 376
DeforestationSo you're still 12?


nah dude 15
Feb 11 2016 9:04PM
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DominatorJacques
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Jihaddist_jibberI grew up skiing on multiple teams, but I know a ton of good skiers who taught them selves


By watching others and doing the same. Never a lesson ever.

Feb 11 2016 9:32PM
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Steezymikcreeby
Posts: 70 - Karma: 126
Followed a couple friends cruising thru the park then eventually got better and started hitting rails and jumps
Feb 12 2016 10:38AM
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KilaTsunami
Posts: 3167 - Karma: 29,863
the faster u realize that your skis wont work without full tilts, the faster you'll be a sponsored pro with filmers following you
Feb 12 2016 12:02PM
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ChachieRaybanz
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Gripped it and ripped it. Said fuck it huck it. Corks for days
Feb 12 2016 6:33PM
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alanna_moe
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Well, I'm still kind of learning and this year I started out on the bunny hill. Finally my dad got me to go in the chairlift and my the end of that night I was skiing down pretty good. I now can go down the black diamond at my local hill. I try to go down the parks but that doesn't go very well. I love to ski and always will. I want to end up like a LINE skier. Recently I tried to go over a jump and then just back down but I was going to fast and caught some air. So far that was the best moment of my life I fell but I just kept laughing and smiling. I hope that I will be able to learn to do tricks. Skiing is my favorite thing to do in my free time. I love to go skiing with 2 of my friends. It is so much fun to ride up the chairlift having a lot of laughs and then going down shredding the hill.
Feb 12 2016 11:31PM
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dyyylan
Posts: 186 - Karma: 500
Took a couple lessons when I was 26. I don't get all the hate for lessons, shit is so much easier when someone just tells you what to do and what you're doing wrong.
Feb 13 2016 12:00AM
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DominatorJacques
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dyyylanTook a couple lessons when I was 26. I don't get all the hate for lessons, shit is so much easier when someone just tells you what to do and what you're doing wrong.


I learned on my own, but lessons are good. It can bring a persons progression up much faster. Where I'm at now took me years to get to. If i had some lessons it could have happened much sooner. No hate on lessons from me. Just some folks don't have the extra money.
Feb 13 2016 10:12AM
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Panta.Pow
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My aunt was a ski instructor and my second uncle was a national ski instructor and trainer here in Italy and they taught me the basics. From that i basically taught myself by looking at teachers and other people who were obviously very good. I admit i may not have the best style but i can ski any terrain so i turned out fine.
Feb 13 2016 6:08PM
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