Replying to Any advanced/expert skiers who started skiing quiet late?

Would be pretty cool to hear about people who for example couldn't even ski down a blue piste without falling at 18 and can do corks and rails and stuff at 23.

Just wondering to what extent you have to grow up skiing in order to have that feeling it, for pulling sick tricks with style etc. Are you somebody, or do you know people who turned out to be advanced/expert (park) skiers, who started like very late (after puberty)?