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shredasaurus
Posts: 357 - Karma: 888
not sure if theres a thread on this or not but...

post about ur progression throughout the past years, months, and weeks, idc when.

let everyone know how good uve gotten!

i suck
7 years ago
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corona
Posts: 12845 - Karma: 33,283
10+ years ago: learn 3s and how to slide rails

Now: still mostly doing 3s and regular rail slides.

Not that I haven't progressed, just whenever I get in a park I just like to do top to bottom fluid and quick runs with big smooth (at least from my perspective) 1/3/5s and at most a lip b2 on rails. I just really like the feeling of that and couldn't care much to do bigger spins or more rail dancing.


Also most of my progression has been outside the park.
7 years ago
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shredasaurus
Posts: 357 - Karma: 888
VinnieF10+ years ago: learn 3s and how to slide rails

Now: still mostly doing 3s and regular rail slides.

Not that I haven't progressed, just whenever I get in a park I just like to do top to bottom fluid and quick runs with big smooth (at least from my perspective) 1/3/5s and at most a lip b2 on rails. I just really like the feeling of that and couldn't care much to do bigger spins or more rail dancing.


Also most of my progression has been outside the park.


ur park progression is exactly where i wanna be. throwing 3s and lip b2’s consistantly.
7 years ago
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mattybaums
Posts: 300 - Karma: 1,245
Could only 180 this time 2 years ago.

Now I can cork 7, backflip, flatspin, kfed, front swap pretz 2.
7 years ago
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AveragePete
Posts: 249 - Karma: 537
1st szn in the Park: 360s and 180s, hitting rails straight on
2nd szn: nothing bc concussions
This szn: front and b2, 5s, polishing 360s etc
7 years ago
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John18_6
Posts: 7313 - Karma: 49,174
Four years ago: had my saga-boy k-fed down with perfect form
Now: can't k-fed
7 years ago
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Crust_Station
Posts: 522 - Karma: 1,852
Started skiing park this season, have down rail slides both ways, backslides, 1s and sketchy 3s, nose presses and surface swaps on boxes, starting to get front swaps down, still cant spin out of rails but hoping to get that down today
7 years ago
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Segsxi
Posts: 457 - Karma: 1,675
I started following my buddies off of the hard pack and into the resort outbacks, where the powder is softer and deeper than I am used to. It took a lot of cramping legs, tree crashes, and gaped landings to finally say that i'm just a LITTLE bit more confident to just bomb my lines, but there will always be that moment when i'm not sure where to land on the bottom of a cliff and I have to do the pole wack. Eventually I want to be able to do a lot more in resort outbacks and the back country. I have a pretty good crew this season so if things play out right I will have my own setup for next winter. There are are so many spots I want to check out in my lifetime, i'm excited to dive deeper (literally) into this.
7 years ago
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shredasaurus
Posts: 357 - Karma: 888
Crust_StationStarted skiing park this season, have down rail slides both ways, backslides, 1s and sketchy 3s, nose presses and surface swaps on boxes, starting to get front swaps down, still cant spin out of rails but hoping to get that down today


damn thats some pretty fast progression how many days have u been in park
7 years ago
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Pole-Less
Posts: 197 - Karma: 543
So 10 years ago I was having the time of my life, and nowadays I’m having the time of my life and thats all that matters!
7 years ago
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laws
Posts: 373 - Karma: 789
I started skiing park this yr, 11 days on hill and have regular slides down as well as 360s and 180s but really want to be able to ski out switch off a rail but can't kyle my self up to it for some reason, tips?
7 years ago
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shredasaurus
Posts: 357 - Karma: 888
lawsI started skiing park this yr, 11 days on hill and have regular slides down as well as 360s and 180s but really want to be able to ski out switch off a rail but can't kyle my self up to it for some reason, tips?


if its a mental block u gotta get over it urself but my advice is continue rotating on the rail, almost like a 180 on a rail. if u keep rotating it’ll be easier to pop off the rail switch cuz ur spinning in that direction anyways.
7 years ago
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lil.Boye
Posts: 2774 - Karma: 12,604
Too busy having fun
7 years ago
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dtwizzle
Posts: 233 - Karma: 1,956
Progressively becoming worse each year as spinning is not that appealing anymore to me
7 years ago
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PhippyKinz
Posts: 41 - Karma: 85
I skied alpine for 18 years and decided to pick up tele skiing last season. Still got my 3s, and now I'm really good at finishing my 1s with a quick face plant. As for rails Im trying to work in a knee drop on the rail, got to get it down on boxes first though.
7 years ago
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Crust_Station
Posts: 522 - Karma: 1,852
shredasaurusdamn thats some pretty fast progression how many days have u been in park

Maybe 13?
7 years ago
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*St4th0s*
Posts: 259 - Karma: 1,033
My most insane progression has probably been flips.

January 2017=Backflip
March 2017=Flat 3, Rodeo 5(sketchy)

June 2017=cork 7, 9 (sketchy)


I've also gotten decent at rails, if y'all check my season edit or Woodward edit you would know what I mean
7 years ago
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VolcanoBurrito
Posts: 8 - Karma: 23
Second season skiing, I can do fat 180s and a few grabs. Wanna start doing rails but I need park skis. Don’t wanna fuck up my nice skis
7 years ago
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iced
Posts: 3070 - Karma: 17,982
3 years ago: surface swaps switch 3s and 5s simple stuff
now: probably the same thing. Becoming a ski instructors drains you of your nut and leaves now energy/time
7 years ago
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Slowbro
Posts: 4109 - Karma: 24,404
My biggest progression in the last few years is that I can trick natural features now, 360s, backflips and flat 3s, usually off of windlips or small pillows. I've gotten a lot smoother overall as well.

I don't ski park as much as I used to and I've lost some rail tricks but I learned both backside 450s off last year and got some tricks on more difficult features like k feds on double kinks and disaster 270s on.

My last new jump trick was rodeo five, which I learned about 5 years ago. I became a bit of a pussy on jumps after a string of injuries but I want to get back into it this year because I have a lot of fun when I learn new tricks. I want to get cork 3-7 down as soon as I build a good jump or the local park opens.
7 years ago
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telemon
Posts: 122 - Karma: 272
switched from snowboarding and starting riding park on skis last march, got rode 5 backflip, frontswap, front 4 back 2
7 years ago
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HypeBeast
Posts: 10004 - Karma: 75,536
t_hennumswitched from snowboarding and starting riding park on skis last march, got rode 5 backflip, frontswap, front 4 back 2


Welcome back from the darkside
7 years ago
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.CJ.
Posts: 1509 - Karma: 3,671
~2nd year skiing park and I've almost got k-feds on lock. Learned backslide, front swap, unnatural front swap and front surface swap, safety slide, 5050 on features that aren't boxes, unnatural front 2, sw lip front 2, front 2 tail tap, safety slide b2, and i've also learned how to rip your heel piece out.
7 years ago
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Skier406
Posts: 22 - Karma: 3
Last year I started working on 3’s toward the end of the season. Now I am stomping them pretty consistently. I am eager for the park to open so I can start learning a 5.

Go check out my YouTube
https://youtu.be/Gcwx57YqBd8
7 years ago
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Skier406
Posts: 22 - Karma: 3
Sorry link above doesn’t work try this one
https://youtu.be/wuRdtG9c3WA
7 years ago
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