Quick note from an old newschooler

.otto.Once you reach a certain level of park skiing, the risk vs reward relationship becomes wildly skewed.

Getting obsessed with progression is sustainable for only a few people.

skiermanEveryone but The Bunch follow this important advice.

VISHNUHi Jack!

I'd like to add that technique is key to long term sustainability in park skiing and skiing in general. Always land square, NEVER PIZZA, with your weight forward or neutral, engaging your boots if possible. Don't get into the habit of landing back seat and doing a wheelie out of tricks to stay on your feet. It may work for awhile but all it takes is one weird landing/tweak to start a long painful road of ligament deterioration and eventual rupture. Take it from someone with multiple knee surgeries, if you feel like you are going to land backseat it is better to just wash out to your side and try the trick again, rather than force a landing and potentially injure yourself.

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Murphy802Lmao tell that to your riders...

Just playing

VISHNUIf anything our skis encourage proper landings because if you land sloppy or backseat you most likely won’t ride away. Consider it helping?

Murphy802I just made the joke because I saw a wheelie out of a landing at :20 in your recent video. Don't get me wrong the vid was sweet.

**This post was edited on Mar 28th 2019 at 6:32:38pm

VISHNUNo offense taken, no one lands perfectly 100% of the time I’m just saying that the landing should have as much of a focus as the trick itself, rather than “im gonna huck my meat and hope I land on my feet” type vibe

TRVP_ANGELOP how many days did you average each year in your early days?

TRVP_ANGELOP how many days did you average each year in your early days?

theabortionatorMeh, fucking send it.

Don't completely destroy yourself if possible but what's the point of saving yourself for retirement?

By back, knees, and head are fucked. Totally worth it though. Stretching and getting in good shape are helpful though. I think like anything else it's just luck of the draw. Most people can ride park for years without really doing much damage, some not so much.

"If I died with a body that wasn't completely wrecked I'd feel like I completely wasted it" - Matt Hoffman

The more life goes on the more shit there is to worry about. Enjoy the fuck out of that yolo park skiing time for however long it lasts.

Johngreenacrefuck, proving all of my fears to be accurate. thanks I guess!

Billiards.He isn't saying "don't send it ever, at all. Do nothing at all costs." He is saying if you recognize now that you can send it hard by being responsible about your self care outside of skiing, you'll be able to send it longer. This means that you should go as big as you can but recognize that some strength and flexibility training will facilitate injury prevention.

I also am in my late 20s and know OP. OP sent/sends real fuckin hard so this is qualified. Myself - I use to ski 100+ days per year throughout highschool and through the first few years of #college and did my best to send. That said, even by the end of high school I was beginning to have some knee issues. A PT told me that greater leg strength (all muscles you can) takes pressure off the componentsn of your joints that will wear out. I now have more trouble sending than I would like because of my knee pain that I blame on poor training when I was younger. The point is to avoid retirement until your 70 because you're a lifelong sender, which is seriously made possible by being strong and flexible. Everybody take Stauss's advice.

JaskierI also took the wise words of Candide when he was asked how he was skiing so well in his 30s, he said have a good chiropractor.

theabortionatorI agreed that staying in shape atretching etc is good.

People in this thread ate def saying dont ski park as hard, theres more to life. OP said almost those exact words.

You could break your leg skating and never be able to run ot even walk right again. That might make you bitter and regret skating but whatever.

Shit happens but the idea that you should scale back your skiing just because some people are pissed that their bodies are getting old is ridiculous imo.

Seems like more of a "when I was your age" type deal. Everyone is going to get old a some point.

Everyone skis differently. People shouldnt sweat it and have fun. Dont break yourself but if you want to ski park hard by all means do it.

At some point maybe Ill have to stop skiing park. That would be a bummer, but I would never push theidea that people shouldnt have fun when theyre younger. Everybody has different priorities.

.otto.Large reason why I slowed my roll this season with hopes of pursuing med school.

LonelyBut the part in the hood edit was sick- Pro park skier doctor? Come up to tech and do pre-med here.

.otto.Thanks g!
NS posted recently some orthopedic surgeon resident doing a double backie lol. May be my future lol -Dr. Otto park part.

STAUSSHello,

My name is Jack and I live in Utah by way of Vermont. I've been skiing for 25 years and from ages 13 - probably 24 I was a pretty regular newschoolers user/ contributor. While I haven't used NS in the last 5ish, I have been skiing a lot and following the sport closely. Over the years I have transitioned from primarily park (competition, fun, filming) to all mountain freeride and ski touring. It has been a great adventure! I've been inspired by the generations before me as well as those that have come up in the last few years. It's awesome to see the multitude of different styles, forms, progressions of skiing out there.

So, I want to give some of you an unsolicited piece of advice/ cautionary tale to some of you younger fellows out there. It is one I wish I had heeded earlier. From banging myself on rails and hardpacked snow for a decade, several of my major joints (ankles, knees, hips, elbows, and shoulders) do not function as they are supposed to. I am 29 and have arthritis. I often wake up unable to do normal tasks, having to creep into my day slowly warming my body up to just put my socks on. My back is fucked up, deep pain that comes and goes randomly sometimes dormant for months, only to come back and floor me for a week.

I went park skiing for the first time this season two days ago and while it was really fuckin fun, and I didn't even really slam... I was unable to even walk the dog on my return home. Fuckin hobbled.

So basically my conclusion and advice is two fold: first... get into a training pattern now while you're young and carry on with it as you age. Strengthen your core and your back. If I had learned this when I was 14 I am sure I would be in a lot better shape. Get into a flow where you make it as important as skiing is to you. The second part is don't get tunnel vision. There is more to life than skiing park, shit there is more to skiing than skiing park. Learn other styles so you can make skiing a sustainable life-long endeavor. I am back-peddling now, spending 80+ days on the skintrack, which has be awesome and less intensive but perhaps starting younger I would have saved my joints.

Anyway, I'm sure a lot of you know this already but I also know there are some kids on here that do not. So please, take my advice and don't fuck your body up.

Keep those tips pointed down the hill and hope to see ya out there.