1st year freestylin

ginty

ginty

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i just started freestylin this year just wonderin where i should be? i can do boxs mad easy (can do like 1 switch up) 180's 360's( still kinda sketchy though)grabs, rails w/ like 1 kink still workin on th d-f-d. am i good for just startin?
 
at my mountain the park is the only thing to do cuz the mt is so small, so i guess i am a park rat at my home mt.
 
what's wrong with parkrats...hmmmmmmmm

how can you ride the same lift over and over again?

how can you do the same thing over and over again?

i personally need some new scenery.
 
at some mtns that are huge like out west and even some mtns here in the east i can totally see where your coming from but my mountain is terrible and they suck at grooming the trails so i go to the park and hang there a lot, and if im not doing that im probably doing glades with cliffs but if i lived in like Whistler id prob be like 50/50 park/powder instead of the like 80/20 i am here
 
i understand ur frustration, but as the guy above sez, its easy for us at big hills with big terrain.

if i rode a little hill id totally be a park monkey.

as it is, thats why i can launch a 40footer, but cant do a switch up.
 
If you like Park. Ride park. If you like Pow. ride pow. And if you like both then ride both. Who gives a shit wat u ride and if you're a "park rat".

And for the actual topic of the thread this is my first year and i hit basically the same thing, +2 outs. It all depends on the steeze with which u stomp tricks.
 
Don't worry about how you compare. As long as you're pushing yourself you should be fairly content.

About the whole park thing...

Before there were parks we would spend half the day just trying to find jumps. Now I don't have to, they build them for me, and better than anything we can find. Skiing groomers isn't much fun. Unless it's a pow day the park is where it's at.

 
My mountain is no good for anything but park. Considering the mountain itself the park is pretty decent. If I'm not doing park, there's only 1 other lift I can take to summit.

Today I think I took 1 run before I went park to warm up, then went park all day. Thinking it was my last run I went to the other lift for a summit run, went down some dumb path, skied over scattered rocks, and dodged bare road cause the run goes down a road. I don't really like the bumps, my favorites are glades, but far as I know my mountain doesn't even have a glade run.
 
oh and this is my first year too, i can pretty much same thing but i can sw3 on smaller hits, and i can 2off.
 
thats about exactly where i just finished my first year except i couldnt grab 3s but i could do double kinks and go switch onto rails.
 
who cares if you ride the same lift and go down the same trail. its lame if you dont do shit, but i mix it up and always try new things and just throw myself and see what happens. also going inverted counts as new scenery in my book.
 
it's a known fact that park rats can't hold their bladder they just piss themselves, especially the ones at Killington
 
dont worry about the tricks you do just try to be as stylish as you can but that kinda comes with time sooooooooo ya just have fun and ski hard
 
thats just about where i am, and this is too my first year and this weekend is the last weekend we're open for the year and i'm going for the iron man (9am-9pm) and try to get down 5's, 270's off, maybe onto boxes and such.
 
you cant hate on park rats, i live in minnesota and there is nothing but park so thats all i do. progressing in the park can and will help you everywere else on the mountain.
 
how is skiing ice going to help ski the steep and deep?

its totally different it my enable a person to do some tricks in the backcounty but other than that skiing park doesnt really help u outside of the park

i could be wrong, thats just the way i see it.
 
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