yeah it all matters how long you have been freeskiing for, and what you have had access to, some little kids who started right into freeskiing at a resort with a good park will kick ass, other people werent as fortunate enough and raced untill they were almost 16 and have only freeskied for a couple years at a shitty home park and cant progress as fast. its all about the oppertunity not the age.