Did you come from a ski racing background?

I race from age 8-17 at Canon mt. (FSC), quit as a second year J2 after finally getting to do downhill, which was awesome. I thought slalom the most fun though, maybe cuz im from the east coast or maybe cuz i did the best at it, the speed and intensity was pretty epic though, still miss running slalom gates a lot, and i think learning how to use your knees and ankles to create energy while staying strong is what makes skiing fun and something only race training provides
 
raced for about two years in this small program called buddy werner, i also did some small races at this thing that used to be on vail called nastar. it did help
 
I was on a team..once.. made it to one practice, unfortunately it was during hockey season and the "team needs you" as opposed to ski racing where if you don't show up your team doesn't miss out.

I'm sure I'd have more all-around control from ski racing, but playing defense certainly didn't hurt me in the switch department
 
I did moguls for two years but quit because I wanted to do my own thing. I'm just one of those people haha. My racing background consists of occasionally hitting the MHSSC GS course on Fridays. Apparently I have pretty good technique.
 
^I would have loved to have been on a mogul team when I was racing. I really liked skiing moguls and for not having any formal instruction, I crushed moguls.
 
I did a kiddy race team from when i was 5 until i was 9. I never won a race or made podium, so i got discouraged and quit. Then i just skied moguls with my dad and his friends. Then when i was 13 i switched to park.
 
Racing was my first experience of competition - coming from the UK it was all we really saw before the Internet started getting fast enough to watch more than one YouTube video a day, and racing was on TV. I was fucking dreadful, which is quite good or a Brit. I raced slalom, but really wanted to get into alpine downhill. When I skied with family all I did was bomb groomers and piss off instructors by doing so... So I tried downhill, and on my third race I came off a jump badly, and one of my skis didn't come off. Clean snapped ACL, grade 3 ear on my MCL. Couch for eight months. Five years later I come back (in the meantime I'd moved from the mountains in Scotland to the flat south of England), and this time I learn park skiing.
 
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