Do i need to NOT ski eldora to progress?

skiporvida

skiporvida

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first year skiing after riding for a solid 10+ years in my native oregon. firgured this is much more like BMX (AM sponsorship) than snowboarding so here i am. i ride concrete parks and street every day in the summer but lack direction on skis in the park.

i bought a student pass for eldora and have been up ~10 times this season, progressing at a decent rate but have NO ONE to ski with that's interested in something other than greens and telemark. i'm still super stoked on skiing but feel my progression is halted because i have no one to push me or to feed off of.

i have a four-pack for copper and live near denver, anyone down to shred either places?
 
a friend is coming to visit and she doesnt ski nearly a fraction of what i do but next weekend i will and maybe sometime during the week but forsure next Fri and one of the weekend days
 
If you are in Boulder, you should check this deal out. Ski for free at eldora any day except Saturdays when you present your season pass from another resort. They finally have some jumps this year too, though they are small (15 and 25 ish), its a good time as long as its not too cold/windy.
http://www.eldora.com/promo.html
 
fuck relying on others.

if you want it, sack up and get good. yea it's hard. yea you have to ski everyday, and stay up to date on the scene if you want your tricks to not look like garbage.

sorry for the hate. it just really pisses me off when i hear "i can't progress cuz i don't have any friends that ride". I've spent nearly my whole life riding the shittiest hillz in colorado, and rarely have had anyone to push me, other than when i was a kid. so fuck it. skiing is a individual sport. make it your own make it your bitch.
 
did this pass thing today. parks fun to mess around jumps are kinda sketch with flat landings but 3's were alright on them
 
no dude, no hate at all.

here's a litte background: i ride bmx and am used to rails/parks/boxes/etc. so skiing was a natural transition for me, being in a forward-stance and airing/grinding/sliding. i ride alone and ski alone, sometimes it bums me out that i don't have peeps to sesh with. i have progressed and am super dedicated, i guess this thread was more of a cry for help to find dudes to shralp with. lol.
 
i understand where you're coming from but it's so much better to have someone around who's better than you. not only does it make you naturally push yourself to progress more but they can give you pointers on how to progress too that you might not have been able to figure out by yourself.
 
believe it or not... i've actually progressed this season! made it up about ~15 times, weekends only and worked first on just skiing to get down the GD mountain then moved into paying attention to style, carving, speed, etc. no ski buddies, just worked with what i know from snowboarding and riding bmx.
i can lap the park, air the hits, do basic boxes and rails, 360, 180 and ski switch decent.
here's to an awesome first season, plus 3 more weekends of spring skiing!
'til next year....
 
oh and where are the nollies/nose pops in skiing? in the bmx scene it's ALL about fucking nollie-ing into grinds, tranny, stairs, etc. i've been applying my bmx nollie steez to nose pop-lips on boxes, BEST.TRICK.EVER.
 
Damn we shoulda gone skiing some. I rode quite a few days at eldora this year and it would have been nice to ski with someone new
 
kind of sad, i didn't get up to eldora once this year, not even when it was free

i think im going to race alpine for eldora next winter though
 
they had a kinked down rail, a down box hiding on the other side of a cheese wedge that I blasted over and a flat box. all set up at the top of international.
 
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