First Year Skiing NEED HELP

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ASAP_SMOKIE

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Hey so i started skiing this year and so far ive gone twice.. (they've only been open twice so far this season) but i want to know what i should be focusing on and what i should put my mind to the most. I pretty much have all fundamentals of riding down and i can slide right foot forward, and right foot forward to switch on a tube... What should i work on next? Left foot forward? swaps? Switch on? i normally think about how to do the tricks all week while im in school but im not sure what to focus on, let me know what you guys think. Im really trying to get good my first year, Fully Committed
 
Go learn to ski then try tricks. You cant ski for shit. Being a good skier will allow you to be a better park skier.

Crappy skiers doing tricks look so bad. I dont ski park but im as good of an all aroun skier as you will find and can make my 180 or shifty look better than anything a crappy skier hucks in the park.

 
Learn how to ski everywhere, and be good at skiing everywhere. Learn how to handle all different types of terrain, from hard ice to moguls. Park skiing is only one aspect of skiing, so make sure to learn other stuff too. If you're doing pizzas in the park your being an annoyance to everyone and you aren't improving where you should be.
 
Learn to ski the mountains ... Park and tricks are just a small portion of skiing...If you are commited, things will come naturally through your hard work. Be confident but not stupid. And use your weed wisely!
 
Definitly this, if you can't go down a black doing nice turns you'll never br able to have a goid style and have fun everywhere Plus if you don't have any technique you really wont enjoy pow as much (you'll rralise soon enough that pow is much better than park)
 
I wouldn't say stay totally away from the park if you enjoy going through it. Spend probably 90% of your time around the mountain mastering all the different terrains on offer. Get confident in yourself skiing which you can then take to the park. Reward yourself with a few laps of the park, take in what other people are doing, carry out good practice i.e. don't cut people up or stand under jumps! Take it easy and maybe learn a few basics like 1's, 3's and sliding boxes.
 
always maintain forward pressure on the tongues of your boots, staying forward is the easiest to thing to do but i still see a ton of "expert" skiers in the back seat. This is also really important when u hit jumps.
 
I know, I know, you probably just want to hit rails, and not take everyone's advice here about learning how to actually ski first. But it's important, unless you want to look like a clown skiing into and out of features. Once you get the basics down, you'll be able to come into and out of features with more confidence, more speed, and more steeze.

Like the guy above me said, staying forward and is super important. Stay compact, knees bent, and keep pressure on the tongues of your boots. You can play around leaning way forward and way back, and notice how your control changes, especially on the edges if you're carving. If you're not carving, learn how. Practice holding your hands out in front of you with your knuckles always over your knees, it'll help keep you out of the backseat.
 
Hell yeah this is going to help a ton! I know the rules in the park and im not the fag that pizzas into rails and stands on the nuckles. But all i did last weekend was lap park and do a little bit of skiing in the trees. This weekend i plan to do the whole mountain excluding the park the whole day unless maybe i reward myself at the end of the day.

P.S. I LOVE WEED, but im now in rehab ( Yeah rehab for weed......) and the only thing they let me do is ski. Im now commiting my life to skiing as i will be in rehab the whole winter. Please keep giving me feedback and skills i should work on, so far what i have read has been amazing and will help me improve a lot.
 
^lol

Doing tricks outside the park is more fun anyway. Every jump and landing is different. Park jumps are boring

Spend the entire year skiing the whole mountain and incorporating little style tricks in off side hits and shit. It really is more fun
 
dont go straight to the park if anything. just ski around various terrain a bunch to get your balance and form down. have fun roaming all mountain and just keep pushing your comfort zone. falling is part of the game so don't get discouraged if you bail a lot.

SKI WITH SOMEONE BETTER THAN YOU. it will help out huge amount
 
Youve gotta be kidding me...? Rehab for weed? hahah fuck that shit.

Just go straight to the park, fuck learning to ski regularly, you dont need it. The industry is going 100% freestyle in 3 years so why would you ever need to learn to ride the whole mountain?

weed is tight.

 
Have fun.

That is all you need to "work on". Why care what anyone else thinks you should be doing, if you are having fun, then keep doing what you're doing.
 
I have the basics down pretty much, i think ill try skiing all mountain for a while but probably not the whole day, i love the aspect of riding in the park too much to not go in at least once a day.
 
Alright kid. Youve skied 2 days. Now its comendable that after 2 days of skiing you can slide rails. But you will be the biggest gaper if you dont actually learn to ski. No matter how good you are at park. Idc how good you think you are. After 2 days you are not a good enough skier to ski park...
 
You will find the park to be a lot more fun if you can actually ski first. Get a lesson if you have some cash so you can learn some fundamentals.
 
Most DEFINITELY this. I would also go as far as to say get lessons from someone who is a legitimate skier and then practice what he or she tells you. Coming from a mostly self-taught skier, you pick up a lot of bad habits along the way and 5-6 seasons in they are much harder to correct than a few days/one season in. Not saying my friends didn't help me immensely (I love them dearly) - they got me to ski in the first place; but getting a lesson from someone who understands technique and how to ski "properly" makes you a better skier all-around; it helps you gain the skills to potentially become a better skier. Plus, if you're paying someone to teach you, they don't mind spending the day teaching you (patiently).
 
im not sure if skiing "properly" helps too muck for freestyle skiing, i was a ski racer for 8 years and when i decided to change into freeskiing, i really sucked at it (couldnt even land a 180), what really helped me was practicing a lot on the trampoline and playing skate with my friends (what forced me to trying new tricks and landing on my head most of the time)
 
This should be obvious, but I'm just sayin': PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, LEARN TO SKI BEFORE YOU GO IN THE PARK. It will benefit you greatly, and plus, people in the park who have no skiing fundamentals whatsoever are one of the worst things about skiing park. Getting ran over by someone because they don't know how to turn, stop, or slow down is a gear-grinder for sure.

Other than that, have fun and enjoy yourself, that's the most important part! You will fall at first, but stick with it. My first time skiing was awful, but my second time was probably one of the most fun days on skis I've ever had.
 
Shiieeet, I only read like the first sentence of the OP.

Anyway, if you've got fundamentals and basic slides down, I'd try some 180s and maybe some FS swaps. After you've got that, try threes and maybe some 270s out. Practice skiing switch on a mellow slope as well. This will also be my first full year of skiing park (not skiing in general, been skiing for around 7 years), and that's about where I'm at right now.
 
once you have the fundamentals and all of that, just do what interests you. if you don't like jumps and you only want to hit rails, do that. after all it is freeskiing
 
oh im sorry i forgot the first time you try everything your already perfect at it and you dont like getting help.. And im not some gaper faggot, I have so much respect for the sport, and all i want to do is become part of it. Im probably so much better than you guys think, i dont pizza and french fry or any of that, i can ride like a normal person, i have control. And im not a dumbass in the park, i let kids go if they want to hit something but i also practice every opportunity i have. Just wanted help to get better
 
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Learn to ski for real first.

I have a buddy that switched from snowboarding to skiing and didnt really learn to ski first and there is a serious difference...

Don't be a clown
 
You got to be comfortable and good as fuck at every type and situation of skiing then hit the park. Your control and smoothness will be much better
 
What everyone else is saying is pretty close with what I tell people as a ski instructor/park skier. Learn how to ski really well first so that when you take yourself to the park you arent worrying about your balance, or stopping, or being able to avoid someone, all your focus can be on learning the tricks.
 
hahah learn to go ski before focusing on the cool trick asepct. you would be amazed at how much edge control and form will take you. and it will make you look not awkward. work to get out of the 'oh shit stance!'
 
Bump, I need more help guys. I already have the basics down pretty good and im not a goon in the park. Need more feedback for things i should try to challenge me because just going down the hills and through the trees isnt hard anymore. I can lock onto rails now also...
 
just because it isn't hard doesn't mean you are doing it correctly. Again focus on forward stance and maybe try skiing switch on some mellow groomers, if you want to be challenged try some moguls.
 
Since you are just starting, I would start hitting rails both left foot forward and right foot forward so that you get comfortable with both while you progress! I wish I would have done this when I was starting out.
 
Ski, ski, and ski some more. Stay out of the park till you can ski everything on the mountain in any condition. Then you should ski the park. Best skiers are able to ski anything anywhere.
 
Thanks! This is exactly what i was looking for, I think im going to focus on this so that i could hopefully be more comfortable doing switch ups and what not.
 
1. If you care about the way you look more than the skiing itself, quit skiing.2. If you are skiing to get sponsors and to win comps, quit skiing.

3. If you want to have fun, keep skiing.

Bring on the hate.
 
Dude you're not even paying attention to what 95% of the people on here are telling you, which is to focus on being a good skier, with nice technique. It takes way more than one season. You're too caught up in riding park, I know it's fun, but just skiing park is and not havin good technique is not skiing. Learn to carve nicely, ski with your hands out front, not by your side. Even in the park, hands and body forward. It's fine to ski park once and a while when you're starting out, but it shouldn't be your main focus. I'm still trying to perfect my technique after 17 years of skiing, and I just recently starting going in the park a couple of years ago. Stick with it man.
 
I agree, but I don't agree at the same time.

Personally, I like having solid fundamentals and technique and being able to ski the whole mountain strongly and I can't personally imagine flailing around the mountain with terrible technique and form.

That said, if OP finds park to be the most fun part about skiing, and wants to commit to doing that, let him do that. Skiing is all about having fun, and OP should do whatever is most fun to him.
 
time. You're natural progression will slowly allow you try new things comfortably. what you should learn next is different to everybody depending on your strengths and weaknesses.
 
Ski on lots of ice and really fucked up icy moguls with thin cover and rocks everywhere. That shit makes you a good skier really quick cause if you fuck up you will pay the price. That's how I got good at skiing.
 
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