Getting too serious about skiing

SirFryanator

SirFryanator

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Don't make that mistake. I have so far this season, and it's been a good season trick-wise and for progression but as of just having a ton of fun it hasn't been my favorite. Powder's been amazing (la-nin-yeaaaah), I've met up with some more people at my mountain, made new buddies, and built one of the biggest jumps I've seen, ever.

But I'm not satisfied. I've been trying way too hard to get better and to throw down that it's gotten in the way of the chill, laid-back mindset that skiing is about most of the time.

My New Years Resolution is to just go out and have fun with buddies while finding the right balance to push myself and not just sit around all day.

So just go out there and have fun; don't worry about getting better, you will.

Have a great winter, NS, see you out there on the slopes.
 
so true i am trying to just have fun jibbing natural stuff this year, but also i have progressed more this year than i have in the last so things are going good.
 
i used to be that guy in the park that you see throwing his poles/skis when he cant land something.

now i take it way less seriously and just have fun

but its weird now seeing someone having a fit like a child when they cant land something and i look at them and think "i used to be like that"
 
word. I think I should remember this a little more on occasion. having fun for me is what it's all about.
 
i think this is true for a lot of sports...i'm the same way. i feel like if i'm going to do something it's going to be 100% and go hardcore...but i definitely have to remind myself to keep it fun.
 
word, amen to that... i was able to ski every day over my winter break and now that im back at school im lucky to ski on the weekends, it's pretty humbling, cant wait to get back out there and have some fun.
 
skiing is all about looking cool! i dont care about how i ski fuck that its just about how cool you look while skiing! that is the secret! skiing is all about sponsers and money and bitches thats life and skiing....if your not serious you a fool
 
You seem to have lot of questions about having fun skiing... get over it. Everybody that ski probably do it because they love something in that sport, something that make them have fun while doing it...
 
I cant ski for shit. Yet every day on skis is better than any day without them. It's not about what you can throw, what you ski, what you represent, or what you can do. It's just about having fun, and thats all that freeskiing needs to be, nay, should be. Trying to hard can make you forget the simple pleasure some people have found in just elegantly falling down a snow covered hill.
 
I have the opposite problem. I haven't learned hardly any new shit because I have fun doing what I can currently do. Learning some new shit would totally raise the stoke-meter though.
 
how can you get better without determination?

i love skiing for the fun of it but will probably always be limited on my airs cause im not throwing down but i can always do shit on rails for fun. whereas kids will (nick martini) endlessly hit shit till they're the best and have a concussion ha
 
thats definately true, sometimes i try a trick over and over and get frusterated and then i try and relax and take a break and i'll get it first try.
 
It was $750 (we got a deal on ours), and I worked all summer to buy new ski gear because I grew out of my old stuff.

I am now broke and have no money because of skiing. I would have bought a car, but I enjoy skiing too much, and now I am happy.
 
This is exactly why I'm not goin to compete nearly as much this year. Competing is fun, and definatly a good challenge for kids. but I came to freeskiing because of how chill it was and how no matter what it was fun. Last year when i was at the US open I thought i was at the top of a fucking world cup downhill. Kids were soooo serious.
 
taking it too seriously and trying too hard also results in injuries, and who cares we ain't never gonna be sponsored so if your not having fun your doin it wrong
 
Some people in the U.K are soooo serious about little comps.....so i cant imagine what the US Open would be like
 
I actually really like finally getting a trick that i have been working on and falling on and progressing my skills in the park. To me there is no better feeling than coming out of your day a better skier than you began.
 
obviously, me too but when it gets to a point where you are injured so much that you cant progress then you need to take a step back and take it easy. the thing is that i am 23 and when i was 16 and 17 i had no concept of pushing too hard but 3 surgeries and about 10 broken bones later i realize that theres a place and a time to push yourself and a place and a time to chill and relax
 
good call!

I'm a competitive person my nature, not only with others, but with myself as well. I'm not happy unless I give 150% of myself. And while you learn, sometimes you loose touch with why you started in the first place. OR you end up pushing yourself too hard and getting hurt. I thought I had to prove myself to the guys all the time... well I did, and now i'm out for the season.

It is totally so much more worth it to be able to have pow shots all season and ski with your crew than sitting the whole year out because you needed to progress, show your worth, etc.
 
word to that. sometimes I feel that I'm not skiing enough, or not trying new things enough, and that I've kind of peaked as far as skiing park goes. but then I realize that it's so sick skiing pow, that I don't even care that I'm not trying hard at park, and I don't want to risk getting hurt. so here's to just skiing for you, for the fun of it, and with your crew on pow days.

and erin, good luck with the femur, hopefully you're 100% for next year
 
progression is what makes skiing fun in way. learning new stuff is rewarding and fulfilling, but there's not point getting all worked up about it.
 
i have been making that mistake as well this year... progrssion is good, but only at a natural pace. If your progressing faster you begin to loose style and the whole point in skiing and snowboarding, to have fun.

Today with out kicker we built i was stoked because we just chilled up their for like 3 hours just having a good time.
 
The other night, we went and did fronts off cat tracks into pow, jumped into trees, and yelled a bit, and hit sick 20 ft pow stashes on the side of the park.

Skiing is all about fun, and occasionally pushing the limits. Anything else is alien to me.
 
laid back mindset?

FUCK THAT

skiing is about fuckin given'r.

I'd much rather see a kid hucking a sketch 10 than some guy with baggy ass clothes doign the same 5 grab on the same table all day.

everybody skis because they love it... just some people are way more badass and huck themselves and other people would rather be "all mountain skiers" and ski around and do 180's off cat tracks and be just a pussy in gernal

bring back the hot dog days!

RABLE RABLE RABLE!
 
man you can always try your hardest but if youre not havin fun then lets face it youre not havin fun and thats gay, if youre not landing anything then just take a chill run, maybe even make fun of yourself like do dumb shit like giant daffy's get laid back and have fun for a run or 2 then get back to real skiing you will ski so much better cuz you wont be stressed anymore you will just be havin fun
 
Yeah I agree that there is a time to work and a time to chill, but I barely ever get to go skiing. I only go about 15 times a year due to the long 4 hour drive an asshole dad who won't let me make the drive without him, so everytime I am skiing i keep expanding my limits. Since I barely get to go, all I do is work on my park shit (unless its a pow day) and it is really satisfying to me when I get a trick.
 
ha said this before, what makes me laugh is how serious newschooler kids are. about everything. when i say its a legit thug edit, maybe we're making fun of kids thinking they're the most thug kids every?
 
ive gotta agree with this one y'know when youve been trying something to the point that it drives you insane and then you finally get it thats the best feeling ever, and then just spending the rest of the day doing it over and over and feeling so awsome, it cant be beat

i find that i just have days to relax and days to really charge the park, like yesterday was a relax day cuz the conditions sucked and im getting the flu or something so about the biggest thing i did was 180ing a little bump at the side of a run and straightlining the double black and it was for sure one of the better days this year, i have fun just charging and trying to learn something new, but if its not gunna happen ill call it quits and try again 2morro, i think thats the best way to go
 
this season ive progressed, yet this season has been my favorite season so far. I learned hand drags 180s over knuckles of jumps, nose butter 5s and tail butter 5s, unnatural rail, and shifties off rails. It's not nearly as good as any of the kids on this site, but it's good enough for me.
 
i almost have the opposite problem. i used to be like that and got some great tricks under my belt, but then i started taking it easy and just getting really high and doing whatever i felt like. its awesome but i realized yesterday i havent thrown any of my better tricks in a whiile, and i havent thrown an invert since i broke my arm 3 years ago so im thinking i might need to get little more serious, if only for a day or so this year
 
yea i did that last season a lot, i would be attmepting tricks over and over and i knew i wouldnt be able to land them most of the time too. this season i started having fun, and i dont exactly take it easy, i still find myself getting a little too serious sometimes, but im at least pushing myself and my friends at the same time while having fun
 
"I'm just out here having fun, not throwing my poles around like a BABY, speaking of the devil here comes the baby now. OHHHHHH, i can safely say i've been proven wrong."- hyphy edit
 
I can never go skiing without learning something new... In one day after hurting my ankle, I did my first backflip on my third hit of the day, second try. I've just decided that I don't care that much about spending all day working on stuff, it just comes to me when it does.
 
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