How do you ski?

SiverMike

SiverMike

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So how do you ski? I havn't seen many threads on this...but how do you approach skiing? 50% park, 50% mountain? 90% glades 10% groomers?

Personally, I'm about 90% all mountain and 10% park. I like to ski real fast, so mostly I'll ski challenging runs that allow me to go fast enough yet still be in control of my turns and what not. I love steep runs with some bumps, and variety in the path of of the run. Powder days=glades, again i love to challenge myself in trees, im constantly trying to ski trees faster with more flow. Trees are the ultimate challenge, because theres so much you can do, so much variety in the way you approach a glade run. I try to avoid crowded groomers and beginner trails as much as possible, as well as extreme mogul trails, but those can be fun once in a while too. As for park, my skills are pretty limited, mostly boxes and medium jumps with pretty easy grabs. nothing too technical, but i definitley want to improve in the park aspect of skiing. most of all, i just love the freedom of skiing, the choices and variety of runs i can chose from. Ski with my cousins and blaze it up. have fun.

what about you?
 
im about 90% down hill 10% uphill at this point. Looking to get a little more uphill "skiing"
 
the whole hill is a giant park... so 100% park.

esspecially when youre at bear... the whole damn thing is a park. woo!
 
I'm not really a pure park rat. I still focus on my actual skiing technique. I only started park 2 years ago... before that, I was carving it up on groomers. I still focus on my carving and shit, but I enjoy skiing the whole mountain, having fun. Carving big, fat, turns on groomers. Skiing glades. Dropping cliffs. Hitting tables. Grinding rails. Everything.

I do whatever I want, whenever I feel like it.
 
where I ski theres is no such thing as powder so really the only good thing is the park I do ski off the trails a few times though when there actually is snow on the ground.

 
groomed blacks

park

tree runs

rail gardens

but pow days are pretty much the trump card on anything listed above.

ill ski pow over anything!!!
 
Bumps, steeps, trees, park, pow, groomers and anywhere else there is (or isn't) snow make up about 100 percent.
 
It all depends. If there is new snow, I ski powder and big mountain. If the pow is gone, I ski park. So aprox 50/50? Not sure really.
 
powder, glades, back country, pretty much I go for the most difficult trail on the mountain

unless im Chillin if you know what i mean, then i hit up some less hard glades, or some pow-wow without a walk, or even groomers :)
 
at my home hill, the whole thing is kind of a park, but i never just go up and down the same run doing the same turns and jumps and stuff. i haven't progressed or worked on tricks in several years now because i don't get to ride as much as i used to. i couldn't break it down into percentages right now, but ideally it would be 90% pow and anything related to it, then 10% in park or just goofing around on stuff.
 
Last season it was about 80%all mountain (glades, pow, steeps, trees, speeding along groomers) and about 20% park.

This year it's gonna be more park, though, because i'm gonna go lots more, and the park is basically the only good thing most of the time (at one of the closer hills).

But when i'm not at the local hills, 95% mountain, maybe 2 runs per weekend in the park.

When i have more time on my hands and less powder to miss, i spend more time in the park.
 
usually all-mountain in the morning and park in the afternoon

some times park all day

and if theres fresh snow out of the park all day
 
I try to side slip the whole way, Its the safest i think

(park whenever i can, throw snowball runs, jib little jibs, and switch race runs,)

i live on the east, NO POW..... sob..
 
if we had pow on the east coast, id pick that over park any day. but because we dont, maybe 50% park and 50% groomed/rest of mountain
 
i used to be like 75% park and 25% everything else. but when i skied everything else it would be a lot of butters and switch stuff. this year im going to work on making the entire mountain my park. and im not talking about the tired park-tricks-to-backcountry rhetoric. im just going to work on tapping, bonking, buttering, planting, and spinning off everything possible. come up with some nifty new hits and tricks.
 
50% park/ 50% groomers, glades, jib runs etc.

unfortunately, this year im gonna have to teach my friend how to ski, she started last year and she is decent. but she is gonna need to learn to keep up by like half way through the season or better be puttin out some mad pussy....
 
I've been skiing on shitty hockey rink snow and a 6 inch high 6 foot long piece of shit waxxed wood lately.
 
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