How fast do YOU progress?

learned spins up to a 9 in my first season of park and up to a sw 5..along with blind 2s out of rails front and back switch ups on boxes and 2s off and the occational 270 onto a box..
 
It took me 3 days to go from frontflips, fucking huge 7s, lotsa rail/box skills and jibbing to being bed ridden. that was about 3 months ago, and now Im lucky I can walk.

CURRENTLY : Im lucky I can walk.
 
it took me 3-4 days to get from just sliding boxes to front ups natural foot and un natural foot foward. i dont progress as fast on jumps
 
Very very very slow, cause I can't hurt myself no more cause I'm not able to miss a week or month at my job, so I go at my own rythmn and take it easy !

and I'm skiing for fun, so It don't really matter if I progress slowly or not, I just wanna have some fun !
 
progress update: why not?
I hiked the shit out of my double barrel 10 footer and my 4in x 10ft box today, had a nice little setup with some ice rink snow.
Went from my total noobiness at rails to landing 100% of both unnatty and natty spins on, I'm also getting to the point where I can focus enough mid rail to pop off. No balls to 2 out yet though. Tomorrow is another day.
I have to say though, it took some pretty epic falls to actually ski this box right.
I went to unatty on and leaned too far forward. my tip caught under the lip of the box, it's set up urban style. I ate shit and flipped a la one of the recent gold project videos. but forwards.
overall only a couple finger sprains(stupid poles) and some nasty bruises but for the last hour you could just smell the fiberglass on plastic burning.
Or was it the smell of my steeze?
 
i have been skiing for 5 years probably. first park run was 2 years ago and i can 7 with grabs and such. hoping to get some nice corks/flips this season.
 
I have been skiing park since I was 11 I am 19 now and am still pretty bad. so VERY slow. I was doing rodeo 9's and cork 10's like 3 years ago, then I started skiing moguls and I think the biggest trick I did last year was rodeo 7.
I am pretty good at skiing bumps though
 
I snowboarded for about 5 years. Just started skiing 3 years ago. I can ride any terrain, anywhere, anytime. (Im slow on moguls still though)

In the park I can 270 on and off, 360's, and Almost have 720's down.

But I honestly think the spinning came easy cause of the boarding.
 
I used to race so I have a pretty good ski base,
I ove the POW, shred it like nothing, I recond... Want to to 20ft cliff this season..
It's doing one year I Freeski I put down 3s, switch 3s, 2/7 in, nose press, tail press (on rails)
Backflip, Butter front
And I WANT to put down Flatspin
I'm 16
 
i wnt from "premium noob" to "ok" in 3 seasons.

and with that i mean: from 360 gaperstyle, no railslides; to: 900noos mute 270 to rails (not box), 2x swups etc.

 
I'm a big jump guy. I'll be honest I only learned rails because i got tired of being the guy that goes around them everytime. I don't really get a rush out of rails as i do huckin spins off booters.
 
well compared to when I was 16 yeah. and when I said I was doing cork 10's and rodeo 9's I mean i did them. not like on a daily basis
 
i think i progress more when i ski with my brother. we both push each other, most of my other friends that i ski with don't really try anything new so dont really help to encourage me to try new stuff.
 
it always helps to ski with people that push you. I never feel like im getting any better when im skiing with people that dont try new stuff, I love skiing with people that are way better then me.
 
it all depends on the conditions, when its a pow day (real rare here on the EC) i can progress fast bust when its sheer ice i tend to be less good.
 
Your progress update sounded sweet, thats awesome for one day hiking.

I've been skiing since i was 3 and i'm 15 now. I only started getting into park st the start of last season but still i'm just like a casual park skier. so half way through my 1st season i came 7th equal out of 52 guys in the North Island ( i'm a Kiwi ) Secondary Schools ffreestyle. and at the end of that season I was landing 7's and blunt 5's off the biggest jumps at my park.

So I guess thats quite good progression, what do you guys think?
 
Word. I come from a real small mountain where i'm one of the first skiers to start riding park and I don't really have anyone to push me except for myself and the snowboarders I ride with. I wish that I had some reall good riders to push me and give me advice.
 
well for my first year i did ok I just huck stuff like sw 9s and did a dub front but I suck a rails and can't grab yet
 
very slowly, most of the time im not in the park so i only learn a few tricks a year, and they arent very steezy
 
at the begining of last year i pretty much didnt how to do any thing except like a 180. at the end of the 07/08 season i had 180s 360s down and i was workin on my 5s. as for rails i flat out suck, i can slide handrails just fine but when it comes to 270s and stuff i dont get enough pop er somethin. so ya i progress kinda fast
 
i started skiing when i was 10 (i'm 16 now) and didnt really progress at all as far as park skiing goes until about 2 years ago when i went from not being able to do 360's to doing cork 9's in one season and then perfecting and improving with grabs the season after, it's pretty awesome for me looking back at how quickly i learned everything
 
so much hate on that dub front flip video.

I hate how kids hate on claiming.

Dub fronts aren't exactly easy and they're super scary.

It's like, if you land a sick trick for the first time you can "claim" it...

Oh wait no its completely wrong to be happy after landing a new trick.

Fuck those kids
 
that what I've been trying to say and the 2nd one I do I don't say anything I just look in the leans and say ow. I only claimed the first one I landed because yeah it was sick.
 
Started skiing when I was 4 (1987) and then quit at 12 (1995) to snowboard exclusively (kicking myself for that). From there, I started retarded skiboarding at 16 while still snowboarding (1999) , and I got pretty good (was able to do up to front 12's, up to sw 9's, mistys, flatspins but I never got into rails on them). Later on, a friend of mine in 2001 recommended I should just get twin tips ski instead of another pair of skiboards (which were Line Jedi's hahaha) and I should have listened to him. I quit skiboarding in 2002 and went back to snowboarding exclusively again. Then just this last season I, along with my brother, had an epiphany and rented some twin tip skis in January 2009. I then bought my own Rossi's Scratch Screams with the fun demo tracks on them still (made them heavy and difficult to spin hahaha). I stuck to doing pretty much just 1's, 3's and 5's with an assortment of grabs while also doing some rails. Unfortunately, in March I overshot a 5 on medium sized jump, landed at about 630 on flat and broke my tib/fib. My season was done and I was in crutches until mid summer. But, I did buy some Line Anthems and Marker griff's to replace the demo skis. Also, I have been doing some trampoline work lately to get back into it and step up some this season. Overall, that's my progression in a life story format hahahaha. I understand if I get some TL;DR on this.
 
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