How long did it take you to get to boss hog status

BUTTMONKEY

BUTTMONKEY

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I'm not talking about 70 yard gap triple corky 1860 stale-fish

grabs. But in general how long did it take you to do some sweet big boy

rails with switch ups ,or maybe some nice little 360s off normal sized jumps to

where you actually could do all the basic jazz like a boss?
 
This.

1 season went from sliding boxes straight, and only being able to barley land 180s of medium jumps, To spinning 540s and flipping fronts off large jumps, and sliding kinked handrails with some 27's off... Cant wait for next season. :) Just send it. I used to be a huge pussy then I man'd up and didnt care to fall. It all paid off in the end.
 
skiing isn't about what you have done but, what you can do and to do takes many a moon. it's different for everyone
 
I can 360 easily on most jumps, but I'm not even close to switching up on the "bigboy" rails. This took me 14 years.
 
surely depends how much you ski(and how hard you push yourself when you are skiing) i only get to ski 7-12 days a year(on snow)so i can't progress as much as somebody who skis 60 days a year can, that being said in those 12 days i skied this season i went from 180s on small jumps to being comfortable doing 5s off 25-30ft jumps, and sliding basic boxes and rails, to doing most easy and medium rials and boxes with 270s in and 270s out and switch ups....
 
i had kids 360 on their first week, i have a friend who did his first dub cork within his first real season

and on the other side i know alot of people who have been skiing their entire life without ever having done a 360 or a rail/box ...

so not really a consequent relation between the two....

i'd say it has more to do with overcoming your fear/previous experience in similar sports and last but not least, motivation and dedication to what you do/want to accomplish....

i did my first 180 after 8y of skiing and after that it all blasted off, between my first real box/rail slides and doing switch ups on them was 1 year or maybe 2 ...
 
I'm a boss hog on the mountain, not so much in the park. took me since I could walk to get my current status, so that would be about 21 years.
 
I don't think being able to switch up on a rail/360 makes you a boss hog. Maybe on the east coast where you don't have big mountains. But out here west you can for sure see who the bosses are hauling ass down the hill and airing 15+ 20 feet on small rollers where you wouldn't know were there unless you skied multiple times at that mountain a week. To me that makes you look a lot more boss than some park rat, but to each their own.
 
1st year of competion for me

2nd year of park

i can misty 5

rodeo 5

540

for some reason i cant normal 7 or do anything switch
 
i started doing park like 7 years ago or so, when i first started i liked to huck shit and could do 7's on decent sized jumps without any style and haha, but i didnt give a fuck it was fun

side note anyone else love watching old videos of themselves riding? makes me smile and laugh everytime
 
yeah mate i was like same as you and pretty similar at the end of last season. jus wanna keep progressing!
 
This was my first year skiing
1st day : 360/540
took have a season to learn how to ski and carve properly and get super style.
by the end of this season- 7's, misty 7, rodeo5, flatspin 5, back/front, cork 7, right 5, and a bunch of grab variations except mute. Cannot mute worth shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

Helped that i played hockey all my life before this year. Kinda the same motions.
But yah just dedicate time to learning how to ski and makes park sooo much easier to learn.
Rails are just time and effort to get better.
 
I learned rails reallllly fast. The first rail I hit this season was the mellow dfd at Killington pre-season. I was able to fs swap that by the end of my first day. I learned how to do the natural half of all eight by the end of the year. I learned 450 out front side. I can't spin off jumps for shit though....I don't understand how to do it. I try to do a 360 and end up doing this.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=2240045402975&set=t.692671941&type=2&theater
 
I started skiing park last year but i was fortunate to have friends that did so i got a lot of help from them. I found the most improvement came from my backyard on jumps and just a piece of PVC built up a little on snow. I learned 180's and 360's sketchy at home and then fine tuned them at the Mountain. So hopefully ill be at boss hog by the end of the year.
 
A while. When I first started skiing, there was only 1 other skier at my hill, so I had no one to learn from, and no one to push me. I spent a year or so straight sliding a flat-box. Once I got the first front 2 out, and first flat bar, I improved exponentially.
 
started off riding boxes straight this beginning last season, now I go for the bigger jumps, 360 +180 over the smaller ones and learning to hit rails. Also did my first backflip ;)
 
PROBABLY DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH YOU ENJOY THE PARK. SOME PEOPLE SKI EVERY DAY AND JUST HIT CLIFFS AND SHIT.

IVE BEEN SKIING SINCE I WAS 3, THEN WHEN I WAS ABOUT 10 I STARTED WANDERING INTO THE PARK AND HITTING JUMPS/BOXES AND STUFF. THEN WHEN I WAS ABOUT 13 I DECIDED I WANTED TO SKI PARK. IVE NEVER LOOKED BACK
 
It took me a while to get where I am which is no means very far. However I don't really care because I have fun either way.
 
i agree....even on the east coast there are solid mountains that you can get good speed and have a lot of fun on up north. Finally someone who agrees tho, its not all about the fucking park. Iv seen so many skiers at stratton who are pretty solid in the park who cant ski for shit outside it. Boss hog on the entire mountain > Boss hog in the park
 
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