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JimmyRecard

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So I've got all my 270's down, can throw 3's and 5's and backies, and I realized the other day that I don't really have much of a desire to learn many new tricks.

Call me a pussy. Obviously I want to improve my skiing, but is there anything wrong with not being super hungry to push myself to throw new stuff?

These days I'm kinda just into cruising. Anyone else feel me?
 
Don't forget that at the end of the day skiing is about having fun and doing what makes you happy. If you feel like cruising instead of trying to learn tricks, go for it.
 
13610351:schjf said:
Don't forget that at the end of the day skiing is about having fun and doing what makes you happy. If you feel like cruising instead of trying to learn tricks, go for it.
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true that
 
I balance it out, some days I hike a feature until I get the trick I want and once I learn it every run after that I have to land it before continuing on. I do this until I get to the point where I can land it nearly every time so I can add it to my bag of cruising the park tricks I guess you could say. Some days I really just feel like lapping the park without doing anything. Although I find the more tricks you learn and the more you progress the more fun cruising around is.
 
I cruise around more than half of the time, hit some natural features, ski a little bit of trees and rollers... It's way more fun than park imo.

Nothing wrong with that at all. Skiing isn't graded, tricks aren't required.
 
you're kinda breaking it down real simply in a way where it seems like you're looking to inhibit creativity.

a 3, 5, and backflip all have endless variations of ways you can cork them out, shifty, grab.....

Noones going to tell you to spin or flip more, but can you grab a mute in your backflip or truckdriver in your 3's? Have you ever tried carving one way and spinning the opposite direction.. How about learning 450's on jumps and tokyo-drifting your way down the landing..

Freeskiing's limitless until you deliberately try and put things in a certain framework. Break free from that and understand that you can always progress and it may have nothing to do with you being a pussy, maybe it's just you not allowing yourself to see the full potential of freeskiing because you're deliberately putting barriers on it.

[video]https://vimeo.com/149763832[/video]
 
13610376:hoodcrew said:
you're kinda breaking it down real simply in a way where it seems like you're looking to inhibit creativity.

a 3, 5, and backflip all have endless variations of ways you can cork them out, shifty, grab.....

Noones going to tell you to spin or flip more, but can you grab a mute in your backflip or truckdriver in your 3's? Have you ever tried carving one way and spinning the opposite direction.. How about learning 450's on jumps and tokyo-drifting your way down the landing..

Freeskiing's limitless until you deliberately try and put things in a certain framework. Break free from that and understand that you can always progress and it may have nothing to do with you being a pussy, maybe it's just you not allowing yourself to see the full potential of freeskiing because you're deliberately putting barriers on it.

[video]https://vimeo.com/149763832[/video]
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yo that was a gem hoodcrew
 
13610376:hoodcrew said:
you're kinda breaking it down real simply in a way where it seems like you're looking to inhibit creativity.

a 3, 5, and backflip all have endless variations of ways you can cork them out, shifty, grab.....

Noones going to tell you to spin or flip more, but can you grab a mute in your backflip or truckdriver in your 3's? Have you ever tried carving one way and spinning the opposite direction.. How about learning 450's on jumps and tokyo-drifting your way down the landing..

Freeskiing's limitless until you deliberately try and put things in a certain framework. Break free from that and understand that you can always progress and it may have nothing to do with you being a pussy, maybe it's just you not allowing yourself to see the full potential of freeskiing because you're deliberately putting barriers on it.

[video]https://vimeo.com/149763832[/video]
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I guess I was trying to summarize a mood about more intense progression, and less about creativity. You did, however, basically sum up what we all think is so damn awesome about skiing. So thank you, that was well put
 
but do you have all 270s on down? all switchups? all dubswitchups? ever tried a trip swap? ever did 4 ons? all 4 offs? maybe tried a 630 out?

all of the above questions basically daily come to my mind when thinking about progression, but I don't feel pressured to learn anything anywhen, unless I just feel like it.

to me, I often reached points where I was like wow ok so down with this, this is so fun I could do this forever.

eventually it got boring. eventually I overrotated a 270 out.

THERE I usually catch fire - am I able to do a 4out? hell yeah it worked! maybe add ANOTHER 180 to it?

and BOOM you're all motivated!

but let that come naturally! skiing isn't about anything else but fun. if you're damn hyped to be out there sending your backies (which I can't haha), your 3s, 5s, 270ies and you're fucking stoked on it you're doing it damn right!

ya know what I'm sayin?
 
Yeah dude its really just about what you enjoy doing. I relate to you here. I don't have a huge bag of tricks, but the ones that I do have I can apply anywhere, which is a lot more enjoyable when you're just skiing around the mountain.

A big 3 on a back country jump is way more fun than a 9 on a park jump IMO.
 
I totally feel ya man. Doing "tricks" isn't really why I'm on the mountain, and to be honest they don't really get me excited any more. Like cool, I can spin in the air and jump around on a rail a bit, but does it feel good while I'm doing it?

"Cruising" allows me to get into a real flow state, get creative, and be comfortable.

And another factor is that I'm no longer an insecure teenager seeking validation from the skiing community, so I'm really not concerned with how impressive my abilities are. I'm more concerned with challenging myself off the mountain, so it's just good times up there now.
 
There's nothing wrong with just chilling where you are but I think you have a misconception of why people like to progress in skiing. It's not as if we are somehow discontent with our skiing and decide to progress because of it. It's because it's fucking fun to do a new trick you've never done before.
 
At home in the east coast, I am happy with the few tricks I have. I started off on jumps and recently came into the rail game. I am progressing a lot but LOVE cruising around and doing easy smooth floaty runs through the park.

Out west though, tree runs allll day. I just recently went to Keystone and I started the 8 days of skiing I had in the park, but the majority of my time was spent in the trees. If I lived out west I would probably ski all mountain the majority of the time even though I consider myself A park skier.

What ever is the most fun, is what you should be skiing. Although Andy Perry's video "Swiss Cheese" is exactly what I wish my life was like, self built park shit all over!
 
i'm completely fine and content knowing I will never dub. I'm good with that, although that doesn't rule out dubbing into an air bag or into water.
 
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