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An important thread.

Out of all the sports I feel like skiing has the most smoking and drinking being flaunted. Not always a bad thing to have a drink or the occasional blunt, but how do you find a balance?

Also, the sport is very taxing physically and career-ending accidents happen all the time. A skiing accident can affect life outside of skiing, sometimes for life. How do you keep your head straight after blowing yourself up and being laid up in the hospital?

...Advice to young up and comers?
 
topic:jaredhuffman907 said:
An important thread.

Out of all the sports I feel like skiing has the most smoking and drinking being flaunted. Not always a bad thing to have a drink or the occasional blunt, but how do you find a balance?

Also, the sport is very taxing physically and career-ending accidents happen all the time. A skiing accident can affect life outside of skiing, sometimes for life. How do you keep your head straight after blowing yourself up and being laid up in the hospital?

...Advice to young up and comers?
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Skateboard instead
 
Exercise and eating decent go a long way. Skating, biking, hiking will keep the mind and body busy for the summer along with staying in shape. Just stay active, be good to others and things will most likely work out.
 
topic:jaredhuffman907 said:
An important thread.

Out of all the sports I feel like skiing has the most smoking and drinking being flaunted. Not always a bad thing to have a drink or the occasional blunt, but how do you find a balance?

Also, the sport is very taxing physically and career-ending accidents happen all the time. A skiing accident can affect life outside of skiing, sometimes for life. How do you keep your head straight after blowing yourself up and being laid up in the hospital?

...Advice to young up and comers?
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Where do you see smoking and drinking being flaunted. Some hood crew video from 10 years ago? Quit talking out of your ass. Skiing has sold out and gone corporate.
 
the more you take care of your body ie eat healthy, exercise, stretch, dont drink a buncha booze, the more resilient your body will be to injury.

get stoned and ski hard but leave out the booze. alcohol destroys everything in your body and makes it really easy to wreck yourself.
 
There’s two types of people who live in the mountains (not counting J1’s, cuz America).

1. Active lifestyle, healthy, driven people, they’ll be too focused on making it and raising a family to be down bad

2. People running away from their troubles/responsibilities, start out innocent enough as “ski bums” just “livin the dream”, ends up evolving into serious substance abuse, alcoholism.
 
14539327:iH8pow said:
There’s two types of people who live in the mountains (not counting J1’s, cuz America).

1. Active lifestyle, healthy, driven people, they’ll be too focused on making it and raising a family to be down bad

2. People running away from their troubles/responsibilities, start out innocent enough as “ski bums” just “livin the dream”, ends up evolving into serious substance abuse, alcoholism.
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To a much lesser extent, I think #2 is why I initially worked a summer in the west.
 
You don't have to drink or smoke. I guess I'm not seeing the point here. If you've got friends who are pressuring you to always be fucked up to ski then that's a problem. Otherwise most people ski sober.
 
14537349:Granby_killdozer said:
Where do you see smoking and drinking being flaunted. Some hood crew video from 10 years ago? Quit talking out of your ass. Skiing has sold out and gone corporate.
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i mean cl is sponsored by a rolling accessory company, level 1 have been promoting beers for as long i can remember and most street videos from the past 5 years has people smoking weed as b roll, its definitely a thing lol. with that said, i feel like most people are pretty chill about it nowadays and its not like you have to smoke or drink to be a part of the "culture" and its not like everyone does it
 
14539447:sindreplassen said:
i mean cl is sponsored by a rolling accessory company, level 1 have been promoting beers for as long i can remember and most street videos from the past 5 years has people smoking weed as b roll, its definitely a thing lol. with that said, i feel like most people are pretty chill about it nowadays and its not like you have to smoke or drink to be a part of the "culture" and its not like everyone does it
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Oh god I don’t care dude, I made this comment weeks ago. I don’t even know who cl is.
 
Bro has clearly never seen Dustin Dollin's nine club episode lol

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topic:NSislame907 said:
An important thread.

Out of all the sports I feel like skiing has the most smoking and drinking being flaunted. Not always a bad thing to have a drink or the occasional blunt, but how do you find a balance?

Also, the sport is very taxing physically and career-ending accidents happen all the time. A skiing accident can affect life outside of skiing, sometimes for life. How do you keep your head straight after blowing yourself up and being laid up in the hospital?

...Advice to young up and comers?
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reminds me I meant to republish this one I put out awhile ago
https://www.newschoolers.com/news/read/Chairlift-Drank-Stand-Drank-Ski-Drank-Chairlift-Drank
 
Ancient Norwegians used to spend days skiing across mountains just to get booze, do you think they're gonna wait all the way til they get home to drink? Hell no. They were bussin on the way back, even the reindeer got drunk. Drinking's been a part of skiing since it's inception.
 
14537341:oldmanski said:
Exercise and eating decent go a long way. Skating, biking, hiking will keep the mind and body busy for the summer along with staying in shape. Just stay active, be good to others and things will most likely work out.
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this + getting good sleep will also serve very well
 
topic:NSislame907 said:
An important thread.

Out of all the sports I feel like skiing has the most smoking and drinking being flaunted. Not always a bad thing to have a drink or the occasional blunt, but how do you find a balance?

Also, the sport is very taxing physically and career-ending accidents happen all the time. A skiing accident can affect life outside of skiing, sometimes for life. How do you keep your head straight after blowing yourself up and being laid up in the hospital?

...Advice to young up and comers?
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don’t be a fuckin pussy
 
When I made this thread I had been drinking. I would delete it but I don't think I can, so now this cringy piece of me is on the internet forever and it makes me look super ignorant- it is what it is.

Definitely don't drink- it's a useless waste of time & calories and it makes you do and say stupid shit (me creating this thread in the way I did is a perfect example). You shouldn't be trying to find a balance lmao it's poison to your brain. Unless you're having a limb amputated, there's not a single reason to drink. People will say it's okay to drink in moderation, which I guess I understand if you're drinking wine or tequila (because of their antibiotics), but really you're just setting up your body & mind for failure.

If you're 21, smoke all the weed you want. Although there's not a lot of research surrounding the high THC content and the affects it has on your brain, I did see that a research facility in the U.S. had done tests where they had subjects smoke a joint a day for 20 years and it literally had zero affect on the lungs (I'll post the link when I find it again- it was a .gov link).

Stop with the tobacco and the vapes- if you really want nicotine, get tobacco-less pouches (I highly recommend a brand called Loop)
 
14537349:Granby_killdozer said:
Where do you see smoking and drinking being flaunted. Some hood crew video from 10 years ago? Quit talking out of your ass. Skiing has sold out and gone corporate.
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I see it on every slope where alcohol is available, I misspoke when I said it's flaunted- I was referring to how often you see alcohol being used by both skiers & snowboarders. I think part of it is that to a lot of people, skiing and snowboarding is an occasional thing. They go out with friends and it's more or less a social activity, kind of like a party in a way- so naturally some drinking and smoking comes along with that.

You ever see a SLVSH Cup final? Everybody drinks champagne at the end of the tournament, drinking is still very much promoted amongst the community. I was just watching a SLVSH game the other day where they had a rule that you had to shotgun a beer after a K-Fed... just saying, you don't see professional athletes in other sports doing things like this.

Also, I disagree that skiing has gone corporate. All of the most relevant skiers are normal dudes doing what they love and from what I see in videos, they keep it real the majority of the time. Skiers need to make money too, I don't blame anyone for capitalizing on an opportunity to get paid (as long as no one suffers from it).
 
14541569:NSislame907 said:
I see it on every slope where alcohol is available, I misspoke when I said it's flaunted- I was referring to how often you see alcohol being used by both skiers & snowboarders. I think part of it is that to a lot of people, skiing and snowboarding is an occasional thing. They go out with friends and it's more or less a social activity, kind of like a party in a way- so naturally some drinking and smoking comes along with that.

You ever see a SLVSH Cup final? Everybody drinks champagne at the end of the tournament, drinking is still very much promoted amongst the community. I was just watching a SLVSH game the other day where they had a rule that you had to shotgun a beer after a K-Fed... just saying, you don't see professional athletes in other sports doing things like this.

Also, I disagree that skiing has gone corporate. All of the most relevant skiers are normal dudes doing what they love and from what I see in videos, they keep it real the majority of the time. Skiers need to make money too, I don't blame anyone for capitalizing on an opportunity to get paid (as long as no one suffers from it).
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I don't care lol
 
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