New park skier need a bit of help

DopeSauce

DopeSauce

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I have been skiing for 2 weeks now at an indoor park in New Zealand. It's a pretty mean place to learn. I'm 12. So far I have learnt like 3s, 3s over boxes, fakie 1s, 270s out of a suicide rail switch onto street type rails and yeah. Any tips on how to get better?
 
that seems pretty good for two weeks. i wish i could ski right now. yea at your pace you dont need any help
 
If the cafeteria has poutine, eat it every day. Oh and dont claim tricks ever, then you come across as cocky. And definitley consider learning 3s on flat, so you can get those rail tricks down easy.
 
Lol the only thing the cafe has there (that is affordable) is hot chips! everything else is in the $30 range, so no way am I buying that. Is chocolate good protein :)
 
lol homes ur already better than me and i ahve been skiing for sixteen years so u seem pretty much set
 
just ski backwards... a lot down the hill all the time, never ever ski forwards unless your going to a jump or something. this will gain you comfort in skiing switch, then when u step it up to hit jumps and rails switch ull feel a lot better. learn to carve switch
 
Haha, as far as that switch thing, the other day I got bored of rails cuz none of my mates were there, so i was just carving down the side that's not terrain park fakie. It was sooooooo sick!!! I gained a lot of confidence I think. It's mean fun.
 
Yes, "mean". Do not diss lol, I come from a land downunder! Thanks ppl. what do you mean by 3's on the faltt? With or without my skis? And how should I go about doing a 5 ?
 
for 5s, just go for it on a remarkable bigger kicker than on your first threes, i did em first on something like 30, if you have the balls, you wont have any problems to get em around, just look where you go, at least since 270 you will see the landing and than you just have to bring another 270 down while you will be able to see pretty everything that is important,

than you need to be pretty comfortable when riding and landing switch
 
Learn EVERYTHING all directions. Do all your spins left side, rightside, switch and regular before moving onto the next trick, and all railslides left foot forward and right foot forward. It'll make you such a good skier in the long run. If I was learning again from scratch, that's how I'd do it.
 
fuck me, if i could do 5s after 2 weeks i would quit skiing if its that easy! took me years to get this shit! i strongly suspect this boys a lying kiwi scoundrel...
 
SUCH good advice. Looking back, I wish I would have stopped and learned everything both natural and unnatural before moving on.
 
Ok but u guys have to realize i ski alot man in 1 weekend I ski like 22hrs so really its not that amazing... i go about 6 times a week. I will try and get some videos, cept we ain't got a camera... :(
 
yah im calling bull shit unless youve been skiing like just regular skiing for atleast 10 years theres no way.
 
Fine then, I'll try to get sum vids. I had skied about 4 times for half an hour on rentals, not doing rails or jumps. And it's not like I have perfect style, and + my 540's aren't very big, only like 3ft high or even less.
 
Poutine dude, not protien. Poutine is a dish from Montreal, its french fries (chips i guess you would call them) with gravy and melted cheese.
 
Ohhh yup poutine lol... never actually heard of it, but we go through the french fries like they're going out of fashion man! They are great with tomato sauce... and to other people who are giving me heaps about being cockky and stuff, I ski a lot in a week and i'm one of the most useless skiiers there. Other people do rodeos and stuff. I know one guy who could frontflip and backflip after 3 weeks of skiing. A guy who works there can backflip off of a suicide rail. Believe me, I wasn't saying i'm good.
 
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