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oneill_sean

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School really gets in the way of skiing a lot and i dont know what to do about it. I tried asking my parents about cyber school but they dont want me doing it. Also when i do go skiing its just not a very good mountain and i have trouble progessing. I just want to try to get good enough to maybe get some type of sponsership or something.
 
13780585:SendyMcSendyface said:
Try and get a ski club or some shit organized at your school
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There is but is just easier and cheaper not too be in it. They just ski on Thursday nights at the local mountain.
 
13780770:oneill_sean said:
I want too and there are two huge quad kinks at my school but i cant drive and my parents won't take me.
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are you in middle school or something? This idea might work when you get your own car but if you're relying on rides, cash, food and everything else imaginable from your parents wallet....

what makes you think your parents want to/will be able to drive you around all week long so you can ski, like do they not have any important adult stuff to do? I feel like you really need to rethink this idea.
 
First of all, get off ns you piece of shit. What are you 12? And second, you will go no where in life on skies. You are shitty, can't even 3
 
13780844:McNoche said:
First of all, get off ns you piece of shit. What are you 12? And second, you will go no where in life on skies. You are shitty, can't even 3
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lol im actually am 15 and i can easily 3
 
13780780:daannnnieel said:
are you in middle school or something? This idea might work when you get your own car but if you're relying on rides, cash, food and everything else imaginable from your parents wallet....

what makes you think your parents want to/will be able to drive you around all week long so you can ski, like do they not have any important adult stuff to do? I feel like you really need to rethink this idea.
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Well my dad works at the mountain. My brother would take me down to Big Boulder but he is in college in Salt Lake now.
 
once you can drive - get a job at a mountain to make costs easier and then youll be spending a lot more time there

once you graduate you can pursue that dream of skiing - just finish school first. You have lots of time in your future
 
13780913:Erikaaa said:
once you can drive - get a job at a mountain to make costs easier and then youll be spending a lot more time there

once you graduate you can pursue that dream of skiing - just finish school first. You have lots of time in your future
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Im working there next year, hopefully i can do a little with park crew because they only have two guys, but i will mostly be instructing
 
Trust me bro, school first. I know, it sucks, and I know you want to ski, but if you do poorly in school in exchange for more time on the mountain, things are gonna be a lot harder for you later in life. Get good grades, and ski when you can. If you screw up your future by getting Cs in all your classes, there isn't going to be much skiing in your future.

If you really want to progress, build a summer set up. They're relatively cheap (
 
13780959:oneill_sean said:
Im working there next year, hopefully i can do a little with park crew because they only have two guys, but i will mostly be instructing
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Ur gonna get clowned a lot in this thread because that's just the way it is. But I'll try to give you some decent advice because most people on NS were the same 15 year old with big dreams.

Most likely you will never be a sponsored skier. That's just the way it is. If you want to be, you've got to work for it. A lot. More than anyone else. You have to truly have a passion for it and want to do it every day no matter the conditions or the hill you are riding. If your hill sucks just rip park laps until you are old enough to move to a real mountain. Get a job at the mountain as soon as possible cuz that will help you ski more in high school especially if you don't have supportive parents. Sounds like your hill is open nights so work hard and get good grades so you can get a car if that's feasible for your family,and then drive there and ski every day after school and work one or 2 days a weekend for the free pass. Graduate HS go to college in a ski town and then drop out and ski every day and never go anywhere with it like everyone else. Or get really good and maybe get some flow sponsorships so you can spend the little extra money you save not buying ski gear on more beer and pot and gas for your truck and sled and still never accomplish anything besides maybe some pictures in a magazine. Bottom line, if you really wanna ski all the time you can, but it won't be glorious and entails a lot of shit work and cheap beer.
 
13780901:oneill_sean said:
Well my dad works at the mountain. My brother would take me down to Big Boulder but he is in college in Salt Lake now.
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okay that actually seems way more reasonable.

at the same time i'm not too pleased that I more or less said fuck school to ride bikes/ drive around. I graduated and everything, I just feel like I missed out on a lot of shit by simply not being there.
 
13780984:Slush said:
Trust me bro, school first. I know, it sucks, and I know you want to ski, but if you do poorly in school in exchange for more time on the mountain, things are gonna be a lot harder for you later in life. Get good grades, and ski when you can. If you screw up your future by getting Cs in all your classes, there isn't going to be much skiing in your future.

If you really want to progress, build a summer set up. They're relatively cheap (
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I actually finished building one last month but need to build a new rail, snapped it in half, right now I'm just jibbing an oil tank my dad bought for $5 down the road. That was a good deal lol
 
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