Sibling skiers

halfwatt

halfwatt

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I come from a fairly big family and all of them are skiers. Have been their whole lives.

But mainly I want to know if anyone has siblings that ski, especially park. My older brother (Tri__Photo, me and him bicker all the time on NS) is a great park skier, he was even better than me for a bit. We still ski together a lot even though he’s off and married.

anyone else have siblings/relatives who are good park skiers?
 
my twin [tag=272185]@addisontheginger[/tag] and my cousins. A couple of them went to nationals a few years back and won some rails events
 
Me and my younger brother ski together and he normally hangs out with my friends and I when skiing. Its also nice on normally solo days I can ski park with someone to talk to.
 
I thought my 11 yearold sister how to slide a tube took her 3 tries she’s basically in xgames now. But she’s been trying 3s and she’s kinda getting them hopefully she’ll be rly good.

**This post was edited on Mar 11th 2021 at 1:02:12pm
 
My twin sister was a big air park animal in college on her snowboard. She was one qualifier away from X games when she had a career ending slam.

She's since run off to Hawaii with a pro surfer dude but comes out for like 5-10 days a season to ride powder with me.

It's actually pretty tight having a shred sibling cuz we're totally competitive with each other but also really sportsmanship-like.

We swore when we were like 8 that I ski and she snowboards, and for softball, I play catcher and she plays pitcher.

Our covenant has totally lasted and we redo it every so often:

In high school, I ride all mountain, she rides park

I skateboard, she rollerskates

I work in the trades, she works with computers

I live in the mountains, she lives by the sea

I snowskate, she powsurfs

I longboard, she surfs

I ride snowmobiles, she rips a jetski

We just try so hard to be different but compete with each other too. It's sweet. We're really close and always conspire and hustle and bring each other up. Between the two of us, we cover a lot of stuff.
 
My little brother and I skied together as much as we could growing up and the only reason I learned new tricks was to try to be better than him. Now he's a ski bum at Alta and I'm doing the college thing... seems like he made the better decision lmao
 
I came from a family of racers and I was the black sheep of the family as a park skier. My brother will fuck around in the park like once a year and it’s always cool to watch. He can spin a proper 3 and slide a rail. It’s fascinating how much athleticism transfers over. He’s a damn good racer. One time they had a dual slalom race and he beat one of the head coaches without using poles.
 
Fun Fact

As if one isn't enough on this planet. There are two fuq bois that ride ski blades around and are the most hated skiers on this site (Aside from X_ANKILLA).
 
My older bro had super smooth style back in the day, we used to ski park together 5+ days a week back in high school. He was better at jumps I was better at rails. Now that we're in our mid twenties he only skis 5 days a year or so but his rodeo 5s still look way better than mine.
 
My little brother is a year and a half younger than me. Grew up skiing together 4-5 days a week. By the time we hit high school, I was a park skier that liked to ski the rest of the mountain and he was an all mountain skier that liked to get into the park from time to time. He could 360, 540, and slide most rails. It meant that we could each push each other in our respective aspects of the sport. Growing up, everything was a competition. Now, I’m in college, and he’s at boarding school in Maine tearing up freeride comps. Hopefully he moves out west next year and then we will finally see how good he can get. Even now I find myself spending less time in the park than I did 3 seasons ago, and I would love to see our skiing relationship grow as we both have started to learn some backcountry skills as well. I know that in 30 years we will still be skiing together
 
I dunno if this counts but my brother is the best snowboarder in the mountain

[video]https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/996737/trim-9B93DF22-7432-43A2-904C-48559AEBE65B-MOV[/video]
 
True story.

I started skiing with my twin brother when we were both three. Fast forward five years later, he found his comfort zone on like groomers and shit, meanwhile I’m eager to start racing, and then started park after quitting racing due to a bad injury involving some serious head trauma. Now I’m teaching skiing and this past month I’ve trying to teach myself some more risky shit in the park again bc I still have that progression itch. I guess for my brother’s case, the itch for progression left him not too long after he started skiing and he hasn’t been on skis since middle school (I think).
 
I have 2 older brothers who could throw down in their prime, they were the guys who would rip their 128 Hellbent down the park and not give a damn. Theyre pushing upper 30's now and one still sends and the other just tore both of his ACL's doing a cork 3 at PC.... its been super helpful cause growing up I was always playing catch-up and trying to mimic what they did. Although I dont spend as much time in the park as I did in highschool, it was sick to watch my bros.
 
I wish my older brother liked skiing for many reasons, a big one being convenience for rides/having someone to ski with and learn from. kinda bummed he didn’t so now I got my younger cousin into it, he’s only in like middle school and he can do swaps on tubes, 2p2, etc. when I was In 8th grade I skied maybe 15 days a year, 4 of them being at my hill with a park... I couldn’t even front 2 until I was like 15. I like to think I have a pretty decent bag of tricks and consistency for an 18 year old, so I’m pretty stoked on his progression and being able to plug him with a ride to the hill all the time, cause when I was his age the only thing holding me back from skiing was my parents not wanting to drive 45 minutes to the hill.
 
14257495:snowdaynw said:
you have gone inverted like 3 times since you’ve gotten married. basically a type 2 skier now smh ?
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judging by your melonhead helmet you are still a type 1 skier

still better
 
my twin brother comes up sometimes and while i am better then him he definitely learns faster then me and i’m only better because i ski way more then he does

also, lots of twins on here
 
My older brother is a good skier and probably the source of most of my progression, Im lucky to have him as one of my best homies as well as brother which is not a super common thing. Some of teh best days ive ever had were just me an dhim bootpacking all day to find a gnarly chute or cliff
 
14257683:elibrims said:
My older brother is a good skier and probably the source of most of my progression, Im lucky to have him as one of my best homies as well as brother which is not a super common thing.
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felt this on a different level
 
My twin and I grew up skiing together (3-23). Stopped skiing park as much after high school and now getting in to the all mountain/backcountry side of things. It's great having a built in ski buddy to share the stoke with, and we definitely push each other to progress.
 
I do everything with my 12 year old brother (I'm 17). Ski, Skate, wakeboard, you name it.. He's a crazy athlete and he'll have me passed up in 5 years or less. The kid is my best friend and I get just as hyped when he learns a new trick as when I do
 
14257988:MoneyMakerMike said:
I do everything with my 12 year old brother (I'm 17). Ski, Skate, wakeboard, you name it.. He's a crazy athlete and he'll have me passed up in 5 years or less. The kid is my best friend and I get just as hyped when he learns a new trick as when I do
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Awwh! You're a good brother!
 
Older bro taught me how to ski park in middle school. Only two years apart and we always send when we ski together. We have different style and basically opposite bag of tricks so we always build off of each other. He's left foot forward, nasty at rails and is a frontside skier naturally. I'm right foot forward and always doing backside rail tricks but I think I have him on jumps. We're both like 6' 5" and always get mistaken with each other when we ski lol. We'll both be on cu freeskiing next year which will be lit.
 
Two older sisters actually. Both grew up as racers back in MI and then joined up with Brighton's "Race team" back in the day (It was really just a glorified ski club with a sick coach who would just go and rip pow all day or night for training.) My oldest sister moved back to MI for school, is married, has a kid now, and my other sister still lives in UT, coaches girls freeride skiing, patrols, and is an ER Nurse. Definitely would say they're my favorite people to go ski with.

**This post was edited on Mar 13th 2021 at 3:03:54pm
 
I took my sister skiing off piste powder, she fell, hit a tree and fractured her femur. End of story, haven’t skied with her since cause she can’t hang.
 
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