Ski Racing

[geosom]

Any of you guys/girls do it as well as park skiing?

and opinions

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[haggis_hunter]

Got talked into a few times while at university and ended up with a few gates to the face, its good fun and it training improved my skiing so much, I now use race skis (usually the non FIS masters / juniors versions) as my piste skis as laying down some train tracks with a full race ski is dammed satisfying.

 

[3mania]

Skiing is like sex.... why would I time it to see how fast I can finish.

 

[haggis_hunter]

Sometimes a quick hard pounding is very satisfying, it leaves you breathless and week kneed at the end .......

 

[a_burger]

I race on my schools team, mainly because it's the only high school sport I feel like doing. The school league isn't very serious, I wear a hoodie to most of the races.

 

[SunburntSquad]

I wish my school had a ski team

 

[m-ruta]

I race ski cross. It's rowdy and super fun.

 

[Skiingsnow]

skier-cross is so fucking fun, on my days off in whistler i often session it with my buddies, its gets fucking intense

 

[tomPietrowski]

Yeah racing is fun, defiantly way differnt to competing slope. The rush you get through some high speed turns is hard to beat. No it's not as much fun generally as lapping the park, but its defiantly something every skier should try at least once.

 

[JonasJuhler]

If you wanna use definitely that much here is how it is spelled

 

[SpliffyJ]

I used to race, it was fun, no where near as fun as park skiing or pow skiing.

 

[tomPietrowski]

Thanks mate I suffer from both dyslexia and a phone which auto corrects everything I attempt to spell, however badly

 

[tcurle]

Raves banzai tour. Couldn't compete cause of age but watched it and it was sweet.

 

[FigNewton]

best thing ever

 

[life_is_hood]

could definitely be fun.

 

[jon@wh2o]

I see what you're getting at... Rahlve's Banzai tour. But yes it is awesome.

http://www.rahlvesbanzai.com/index.php/videosphotos/official-videos

 

[JonasJuhler]

Always there to help a fellow ns'er!

 

[McLS]

I was pretty serious about racing before moving to freeride/freestyle, i did mainly downhill and slalom. Downhill was great, and it got really scary at some point, when u knew that if u didnt have a really highline you just wouldn't make the turn...I still do some slalom for fun sometimes (i just like hitting those so much!!!) and I race for school, which means i get 2 weeks off to ski during school time which is great! Theres only one thing I dont understand about racing, its all those kids that are too old already and not good enough to be future champions that train everyday with the club in those gates. I mean yeah, racing can be fun sometimes but if u know you won't make it to the top, then whats the point of never leaving the arena?

 

[Skiingsnow]

Maybe they enjoy it?

 

[k2andcannoli]

Nastar pacesetter and alpine race coach. Racing is pretty fun but winning is where the thrill is. All that matters to me is getting paid to ski, involvement in ski racing is a way to do that.

 

[Skiingsnow]

I can relate a lot to this post.

 

[McLS]

Yeah but having been one of those kids for a few years, I liked it, but at some point I wanted to see more of the mountain, go in pow, do jumps, ski faster...I dunno....

 

[CKpolicy]

its fun to mix it up. i raced as a kid, and coach now. there are a lot of small high school and college teams around my area that will take anyone on because they need numbers. they assume that since they have their race sticks they can ski faster than the kid in the saga...ha.