Skiing is too easy.

Park skiing is way harder than regular skiing. I'll make the whole mountain my bitch up and down and every which way, but I can only spin up to 3. But I mean, I'm good at skiing, been doing it since I was four, and I'm not particularly good at spinning around in the air, only started last year, so, y'know, its what you know, I guess.

I guess I'm trying to say they aren't very transferrable skills maybe, like, being really good at skiing doesn't really make park skiing any easier, as long as you are at the point where you can hold a straight line at speed, and speed check. I guess maybe being good at park doesn't make you good at skiing nessecarily either, but like, when your doing park, your still skiing. I can't imagine that there are people in freeskiing that never, ever leave the park to just go ski. That just wouldn't make sense, they'd be like the Chinese gymnasts that do airial (sp?) skiing.

I don't know, I think getting good at park is harder than just being good at skiing. I'm really big and uncoordinated though and I never did any "air awareness" sports because I was too busy skiing and never got twin tips till I was 19.

I'm really high right now.
 
to an extent youre right its easier to become a good park skier, but its not only become easier for you. its also easier for the 130 000 NSers and other freeskiers around the world. everybody can buy good equipment so there is way more competition for being a pro and the requirements for being a pro are higher.

ofcourse its easier for you to rip a line with rockered skis but so is it for everyone else, it evens out. now you have to be even better than the rest.

the tricks you have to throw down today to become a pro are galaxies away from the tricks required back in the day.

it makes me angry that ignorant people like you say skiing is easy. saying that if somebody went skiing all year he would become a pro is the argumentation of a 5 year old. with school and homework etc its nearly impossible. and its not just training. you have to have a personality to become pro, you have to be individual and your own style, and most important you need talent and a mountain really close. if u were skiing everyday you would have no life.

and its becoming easier in every sport. car racing- there are teams that maintain your car, aerodynamic specialists who modify the exterior in order for you to be faster.

in ski racing- theres skis for several thousands of dollars with a special base, there are so many more lifts, my grandpa had to hike the mountain. so should he say how easy skiing has become? skin tight racing suits to make you faster.

is it easy running a marathon? ya sure. you dont even need skis. youve learnt to walk since the age of 1. i mean if u run the whole day ud probably beat the ethiopians and kenyans.

why do people allways have to whine about shit. if ur so sure that you can become pro why dont you go for it? win big air in x games, take 1, 000, 000 dollars and live a happy life.

i think freeskiing is very difficult. ive only done it for 3 years and im just about at flips.

good for you that you think skiing is easy. keep it to ya self and become pro. then write a book for everyone on how easy it was for you to become pro.

and you ski to have fun, and chill with ya buddies, not to become a pro. you FREEski. if you enjoyed building your own kickers and hopping over them with your straight skis then do it. and dont hate on the sport we love for it being too easy. you can alsways go bigger and make harder tricks. try a zero spin over a 170 foot kicker. i mean if ur pro in 1 year then you can easily manage the 170 footer in two years and become the pimp of the pros. cuz u got good skis, an underarmour shirt, a perfectly groomed take off cuz that kicker then is a piece of cake.

maybe i have also misinterpreted your thread. in that case, my bad, i didnt mean to. dont want to hate on anybody.

lets all be stoked for winter and enjoy our sport.

 
oh now i read your post again. "some skiers cant ski forward as good as backwards" or something like that. well freeskiing isnt about skiing small carving turns. why would a park skier want to be a good racer? thats two different parts of the sport. its like saying ski jumpers arent skiers, because they dont rip the groomers, or racers cant even do a backflip.

i think there is just a lot of jealuosy from you and others here, you dont want to believe that some people who cant even ski as good as you on groomers are able to throw doubles or do shit in the park whilst you cant.

and freeskiers suck at groomers?

look at JON OLSSON. he´ll probably make it into the olympics 2014 in GS.
 
meh ive never thought of skiing as easy. if you think something you are doing is easy, take it to the next level. progression has no limits
 
^finally, a post that answers to the original statement.

The next level, it exists. Progression has happened.

Newschool skiing is too easy because we ski in race ski boots. boots with no means of flexing, designed to harness a downhill skier to the skis in one position. As a freestyle skier, I personally like to bend my knees for shock of landings, along with pressing out bluntslides and tweaking grabs. The original post that a year ago couldnt be explained is, when we start skiing with freestyle boots, it wont be as easy.

the poc ski boots was introduced, and obviously NS ripped it apart. mainly because all of POC equipment looks like it was designed for the set of star wars. other than that, not one of 100,000 members actually understood that the boot was the first representation of freestyle. A BOOT THAT ALLOWS MOTION. (i dont particularly agree with the design of this boot, but the idea is there)

A boot that allows motion will inherently be harder to ski, it will defy the notion of alpine skiing all together. The way a turn is made will be freestyle for the first time, and we will no longer be jibbing on plastic race boots. the difficulty will be no more than tele-skiing, which is on the rise in Colorado parks. are you willing to accept a more difficult means of skiing, that will free us from alpine? i know i am.

 
its not easy the bar is just being set higher. the sport is progressing just like snowboarding and skateboarding. some lil kids can throw down some crazy shit on a skateboard. that just means the pros have to work harder at being pro and the sport has to progress
 
just because of progression, and the sport would not be nearly as strong without it. if it didnt progress it would get boring and start to die out like skiing was before park.
the way of the road
 
yea, but what's the point?

there are good parks, bad parks, big mountains, small hills, good skiers, bad skiers, good skis, shitty skis.

i mean, is it a bad thing that stuff is advancing? would you rather have everyone back on long skinny straight skis doing daffy's? are you bitter that people have enough money to train on water ramps/trampolines/ski camps/academies/etc?

i just don't get it? are you mad at the skiers? are you mad at skiing? are you mad at yourself? are you even mad, or are you just talking random shit without having a true meaning behind it...

we could spend days having a debate about how calculators make it easier to do math, but does that mean everyone using a calculator isn't as good as those who had to learn before the calculator came out? it's irrelevant, the formula is still the same, so what's the point?
 
this concept may be too much for NS to understand.

but in the pages of this thread, there are skiers that are ready, count me in.
 
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