Steve Stepp is a racer!

"kids see pros doing backflips and jump right into the park without learning any fundamentals. soon skiers are going to be the ones flying down the hill uncontrollably gunning straight for the park."

couldn't agree more
 
I’ve compiled a list of hypotheticals, you tell me if it’s even possible to be a sellout: - Tom Wallisch admitted that he holds poles because the judges like it, but later he reveals that he will replace one pole with a can of Monster when he rides slopestyle.- Simon Dumont gets tiny red Target logos tattooed all over his face and claims it’s just a rare form of the chicken pox.- Tanner Hall promotes a line of dreadlock wigs in a series of daytime TV ads.- Orage brings back Siver, but the only jacket they produce is a black and gray fleece that is marketed to fraternities with the slogan “Respect the Of A Revolutionaries”- Freeskier puts out the “Chevy Truck Month” Photo Annual with pics of Eric Pollard pulling his snowmobiles with a different truck on each page.- Jon Olsson was once called a sellout for signing with J. Lindeberg and wearing pink, what if he starts promoting a line of rustic home-goods for IKEA called “Yniqly Jon”- Newschoolers starts banning posts that criticize its ad sponsors, and the “reviews” page is renamed the “Good Vibe Experience Journal.”
 
same hereall i see these days are little kids with bright colored quotes flying down the mountain without poles on their afterbangs or other line skis (not singling line out but it seems like those are the skis they are always on)barely even able to make it to the park and then try to throw down in the park without even learning the basics of skiing.besides that rant:thats a sick interviewand steve isnt on Full Tilt anymore is he?
 
Oh well forgive me for obtaining basic skiing skills at a very young age.
Also, it's "you're" not "your". Spelling is pretty hyphy IMO, so you better learn it instead of syyppinn on dat syzzuurrup.
 
Bahaha Jon signing with IKEA, that's great.

But about everyone saying it's important to learn how to ski before going to park, because I don't really want to start a thread about it. I just started skiing this year after snowboarding for 7 years, and I'm a senior in high school. One of my home mountains is actually Roundtop, where this article talked about, and all there really is to do is ski park. I don't know how to "ski." After a few days of skiing I can easily shred the whole hill, but I know for a fact that when it comes down to it I have no knowledge of true technique, but I consider myself pretty good at riding park. Am I so in the wrong? Whats so bad about skipping lessons and teaching myself how to ski the un-proper way? It's not like I just bomb the hill until I'm at the park, I can easily control my speed and turn and what not just like a normal skier would.

I guess the whole notion that you HAVE to learn how to properly ski is more for real, pow/tree type skiing, and I'm going out west for college next year, but really what is so bad about learning how to ski that stuff the same way I learned how to ski groomers and park?
 
yeah idk about the whole RT is in the running for shittiest hill comment. i know there are wayyy worse.
 
ive never raced because i never could at my mountain. my options were
a. not ski
b. ski down the 350ft vertical drop hill like a gaper or
c. shred it up in the park!
my mountain has a sick park, but everything else is too small. if i tryd i could get down in 30-45 seconds. and since its in ohio and is small there is no room for high speed lifts, so they take 5 mins to get up. aka not very fun. park is sick though, thats why i got into it.. it was my only option, but now that i got into it i cant leave! its oooh sooo much fun!
 
without first becoming a above average skier you will hit a wall when it comes to progressing in the park. once you get passed about a 540 you will be screwed. of course there are always exceptions, so you could be alright i am just saying that is the general truth.
 
so true. maybe you don't have to race, but you definitely need to get your basic skiing skills (or even more advanced skills) before you go into the park, and definitely before you go into the trees or the BC. solid interview, and the selling out in 2010 was hilarious
 
brobomb bashed roundtop. that's BS. matt stambaugh is doing big things with it. roundtop is way ahead of any other mid atlantic resort.
 
Hey John hartley, I'm the park manager at Ski Roundtop and your article is pretty disgusting. To be bashing that hard on a small mid Atlantic ski resort is pretty low. Considering a lot has changed over the last two year. Why dont you grab a crew come out here and check it out again. From the reviews this year its been great. Even from Steve himself he said the other day when he was at rt he had fun and was impressed. Bagging on a resort you haven't been to in years isn't very professional. Offer stands to come out and ride again.
 
Geez, you RT dudes are rather sensitive. I'm sure it has improved greatly over the years, but the question was about how it effected Steve growing up (so we're probly talking '99-'04). Sorry about your feelings. No hate intended, PA all the way!
 
Let me speak for BroBomb and let everyone who reads the Steve Stepp interview understand the context for saying he grew up skiing a "shitty park". As mentioned this refers to roughly the early 2000s. Myself and Jon rode at Roundtop for seven years combined, and I'm pretty sure I put 300 plus days in at RT.
When I first skied RT in 01/02 season the only thing there was a mini pipe, that's it, the whole season! If you were a skier you couldn't bring your poles in the pipe or you would be kicked out, which happened to me on a weekly basis. In addition, I think like 5 kids had twin-tip skis at the time, most of them were really sick too. This was all extremely shocking coming from upstate NY and skiing Vermont where Freeskiing and terrain parks were well established. Then in 02/03 RT built a little tiny park in the bunker hill area and it was seriously sketchy and was no way a park anyone would think could produce a skier like Stepp. Then 03/04 the Fife and Drum park opened which was the beginning of it being pretty legit. The 04/05 season, our last season there, the Lower Exhibition park and superpipe opened, both improvements, but the features even then were just out of hand and sketchy.
With this all said, it is absolutely amazing that such legit skiers were coming out of RT at the time like all of the Roundtop Riders. At RT you get 3 days of ice and 4 days of slush and from 2001-2005 a "shitty park". It wasn't the most ideal or opportunistic ski resort to become a pro skier at the time, but it happened, that was the point. I remember even seeing Wallisch at RT just slaughter an October Rail Jam in 2004.
So believe Jon and BroBomb that this has nothing to do with RT's park in the last two years. BroBomb has just as much love for RT or any PA resort than anyone else, but please understand the context and think before you get all fired up.
 
Understanding the contect has nothing to do with getting fired up. Reading "shittiest place" and how bad it sucks without reference to years doesn't make a person think to before but how it is now.
 
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exactly, watching jibbers try to ski groomers is pathetic, they think the only way to turn is by going straight and then slashing their tails with their feet glued together and their knees straight

learn to ski, then ski park
 
no, everyone should start with racing. it builds the fundamentals of skiing and teaches you how to ski properly...park does not

i've seen kids do slightly decent shit in the park and literally struggle to ski down a groomer at the end of a run. that comes first, then park

you can't go anywhere in skiing without learning how to do it
 
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