The death of my park progression

DanielPlainview

DanielPlainview

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With the disappointing east coast winter and this being my last year as a teenager, I feel like my park progression may go no farther. Should I fight it or start working on my late twenties skills like trees and cliffs and stuff?
 
Depending on your skill level you can always progress reasonably. There are a vast amount of trick combinations and relatively easy ones at that.when finessed you can add new levels of complexity. but seriously haha I am 21 and I am always progressing. I can butter longer, nollie higher, and those are relatively easy things to practice. Dont make this all or nothing statement. its a joke
 
topic:UncleJoe said:
With the disappointing east coast winter and this being my last year as a teenager, I feel like my park progression may go no farther. Should I fight it or start working on my late twenties skills like trees and cliffs and stuff?
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I did my first 360 at 19 years old. Never got fully amazing, but rode park pretty hard well into my late 20s. You can easily take this much further if you stay fit.

Giving up on the dream of being a pro and progressing in the park because its fun to learn tricks are two separate things. You can also explore other parts of the mountain without throwing in the towel on the park. its a myth that the park is only for children.
 
Im 29 and still ride park pretty hard. I dont push it tooo far but definitely still like to scare myself. I still learn new tricks almost everyday i ride park I feel it a lot more the next day than i used to but its never to old to still progress.
 
I started park at 28

Didn't make it past 34-35 because too many injuries and age finally caught up with me , you have plenty of time to progress still .
 
Just turned 25. I have no interest in really "progressing" my park riding beyond where its at. I can throw a better park run than most and I have fun doing that. At this point I just throw some cork 3's with stylish grabs and some rails with some smooth front 270 out or one switch up.

My all mtn riding though has progressed soo much. Everything about it is better and I am in really good shape right now which always helps
 
Don't just quit....I mean I wouldn't know how you feel seeing I'm 16, but I know for a fact if I was starting to get old I would still do what I love. If you really love park skiing you will do everything you can to keep going. In fact I have seen 20 year olds in the park throwin doubles. Never give up man.
 
topic:UncleJoe said:
Should I fight it or start working on my late twenties skills like trees and cliffs and stuff?
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That's gonna be pretty hard if you don't have any snow hahaha.

Really though, trees and cliffs and powder are so much fun to ride. It's harder than it looks and requires a lot more out of you physically in some sense. You aren't slamming your body off of things(usually) so it's not as much impact as park but you'd be surprised how sore you get. You should try it out if you never have! It's honestly amazing.
 
Seriously dude I'm 23 and feel like I can still learn a trick a day. Just be careful how you do it. Actually move through progression instead of just chucking yourself and it should be fine
 
topic:UncleJoe said:
With the disappointing east coast winter and this being my last year as a teenager, I feel like my park progression may go no farther. Should I fight it or start working on my late twenties skills like trees and cliffs and stuff?
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When you pop a jump are you keeping your legs wide apart and then snapping them together upon takeoff to increase spin.

I think this is a secret because all pros do it and I cannot recall anyone mention it.
 
All I can tell you is it feels really good to still be doing tricks in the park as a 30 year old, and I still hope to do things I never have before.

I live on the east now too, so I feel your pain, but don't think you have to stop progressing.
 
Dude you are so young, if you take care of your body you can have the physicality required to ski park hard until you're at least 30
 
I'm 26 and keep getting better.

First k-fed when I was 18, first backflip at 22, first 5 in the pipe at 23, tried my first dub back this year.

20 is super young, people love to hammer on about how old they feel in their twenties, but it's mostly in your head. I have some nagging issues but nothing that hasn't been overcome by the stoke to learn a new trick.

As you get older you become more risk-aware, which can slow you down. On the other hand you gain from experience a better understanding of how to do certain tricks and the steps you take to learn them. When I was 15 I had no idea what the proper way to spin a 360 was, when I was 16 I was clueless about how to back flip (I just found a quarter pipe type feature and hucked). Now I have the knowledge of how to do most tricks, the hard part is finding a good/safe feature to try them on.
 
13656460:shin-bang said:
The death of my park

progression is my dang girlfriend not wanting to ski park
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Holy shit this hahahaha. "why are you so into tricks" "Why can't you just ski normally"
 
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