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cravenmoorehed

cravenmoorehed

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"It frusterates me when I see kids in the park and they can't do a single turn in between jumps- just speed check at 540. At home, the really good young skiers are the ones who race, because they learn where to stand in the boot, how to carve a turn and make their skis work. They know the correct body position and where to put their hips and shoulders.

The kids in the park everyday, they're terrible skiers. It will take them a long time to become good skiers. If you look at some pros now when they try to ski in the backcountry, there arn't too many who can ski away from a backcountry jump"

-Henrik Windstedt

 
yeah that is true the racers usually start at such a young age that they just get good at skiing in general and they have more confidence on skis and they just know how to ski flat out they pick up newschooling a lot faster than someone who just started

"if all your friends jumped off a clif would you?" -my mom "i would if there was snow on it" -me

 
racers are usually better skiers, but most are such pricks, it doenst even matter how they ski, because they ruin the mtn for everyone

i rock the pow like none other
 
i semi agree with that..im friends with a few racers and there cool..but then there are a lot that just act like there pro and piss u right off

 
These "kids" are having fun. Isn't that the what skiing is about? If Henrik wants to be so high and mighty as to put down kids that arent as good as he is, or say that he is better at skiing away from BC jumps than "most of the pros out there", then let him. If a kid wants to hang in the park all day, and that's what skiing is for them, that's great. That is what makes skiing what it is: deciding how you want to do it, you're not on a team, you don't have to do anything. You can ski, without people judging you for doing something wrong. All these people that decide to criticize on others who "can't ski" need to get off their high horse and realize that skiing is about fun, not who is the best. Whew.

David

-AR_Six- is my hero. And you can audition too.

MT CREW
 
"If you look at some pros now when they try to ski in the backcountry, there arn't too many who can ski away from a backcountry jump"

I jumped to a concusion on the "most of pros" (my quote)thing, but it might be justified.

David

-AR_Six- is my hero. And you can audition too.

MT CREW
 
I just found it interesting because he is sick at park. Ha ha and it's totally true. It is nice to see a pro with some common sense and the balls to speak his mind.

 
That, or he's stuck up enough to think that he is so much better than everyone else.

David

-AR_Six- is my hero. And you can audition too.

MT CREW
 
He is skilled no doubt, but not that much better than other people.

David

-AR_Six- is my hero. And you can audition too.

MT CREW
 
i grew up not skiing hte park so i think im good on the all mountain riding

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CravenMH,

Where did you find that quote?

I've resisted saying anything on this site, but that is the most honest thing I have heard in a long time. I don't care where you learn, but you gotta learn to carve a turn.

The average park monkey looks like a rank-ass beginer skiing down to the lift: skid to the left, skid to the right, do a stupid spin, ski fakey for a while, spin back around and continue to skid.

I'd bet the house that if Bode Miller worked at it for about a month he could place way higher in a comp in the park then any park moneky could ever place in a world cup downhill.

 
"i grew up not skiing hte park so i think im good on the all mountain riding"

Good for you buddy, how about you work on the spelling and punctuation?

Ice, any idea what issue of Freeze? (R.I.P)

I'm sure I can dig it up, but I'm feeling lazy right now.

 
Sorry I just got back to my apartment from his house I'll ask him tommarow and let you know, you should read the article it seems like Henrik has his head on his shoulders about the reality of the sport at the moment.

We pay our debt sometimes.
 
Ice, A true powderwhore would have slept over. Don't worry about it, I'll find it in print, and then I should probably make a t-shirt out of it and wear it at the bars in scummit county.

 
Henrick is a very elitest thinker, if he wants to discriminate than fine, if it makes him feel better to put some distance between him and everyone else so be it. But he should remember not everyone was as privileged as he was and had the opputrunity to start skiing at a young age. Last thing, do you really have to bring discrimination on the mountain? When did discrimination bring anything good? I think Henrick is just trying to feel cooler by distancing himself from everyone else so he can feel better about himself.

 
um..................yeah i think thats bs Henrik is just telling it like it is and yes skiing is about having fun but knowing how to ski is what he's talking about and you look at most kids who grew up in the park the quote describes how they ski not there skill or anything and for the most part its true next season go to the park and pick out a park kid and a racer (who doesn't race anymore) and you can see the diff.

'kevin whyed nils pull you out?' 'Cuz i was touchin bitches.' 'No seriously why did he put scott in for you.' 'Scott doesn't touch bitches.'

Viva Candide
 
Admittedly, it's true that you can pick out the park skiers from the racers; but why is it so repulsive that some kids can't ski the "traditional proper" way. Why can't everyone do it their own unique way? Is it because Henrick believes that we will enjoy ourselves more if we knew how to ski the "proper" way? If so, since when was it Henricks job to tell other people whats fun.

 
There is no "proper way" to ski, despite what the PSIA ski instructors say.

Every great skier has inovated skiing over the years, I'm talking about Werner, Stein, Killey, Wong, the Mahres, Plake, Johnson, schmidt, Hall, Miller, etc. They all made turns that people, at the time, thought were out of control, but they all could (and can) carve a real turn.

Yeah, your right skiing is about having fun and every one should be welcome, but to say that learning how to make a real turn and carve a ski doesn't matter is complete bullshit.

 
Can you explain to me why making a "real turn" (what i like to call proper turn) is essential. Is that what it takes to be a "real" skier?

 
What a bunch of fucking toolbags. Anyone who thinks that they are fucking better because they grew up with a racing background is a fucking douche bag. Shut the fuck up and take your candy ass to racing where it belongs. All they do is fucking cry all day that other people are worse because they get competition by people who just strap on a pair of skis and just flip themselves with talent and a pair of balls. Well guess what, I fucking started in the park a year after I started to learn how to ski, and I have been dying to hit up a mountain ever since. But guess what? I don't have the money/time to do so and I have more fun in the park. Get the fuck over it, all of you morons who are mountain riders and insult park rats are nothing more then elitest snobs.

 
I don't think herick is stroking his own ego.

He has a very valid point. What he says is true. BUT, and thats a big but, I don't think it really think its a topic worth debating.

As it was said before, skiing IS about having fun.

And if someone likes skiing park all day and not caring about how technically perfect their skiing is, well, more power to em. At least they are out there enjoying themselves ight?

"Posers" "Newbs" "Joeys" what ever you want to call them... these are some of the most core people on the hill. They don't give a shit what anyone thinks about them, they are just out there skiing, having a good time.

The people that have been skiing for a while and are trying oh so hard to "make it" and be cool, are the ones that really anoy me. Its like "hey man, loose the 'tude and just go skiing."

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"I'm glad that in our endless pursuit to be three years behind snowboarding, we've finally gotten around to their FAG phase." -Micah Abrams

 
you can't carve on hard-pack with dull edges anyways.. you just slide 10 feet further down the hill then you should.

 
i think maybe 1000 people on this site have said pretty much the same thing and people agreed, but as soon as a pro says it he's stroking his own ego

 
that was damn smart man. i dont like the posts or threads u make sometime, but, u just brought up a very good point. henrik also made a good point, cuz this year, i was looking at a video shot of me doing a 5, then skiing away, and my on ground style looked like shit. over the course of the year, i improved it more and more

jack.

www.libertyskis.com

you don't need to give up pot for a year. Just 32 days, lots of excercise and alcohol

"you dont have to be a rocket surgeon or something" -pj cliche
 
I, in the opinion of many others, am a really good skier when it comes to carving and mogul turns on flats and shit but when it comes to actual park i need work. i used to hate the fact that i raced but then i quit, went to frteestyle and it paid off in the longrun

Newschoolers...who have you hated on today?

SketchLine Films
 
Can I explain to you why it's better to carve then skid your turns? That's like trying to explain to a virgin why real sex is better then jerking off. Until you've done it, you really won't understand.

You tell me, when you're driving a car on snow do you like the feeling and control all-wheel drive gives you when you go around a turn or do you like to drive a two-wheel drive car and have the ass end sliding all over the road?

Learning how to carve a turn is just part of the natural progression of learning how to ski. I've got nothing against people who like to hang out in the park all day long, but I do have an issue with the newbie retards that bomb down the hill from the park to the lift on their twin tips, barely in control.

 
You need to chill. If they want to learn, let them. Don't go about preaching how you need to be able to carve a turn to be a skiier. Its about fun, and if you cant realize that, then i dont know if there is any hope for YOU.

David

-AR_Six- is my hero. And you can audition too.

MT CREW
 
what you say is stupid, If you only like skiing in the park, do you really like skiing? I mean if you really like skiing the park isnt the onluy place youre supposed to have fun. What are you gonna do when youre to old to ski the park are you gonna stop skiing? I know I wont

 
Then they will learn to carve if they want to. Forcing people into a mold to be a "skiier" is contrary to everything the sport is for me.

David

-AR_Six- is my hero. And you can audition too.

MT CREW
 
He has a good point. I skied for like 8 years before I even started doing tricks and it pisses me off when I see a shitty skier in the park. Actually I never see any skiiers I dont know in the park at my hill so never mind.

go skiing

www.skipunx.com
 
I was a racer.

Better to burn out...

...then fade away.

gee eh en gee es tee eh es

U of Utah
 
What I mean is if you like skiing you should be able to enjoy yourself indifferent places than the park You might like the park more but you should be able to have fun just sking whether it be the park or not.

 
word dave, the key is havin fun.

i do feel that these kids who ski park all day, and can't "ski" as you people say, do need to relaize that that is just one aspect of a sick skier, and to be the best, you need to be able to ski any place any time. i just don't like people sitten there saying this person deserves this or that or whatever, and they are trying to become pro, and they can't even get off the now non-existant tram at jackson, and rip the peak.

to be a pro nowadays, shouldn't just require you to be able to slide some rails, hit some jumps and ski the park. pros, should be able to schralp the gnar gnar as well.

That is where this is going. eventualy a pro should be able to get out of the helli, make some turns up top drop that 40footer with a smooth 3 then hit the windlip down low and throw a sick 5, riding backward to the helli. that is the future

and sure not everybody is going to be able to do that, and not everybody will even want to do that, but that should be the drive, to be a good "skier" as a whole.

J

"The Eleventh Hour"

Fall 2005 Off Trail Productions
 
I agree with Hendrik on many accounts with this one. I have seen soo many "park" kids roaming around that suck at powder.

because I like poop.
 
henrik was speaking the truth, what he was talking about had nothing to do with how fun it is........where did you get that?

BATTLE RIDGE PRODUCTIONS

your steeze is like the antithesis of the gangsta-tanner-gorillasteeze junk... the type of skiing that says "Fuck groomed parks and rails, rip big mountain lines and throw backflips off everything-J.D. May
 
granted it is good to have fun and i agree with that 100% but what happened to the skiing aspect of the sport i think when they are good at park they should work on their carving skills so they dont look like some idiot going down the mountain when they aren't in the park

 
IDEA:

we all ski

we worry about ourselves

we don't worry about anybody else

Take me to your special place

Close your eyes, show me your face.....I'm gonna piss on it

 
fuck Henrik. He sucks at skiing anyways

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-Adrian

**PM me if you want a dope custom hat or to join the crochet cult**

east coast 617 represent

 
and he knows everyone he calls 'park kids' can obviously TURN on there skis or they wouldnt be in the park in the first place. no need for exageration.

bottom line is You dont need to be a racer to have fun. 'Fundementals' is what killed skiing in the first place, you dont see that shit in snowboarding thats why its 1000x more popular and most of the world thinks its cooler

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-Adrian

**PM me if you want a dope custom hat or to join the crochet cult**

east coast 617 represent

 
good lord, let it rest, racers do there thing, and amazingly if you raced as a youngling you will have some actuall all mountain skiing ability. Face the fucking facts racers make good skiers.

 
i guess most of you people dont realize that having technically good skiing will help tremendously in park. But whatever too each his own.

 
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