Things that have been said to you on hill that stick out

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I remember being 14 and hiking this tube with an older dude, probably more than twice my age, and he told me I could “get somewhere with skiing”, we were both trying blind and front 2s and I was nailing a couple of them. I always knew it obviously couldn’t happen but it’s something that’s always resonated with me and honestly one of the nicest things someone’s ever said to me. I think about it often and I always think about that homie when I learn something new.

lets year your wholesome and nice things people have said to you on the hill over the years that’s marinated in yo brain.
 
How are you so good and not a jerry being from South Carolina?

Might as well have called me Jesus Christ with the massive chip on my shoulder I had at the time
 
Had a family come up to me in the parking lot(early 2000's) at the end of the day and ask if I was pro. Made me super happy as I replied no but thank you. I think about that comment often and I recall how it made me feel. I try and pass that on to others when I see someone ripping it up.
 
Hard for me to remember because I don't really throw down anymore, or at least not often. But def feels good to get some props.

I think one of my favorites is when you throw something cool and somebody hits you uo that has a dope photo or video of it. A lot easier now with the phone life, 2010 and before it was pretty cool. Def plenty of shit you wish you had a shotnof, so the ones from strangers always felt good.

I got into the photo life for a bit at one point and was always cool sending people a shot of something sick.

I def try to hype people up in the park. Love seeing a first backflip or somebody send a cliff. That's the kind of hype that means more than anything in the sport I think. Def seems like a good supportive energy these days.

Sometimes if I throw a flip, spin, or something sort of steezy on a rail and somebody says something I get hyped though. I'm becoming more a straight air guy every year so it feels good when I pull out a trick, don't die and get a compliment.

Somebody bought me a beer for laying out a backflip near the base of a small mtn once. I guess that's the best since its about all I can remember.
 
I was skiing with a friend and complaining about how I couldn't do this one particular trick, and calling myself "old and washed up". He said something along the lines of "Do you even know who you are? Put some respect on your name"

There have also been a few times where I was spinning solo laps all day catching rides up the lift with randoms, and some 12 year old looking kid on the lift would ask me "Are you Ray Parr? I've watched all your videos" which always made me chuckle. There's like less than 5 people in the whole ass state of Ohio that makes content

I try and gas my friends up skiing as much as I can, apparently it means a lot to some of them coming from me
 
on the less positive side of things...

I was skiing under the chair just after opening in my intructors coat. there was a bit of a dusting and maybe like 10cm of fresh. needless to say, i was just enjoying my self before the work day started.

a ski patroller yelled at me from the lift "MORE SPEED, LESS CONTROL!". ouch
 
was trying switch on to a rail that was sizeable for the first time, and kept fallin off early. Then i laced it with a front 2 out and a group of parkrats started goin " Arrr arrr arrr". those words have stuck with me to this day.
 
I remember in middle school I was hitting the I-70 jumps at key and I was trying to grab blunt, and when I finally got one I was like ohhhhh! Yelling and so excited I was with my little brother and dad as well. But once I landed and was yelling some snowboarder probably in his later 20s came up to me and was like yo!! Was that your first one?! And I was like yea! And he gave me knucks and was like awesome dude that was sick. And at the time I thought it was a normal compliment but looking back that dude did one of the nicest things I’ve ever seen someone do on hill.

Another funny one was when I was a sophomore in highschool, which was when I hit my first rail, and by the end of the season I could slide it pretty okay, and some kid came up to me and asked me if I was pro, keep in mind we were in southern Wisconsin and it was probably his first time ever on snow.
 
[video]https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1050776/trim-8B736327-DD8F-4723-8D10-64E9A088608C-MOV[/video]
 
(i do a backy over a bunch of little kids and they cheer and ski down to where i stopped)

little girl 1: nice flip!

little girl 2: nice hair!

those little girls know what a skier wants to hear. god bless them
 
Back in 2010 I learned how to front flip and then I’d do one every run on one of the small jumps at the top of the park. That season I was wearing an XL saga jacket (the white and black ‘tuxedo’ one- still got it, so sick!) and almost every day some family from the Bay Area would catch me in the village after skiing and be like ‘we love your FLIP!!’ or something like that.

Also, I got on the lift one day with an old patroller and as we passed over the big jump line (65-70ish footers) he said- ‘I saw a guy earlier today do the most beautiful 720. The bases of his skis were bright orange!’

I was skiing addict pros at the time, which had bright orange bases, so that was tight.
 
My local put in a ski cross and I was boosting through it. I overheard some kids saying that I must be a pro.

Another time I had some dude come up to me and ask when I was going to throw down a 3 on this steppy lift line. Never did throw down that 3 but I think ill go for it this season.
 
I always remember coming home as a youngin after skiing and showing my mom some of the clips I got if any. She would always be so stoked for me, supportive moms are baller.
 
i was riding the lift and some little kid below asked if i snowboarded even though i had skis on. for some reason i’ll always remember that lol

was lapping with this random snowboarder who was higher than the moon and he was just so fucking stoked on everything, cant really remember much he said but it got me stoked on skiing and life in general
 
When I was like 15 or 16 and learning front2s one of the park crew who I looked up to was giving me and my friend some advice. Always appreciated that.

Occasionally I have conversations with people that I've never met and they say that they enjoy my videos.
 
"what the fuck dude why are you eating a red pepper"

and

"holy shit bro those are the fattest/widest skis I've ever seen"

**This post was edited on Sep 20th 2022 at 1:01:27pm
 
topic:weatcoast said:
I remember being 14 and hiking this tube with an older dude, probably more than twice my age, and he told me I could “get somewhere with skiing”, we were both trying blind and front 2s and I was nailing a couple of them. I always knew it obviously couldn’t happen but it’s something that’s always resonated with me and honestly one of the nicest things someone’s ever said to me. I think about it often and I always think about that homie when I learn something new.

lets year your wholesome and nice things people have said to you on the hill over the years that’s marinated in yo brain.
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"Don't try the trick because anyone is watching or because someone might want you to try it... Try and learn shit because you wanna learn it!" -Jamie Amodeo riding D-Mile at Burke circa 2010 or something

I still apply this mindset to my skiing every day, and I try to hammer that shit into the kids I coach.
 
It's the third day of the season with 3 trails open, riding the lift with some random guy and he starts off by saying "Maybe the 9 hour drive from DC wasn't worth it for a single day of this."
 
At my local hill the homeies and I are maybe slightly above average for skill. We take a trip to lutsen and everyone thought we were pros it was so funny. One dude kept begging me to put a helmet on I was like you guys have 5ft of powder and you were a helmet?

And for somreason they groom every single run and we've never skied in more than like 3inches in snow so we see all this powder under the lifts and were just having a blast thinking were normal and then everyone on the lift is getting super hiped and literally cheering us on . Felt really good even though I was rolling my eyes at the same time because I experienced a true gapper mountain
 
14463042:RIP_leos_shack said:
"You were killing those bumps." From Glen Plake.
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Got told something similar when I had the pleasure of skiing some chair 23 laps with him at mammoth early last season. That shit really stuck with me, had me grinning from ear to ear.

Also had Jon Mcmurry tell me I look fly asf in the lift line at Brighton so that was pretty cool.

Shoutout to all the cool ass dudes out there spreading the hype at each mountain… you guys keep the culture alive
 
when i was 14 i rode up with an older guy who was super talkative. turns out he was a retired CU prof and over the course of the lift ride he gave me a brief summary of quantum mechanics. still remember everything he said. maybe we should look into holding more classes on ski lifts
 
I’m always flattered when I’m talking to an old-timer on the lift away from my home mountain and they start asking me how stuff off the map is firing.
 
14463076:Jems said:
[video]https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1050776/trim-8B736327-DD8F-4723-8D10-64E9A088608C-MOV[/video]
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bro been reading my biography

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"Someone who skis like that should not be able to flip" - some racers on Mt. Hood

(It was my first week of skiing and I could backie the mogul jump but I skied like a newborn deer)
 
Was skiing pow at Big White next to a random snowboarder and he looked over at me while shredding and said "Hell ya brothaman". Such a pure moment of enjoying powder and a great saying I still use. Hell ya brothaman.
 
Back when I used to snowboard 10+ years ago I was in the process of learning front 3s on beginner park jumps. I was only able to land 270 and slide the last 90 around at the time, but it didn't matter to the little kids who were watching me as I hard the most excited "Whoaaaa!" from one of them as I rode away.

And to this day I never progressed beyond spinning 270s on a snowboard (Womp Womp).
 
this wasn't something said to me but it's in the same vein. last winter i saw a group of 3 dudes i didn't recognize shredding the park. one of them was doing rad cork 7s and super slow 3s and 5s with perfect blunts. another one was doing the craziest late, late, late flat 3s with super straight legs and high safety, where i would have sworn he'd land on his head cause his rotation seemed stalled out upside down BUT then he pulled it around at the last second in a very smooth way. i caught up to them and said what they were doing was sick. they said thanks and then we shredded together for the rest of the day. they were visiting from chile and only one of them spoke decent english (and i can't speak any other language) so it was mostly just fist bumps and pole claps haha.

sometimes i think people feel that the park is an adversarial place where everyone is judging each other and hating on one another but in reality if you give someone props they are almost always stoked.

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14463243:bennwithtwons said:
this wasn't something said to me but it's in the same vein. last winter i saw a group of 3 dudes i didn't recognize shredding the park. one of them was doing rad cork 7s and super slow 3s and 5s with perfect blunts. another one was doing the craziest late, late, late flat 3s with super straight legs and high safety, where i would have sworn he'd land on his head cause his rotation seemed stalled out upside down BUT then he pulled it around at the last second in a very smooth way. i caught up to them and said what they were doing was sick. they said thanks and then we shredded together for the rest of the day. they were visiting from chile and only one of them spoke decent english (and i can't speak any other language) so it was mostly just fist bumps and pole claps haha.

sometimes i think people feel that the park is an adversarial place where everyone is judging each other and hating on one another but in reality if you give someone props they are almost always stoked.

**This post was edited on Sep 20th 2022 at 4:43:54pm
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love this thread and agree. wolf-packing up is one of skiing's highest pleasures
 
Said to me while hiking a tube at Grouse years ago

"Hey man if you see Jeff don't tell him this, but if we see him we're going to beat the shit out of him"

No idea who the kid that told me that was or who Jeff is. I hope Jeff is okay, or if he deserved it, that he got the shit beaten out of him.
 
Was hitting a hip and doing straight tail grabs and an old shredster rolls up a tells me, "you ski pretty, did you know a guy called Airborne Eddie use to ride out here?" and that of course changed my life
 
14463254:WunhungL0 said:
Was hitting a hip and doing straight tail grabs and an old shredster rolls up a tells me, "you ski pretty, did you know a guy called Airborne Eddie use to ride out here?" and that of course changed my life
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dang, you're HOF adjacent!
 
Skied with my dad for the first time in maybe 8 years last winter. He told me "damn, you've gotten so good at skiing." I could tell how proud he was by his voice, especially since he was the one who taught me to ski. Life happened and made it hard to plan trips with him until then, so that little compliment is definitely a core memory of mine.

To you young buhls, don't let life get in the way of spending time with your old man.
 
14463271:Stinging_Roger said:
Skied with my dad for the first time in maybe 8 years last winter. He told me "damn, you've gotten so good at skiing." I could tell how proud he was by his voice, especially since he was the one who taught me to ski. Life happened and made it hard to plan trips with him until then, so that little compliment is definitely a core memory of mine.

To you young buhls, don't let life get in the way of spending time with your old man.
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I will bail on literally anybody else to go skiing with my dad
 
Never happened to me in the park, probably partially why I’m not better lol.

When Radio Ron told me I was “ripping the bumps” on superstar at killington however it felt so good and made me think I finally look good skiing bumps and can do them properly.
 
Cool thread idea btw

My friend on his first day out with me said out of nowhere “It must be really hard to be that good at something and nobody ever sees it”

That resinated with me, because I realized his observation really hadn’t dawned on me. In fact it doesn’t bother me at all. It solidified that all this religious like dedication I’ve been putting in for my entire life and that my evolution from scrub to decent has been for all the right reasons. Even if nobody is around to see my best line… I’m still in my happy place ?

Its like we grow up idolizing these super talented athletes, we put the work in and hike the extra hours to get closer and closer to our achieve our bests. But rarely are we ever totally satisfied. Lil moments like this feel like looking down below while climbing a really tall ladder, there’s always gonna be something/someone new to chase after, and it’ll always bring you higher and higher, but do we ever bother looking down to admire how far we’ve came?
 
this is from when i was about 15 and really got into park skiing, we went on a daytrip with the whole family, i for once had somewhere to show off. funniest thing was when i skied past my dad riding switch. he was blown away, and he kept talking about it in the car home
 
I was making out with this chick deep in the trees and these 2 dude in their mid 50s stopped near by and one said to the other

“there’s some local wildlife”
 
Skiing with my homie up at blackjack in the up. Old timer from the lift gave us a hell yeah. Saw him in the parking lot later and he told us we looked good. Hope you’re doing good wherever you are guy.
 
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