What got you into park?

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tutipups

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for me it was my home mountains old setup when they used to support park crew.

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it looks like this now because park crew gets no help

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My dad telling me skiers went way bigger in the super pipe and then buying me ski blades instead of a snowboard for Christmas (I asked for snowboard). Then the progression was natural. His plan worked Lmao
 
topic:tutipups said:
for me it was my home mountains old setup when they used to support park crew.

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it looks like this now because park crew gets no help

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I work park crew for a place that gears towards racers and beginners, man it's rough when I hear people talking shit about it constantly, especially when coworkers or peers are the ones talking shit. It's not like it's my fault and I recognize that but fuck man when I tell some park dudes that we are going to have a new feature up by Saturday and we literally have no fuel for the cat and can't build it, it kinda hurts. It's really bad too, 90% of rails cannot be put in or have no skirting, and upper management refuses to put money into maintaining the terrain park. (also probably the most profitable ski area in the area)

**This post was edited on Feb 20th 2023 at 9:33:54pm
 
14512085:BigmoneyMatt said:
I work park crew for a place that gears towards racers and beginners, man it's rough when I hear people talking shit about it constantly, especially when coworkers or peers are the ones talking shit. It's not like it's my fault and I recognize that but fuck man when I tell some park dudes that we are going to have a new feature up by Saturday and we literally have no fuel for the cat and can't build it, it kinda hurts. It's really bad too, 90% of rails cannot be put in or have no skirting, and upper management refuses to put money into maintaining the terrain park. (also probably the most profitable ski area in the area)

**This post was edited on Feb 20th 2023 at 9:33:54pm
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thats what ive realized. we appreciate yall
 
Line traveling circus. and my dad getting stoked when I would absolutely boost side hits on trails when I first learned to ski.
 
I was always the "I'm more of a big mountain skier" guy. Always loved ripping jumps and going fast, would just straight air the jumps to flat all day when I hit park. Never considered attempting to spin, and was too scared to hit rails, my brother who was a boarder and was quite good, could do 5's and 7's back when that was actually impressive (2008-2010) Switched to skiing and started hitting rails on his first day, so I said fuck you and battled for at least a year to get decent at skiing the rails. Then he would keep 1 upping me in park on the skis so I kept playing catch up so he couldn't say he was "better then me at skiing" even though he was sketchy as fuck but would send. I ended up in hospital for a whole season (november-may) with a brain inflammation, and all I would think about was skiing in there so when I got out that was all I cared about, got a job at a ski hill and every second of free time I spent skiing this shitty little park. Now I'm waay better then my brother at skiing, and still skiing almost every night trying to Git gud. Lately progress is slow, but when I first got out of hospital I had notable motor function loss and had to relearn most of what I knew about skiing.
 
Ski Movie 1 and 2

[video]https://vimeo.com/120615000[/video]

**This post was edited on Feb 20th 2023 at 11:29:26pm
 
Dad bought me 2015 k2 juvys when I was like 12 because those were the only skis available and I thought I needed to put them to use for their actual purpose.
 
My older brother. Him and his friends started to ski park and I thought it was super cool, so I started too. Very thankful for that because he was able to walk me through basic tricks and teach me park etiquette when I was young.
 
That park isn't as big as it was in those older pics but it looks fun and well maintained. Where you skiing at?

I got into park because my friends were into it. We had the jankiest park on PEI, like you would not believe but it was always a good time!
 
My dad teaching me how to telemark and he used to hit park in tele gear so he taught me my first 3 when I was 10 and from then on I was hooked
 
I liked skiing. Once I learned how to ski all the groomers, started riding the park.

There’s nothing fun to ski in Midwest/Midatlantic outside of the park. Maybe a good set of moguls or a side hit every so often.
 
I had the best fucking mom ever growing up who encouraged me to ski and snowboard growing up, so as a snowboarder I naturally looked up to the boarders in the park. When I realized I could also hit jumps and rails on skis I dropped the board and went all in on skiing.
 
Watching candide edits.

I wanted the start doing tricks like him but I realized freeride isn’t a thing on an east coast mountain with no snow so I figured the park was the next best place and now I like it more.
 
Howelsen Hill in steamboat. They had a small park set up next to the race course and the rest of the hill kinda sucked to ski. I was bored waiting to watching my little brother to race and started hitting the jumps and boxes and it was actually fun. Fuck you, Howelsen Hill, I blame you for all my body aches and pains years later
 
I was a bitch who rode soul 7s and wore montec. Realization hit one day at bridger watching from the lift and knew something had to change.
 
I remember wanting to really get into more tech tricks and rails when I watched Karl Fostvedts in poor boyz last movie TWENTY. There were so many memorable segments but his lines through windells mixed with "harder than you think" by public enemy opened my eyes. It was so crazy to watch when he did, i think, a huge 540 switchup.. shit was crazy
 
Rolled into the park with my dad one day and watched a dude in an Oakley air raid suit chuck a Lincoln loop and decided right then and there that I was gonna exclusively ride park
 
14512210:skiP.E.I. said:
That park isn't as big as it was in those older pics but it looks fun and well maintained. Where you skiing at?

I got into park because my friends were into it. We had the jankiest park on PEI, like you would not believe but it was always a good time!
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park crew maintains it but they didnt get to blow enough snow so like the hip has shrunk now and is basically a well maitained tiny side hit.
 
Getting bored of skiing the same frozen solid east coast groomers. Needed a new challenge when it wasn’t snowing in Vermont.
 
When midwest mf's get good enough you basically only have 2 options:

- Ski Park

or

- Race Gates

Skiing in the park looked a lot more fun than racing gates so I chose that.
 
Got into aggressive inline from being a hockey kid and playing Jet Set Radio. When I learned that free skiing was so adjacent, my fate was sealed
 
14512398:muffMan. said:
I was a bitch who rode soul 7s and wore montec. Realization hit one day at bridger watching from the lift and knew something had to change.
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How long has montec been around? I've only seen it for around 3 season, which would make you pretty new to the bright side. Is that accurate?
 
14512671:CantCork said:
How long has montec been around? I've only seen it for around 3 season, which would make you pretty new to the bright side. Is that accurate?
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Yeah like 2019-2020. Just last year is when I finally got a real pair of park skis. Found this forum from Reddit actually too. Fell in love with the culture ever since
 
14512680:muffMan. said:
Yeah like 2019-2020. Just last year is when I finally got a real pair of park skis. Found this forum from Reddit actually too. Fell in love with the culture ever since
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did you find it from u/rosin_yall
 
Always thought park was cool. Started actually getting into it when I started watching edits filmed at my local mountain (Simple) around the same time my friends from high school also started getting into park
 
Had a friend that was a talented park skier (throwing 7s and switch 5s as a 10 yr old in 2006-2007) who used to show me old MSP and PBP movies. Went to COC in 2010 not knowing how to hit a rail and progressed a lot after that, before slowing down a lot and skiing more mountain. Getting back into park heavy now because i live 10 minutes from COP and there's nothing else to do in Calgary lol.
 
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