Where were you when...

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mrmarks

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... salomon came out with the "first mass produced shovel-back ski" 11 years ago in '98??
Just watched the IF3 recap from last year and was thinking about the 10yr. anniversary party for the 1080 and what that started...
i was 20, in college, skiing sugarloaf when twintips came out. they actually had gap jumps in their park that year, i believe... like, small, but you actually had to make the landing.
most of you were probably in elementary school, but...
 
i was 6.

living in Ventura County

boogie boarding my heart out. just about learning how to surf

probably had only seen snow once or twice.
 
I was in 8th grade, everyone thought skiing was gay. Me and my buddy were getting inspiration from FREEZE and Moseley to start grabbing our skis. Our mountain had a tiny ass park, I think technically snowboarders only, but the enforcement was about as regularly as the maintainence (completely non-existent). We didn't think you needed twin tips to ride switch, you just gotta lean foward. Then Freeskier dropped, and JF Cusson, JP Auclair, Mike Douglas, Vinnie Dorian were all doing the most gnarly shit on 1080's that I had ever seen. It changed my life. I started doing Japans, and Huntony's, I still didnt' think that doing rails was "skiing." I demoed a pair of 1080's at Hood that summer and learned how to 360 in the public park.
 
i was 8, 3rd year skiing, this year my dad took me to some shoulderdeep powder (hence i was 8) and i loved it alltough my dad had to tow me through :D
 
i was 6 and had already been skiing for 4 years /CLAIM
i actually had a pair of the first salomon twins, i rented them in switzerland when i was like 8 and i hated them so much haha, i was used to race skis and they didn't carve how i liked
 
i was six and falling in love with skiing. with my dad pushing me down GS courses haha
 
i wouldve been 7 and learning how to not turn at all the entire way down the hill so i could beat my friends in races
 
i was four, livin in slc. sadly i didn't ski much, though i'm told i went to alta a few times. i wish i still lived there...
 
I was 14, and still had another 4 years before I was even involved in snowsports. And I got into snowboarding, not skiing. I didn't even realize there were twin tip skis for my first 2 years. (I learned to snowboard in NW Wisconsin on a hill with 13 runs)
 
i was 8.... chilling out with my gaper steez shredding the mountain finding little jumps to get 3 feet of air off! pimp
 
i was 5. still in buddy warner.

haha. i am just waiting to hear the first person to say that they werent born yet.
 
I was 7 years old, racing for my first year that year, first time on the west coast as well. I skied Sterling Forest, NY before that. Didn't know what twintips were until I was 9 and I didn't get my first pair until I was 14 (still raced until I was 13 and had a pair of directional twins that year).
 
i was 8 so whats that like the 2nd or 3rd grade?
problllyyyyyy....playin alot of dodgeball, working on my pokemon army, and or course...skiing!
 
i was 6 and i almost went skiing with my neighbors family, but then her mom had a heart-attack and we didn't go. :(
And i didn't ski till the year later.
 
I was like 11 wishing I had a pair of ski-blades since those were the shitif you ere 11 at the time... also learning how to snowboard when I saw two guys throwing misty 9's in the park at BROMLEY!
I stuck with skiing, didn't get ski blades, and got a pair of the old Dynastar Troublemakers when those kame out a few years later.
 
probably scraping snow off my rad dog's onto snowboarders below the lift. i think it was my first year up to an actual resort (i was 7)
 
i was 5, wearing XXXXXXL clothes and stomping switch 1620's way before that henrik harlaut kid came into the scene
 
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