Why so many good park skiers come from the east
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Randy_Quench
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I would also argue that because there is rarely pow to shred, skiers ski park all day erry day. where as if you are from the west you probably ski the mountain a lot more.
AndreyaZvonar
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The east has plenty of great terrain especially in VT and NH, but i feel that kids are so good here because the weather doesn't phase them. If its rain, wind, snow, or sun, people just shred all day and hike rails
-snochainz-
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12926127:kdes6 said:
HA.
when i was a kid skiing at sugarloaf i was more in to skiing the mountain, trees occasional pow and what not, but didn't get that into park, at least not as much as i have now that i moved to whistler. pow is still my favourite but park is good for no snow and spring/summer days.
i must say though the groomer trails at sugarloaf are way more fun than anything at W/B. In Whistler they'd never put the time and effort into winch catting a trail like upper gondi or nitro. Dave Murray is our downhill course here, doesn't really have any point as steep as the headwall or cribworks. I remember flume being a lot of fun to air into too. Fuck now I wanna rip around there again, its been a while.
i must say though the groomer trails at sugarloaf are way more fun than anything at W/B. In Whistler they'd never put the time and effort into winch catting a trail like upper gondi or nitro. Dave Murray is our downhill course here, doesn't really have any point as steep as the headwall or cribworks. I remember flume being a lot of fun to air into too. Fuck now I wanna rip around there again, its been a while.
Way out here in England we have very little skiable snow each winter (in fact this year we had no snow at all), but we do actually get some decent skiers, James Woods being the most well known about - even though all we can ski apart from maybe 1 week a year is snowflex. I think the only reason that we get any good skiers then, (apart from the fact snowflex is almost completely painless to fall on) is the fact everyone feels like they have to throw down hard and try new shit every time they ski in order to keep pace with people from other countries. So for example, this year has been my first year of park, and Ive been at my local hill/mound every other day pretty much all year and been able to progress pretty fast, got my first rodeo 5 down yesterday and was so close to landing a double front, as well as this slightly younger kid who just went so hard and learnt underflip 1, misty 3 and hand drag cork 5 all in 3 hours of each other and off a jump that's literally 3 metres long. So if its anything like this on the east coast - kids going harder in order to keep pace with the west then thats probably why there are more east coast park skiers.
tomPietrowski
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I would say it has more to do with relation then anything else. As was said above on the east you may get 75-100 runs. Now if they are all in the park you are practicing movements and getting muscle memory. This is the biggest factor. As said out west you may do a few park laps but then you may go for a shred. So there is not the same kind of repation. It the same reason the uk produces some great rail riders. Domes are similar to the east I that you just lap the same park over and over. Do anything enough times and you will get good at it.
skier58284
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12925130:~Gotama~ said:
>if you can ski on mud, hucking 50 foot cliffs is easy
East coast kids ski on pretty weak conditions a lot. Often during the mid winter the park is frozen solid and landing hurts pretty darn bad sometimes. I think that east coast kids just don't have the variety as well in terms of the terrain.
That being said, depends on where you come from in the east. Mountains now have some pretty massive parks being built even in shitty areas. Up north in Vt, nh, etc there are some massive parks. Mt snow is a park epicenter. Someone can be a park master riding there.
But a good skier from the east can definitely adapt so well out west on bigger terrain. Seen it countless times when I spend a lot of time outwest. Just some basic things like getting adapted to steeper terrain, figuring out how to track down lines and just big mountain techniques and what not.
That being said, depends on where you come from in the east. Mountains now have some pretty massive parks being built even in shitty areas. Up north in Vt, nh, etc there are some massive parks. Mt snow is a park epicenter. Someone can be a park master riding there.
But a good skier from the east can definitely adapt so well out west on bigger terrain. Seen it countless times when I spend a lot of time outwest. Just some basic things like getting adapted to steeper terrain, figuring out how to track down lines and just big mountain techniques and what not.
Yaraelpoof.png
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There is not enough powder to distract us from park. Parks are also normlay icy so there is plenty of speed.
12961995:Errl said:
well i must say to be honest, sugarloaf isn't that much more icy than whistler. Sure theres more terrain, and more consistent snow, but because it is a costal mountain we get a ton for melt/freeze cycles. This year in particular...really been just as icy as the east coast, with maybe a bit of pow now and then.
Duck_Sauce
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Because the entire metro boston kids have to deal with Nashoba, Bradford, Wachuestt, Blue hills, sundown, all these places combined height is the average resort height out west. we lap faster, shittier conditions, night skiing, no pow days, and plenty of urban spots to produce killer East coats killas
lapping loon or WV's park is incomparable. more westys should come out and try it!
lapping loon or WV's park is incomparable. more westys should come out and try it!
