Your first "i-am-a-skier"-moment?

I've been skiing since I was five. I guess when I was that young I just considered just standing on two planks to be 'a real skier'
 
last year i used to snow board and i never wanted to go but this year i decided to ski and i went like 4 times a week all seoson and it never got old
 
I've always been a skier. I don't think I've ever been considered bad, when your 5 no one cares, and I learned to parallel turn by the time I was 7 or so. I've always been able to ski at a fairly competent level for my age.

I felt pretty good about myself this week, I went skiing seven days. Telemarked for one of them, and rode my board for two. I can ride anything you throw at me, with the exception of a mono ski...
 
since when do you have to be "good" to call yourself a skier?

fuck this thread.

ive been a skier since i first put on skis.

seriously, youvw got some problems if you cant call yourself a skier until youve reahced a certain benchmark of trickery.
 
when i tryed a back for the fist time for sure. or in the last month when i started getting good with jibs. or at least desent
 
ive had a couple. my first one was when i raced and i just did a run so perfect i suprised myself. next was my first 5, then my first backflip.
 
that

and when i could legitimatly rip groomers with complete control and have a ton of confidence in myself. also when all i wanted to do was ski BC lines in knee deep pow, and that all i thought about/watched in my free time
 
1) when my family developed a leaving the mountain plan that involved me, and only me skiing until lifts closed, and then skiing to the car.(we lived on the mountain.)

2) When i skied all day everyday by myself adventuring every single little stash of my mountain. I think i know as much as anyone.

3) This year when i discovered NS, and realized I instantly lost 3 hours out of everyday, that i used to have as spare time.
 
when my dad joined ski patrol and i started getting free season passes. thats when i really think i started skiing. i guess i can mark that because thats when i first made friends solely through skiing, not school or something else.
 


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hmmmm i'd have to say my salomon sponsorship a few years back. it was for racing mind you....
 
exactly

hah i still suck in the park but i can probably ride anything outside the park a lot better than my friends that kill it in the park
 
My first I am a skier moment was when I was like, 5. I did a mute grab off a jump and knuckled the shit out of it. I was stokedddd. Then when I was 8 I skied Tuckerman ravine and my grandfather was so proud that he bought me new skis! I've been shredding the big stuff since.
 
When I dropped a 20-25 fot cliff and rode away like it was nothing, one of my best landings ever off a drop.
 
i defiantly think you can call your self a skier when you learn corks and start hitting up hand rails. it opens so much for the rest of your game, esspecially rails if you can start to slay rails with ease you can get your career jump started, then just work on jumps
 
My first true, I am a skier moment was last year when I sent a 40-ft corness. I didn't stomp it, I made a huge hot tub, rolled once. Then stood up with all my gear still in tact thinking "FUCK YEAH!"
 
I think the first time I would call myself a good skier (not amazing, awesome, or unbelieveable, but good) would be when I landed my first cork 7. Ever since I started skiing park, I told myself that I could never consider myself a good skier until I got corked 7s being that I grew up watching all these kids in Telluride throwing them (among other spins). I think that now, looking back on it, my goal should've been a little different, such as rodeo 7s or sw. corks, but nevertheless it was a goal that helped my direct my progression and has helped me reach the level I am at now. And for that, I'm super stoked.
 
i know i'm a skiier because i live for that moment when everything is perfect, you're in that one point in time where there is nothing else around you but yourself and the snow. no problems, no people, no outside distractions. that moment that you don't have to worry about what's right because it just is and the feeling you get when you did what you came to do with perfect execution, whether it be ride away from something new or get to the bottom of the mountain.
it shouldnt be about what you do to make you a skiier, it should be how it affects you.
 
When I started to actually fall in love with skiing instead of being pissed off at how hard some runs are and trying to manage my way down them.
 
when i stomped my first three of a step up after trying for 4 days straight.

then again when i stomped it off the 45" step down at my mountain.

 
word, i know 14 year olds that spin 1440s, then hit the pow, ride back seat and cant turn..... i say someone can consider thereselves a "skier" when they feel like they are at all level that they think they can pursue being a skier further from.... with that said, i started to call myself a skier when i filmed for a snowsports tv program

 
at each of the particular moments:

stomping first 270 out

hitting the d-f-d and urban single barrel

 
this thread = fail

you dont need to be good or land cetain tricks to be a skiier.

you either have it inside you or you dont. you know if youre a skiier no matter what.
 
After being talked in to trying snowboarding when I was 11. I learned my lesson very quickly and stuck with skiing.

A close second is my first real back country experience I had two seasons ago. I finally got to experience hucking in to bottomless pow.
 
prolly when i did a creek gap it was prolly 30ft and i land i was thought to my self well damn i love this feeling that i can do what i want and im not scared of it.... so i just went non stop sense then and just hitting hand rails and just random shit then goin to big mountain and wat not just an awsome feeling i coulnd tget ne where else...but i havent got my self in to inverted trick... i did a lincon loop.... so i am scared of breaking my neck :\... 270s on and off was a good achivement for me as well....

but god damn do i love this sport
 
I've always been a skier but the first time i realized that i couldn't live without it was recently when i realized that i might go crazy this summer without skiing
 
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