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Like the title says, once you can do what do you consider yourself a good park skier, not amazing, just good, and why? I feel at my mountain I'll be pretty good once I can do pretz 2s. Due to the fact that we had about 50 days in total this year and the amount of features was just abysmal.
when you can do most of your tricks on most of the features in your park. i see too many kids slaying flat boxes but then not doing shit when it comes to down rails
its really all relative to your mountain. if kids suck as and fall off ten ft flat bars and you can two out your pretty good for your mt. in the skiing community though id say two onto urban rails twos and fours out front and blind kfeds and brittanys as for jumps stuff up to 7 with grabs of mabye 30 to 40 ft jumps
to be a good park skier..i would say when you can consistently hit every feature in the park like it ain't no thang. you don't need to throw down dubs in my opinion to be a good park skier, but definitely be able to hit everything.
The ability to hit any jump, rail, box, jib.
The ability to perform any feature with ease, and make it look good.
The ability to do simple to complex tricks on mostly all of the features you hit.
Having your own style and flow
When you make the people watching you stoked, no matter who they are.
As for tricks:
left foot grind
right foot grind
1,3,5,7 right
1,3,5,7 left
front 2
back 2
2 on
lip 2 on
fs swap
bs swap
surface swaps
backflip
frontflip
lincoln loop
and any grab on anything, or with any spin.
that's pretty well rounded and a pretty well rounded base for all tricks to progress.
I think this is a really solid list. These tricks are the basis for the rest of your skiing ability. Once you can do all of these, then you really begin to move into a new level of skiing. On that level it's basically up to the rider to interpret, determine, and decipher how a feature is supposed to be hit, or what way a trick is to be performed.
For example, Dale Talkington's Rainy Day Edit. The opening shots where he's airing the standing propane lip over the down tube. That is a perfect example of a rider's personal interpretation of a feature. He is at such a level where he is being creative and thus pushing himself.
Another example would be the B&E Show. They've progressed to a level they feel comfortable at, and now they freely use their general skill to perform other tricks the average skier wouldn't see. I think that's really the difference between an amateur and a pro. I don't think you can be a pro until you have a certain eye for skill and creativity combined with raw talent and overall ability.
its hard to watch a lot of movies these days because when i watch some of the good edits from out west I see really amazing jump that i could never do but then the rail game is amateur. being an east coast kid, the focus in all of the parks i ski is rails. are we going for a well rounded skier or just rails or just jumps? most of the people i know (including myself) and ski with can do all the rail tricks listed with more but can do the jumps. are they bad skiers. i dont think so at all. just different
its hard to watch a lot of movies these days because when i watch some of the good edits from out west I see really amazing jump that i could never do but then the rail game is amateur. being an east coast kid, the focus in all of the parks i ski is rails. are we going for a well rounded skier or just rails or just jumps? most of the people i know (including myself) and ski with can do all the rail tricks listed with more but can do the jumps. are they bad skiers. i dont think so at all. just different
its hard to watch a lot of movies these days because when i watch some of the good edits from out west I see really amazing jump that i could never do but then the rail game is amateur. being an east coast kid, the focus in all of the parks i ski is rails. are we going for a well rounded skier or just rails or just jumps? most of the people i know (including myself) and ski with can do all the rail tricks listed with more but can do the jumps. are they bad skiers. i dont think so at all. just different
i'd probably say im a well rounded skier. get down on some rails then shred the gnar in the pow. i can get down and dirty on a large variety of terrain.
yesterday, trying new stuff on the boxes and completely destroyed myself. felt really unconfident and depressed so just decided to have fun instead of putting pressure on myself, besides, 99% of the time just having fun is the best way to progress.
I consider myself pretty good, but I'm not as consistent (on rails at least) as what I consider the really good skiers in the park. I can hit rails switch (lip and tails over) which I am really proud of myself for, but getting kfeds and other combos isn't consistent for me. That's what I'm gonna work on next year, once I get a trick I'm just going to do it over and over.
I can do misty 5's which is always a crowd pleaser, but that's as far as I have gotten on jumps.
i would consider someone good at park city when they can do a stylish 9 at least, a 2 on swap or a swap 2 off. basically two tricks on a rail. And if they're at least able to hit the biggest features with confidence.
Personally i will consider myself a "good" park skier when i can cork 7 with a blunt grab. However when i get this i doubt i will feel happy with this and have a new trick list that will define me as good.
