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Ski Racing

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geosom
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Any of you guys/girls do it as well as park skiing?

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May 27 2013 4:33PM
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haggis_hunter
Posts: 399 - Karma: 207
Got talked into a few times while at university and ended up with a few gates to the face, its good fun and it training improved my skiing so much, I now use race skis (usually the non FIS masters / juniors versions) as my piste skis as laying down some train tracks with a full race ski is dammed satisfying.
May 27 2013 4:37PM
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3mania
Posts: 2557 - Karma: 9,843
Skiing is like sex.... why would I time it to see how fast I can finish.
May 27 2013 4:47PM
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haggis_hunter
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Sometimes a quick hard pounding is very satisfying, it leaves you breathless and week kneed at the end .......
May 27 2013 5:12PM
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a_burger
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I race on my schools team, mainly because it's the only high school sport I feel like doing. The school league isn't very serious, I wear a hoodie to most of the races.

May 27 2013 5:14PM
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SunburntSquad
Posts: 293 - Karma: 496
I wish my school had a ski team
May 27 2013 5:48PM
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m-ruta
Posts: 160 - Karma: 168
I race ski cross. It's rowdy and super fun.
May 27 2013 6:22PM
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Skiingsnow
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skier-cross is so fucking fun, on my days off in whistler i often session it with my buddies, its gets fucking intense
May 27 2013 6:27PM
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tomPietrowski
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Yeah racing is fun, defiantly way differnt to competing slope. The rush you get through some high speed turns is hard to beat. No it's not as much fun generally as lapping the park, but its defiantly something every skier should try at least once.
May 27 2013 6:40PM
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JonasJuhler
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If you wanna use definitely that much here is how it is spelled
May 27 2013 6:59PM
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SpliffyJ
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I used to race, it was fun, no where near as fun as park skiing or pow skiing.
May 27 2013 7:22PM
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tomPietrowski
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Thanks mate I suffer from both dyslexia and a phone which auto corrects everything I attempt to spell, however badly
May 27 2013 7:49PM
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tcurle
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Raves banzai tour. Couldn't compete cause of age but watched it and it was sweet.
May 27 2013 7:57PM
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FigNewton
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best thing ever
May 27 2013 8:47PM
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life_is_hood
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could definitely be fun.
May 27 2013 10:06PM
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jon@wh2o
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I see what you're getting at... Rahlve's Banzai tour. But yes it is awesome.

May 27 2013 10:09PM
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JonasJuhler
Posts: 347 - Karma: 1,351
Always there to help a fellow ns'er!
May 28 2013 3:08AM
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McLS
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I was pretty serious about racing before moving to freeride/freestyle, i did mainly downhill and slalom. Downhill was great, and it got really scary at some point, when u knew that if u didnt have a really highline you just wouldn't make the turn...I still do some slalom for fun sometimes (i just like hitting those so much!!!) and I race for school, which means i get 2 weeks off to ski during school time which is great! Theres only one thing I dont understand about racing, its all those kids that are too old already and not good enough to be future champions that train everyday with the club in those gates. I mean yeah, racing can be fun sometimes but if u know you won't make it to the top, then whats the point of never leaving the arena?
May 28 2013 9:16AM
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Skiingsnow
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Maybe they enjoy it?
May 29 2013 6:10AM
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k2andcannoli
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Nastar pacesetter and alpine race coach. Racing is pretty fun but winning is where the thrill is. All that matters to me is getting paid to ski, involvement in ski racing is a way to do that.
May 29 2013 7:30AM
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Skiingsnow
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I can relate a lot to this post.
May 29 2013 7:33AM
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McLS
Posts: 1980 - Karma: 6,446
Yeah but having been one of those kids for a few years, I liked it, but at some point I wanted to see more of the mountain, go in pow, do jumps, ski faster...I dunno....
May 29 2013 1:44PM
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CKpolicy
Posts: 2587 - Karma: 2,463
its fun to mix it up. i raced as a kid, and coach now. there are a lot of small high school and college teams around my area that will take anyone on because they need numbers. they assume that since they have their race sticks they can ski faster than the kid in the saga...ha.
May 29 2013 2:07PM
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