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Worst experience with racers or a racer?

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John18_6
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Don't think it's a repost (there was a thread about annoying things racers do last month but this is about stories, experiences, etc...) anyways, here's my little story.

I was at Giants Ridge in northern minnesota last year during the early season, standing at the drop in for a rail, mentally preparing myself and visualizing a new trick i wanted to try on the rail. Just as I am about to drop in, out of nowhere a herd of somewhere around 100 racers from the Minneapolis Alpine Ski Team (who were up there for early season training) come blazing through at 40mph. I heard one of them say "Move the fuck out of my way". Luckily they were gone as soon as they appeared.

I was just standing there and I calmly uttered the phrase:

what
the
FUCK.


Anyone else have a similar experience or strange encounter?
Oct 18 2013 2:22PM
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theabortionator
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Crew of mini racers and their coach came through the park. They were rolling the big jumps and side jumping the rails. I yelled at them on the second lap and race coach chick flipped out on me and told me they could do whatever they wanted and that I had no right to tell them what to do. Also that she was going to talk to management and start a whole shit storm.


Not why I left but thank jebus I don't work at gore mountain anymore.
May 8 2014 6:04PM
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theabortionator
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theabortionatorCrew of mini racers and their coach came through the park. They were rolling the big jumps and side jumping the rails. I yelled at them on the second lap and race coach chick flipped out on me and told me they could do whatever they wanted and that I had no right to tell them what to do. Also that she was going to talk to management and start a whole shit storm.


Not why I left but thank jebus I don't work at gore mountain anymore.


For best experience with racers.

Worked 5 or 6 days a week in the park at west. At the start of the highschool races the one season they needed some help setting up. Ended up helping them and they needed somebody to run the start gate. Ended up rocking that out 1 day a week for most of a season. Also a lot of kids did both park and racing.

I think it really comes down to how their coaches are and how their parents are. The ones at gore mostly came from well off families and the coaches told them they were the shit, and that they owned that mountain. And the mountain kind of reinforced that idea. A lot of those kids were assholes. At west everything was laid back and the kids were much cooler. That said there's cool people and shitty people in any group.

Maybe I'm just not around the shitty people anymore but it seems like the vibes have gotten better all around. Maybe it's because the park kids are considered terrible people as much anymore. Idk.


Let's just all be friends
May 8 2014 6:52PM
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John18_6
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theabortionatorLet's just all be friends


fo rizzle, most of the places I go to have a lot of racers. There's one hill I go to that has an amazing park (from the og snowboard park crew) and I'm usually the only park skier there, the racers watch me, I'm like the elephant in the room but more of a circus elephant... the park chair is the same as the race chair so I usually ride up with them and it's laughs all the way up. no beef to be found.

the only problem i ever get with racers is the competitiveness of it. I'm fine if someone is competitive in nature and goes out there busting their ass to try to get first, but it pisses me off when I see some smug kid loaded with expensive gear thinking that it makes them better than everyone else. that's something i see in both park and race skiers but more so in racing because of that competitive aspect.
May 10 2014 10:42PM
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theabortionator
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john18061806but it pisses me off when I see some smug kid loaded with expensive gear thinking that it makes them better than everyone else. that's something i see in both park and race skiers but more so in racing because of that competitive aspect.


For sure. There are douchebags anywhere. All you can really do is hope that maybe they grow up at some point and realize they aren't the center of the universe.

On the plus side plenty of friendly people on the hills. Some of my best days ever have been taking laps with random strangers when riding alone.
May 11 2014 12:56AM
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eddy9
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our park is right next to the slalom course. I often see racers in the park yelling at people to get of their slalom course.
These same racers go around in groups of like 20. They make it imposible to hit anithing because they go eround in line, when the last one has finished there's allways another one waiting to hit it(they don't even atempt f**king tricks).
May 11 2014 8:28AM
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Atomika09
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Shredding big park in Les 2 Alpes, keep being held up hotlapping by about 40 or so race schoolers just carving through the park... getting in the way of people, stopping anyone from approaching features.. Fucking troll city that day!
May 11 2014 8:44AM
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Brule.
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theabortionatorCrew of mini racers and their coach came through the park. They were rolling the big jumps and side jumping the rails. I yelled at them on the second lap and race coach chick flipped out on me and told me they could do whatever they wanted and that I had no right to tell them what to do. Also that she was going to talk to management and start a whole shit storm.


Not why I left but thank jebus I don't work at gore mountain anymore.


Ever since Mount Jore expanded their park onto Wild Air, the race team decided to have training on the one trail that's surrounded by the park, but doesn't have any features on it (Stokes), not to mention the race team decided to make a "freestyle team," which is an absolute joke. The racers will tend to end up speeding through the park on their way to their training course, and it's almost like a human slalom sometimes.
May 11 2014 12:09PM
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dtwizzle
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Not quite worst but funniest was when I was up at sattleback in january, I remember when a couple of rich race kids (1000 dollar poc helmets, world cup poles, fancy ass race skis gs suits, etc) were standing around this little flatbar. One of them tried doing the rail and the edge on his front ski caught and he hit his face on the rail.


I chuckled.
May 11 2014 6:08PM
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FreedGucci
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Park skiers are more layed back and fuck around, and racers are always serious about their skiing but at my mountain at least, park skiers are way better at all mountain skiing when they take it seriously (excluding bumps)
May 11 2014 8:20PM
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APunx176
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My friend is a racer.
He's also a dick.
Coincidence?
May 11 2014 10:12PM
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op14
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CalebTheKillianMy friend is a racer.
He's also a dick.
Coincidence?


-k
May 11 2014 10:17PM
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John18_6
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The referenced post has been removed.

I have a friend
your dick is my friend
therefore, 9/11 was an inside job
May 11 2014 10:41PM
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Bogs
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CalebTheKillianMy friend is a racer.
He's also a dick.
Coincidence?


Yeah, I'd say that sums up what the word "coincidence" means pretty well. You'll do just fine on that vocabulary quiz this week.
May 11 2014 11:44PM
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NMMedia
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Great majority of the time I have no quarrel with the racers themselves, some of my really good friends are racers and while they are good at there side of the sport and I have respect for that, they also have mad respect for the things I do. My issue is usually with the parents and coaches of the younger racers who are WAY too invested in their kid. Talking like they are the best kid on the mountain and how they just got them new $2,000 race skis because they are so good they deserve it, and then giving me looks like I'm trash for wearing baggy clothes and riding skis that are chipped to hell
May 12 2014 12:52PM
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roddy116
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Its just the USSA racers that suck.
May 12 2014 1:03PM
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