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Gaper Confessions

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CabbyArrant
Posts: 779 - Karma: 4,120
Admit it!!! At one time or other most of us were gapers (I realize there are quite a few people who might not think they were). On NS we love to make fun of Gapers but I feel like we all have a few stories of our days of goggle gap. I know I sure do. So share your best, funniest, most embarassing stories of yourself as a gaper.


My very first day skiing I took out a slow sign and ended up screamin seamen with my ankles touching my shoulder blades.
Nov 23 2015 8:41PM
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finkinsella
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Connor_SullivanDefinitely needed a new account for that one, good call


Genuine first post
Nov 24 2015 12:53PM
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shishkababy
Posts: 114 - Karma: 112
I would have buddies take pictures of me getting like 1 foot of air off jumps. Then I would crop the ground out thinking people on facebook would be convinced I actually got a ton of air

I cringe every time I think about that
Nov 24 2015 1:32PM
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JakeBarrett
Posts: 1237 - Karma: 1,843
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/308761/Afterbanged-3-?c=latest#o4hWlcj4tosXlcom.97

nuff said
Nov 24 2015 1:38PM
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OregonDead
Posts: 6812 - Karma: 23,718
cydwhitI still use the lips for rails as jumps


Me too! Sometimes the snowboarders sitting on the run are like "that is not a jump" while I'm in the air. Do they think these lips are art and that we should all just sit down on the run?
Also I've been wearing the same hard sided helmet since sometime last decade. On sunny days I combine it with glacier glasses.
Nov 24 2015 1:40PM
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TheKasTeam
Posts: 108 - Karma: 1,625
This is the most gaper thing i ever did:

Fail from The KAS team on Vimeo.



Hit that shit so hard.. In case the embedded video does not work:
https://vimeo.com/79823362
Nov 24 2015 1:50PM
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Ian_Fitz
Posts: 826 - Karma: 6,509
Last season I did a lip on with no blind 2... a lip on blind truuuuu is what distiguishes me from being a gaaper :( :( it was a devastating moment of my ski career...
Nov 24 2015 1:51PM
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Ian_Fitz
Posts: 826 - Karma: 6,509
Last season I did a lip on with no blind 2... a lip on blind truuuuu is what distiguishes me from being a gaaper :( :( it was a devastating moment of my ski career...
Nov 24 2015 1:51PM
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BURNZ
Posts: 22 - Karma: 54
I had to take a shit a few years ago and back taco-ed a rail while I had a dip in and immediately shit my pants on hill, went into the trees and cut my underwear off with my pocket knife and used the scraps to wipe, then I left the tatters in the woods, probably still there, worked out really well and free-ballin isn't a bad thing at all,
Nov 24 2015 2:04PM
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THEenturn
Posts: 10 - Karma: 72
Age 13 in 2009. Made my first video of my friend and I doing 180's the entire time.
Shaky footage on a flip-video camera.
Thought we were the shit. Over-edited the crap out of it.
Used Eminem as the soundtrack.
Enjoy my embarrassment. https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/796289/Steezy-in-SV---Large-m4v
Nov 24 2015 2:34PM
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JTCasper540_MN
Posts: 742 - Karma: 3,698
Im still a gaper
Nov 24 2015 3:52PM
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JimmyRecard
Posts: 242 - Karma: 2,552
First time riding twin tips I rolled into my first carve and fell over. Anti climactic as hell but im sure I looked like such a dweeb
Nov 24 2015 4:25PM
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Dadcore
Posts: 237 - Karma: 688
Tried to go around and orange fence but proceeded to fall in the snow. It was 3 feet deep and 12 year old me couldn't get out so I cried as my Mom, Dad and Sis flagged down a ski patroller after ten minutes
Nov 24 2015 4:45PM
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TVRNTVPOOP
Posts: 619 - Karma: 3,583
My fam would always go to whitefish when I was like maybe 10 and me and my cousin would think we were the coolest mufuckas in the park cuz we'd spread eagle 10ft kickers with our rental skis and one piece snowsuits
Nov 24 2015 6:32PM
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fromthelake12
Posts: 15 - Karma: 23
cydwhitI still use the lips for rails as jumps


Is that not what they are for?
Nov 24 2015 6:46PM
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chodo
Posts: 274 - Karma: 918
Am I the only one who stil IS a Gaper?!?!





















. . . damn it :-/
Nov 24 2015 6:47PM
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Pow_King
Posts: 3 - Karma: 34
cakeshredshardFirst time riding twin tips


Say no More
Nov 24 2015 6:55PM
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schoeski
Posts: 126 - Karma: 1,524
Gopro groomer runs..
Nov 24 2015 6:58PM
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DominatorJacques
Posts: 11229 - Karma: 76,289
CabbyArrantAdmit it!!! At one time or other most of us were gapers (I realize there are quite a few people who might not think they were). On NS we love to make fun of Gapers but I feel like we all have a few stories of our days of goggle gap. I know I sure do. So share your best, funniest, most embarassing stories of yourself as a gaper.


My very first day skiing I took out a slow sign and ended up screamin seamen with my ankles touching my shoulder blades.


I have no stories, yet I claim to be the biggest Gaper in Oregon!

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/782943/Poppin--Thrift-Store-Tags-Vintage-One-Piece-Ski-Suits-Re-Make-2-17
Nov 24 2015 8:46PM
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rememberscott
Posts: 1291 - Karma: 5,199
my friend spit on my ski on the chair so when it was time to get off I tried dipping it in the snow to get it off but my ski got stuck and I did a full double eject faceplant down the ramp.
Nov 24 2015 8:50PM
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yungsteeze
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THEDIRTYBUBBLEFell getting off the lift once. Put my skis in a screaming seamen position on the lift and forgot to put them back. I have an ADD counselor now


hahaha i did the same thing... but it was last winter lol. tried to hold screamin as long as i could before the end of the lift and ate shit. never a gaper tho, i wore 4xl diapers as a baby
Nov 24 2015 10:59PM
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ascent_studios
Posts: 2157 - Karma: 4,578
Me an all of my friends crowded around this tiny 1 or 2 foot jump with like 4 gopros and just hiked it all morning and were filming all day. We were all doing 180s and when one of us finally got a 360 we all moved over to the 5 foot rail and hiked that all afternoon. When one of us landed switch out of the rail we all got hyped.

lol heres the vid my friend made
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/796437/Mount-Sunapee-ski-edit-2014
Nov 24 2015 11:11PM
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ascent_studios
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^lol i just remembered a few people stopped to watch us hahahah^
Nov 24 2015 11:14PM
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grilled_steeze
Posts: 422 - Karma: 1,447
I wear a smith vantage helmet. Google it.
Nov 24 2015 11:15PM
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FrenchFry
Posts: 969 - Karma: 3,432
This thread was made literally months ago
Nov 24 2015 11:24PM
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SteadySpaghetti
Posts: 151 - Karma: 749
first skis were racing skis
Nov 25 2015 12:23PM
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tschums
Posts: 207 - Karma: 1,064
went skiing in zermatt a couple summers ago, and i had never used a t bar or anything like that before. First try i fell off, and then stepped to the side to let someone else go ahead of me. Didn't occur to me that the t bar would come back around on that side, and it smacked me in the head and i fell over. After i got back up, i tried to get on the next one, but i couldn't get on it the right way. Instead of trying again, i just grabbed it with my arms and let it pull me up from under my armpits
Nov 25 2015 1:54PM
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muFFn
Posts: 1040 - Karma: 74
Barry.McCockinerhttps://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/308761/Afterbanged-3-?c=latest#o4hWlcj4tosXlcom.97

nuff said



Well, that afterbang was pretty ill...
Nov 25 2015 3:31PM
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KimJong-Illest
Posts: 883 - Karma: 3,108
Definetely didn't get a concussion just skiing down the face of perfect north last yer #gape
Nov 25 2015 5:10PM
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AblyClefs
Posts: 1 - Karma: 10
I was wearing these really small walmart goggles with a racing helmet and skis and tried to this jump, but I nose dived and my tips dug in the landing and I slid on my stomach all the way down the hill
Nov 25 2015 6:11PM
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winniecash
Posts: 253 - Karma: 940
used to wear my mom's 80's neon purple and pink Patagonia jacket because i thought it was a "original saga jacket"
Nov 25 2015 6:29PM
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DominatorJacques
Posts: 11229 - Karma: 76,289
Here you go!

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/645868/Look-BEFORE-You-Leap---Terrain-Park-Skiing-Fail-
Nov 25 2015 6:54PM
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DASZ.mp4
Posts: 379 - Karma: 2,988
I used to think saga was cool...
Nov 29 2015 2:07AM
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JakeBarrett
Posts: 1237 - Karma: 1,843
muFFnWell, that afterbang was pretty ill...


truu
Nov 30 2015 8:45PM
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ahill
Posts: 75 - Karma: 565
I have a buddy that's really in to photography and filming and a few years back he agreed to come come film me. He walked up the hill into the park probably a good 100 yards with all his camera equipment to film. At the end of the session, for some reason we both decided it would be a good idea for him to stand on the back of my skis while I skied down so he wouldn't have to walk again. We made it about 75 yards and I hear an "oh shit!" behind me and turn around to him tumbling in the snow with $1000 of camera equipment.

Luckily, the only thing that broke was a lens cap. We still laugh about it to this day but he hasn't filmed me ever again.
Dec 2 2015 10:49PM
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JohnThatWasTits
Posts: 122 - Karma: 534
skipoint0I wear a smith vantage helmet. Google it.


Dude.
Dec 2 2015 11:30PM
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