Dirtbaggetry

Confidence

It almost turned me gay

I used to get all A's...

Mentality

Swandog7Mentality

What do you mean? I don't think "mentality" is a trait lol

IT made me a better christian

It made me realize how many stupid people there are in the world. Humanity is a disease.

it made me a happy person. it seriously takes a lot to bring me down

basically turned me into a stoner

ooooo deep thoughts inc.

Don't take even a second in your life for granted. (insert Warren Miller quote here)

You must treat your body right in order for it to work.

I have become better at mornings. Not great, but better.

Be prepared for what you leave the house to do. (never forgetting my boots at home on a pow day again!)

Listen. Both to your gut and crew.

The grind kills passion. (I'm looking at you dad on vacation bitching about everything and how it used to be)

IDK what traits though are but yeah that's what I've got. So bored at work fml

I get distracted by random handrails which confuses my mates quite a bit

+10 leg strength

+15 winter survival

+5 air awareness

+5 balance

-30 funds

-10 impulse purchase resistance

-80 social life during winter season

L0gicWhat do you mean? I don't think "mentality" is a trait lol

It has changed my mentality on life, sports, and just the way I perceive things. My attitude has changed a lot too, I care less about shit now which is good and bad

confidence in physical abilities

always confuse things that are backward or other way as switch

look at handrails a different way

talk more bro like

Made me realize how unattractive leaving high school, going to a good college, and working a desk job would be

My local hill's park lift is a one person handle tow. So not social skills.

I am more suspect of who I date, they be like "you just went skiing last weekend." Over!

JichelMustenMade me realize how unattractive leaving high school, going to a good college, and working a desk job would be

Completely this, I've changed my focus away from getting money and working,and more towards having the most fun I can have in my life.

Social skills 100%, I feel like ive become so much less shy than i was 2/3 years ago just bc of skiing

It's honestly a way for me to get out all my frustrations, especially during the spring.

Like anytime I am stressed out or frustrated, I just head up to the Basin on a nice, uncrowded spring day and ski fast as fuck. It's fun and relieving

In about 20 years my knees won't be too happy with me from skiing

theabortionatorIT made me a better christian

Oh god...

Mornings are no longer a chore, I am stoked to wake up at 5-7 am to go shred

I'm now an alcoholic

Skiing gave me direction in life. Most people I know have some kind of direction in their life; finishing school, their career, married & kids. I always felt that shit was made up though, like what is it all for? Is your endgame to be a lawyer so you can have nice shit and drive a bmw? But I still went to school because 'it was the thing to do' but I ended up losing my sports scholarship, getting kicked out of school and getting fired from almost every job I ever had.

But one day I was talking to my dad and he suggested I go do a ski season. Well I went and did a ski season as well as 6 more and while being a ski bum isn't what I'm about anymore, it gave me something to strive for that I really wanted, and that wasn't made up: skiing.

Now I live my life with the goal of being able to shred whenever I want, and not having to worry about money. And I'm way happier and accomplishing way more with my life because I have that goal.

longer hair

1. douchebaggery

2. spliff rollery

3. unintentional celibacy

4. weather dorkery

5. general life suckery

Baggy clothing

Shin bang, bad knees and a sore back

It made me spend way more money and it made me somewhat athletic. Although I have no arm muscle whatsoever.

Killed me knees so i'll probably be in a wheelchair by 40

Dennis_ReynoldsKilled me knees

It has taught me that smoking is a great way to meet new people

my Patellar tendon got up graded to ACL.

a_burger+10 leg strength

+15 winter survival

+5 air awareness

+5 balance

-30 funds

-10 impulse purchase resistance

-80 social life during winter season

HAHAHAHA this is exactly what I thought of when I saw the name of this thread.

Confidence and focus in terms of speed / style / stability / selection (terrain)

Focus is not getting distracted while under mental and physical pressure.

Problem is I have not so great acrobatic skills and never liked GS racing, and never tried SL.

Hence the advent of Heartcave... I want to raise consciousness with that even more.

JichelMustenMade me realize how unattractive leaving high school, going to a good college, and working a desk job would be

This. I don't think I realized it until I got my first job out of college 7 months ago. Glad I found it out this young though!

To be different/not care what other people think, and to fucking send it.

I also feel like newschoolers helped shaped who I am after spending countless hours here in my young teens. The big brother I never had I guess, thanks NS

Good thread btw

Taught me when to buy gear (end/after the season)..also time management juggling being a high school student, having a part time job, and skiing both days of every weekend

theabortionatorIT made me a better christian

No joke. Skiing brings peace to my soul. Whenever I ski I have time to think about how everything is connected. When I am in the zone it is like Jesus is skiing for me and everything makes sense because of the Omnipresent nature of the divine.

By far the best thing about skiing to me is that it makes winter a fucking awesome season and I love snow.

Would hate to be one of those yuppies who hates the cold and sits inside all fucking winter complaining.

Ability to calm myself. If I have a bad week all I look forward to is being able to ride up that chairlift and then bomb down my home mountain where I know every crack and crevice. All my problems go away for a few hours and it's great

One of my favorite quotes: "You put on your boots, click into your bindings, dust the snow off your skis, and head out for the chair, and it doesn't matter that you failed a test, didn't get the girl, or that your life is on a one way trip down the shitter, your world is right for the next couple of hours."

I now hate summer

SconniePretty much any activity that you participate in for a long period of time will change you in some way, mentally and/or physically.

I think skiing has made me a more confident person in many situations. Riding the chairlift with people from so many different backrounds and striking up conversations with them has made me more social person, and It has really made me come out of my shell and express my personality.

Challenging myself physically and taking hard falls has made me more persistent.

Interested in your responses.

The knowledge that I'm not invincible but also the desire to try riskier things.

Depression during summer.

Worthless AF during the winter. If I have the day off, I probably will go skiing. My list of shit that needs to get done from over the winter is so massive come April, I don't even fucks with late season A-basin

It has made me look more mentally challenged than normal as now when I sit down or walk I pull funny faces trying to fight off the pain from all the falls during shredding