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Racers in the park?

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emopoppins
Posts: 3996 - Karma: 269
they always are better than me:(

but they have no style.

and i'm just kidding about them being better than me

/begin thread rape/
Mar 13 2007 10:54PM
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SHastatahoe
Posts: 3414 - Karma: 19
No. Fuck you. You are wrong. You will get good at skiing wrong, but there is no way you will become an actually good skier from only park skiing, Hence your lack of powder skiing ability. Racing teaches you how to control and use the actual ski, not just slide down the mountain. Trust me, you might think you are skiing well, but if anyone who actually knows how to ski even see's you on the snow, they will automatically know that you suck. You can tell if a person knows how to ski pretty easily, even if they are just hitting a rail. Its all about how you are on your skis, and it is very apparent.

But that aside, just cause you dont know how to ski and dont want to learn doesnt mean you can't have fun, I have plenty of friends with no racing background at all and they can still ski, they just will never have the understanding that they would if they had been taught correctly.
Mar 15 2007 1:03PM
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XXL_Steeze
Posts: 1746 - Karma: 15
shit man...I feel sorry for you...10 days a season is like nothing...
Mar 15 2007 3:32PM
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Holte
Posts: 10730 - Karma: 7,744
I'd been hiking the pipe for a few hours with my dad last month (he's a remarkably good pipe skier for an old dude), when two race coaches showed up and led their teams making turns down the middle of the halfpipe. There were MOGULS in the pipe when they got to the bottom. One of the coaches turned to my dad and said "so, how'd you like our run? Maybe you should try some real skiing sometime." At that point, my dad told the coach that he was on the PSIA demo team for 12 years and started yelling at the guy for ruining the pipe and the guy left in shame, but I stupidly tried one last run through the moguled pipe. Hit a bump my first hit, crashed into the wall, and broke my thumb and pole. I never really hated racers in the park before that, but now they really annoy me.
Mar 15 2007 3:45PM
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Tucks
Posts: 2120 - Karma: 161
Oh yea if you are good enought for both go for it
Mar 15 2007 3:47PM
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holyDINOSAURS
Posts: 7038 - Karma: 639
its not the act of racing, just the attitude the seems to inevitable develop with it.
Mar 15 2007 4:04PM
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ijibgoremtn
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holy shit this kid is exactly right, now granted i know of a few racers that are chill like 2, but the other 300 that ive met are total and compete assholes that ruin park features and start fights with me and my friends, and a good example of ruining features is...a few weeks at gore there were moguls in the park before the jump and on the landing because a group of like 20 racers kept going through and carving the shit out of it, now landing on moguls sucked and i fell almost every time and that sucked so racers that go into the park need to know that they need to change their attitude or they are gonna get beat up by me or anyone that i ride with
Mar 15 2007 4:13PM
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hotdog.garbage
Posts: 1854 - Karma: 10
exactly. you think you fucks are any different? everyone else on the hill hates you just as much as the racers. baggier clothes but just as much rich-kid attitude.
Mar 15 2007 4:37PM
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DopeSauce
Posts: 1677 - Karma: 26
dude the racer kids like sidestep up the kicker faces here, it sucks!
Mar 15 2007 4:45PM
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Colt45er
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so many pros used to race, i think thats what u need to say to get these gay pro hoe ns kids to pay attention. i raced for a while and was pretty good, i always loved park and was about to switch to snowboarding so i can do it. and i saw sessions 1242 and im like wow, this is great, and i am in deep love with the sport because i love how progression and stile is more bold then anything in racing.  i am so glad that i raced tho because i am a good skier also.  dont hate on racers, you cant say o one of the racers is a duesch, im sure you can pick out several fuckers on this website as well.  i was in the program for 6 years. my last year i blazed chron with like all the kids in my district, ahaha i was stoked on that.  so stop judging books by the cover.  if they come in the park there just doing the other side of the sport and wana see whats up.  racers are brothers to guys!
Mar 15 2007 5:16PM
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asonUnique
Posts: 361 - Karma: 13
word my friend, word
Mar 15 2007 6:31PM
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DopeSauce
Posts: 1677 - Karma: 26
Racing is reaaaally fun, if it's switch
Mar 15 2007 6:35PM
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Sholte
Posts: 2929 - Karma: 12
cool story
Mar 15 2007 7:22PM
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ShadyHillGroup
Posts: 2881 - Karma: 213
i think he was talking about the racers that just drop into the park before a run and wreck themselves trying rails with razor sharp edges, yeah they piss me off because they are huge pricks
Mar 15 2007 7:27PM
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Markis
Posts: 85 - Karma: 9
I'm a racer and when some racers start doing park they just get good realy quick
Mar 18 2007 8:31PM
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parkchilla
Posts: 445 - Karma: 12
I really dont care who is in the park as long as they hit shit and dont destroy the features
Mar 18 2007 9:03PM
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.d.
Posts: 927 - Karma: 12
try having the race court thing next to the park? like its littlerally next to it, no trees seperate it so they just come on.
Mar 18 2007 9:06PM
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EL_FINRE
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every park should have a sign: we dont jib your course so dont race our park.
Mar 18 2007 9:53PM
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reggyboy
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haha ye same here, the racing parents are usually worse than the kids though. back when i raced some crazy ass mother tampered with my bindings.
Mar 19 2007 2:20AM
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Nadia.
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This topic has been done before, MANY times. They're up on the hill to ski, just like you are. Get over it.
Mar 19 2007 2:31AM
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kj_hud
Posts: 667 - Karma: 17
well said

also to the dude who said:

"being a racer is how you get good at actual skiing... then when you have the skills quit and buy twin tips"

im calling bullshit, budweiser does open races at my mountain alot, and i ski harder, faster, and more in control than half the racers my age. Granted i started skiing at 3, was taught by great skiers, asked to be on the race team, but never raced so i guess i have a similar background to most racers, except for the fact that i never gave up my sexual orientation for carving through gates and having a "i own the entire mountain" attitude...the only reason i hate racers is cause they think they are god's gift to skiing, when in reality they're their only fans, everyone else on the mountain hates them. thats my mountain atleast its pretty funny to hear the lift operators and everyone else on the mountain talk so much shit about the "queers wearing spandex"
Mar 19 2007 3:38AM
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snowboardersrule
Posts: 1077 - Karma: 15
i guarantee you are not a "G". ur some whiteboy who skis. you aren't ganster at all.
Mar 19 2007 4:16AM
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crunkasfuck
Posts: 752 - Karma: 352
o i have! and it make me chuckle
Mar 19 2007 2:09PM
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crunkasfuck
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he dident get heart though!
Mar 19 2007 2:09PM
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steezecakes
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i race and i completely get what you guys are saying. but we're not all gay hardcore. me and my friends are good at racing without being hardcore and we do park too but we dont make like fucking turns. some of my friends can do cork 1080 270 on double switchup 270 out. im sorry that alot of racers are gay but it really is just a stereo type theres alot of cool ones who are sick at freestyle too.

Apr 17 2007 1:00PM
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KG_
Posts: 2198 - Karma: 20
yay gapers
Apr 17 2007 1:01PM
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eastcoastsoloMAN
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the racers are so annoying at my mountain and they just cut off and just wriggle around in the air when they get off a hump. its pretty funny
Apr 17 2007 3:33PM
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Peter.
Posts: 23796 - Karma: 13,012
there are a few racers that are good at park at my mountain, but they look REALLY gay because they are wearing their like tight clothes and stupid yellow helmets

but they are good
Apr 17 2007 3:36PM
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KG_
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racers are good at racing... thed b pissed if we went on the corse n carved real hard in front of them...
Apr 17 2007 3:38PM
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Jeff_Lo
Posts: 5809 - Karma: 263
haha whenever the racers get courses closed and start slipping it we always go cut the rope on it because you go shooting by them, and then they try to talk shit to you because you ripped down a part of there course they probably wont even ski on.
Apr 17 2007 3:39PM
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godfrey
Posts: 733 - Karma: 19
if the can slide the rails and are not fucken anything up then its cool but if they are not doing sshit and going of the side of kickers tell them to get the fuck out!!!!!!!
Apr 17 2007 4:23PM
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B-Wall
Posts: 176 - Karma: 165
I ONCE SAW A RACER HIT A JUMP IN A TUCK AND JUST ABSORBED THE TAKE OFF AND OVER SHOT THE SHIT OUT OF THE JUMP AND HAD TO GET TAKEN OFF IN THE SLED.
Apr 17 2007 4:40PM
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TheButterHashira
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i just race if theres some kind of race where you can win stuff like skis. its really funny how every guy over 50 has a pair of brand new rossis that are like 180s and he thinks hes the greatest racer ever and then misses a gate
Apr 17 2007 5:00PM
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STACKS
Posts: 1938 - Karma: 42
kill it
Apr 17 2007 5:13PM
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ijibgoremtn
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i saw a racer overshoot a jump by like 20ft and he did like 7daffy's it was the funniest shit i had ever seen i even took the time to skip the jump just to laugh at him, the racers at Gore mtn are assholes
Apr 17 2007 5:20PM
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jacobski
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Amen. Most of the top pros have racing or mogul comp roots. Either way there are shitheads hittin gates and in the park. One love, skiing is fun.
Apr 17 2007 5:27PM
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Jeff_Lo
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dude you know bibby does daffy's in 7's dont you? and he's amazing!
Apr 17 2007 5:27PM
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Reptar
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racers are pricks
Apr 17 2007 5:29PM
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slopestyle4331
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they are better than all the little kids that climb up the lip and ski down the other side
its not like u own the park everyone starts somewhere
Apr 17 2007 5:34PM
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mmckechnie
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I hate how they think that their the shit and cut you off in the park all the time.
Apr 17 2007 6:43PM
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Dynastar1242
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racing is the best way to get good at skiing and alot of the pros will say racing helps freestyle skiing and alot of them used to be racers
Apr 17 2007 6:53PM
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mariob
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i know racers that are awsome in the park. also i have never raced a day in my life and i feel i can ski as good or better than most racers on any part of the moutian

Apr 17 2007 6:57PM
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*monsterskier*
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lol. nice
Apr 17 2007 7:02PM
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Silence
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patrollers own you ass.
Apr 17 2007 7:07PM
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ijibgoremtn
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yea this is probably true if you really did lincoln the cave
Apr 17 2007 8:09PM
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JibEarth
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i am a freeskier. not a racer. i joined my ski race team jsut to go skiing, but it turned out i was the best in my city and went to ofsaa  (all ontairos), it was so fun to rock twins on the race course wearing the baggy steeze. I even 180ed the finish line.  I dont liek racers at all also they are so stuck up and think the are teh best that y when eve i see them on teh hill i jsut squeee my tials togeather and roost them. All teh racers in my local club are gettign twins now, tey must realize that they are not the future of skiing we are!
Apr 17 2007 8:34PM
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KG_
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everyone started racing, i ddnt ski park til like 3 yrs ago n iv ben skiing for my whole life. i cant imagine someone skiing just park all there life, they wouldnt b able to saki a decent line if there life depende on it
Apr 17 2007 8:38PM
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jmason
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although many racers are fags who just think they own, not all are like that. i agree with what's said before, in that it's all fun, but racing does in fact improve your overall skiing.

also, i challenge you guys to go into a good downhill or super-g race course (the faster ones with fewer turns) and tell me that it isn't fun. Especially if you have a bunch of friends too, and there's proper timing. It starts getting competitive, and eventually you're all enjoying yourselves.

I just hate it when racers are all cocky and dicks
Apr 17 2007 8:44PM
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stevel
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ya they are alright when they are trying to get good and wait their turn but when they just go thru and cut infront of everyone they deserve to all eat shit on any fuetture they hit
Apr 17 2007 8:46PM
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tBatt
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haha one of my friends cut into a race couse, then he did like 3 gates normal, a 540 butter then did like 4 more switch. some little racer kis was like OMGZZZ he did NOT just do that. then i was like if racers are aloud in the park, why cant we be on the race course?? the kid just shut up and i skkied away
Apr 17 2007 8:55PM
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coop-son
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i hate when they have freestyle skis and theyhit things power carve adn hit something else
Apr 17 2007 9:02PM
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