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How do you ski?

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SiverMike
Posts: 2367 - Karma: 13
So how do you ski? I havn't seen many threads on this...but how do you approach skiing? 50% park, 50% mountain? 90% glades 10% groomers?

Personally, I'm about 90% all mountain and 10% park. I like to ski real fast, so mostly I'll ski challenging runs that allow me to go fast enough yet still be in control of my turns and what not. I love steep runs with some bumps, and variety in the path of of the run. Powder days=glades, again i love to challenge myself in trees, im constantly trying to ski trees faster with more flow. Trees are the ultimate challenge, because theres so much you can do, so much variety in the way you approach a glade run. I try to avoid crowded groomers and beginner trails as much as possible, as well as extreme mogul trails, but those can be fun once in a while too. As for park, my skills are pretty limited, mostly boxes and medium jumps with pretty easy grabs. nothing too technical, but i definitley want to improve in the park aspect of skiing. most of all, i just love the freedom of skiing, the choices and variety of runs i can chose from. Ski with my cousins and blaze it up. have fun.

what about you?
Oct 2 2007 11:58AM
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Sk3bUm
Posts: 2517 - Karma: 297
i pretty much try to ski 100% downhill
Oct 2 2007 12:09PM
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nhjibber
Posts: 761 - Karma: 38
where ever conditions are good, trees, bumps, park, groomers, stunt ditches.
Oct 2 2007 12:17PM
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Literature
Posts: 13673 - Karma: 3,086
100% FUN.
Oct 2 2007 12:34PM
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buchanan.
Posts: 1911 - Karma: 156
pretty much 100% X-TREME !!!!
Oct 2 2007 1:42PM
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ESAND
Posts: 1607 - Karma: 744
im about 90% down hill 10% uphill at this point. Looking to get a little more uphill "skiing"
Oct 2 2007 1:46PM
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T-KR3W
Posts: 754 - Karma: 175
id say park when its not a pow day
Oct 2 2007 1:51PM
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Klick_2_klaim
Posts: 3396 - Karma: 25
the whole hill is a giant park... so 100% park.

esspecially when youre at bear... the whole damn thing is a park. woo!
Oct 2 2007 1:55PM
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sdfjklioeur
Posts: 2082 - Karma: 114
BIG MOUNTAIN

and some park
Oct 2 2007 1:57PM
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dave44
Posts: 11052 - Karma: 113
I'm not really a pure park rat. I still focus on my actual skiing technique. I only started park 2 years ago... before that, I was carving it up on groomers. I still focus on my carving and shit, but I enjoy skiing the whole mountain, having fun. Carving big, fat, turns on groomers. Skiing glades. Dropping cliffs. Hitting tables. Grinding rails. Everything.

I do whatever I want, whenever I feel like it.
Oct 2 2007 2:00PM
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birdshake
Posts: 1228 - Karma: 71
where I ski theres is no such thing as powder so really the only good thing is the park I do ski off the trails a few times though when there actually is snow on the ground.

Oct 2 2007 2:02PM
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HappyTreez
Posts: 311 - Karma: 401
i ski like I'm from crested butte
Oct 2 2007 2:12PM
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leone
Posts: 2663 - Karma: 1,121
i ski wherever there's snow, east coast represent
Oct 2 2007 2:15PM
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B.Snow
Posts: 1859 - Karma: 92
100% backwards
Oct 2 2007 2:18PM
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hawaiiansteeze
Posts: 3255 - Karma: 3,226
probably 98% park 2% groomers unless i go out west where i go probably like 80% not park then 20% park
Oct 2 2007 2:21PM
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solitaryman
Posts: 3578 - Karma: 123
dawt
Oct 2 2007 2:24PM
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[]Soul_Steeze[]
Posts: 2357 - Karma: 60
groomed blacks
park
tree runs
rail gardens

but pow days are pretty much the trump card on anything listed above.

ill ski pow over anything!!!
Oct 2 2007 4:35PM
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Thomson.
Posts: 4634 - Karma: 227
95% park 4% groomers 1% backyards
Oct 2 2007 4:48PM
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snarky
Posts: 498 - Karma: 13
Bumps, steeps, trees, park, pow, groomers and anywhere else there is (or isn't) snow make up about 100 percent.
Oct 2 2007 4:52PM
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vzdz
Posts: 782 - Karma: 87
80% park, 20% bumps, 100% pow, because when pow comes thats all you really ski anyways.
Oct 2 2007 4:56PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
Posts: 9097 - Karma: 777
start with the french fry then pizza hard.
Oct 2 2007 4:56PM
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fresshhhh
Posts: 792 - Karma: 9
110% bad ass bomber style
Oct 2 2007 5:20PM
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eheath
Posts: 61152 - Karma: 118,757
It all depends. If there is new snow, I ski powder and big mountain. If the pow is gone, I ski park. So aprox 50/50? Not sure really.
Oct 2 2007 5:21PM
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Changethattape
Posts: 1008 - Karma: 36
snowboard
Oct 2 2007 5:21PM
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VT_FLO
Posts: 3806 - Karma: 147
powder, glades, back country, pretty much I go for the most difficult trail on the mountain

unless im Chillin if you know what i mean, then i hit up some less hard glades, or some pow-wow without a walk, or even groomers :)
Oct 2 2007 5:23PM
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Jeff_Lo
Posts: 5809 - Karma: 263
30 percent groomers/10 percent park/60 percent all mtn( mostly trees / hiking terrain )
Oct 2 2007 5:34PM
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treesmann
Posts: 2675 - Karma: 49
60 % park, 20% groomers, 20% trees
Oct 2 2007 5:50PM
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396222687862
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90% park, 5% groomers 5% trees .05% powder.


100.05%
Oct 2 2007 5:51PM
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Bab.
Posts: 766 - Karma: 22
95% park cause we never get pow and the glades suck
Oct 2 2007 6:10PM
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GetPitted
Posts: 3443 - Karma: 2,299
pow when there is pow and park when there isn't pow
Oct 2 2007 6:23PM
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JayDope
Posts: 6842 - Karma: 408
100% park, there is no such thing as powder in jersey
Oct 2 2007 6:24PM
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t-roy
Posts: 4041 - Karma: 52
at my home hill, the whole thing is kind of a park, but i never just go up and down the same run doing the same turns and jumps and stuff. i haven't progressed or worked on tricks in several years now because i don't get to ride as much as i used to. i couldn't break it down into percentages right now, but ideally it would be 90% pow and anything related to it, then 10% in park or just goofing around on stuff.
Oct 2 2007 7:08PM
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miroz
Posts: 10333 - Karma: 3,947
East
-75% park
-5% corduroy
-5% bumps
-15% powder

West
-40% park
-10% bumps
-50% powpow
Oct 2 2007 7:10PM
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Kevski
Posts: 7056 - Karma: 2,785
Last season it was about 80%all mountain (glades, pow, steeps, trees, speeding along groomers) and about 20% park.

This year it's gonna be more park, though, because i'm gonna go lots more, and the park is basically the only good thing most of the time (at one of the closer hills).

But when i'm not at the local hills, 95% mountain, maybe 2 runs per weekend in the park.
When i have more time on my hands and less powder to miss, i spend more time in the park.
Oct 2 2007 7:15PM
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poofartpee
Posts: 7436 - Karma: 1,537
usually all-mountain in the morning and park in the afternoon
some times park all day
and if theres fresh snow out of the park all day
Oct 2 2007 7:27PM
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mistaskia
Posts: 1252 - Karma: 32
on a scale of 1 to 10 one being not that extreme and ten being totally extreme that was a 9.5 EXTREME
Oct 2 2007 7:33PM
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doublexl
Posts: 8407 - Karma: 26
94% park, 5% pow shralp, 1% lodge.
Oct 2 2007 7:38PM
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treesmann
Posts: 2675 - Karma: 49
i ski parallel on blue runs, but sometimes i revert back to the wedge turn on black diamond paths
Oct 2 2007 9:04PM
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landonn
Posts: 2913 - Karma: 385
100% park.
Oct 2 2007 9:07PM
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jason...
Posts: 9006 - Karma: 780
park if its not a powder day
Oct 2 2007 10:24PM
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BEARS.
Posts: 5380 - Karma: 696
i try to stick to the snow if i can.
Oct 7 2007 4:13AM
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NickSteezy
Posts: 396 - Karma: 181

I try to side slip the whole way, Its the safest i think


(park whenever i can, throw snowball runs, jib little jibs, and switch race runs,)
i live on the east, NO POW..... sob..

Oct 7 2007 9:56AM
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StanMcStanson
Posts: 2772 - Karma: 1
if we had pow on the east coast, id pick that over park any day. but because we dont, maybe 50% park and 50% groomed/rest of mountain
Oct 7 2007 10:10AM
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ShadyHillGroup
Posts: 2881 - Karma: 213
amen
Oct 7 2007 10:37AM
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bigdaddytmac
Posts: 1448 - Karma: 14
Jay Peak- Pow when theres pow, fuckin bony ass icy windswept deathtraps when not.
Oct 7 2007 10:52AM
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StanMcStanson
Posts: 2772 - Karma: 1
its better than whiteface, stop complaining. we get pow like 1 day a year.
Oct 7 2007 12:05PM
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holyDINOSAURS
Posts: 7038 - Karma: 639
i used to be like 75% park and 25% everything else. but when i skied everything else it would be a lot of butters and switch stuff. this year im going to work on making the entire mountain my park. and im not talking about the tired park-tricks-to-backcountry rhetoric. im just going to work on tapping, bonking, buttering, planting, and spinning off everything possible. come up with some nifty new hits and tricks.
Oct 7 2007 12:10PM
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SirFryanator
Posts: 11149 - Karma: 1,415
about 50% BC even when there isn't new snow, 40% building jumps/hitting them, and 10% skiing groomers and such.
Oct 7 2007 12:18PM
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VirginiaCliff
Posts: 148 - Karma: 10
thats pretty much me in a bucket, a big shit bucket
Oct 7 2007 12:43PM
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comeatmebro
Posts: 10720 - Karma: 66
50% park/ 50% groomers, glades, jib runs etc.

unfortunately, this year im gonna have to teach my friend how to ski, she started last year and she is decent. but she is gonna need to learn to keep up by like half way through the season or better be puttin out some mad pussy....
Oct 7 2007 12:50PM
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