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Did you race before you started freeskiing?

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hoodSlayer
Posts: 900 - Karma: 7

I want to find out how many people raced before they started freeskiing or if they still do.  Personally, I have never raced and always owned twintips except for my very first pair of skis.

Feb 5 2008 7:54PM
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traylortrash
Posts: 1935 - Karma: 2,450
yup but only for a year i hated it lol.... and i started skiin when i was like 2
Feb 5 2008 10:58PM
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SnoquamptonShred
Posts: 41 - Karma: 12
Yeah I raced... until I realized the race junkies never get the chicks.
Feb 5 2008 11:08PM
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smokey23
Posts: 285 - Karma: 32
i will be honest with you that is bullshit! so many hott racer girls! if you got game and your good then you def get pussy!


you must of sucked bra
Feb 5 2008 11:10PM
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yeahitsdave
Posts: 1315 - Karma: 10
raced for a while when i was younger, then got tired of jamming fingers on gates and gave up
Feb 5 2008 11:13PM
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SnoquamptonShred
Posts: 41 - Karma: 12
Haha well I'm not going to say i sucked, but I was like 12 and my girl skills hadn't really kicked in yet...
Feb 5 2008 11:15PM
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colin13
Posts: 2201 - Karma: 216
for 7 years or so. gives you the ability to adapt to all kind of conditions in and out of the park, which i believe is what makes the best skiers.
Feb 5 2008 11:16PM
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jimmychung
Posts: 6857 - Karma: 25
i raced for about 4 or 5 years and maybe 2 years into it i got a pair of twins as well. i kind of wish i stuck with it, it's a lot of fun.
Feb 5 2008 11:18PM
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comeatmebro
Posts: 10720 - Karma: 66
never did and i'm glad. started skiing at 7 and my dad and cousins taught me a good bit, got an awesome instructor for a while as well. his name was bobby from the wisp, i thought he was such a badass hahaha. i think i can hold my own out of the park with almost anyone at my mountain, in the park needs a little work still though hahah.
Feb 5 2008 11:25PM
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McTwist83
Posts: 282 - Karma: 11

I wanted to, but I lived pretty far away from a moutain so I couldn't. Bassicly all of my friends were into snowboarding, and I had to follow them around. hences how I got into freeskiing

Feb 5 2008 11:26PM
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skitoggrob
Posts: 1249 - Karma: 22
same!, miss it too

sooo glad my rents got me into, no doubt i would not be the skier i am today with out my race training
Feb 5 2008 11:34PM
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al_britskiier
Posts: 419 - Karma: 23
yeah i did for a while, gave me good skills.  didnt like how competitive it was though, freeskiing is more fun & chill
Feb 6 2008 6:16AM
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Colt45er
Posts: 1650 - Karma: 336
i raced for 10 years, im 16 now.
Feb 6 2008 10:15AM
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i-like-skiing
Posts: 49 - Karma: 10
nope i went rite to the park
Feb 6 2008 9:22PM
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alex.k.
Posts: 305 - Karma: 30
No, skibladed... DUHHHH hahah jk.  no i did not race. i hate dem racers. least the ones at my mountain.
Feb 6 2008 9:24PM
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grifter
Posts: 933 - Karma: 102
I just cruised around the piste for 3 years, since I live in the UK i only got to go out like 3 weeks a year... Park and BC is just so much freedom its awesome.
Feb 6 2008 9:25PM
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PBRasap
Posts: 1079 - Karma: 326
word. i didnt think anyone else knew what chinese downhill was.\\ funnn shit.
Feb 6 2008 9:28PM
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rudager
Posts: 11332 - Karma: 4,597
I did the nancy greene at lake louise, then went to K1 i think
then my parents bought some 1260's, i sucked at racing and joined Rocky Mountain Freeriders

racing gave me the basics of skiing though
Feb 6 2008 9:30PM
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mackinnon
Posts: 5153 - Karma: 156
i raced when i was little, took a few years off, then started back in high school. my team was super laid back and stuff and partied at state races....i never wore a speed suit and still killed half of the girls on my team. i wish i'd gone out for my college team though, oops. racing definitely makes you a better skier overall.
Feb 6 2008 9:44PM
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Microcosm
Posts: 4765 - Karma: 153
is that no rules and an all out race to the bottom? I should try that with my friends this year haha.
Feb 6 2008 10:47PM
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beardstatus
Posts: 800 - Karma: 19

samsies

Feb 6 2008 10:50PM
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notomatoplz
Posts: 1377 - Karma: 29
i wish i started earlier than last year:( lol, i guess i caught on pretty fast though
Feb 6 2008 10:53PM
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wdbo.
Posts: 4935 - Karma: 173
yes and im glad i did
Feb 6 2008 10:54PM
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Cheech_Sander
Posts: 338 - Karma: 1,660
i raced until senior year of high school, and it helps your skiing so much. all big mountain skiers are ex-racers... as well as a lot of parkrats like jon olsson. sometimes kids that go straight to park end up havign TERRIBLE form getting down the hill... its almost like theyre gymnasts not skiers sometimes.
Feb 6 2008 11:43PM
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Jamie_Baril
Posts: 2196 - Karma: 2,513
I race from when i was like 7 untill i was proll 12 and then i broke my collerbone and decide to start freeskiing, and now it is my life
Feb 6 2008 11:46PM
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james44
Posts: 3323 - Karma: 578
i did!!
Feb 6 2008 11:51PM
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Sholte
Posts: 2929 - Karma: 12
i never raced, but alot of family has raced
Feb 6 2008 11:57PM
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mogulman
Posts: 48 - Karma: 21
Moguls, but any structured program, whether it be a Freestyle Team or otherwise, provides an opportunity for great coaching. Teams/Programs generally attract skiers that want to charge and progress. Going back ten years...the only jumps available to skiers were found in mogul lanes...just made sense to ski on a team.
Feb 7 2008 12:05AM
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Austeeze
Posts: 807 - Karma: 18
Used to race in high school but never took it seriously (never had a race suit or joined a race club etc.), still race every now and then for the uni games
Feb 7 2008 1:34AM
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SteezePatrol
Posts: 10281 - Karma: 36
no you faggot
Feb 7 2008 2:24AM
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constpapa
Posts: 835 - Karma: 327
nope, but I did ski for over 10 years before switching to twins
Feb 7 2008 10:39AM
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sarahskis
Posts: 1587 - Karma: 41
I started when i was two, and raced for more than ten years.  I kinda liked it, but did it cause i was good at it.  when i finally stopped i took up freeskiing and haven't been happier.  Racing sucks the life out of you, even though it gives you some very technical skills that really do a lot when your about to crash but pull yourself out of it. and in the trees
Feb 7 2008 11:59AM
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brenker
Posts: 3188 - Karma: 71
JEA WHALERS!!!

yea i raced in hike school, racing next year 14th grade
Feb 7 2008 12:01PM
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emopoppins
Posts: 3996 - Karma: 269
i snowboarded for like 4 years, then from the 7th to 9th grade i raced, and in the 9th grade i got twin tips and did both for that year and now i just freestyle. it definitely made me a better skier. fo sho.
Feb 7 2008 12:02PM
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freestyler540
Posts: 13051 - Karma: 18,320
Im a mogul skier, and I still do moguls. Moguls gave me a great base in jumping. Now I rip even harder now . I never raced in my life nor will I ever do it


Feb 7 2008 12:48PM
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s.g.
Posts: 355 - Karma: 11
I started when I was 7,racing until 12,and now I'm almost 15.
Feb 7 2008 2:09PM
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DynastarriderGP
Posts: 8258 - Karma: 214
from the age of 8-14...it helped shape me as a skier and i had the opportunity to travel to places and meet people that i wouldn't have otherwise
Feb 7 2008 2:12PM
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OLDFRED
Posts: 194 - Karma: 9
i just started skiing two years ago and got hooked...parents couldn't afford to buy me anything..i played with rocks ..but 2 years ago started skiin at seymour and in 2 years i've skied 70+ times and counting...

snow is my crack...eventhough i crack on snow a lot.
Feb 7 2008 2:19PM
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Pirruccio
Posts: 1301 - Karma: 70
i raced j5's back in the day
Feb 7 2008 7:31PM
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olly.
Posts: 147 - Karma: 13
absolutely no racing
Feb 7 2008 8:20PM
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skiP.E.I.
Posts: 7618 - Karma: 20,179
no. I skied for the first time at age 13 and never even took a lesson.
Feb 7 2008 8:24PM
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Dasteeze
Posts: 1 - Karma: 10
Doing both :-p Don't hate
Feb 7 2008 8:29PM
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CJHski
Posts: 2384 - Karma: 126
ya, i was not to into it though
Feb 7 2008 8:53PM
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ParkLife01
Posts: 378 - Karma: 17


 no i never tried racing onl freestyle
Feb 7 2008 9:00PM
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Jerzeystyle69
Posts: 14 - Karma: 10
Up through my first two years of college I raced and then suddenly skiing backwards appealed to me...


Feb 7 2008 9:39PM
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bkiss_
Posts: 598 - Karma: 244
ya, i started skiing at like 3, and raced all the way till i was like 9-10, and i feel as if it helped me alot
Feb 7 2008 9:44PM
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b-ladd
Posts: 2300 - Karma: 48
^word, also started skiing when was like 3, raced til i was like 11 or 12, joined the freestyle team, did some bump comps but rode alot of park, started doing slope comps two years ago. thinking about getting back into bumps though.
Feb 7 2008 10:02PM
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schism
Posts: 1705 - Karma: 389
i've wanted to race when i was a kid but my parents told we couldn't afford it. i did some open races and killed everyone. then i saw a warren miller movie with a bunch of people doing a rainbow rail and i then i skiied park since.
Feb 7 2008 10:04PM
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dowalibeast
Posts: 3339 - Karma: 207
ski racers become the best freestyle skiers in my opinion.
Feb 7 2008 10:44PM
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Mr.LemonPie
Posts: 4100 - Karma: 1,625
I started racing I was like 7...The first year it was the fun. Second and third year it got old, it seems like all the racers are just naturally mean to each other, and the coaches are jerks too. After I quit racing i did bumps. LOADS of fun, made me so much of a better skier it is recdiculous, while doing bumps i got hurt alot just because it was tiring and I didn't know when to quit. THen I just started skiing for fun all over the mountain and in the park.
Feb 7 2008 10:54PM
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*P-Dizzle*
Posts: 223 - Karma: 15
bro i went to a training camp in chile last summer when i raced and i got laid everynight almost for 2 weeks. good times. race chicks are fiiine.
Feb 7 2008 10:57PM
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