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What got you into freesking?

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Kretzschmar
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Search-barred and didn't find anything on this.

So basically stated already, either a video or something in your life got you interested in this awesome sport, so what was it?

If its a video and you know where to find, please embed it, should be interesting to see where people first got interest.

Here's mine:


and the other one of the 20 something skiers at Breck training the rails and jumps. it was called Awesome Skiing Tricks but got deleted :(
13 years ago
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Just_Send_It
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typical.
for me it was just riding switch down the hill and that progressed to the park.

Then i found NS..
13 years ago
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Cotter
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I was gaping in the park and some 30 year old dude taught me how to do the little ride on rails while he was teaching his nephew or son or whatever. I was around 11 and i loved it. It was either that or my old racing coach years back took us to the park and got us sliding boxes side ways and it was a great feeling even when you fell sliding a box for the first time sideways. I kept trying to progress through the following years and now i am where i am today.
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TNORTS
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watched meathead films snow gods. Wanted to get into park for a while after that, but didnt actually until 2 years ago.
13 years ago
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TNORTS
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sorry for dub post
13 years ago
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YoungChristmas
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I think this is what you're talking about

13 years ago
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NPF
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i always liked jumps growing up skiing like any kid. then watching some ski movies like high society, soul purpose and some warren miller movies i starting just skiing the terrain garden in whistler with my mom... and then seven sunny days was a game changer for me. still my favorite ski movie. really made me get into skiing and freeskiing.
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Kretzschmar
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nope, thats pretty swee but its this one, i finally found it after scouring the interwebs.

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ForeverYung
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I started to explore the park the winter of 7th grade, I was a VERY big gaper, then that spring/late winter i found
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TACO-DOG.exe
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i watched these videos over and over and over again.



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ForeverYung
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I started to explore the park the winter of 7th grade, I was a VERY big gaper, then that spring/late winter I found this copy of freeskier in my English teachers class room (he is a big skier, and now owns a shop) Click for larger image I remember seeing a UA add of somebody wall riding a fence and think it was the coolest thing in the world. I proceeded to go to their site and watch edits and then I found out about NS, I came here (not knowing about the forums) thinking well this is boring, and going back to freeskiers site haha. In that issue they had movie reviews, I was then introduced to the wonderful world of ski films, I saw the review of level 1's turbo and had to see it, being the gaper I was I called up my local movie rental shop and asked them if they had it hahha, they guy was so confused. It pretty much all went from there. Inb4 cool story bro
13 years ago
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NPF
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Hahahahaha
13 years ago
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ski4fun420
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_SRWq8gtao&list=FL36v9TWrtutfGdkiMPNLGKw&index=71&feature=plpp_video
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Flyon
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Growing up in a place where everyone and their fucking grandma can cork 7...
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stizzle
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A Freeze magazine from my uncle and Blizzard of Ahhs
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Paul.Marik
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Crazy train edit, whistler jump session, and tom wallisch's super unkown. I would pretty much watch all of those edits religiously. And most of all this -->

13 years ago
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DERS.
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video section on ns. or just newschooelrs in genreal.
13 years ago
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FriskyNarwhal
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Bdog and Henrik's part in eye trip :)
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Rosbif
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Yearbook was the movie that got me stoked on skiing, if I hadn't seen that, who knows what I would be doing now.
13 years ago
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Errl
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Curiosity.
13 years ago
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.MASSHOLE.
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I was skiing since I was 2, so basically my parents.

And in terms of "Freeskiing", well I didnt run gates until I was about 9, and didnt train seriously until 11-12, so freeskiing was just natural skiing for me.
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Kazabazua
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My friend told me that if I could do a backflip on skis he'd give me a gram of meth. Been skiin' ever since.
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Bloc_chain
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someone on my race team got anomaly when it came out, it made me think "why the fuck am I racing"
13 years ago
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Session
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I was snowboarding. I went to the local store to pick up a copy of That's It, That's All.

They had CLAIM playing on a TV. That was my last year snowboarding.
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sklermang
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And anybody doing backflips in Tyro at Stowe in the winters of 2006-2008. Thank you!
13 years ago
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sklermang
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Oh and one that can't be forgotten:

13 years ago
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stupendous-man
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This video:


I was a total snowboard gaper who rode maybe twice a year, and my friend (bigairkid) was a skier and always told me how much more fun it was. Being the "zomg shawn white" snowboard gaper i was, I still thought skiing was gay until i saw this on the windells podcast. that was two years ago, now i ski every weekend.
13 years ago
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rareison
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Freeskier mag, and watching X games
13 years ago
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adrianms
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When i went in the 6th grade i was a victim of peer pressure..and now i'm here waiting for the snow just like anybody else here on NS.
13 years ago
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mooseman077
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Man, this thread makes me feel kinda old. I got into freeskiing way back when the OG 1080 came out. I remember the three Philipe's, Tanner's switch 7 winner, Mike Nick and Mike Wilson killin it on the skiboards before Line even made skis, CR's first pro model, all that and more got me into freeskiing. If anything, the skiboarders at the time showed me the progression possible, and when Line switched to skis, I dropped my Line 5-0 skiboards for a set of 1260's and that was it.
13 years ago
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1337
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THIS VIDEO, oh my god i watched it so many times. Probably my first video to get me really inspired for freeskiing. I think I first saw it on an old crappy ass gateway computer haha


this edit, hahahah so awful quality wise, but damn, got me stoked!


this del remix has 150+ plays on my old ipod from this trailer...


and of course, the movie Claim!
13 years ago
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1337
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also, the tanner vs simon rivalry during xgames, good times
13 years ago
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bigwhite.steeze
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SNOWBOARDING!!!

back 8 years ago when there wasnt many freeskiers, i looked to snowboarders hitting the park and it inspired me to try it on my skis.

was hoooooked!

THANKS SNOWBOARDING!
13 years ago
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zulis
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I was a gaper guy who slays like 3 times in year.Than i saw on mountain 2 kids with twin tips who make safety grabs,180 and 360 and i though that's was the coolest thing ever.I get know one of the guys name and finde him on one webpage where he was posted this old JOI video.After that i start to find cheapest twin tip skis.Till next season i got a pair of dynstar trouble maker and cheap rachel type boots and some crappy free ski bindings what skiing hill owner throw away.And in first day i get to know with these guys and now we are the best friends ever for 5 years who share a passion about skiing.

P.s. i can't beli cant believe that they throw dubs in 2007. :D


13 years ago
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Spiri7o
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Same as OP, along with the Team America JOSS entries and the Freeski TV season 5 teaser
13 years ago
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Jibberino
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http://youtu.be/o5CHvC0H6nY

Pretty much this. Too bad alcohol prevented me from really pursuing freeskiing until the 07-08 season.
13 years ago
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.skiwi.
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Cant embed vid (on ipod) but watching the winter of wells episode 1 at cardrona, seeing a new zealanders doing the stuff got me into it
13 years ago
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Rossitron
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I've been a skier since I was 3 years old. I remember being introduced to freeskiing right after Jonny Moseley threw his 360 Mute grab in the '98 Olympics. I remember when the first twin tips came out (Salomon 1080s). Then after I saw 13 (one of the first freestyle skiing movies) I was hooked. I got myself a pair of 1080s and have been ripping ever since (I'm 27 now). I'm proud to say I've been a part of this sport pretty much since it started.
13 years ago
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john7elway
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Ski movie 1 son! i used to race, but as soon as i saw thall slay, i was in.
13 years ago
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Kretzschmar
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Correction, Tom's part in Slamina, posted on Facebook a few years agby a friend of mine, is what introduced me to freeskiing.
13 years ago
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Forcillo
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Because racing sucked. Also, to be honest, my young self thought all the park kids looked pretty cool.
13 years ago
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a_burger
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Probably lurking on this site a while ago. I got tired of racing in like 4th or 5th grade because I weigh practically nothing which meant I had no chance on the usual course they set at my mountain. After that I was into pretty much whatever, From Moguls to trees to just bombing runs as fast as I could. Expanded out to Newschool a year or two ago.

I always loved watching this video though, even back when I raced


13 years ago
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Senor_Goat
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Slumdog Illionare
13 years ago
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Paul.Marik
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this too, so sick

13 years ago
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CaelW
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I started snowboarding when I was in 6th grade. Two years after that my friend and I switched because he wanted to try snowboarding. I took his skis and by my third run ever on skis i was skiing switch and sliding boxes. I think it helped that I ice skated for 10 years. The year after I bought skis and never looked back. Now I've been skiing for two years and with the help of a few of my good friends they've really helped me progress. Shortly after I found Newschoolers and lurked for awhile until a week ago I finally decided to make an account.
13 years ago
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crab_pretzel
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THIS THIS THIS! watched it so many times, along with the oakley ski video
13 years ago
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Malcolm
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All the cool kids at Smuggs.
13 years ago
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crab_pretzel
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goddamn i gotta get out of this thread. way too much nostalgia, even if it hasnt been that many years
13 years ago
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Thenowhereman42
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I switched to snowboarding when I was around 14 because I wanted to do park and being that Mt. High was my home mountain I didn't know park skiing existed. After a few years I started to miss skiing and did a little bit of both, but never hit the park with my non-twintip skis. I was out of the country for one winter and the next one I figured it was time for a new snowboard, about a week before I bought it I saw this video on the Red Bull website. I really had no idea people were doing stuff like that on skis, got myself a pair of scratch ghettos and been skiing ever since.
13 years ago
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NotGood
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snowboarding is better.
13 years ago
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dayinthelifepc
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Living in Park City, some kids just started doing it and it exploded and pretty much all of the guys end up at least trying and a bunch stick with it through high school
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