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Tell me of your depressing days as a gaper...

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YourMomsCouch
Posts: 311 - Karma: 4,039
No organized gaper days, tell me about when you first started skiing, annoying things you did, what you wore and how you acted. Try not to judge anyone, we all had to start somewhere, right?
12 years ago
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a_burger
Posts: 5257 - Karma: 21,143
I used to always jump off the lips for rails, never understood why park crew told me not too.


12 years ago
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LarsTynes
Posts: 88 - Karma: 5,954
I thought "Ugly Grab" was cool.
12 years ago
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Toaster-Tony
Posts: 3531 - Karma: 5,850
There's probably already a thread. But I started park during the thug epidemic, I wore a giant red sweatshirt and purple pants. I loved sending it off jumps but it usually ended in a yardsale and me walking all over the landing to pick up my gear. Once I learned how to grab safety and japan, I felt like I made it in the ski world haha.
12 years ago
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SnowMiser
Posts: 801 - Karma: 3,150
I was always overly nice to everybody and didnt hit rails. just jumped, hot laps for dayz.

tight pants and reaaaaly short hoodie.
12 years ago
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shitpoop
Posts: 667 - Karma: 1,479
When the park crew threatened to beat my ass for going off the lips onto rails I got my shit together and shaped up.
12 years ago
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TACO-DOG.exe
Posts: 11990 - Karma: 12,272
tell me about that one time you didn't make a thread every god damn day.



















12 years ago
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SKIU4EA
Posts: 2388 - Karma: 2,086
those weren't depressing days at all... Not a care in the world and free of any inhibitions. Just cruisin and lovin it. I mean, i probably pissed off a lot of ppl, cutting them off and shit, but nothing sticks out in my mind.



12 years ago
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YourMomsCouch
Posts: 311 - Karma: 4,039
Theres nothing better to do with my life anyway
12 years ago
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1kewldewd
Posts: 796 - Karma: 1,147
I used to war a one peice blue snow suit that was matching a Retarded kid that was also a better skier than me. I still see him shredding in it. He is hardcore. I also got all my ski trick names from wii ski.
12 years ago
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seanahue.
Posts: 2142 - Karma: 3,374
toxic and binding/boot grabs all day err day
12 years ago
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Elmo.
Posts: 4320 - Karma: 669
well you see it all started on your moms couch....
12 years ago
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JUP*
Posts: 728 - Karma: 200
There was this one guy at my mountain who was the best there and i really looked up to him and somehow we both bought after bangs and i could barely ski park so he shunned me and hated me for like 2 seasons till i could hold my own being a 10 year old gaper that broke my heart.
12 years ago
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2_fadez
Posts: 7780 - Karma: 4,183
call yoself drake, because it sounds like you started on bottom
12 years ago
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Aladeen
Posts: 257 - Karma: 412
I started pickin cotton now I'm here
12 years ago
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Aftleet
Posts: 135 - Karma: 16

Being not able to ride swicth and dreading yard sales

12 years ago
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maximiliaan
Posts: 7711 - Karma: 2,857
i think this is about 10 years ago? dutch gapers take it to another level
Click for larger image
im on the right...
12 years ago
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iH8pow
Posts: 1885 - Karma: 8,481
I worked at a ski shop during college and bought a proform jacket for dirt cheap. Only problem was that they were out in the size I wanted, so I got the next size smaller thinking no biggie it just wont be super baggy. It was super skinny, my gf even ridiculed me for looking like a girl. I had a few years park experience in my belt so I wasn't full on gaper, but I looked like a bitch
12 years ago
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theabortionator
Posts: 52598 - Karma: 174,324
lol true.



I never experienced it skiing or snowboarding. I did almost get beat when I was younger surfing at huntington beach. My audition for the kook show.

I'm still not great at surfing but at least I understand what not to do now.
12 years ago
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gusestomp
Posts: 1377 - Karma: 746
When butter 720's on boxes were cool....
12 years ago
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PKNeison
Posts: 313 - Karma: 721
Cutting in front of lots of people...

Yeah, I was a right dick.
12 years ago
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Blake.P
Posts: 9894 - Karma: 3,585
God some of you were gapers pretty recently. Mine was probably around 12 years ago. Wore black bib pants, turtlenecks, thick sweatshirts and puffy coats. And a racing helmet with sunglasses. That phase of being a taper lasted until I was probably around 10
12 years ago
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PON3
Posts: 3817 - Karma: 783
Mine was really up until 3 years ago. Living in Kansas gives you bad habits. I was still a good skier, I just never had the swag of freesking like I have today. I just wore poorly fitting columbia outerwear, and had to rent my own skis. I could still ski anything, just didnt flow around the mountain and huck myself off of shit. I broke being a gaper when I got my first pair of line skis.
12 years ago
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seanahue.
Posts: 2142 - Karma: 3,374
forgot to mention that there was absolutely nothing depressing about being a gaper, it was fucking awesome... reminds me of that erik olson article i read the other day:

"The gaper is the best thing ever. They are totally oblivious to any fashion trends, they don’t know the difference between anything, and they are the ones probably having the most fun. I love gapers. I wish I were one."

12 years ago
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