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Have park skiers reached the highest level attainable?

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Govygen_gourmet
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Are park skiers the most skilled skiers on the mountain/ hill? In terms if technicality it would seem the only other skiers that come close are BC bros.. there are plenty of park skiers can carve well, ride pow well, hit rails(and your girl), the large park jumps on average are bigger than most cliff drops, and park skiers add tricks to their drops.. sure there is a minority of park skiers who struggle on real mountains.. but say an east coast rail rat moves out west for the big mountains.. it won’t take him/her long to become a pro on the mtn, and even start sending tricks on bc booters.. whereas a person who learned the mtn before the park will struggle to learn how to park ski.. i’ve seen park skiers shred the mtn hard and I always see every other skier struggle to park well.
Thats why i think park skiing is the highest level of progression a skier can reach.. thoughts? Anyone agree? Disagree? Make my karma points go BOOM.. POW!!!
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CalumSKI
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Park is lit but big mtn is too. I think they are both awesome but i dont think one is harder than the other. they just take different skills
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BigPurpleSkiSuit
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As someone who only really skis the mountain and not park, i.e. snowbird, park is definitely scary to me. I've never slid a rail before and although I'm sure its not terribly hard it's still an unknown and I haven't done it. That said my moms a doctor and she made sure to point out how people who jump on skis always get hurt. Now I'll send natural features to the moon, but there's still something a bit scary about the unknown and for me that's park
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Crust_Station
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Nah, if you can do it all then yeah youre a beast and no one can talk down to you, but I work at an east coast mountain and the amount of little rats I see that can 4 out of a rail, hit rails switch, etc but cant make a turn or navigate trees or ski pow would astound you.
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steeze_louise
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Learning to ski on the mountain before park skiing is way more important in my opinion, I used to race for like 5 years before I did park and I would never have been the skier I am today if I did not race, it also makes you a way better big mountain skier too.
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MountainInMyMind
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the most skilled skiers are the ones who master park as well as big mountain, two entirely different skillsets
7 years ago
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CT_CREW
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Big difference between carving well and going full throttle on an icy, bumpy, steep downhill course at 80mph. dudes are literally twisting their legs off, sustaining massive head injuries, or dying when they wreck badly.

Either way this thread has been made about 69 times before, so leave it.... You either know how to ski or you don't.
7 years ago
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skiguy04
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Rocket skis
7 years ago
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Govygen_gourmet
Posts: 380 - Karma: -477
Crust_StationNah, if you can do it all then yeah youre a beast and no one can talk down to you, but I work at an east coast mountain and the amount of little rats I see that can 4 out of a rail, hit rails switch, etc but cant make a turn or navigate trees or ski pow would astound you.


Yoo thats some crazy shiit man but like everyone said before.. its understandable.. I heard some of you midwest/east rats ski on landfills
7 years ago
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Rparr
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Govygen_gourmetYoo thats some crazy shiit man but like everyone said before.. its understandable.. I heard some of you midwest/east rats ski on landfills


some of us live on landfills bruh
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Govygen_gourmet
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Rparrsome of us live on landfills bruh

For real this is the truth brudda, hope all is well #respek
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arnie_grape
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there is no moving up, or reaching a highest level. there is only forward.
7 years ago
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Juan1325
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1) Most of the park skiers I now cant carve well or ride all mountain.
2) On ski theres always room for improvement
3) a park skier can learn fast to spin on natural jumps, but that doesnt meen his good at riding around the mountain.

But... Theres a type of skier that skis park that is the most versatile. This happens when the skier has a racing background, so he has a good base, and after racing for some years he switchs to freestyle, but continous to carve well, and rides all around the mountain not only park or piste. Candide Thovex can be considered as this type of skier, even tho he has a mogul background ( on my opinion even beter than a racing one) and an injury forced him to stay away from the park.

Sumary: some park skiers can only ski park, nothing else, and some others can do it all
7 years ago
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Hodor
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It all depends as many have said above. While its awesome to see people go big; just skiing around, I tend to appreciate skiers who are subtly better than everyone else in just having absolute control and flow with their turns/transitions/landings whether in the park or anywhere else on the mountain. For example, this year riding up a lift this skier who was obvious a park rider, probably with a mogul background was just maching through some very awkwardly spaced bumps like 10x faster than anyone I'd seen on that run. All the while, he was flowing seamlessly through every transition just right, making perfect use of his skis flex and edges as if he was just floating over those absolute shit bumps. Of all the awesome stuff I saw on skis this year, for some reason that was the most impressive to me, and I'd give a million bucks to ski like that. Haha, I felt like I was writing a romance novel in that description.
7 years ago
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Govygen_gourmet
Posts: 380 - Karma: -477
HodorIt all depends as many have said above. While its awesome to see people go big; just skiing around, I tend to appreciate skiers who are subtly better than everyone else in just having absolute control and flow with their turns/transitions/landings whether in the park or anywhere else on the mountain. For example, this year riding up a lift this skier who was obvious a park rider, probably with a mogul background was just maching through some very awkwardly spaced bumps like 10x faster than anyone I'd seen on that run. All the while, he was flowing seamlessly through every transition just right, making perfect use of his skis flex and edges as if he was just floating over those absolute shit bumps. Of all the awesome stuff I saw on skis this year, for some reason that was the most impressive to me, and I'd give a million bucks to ski like that. Haha, I felt like I was writing a romance novel in that description.

You were probably watching me at mt bachelor.. I want my million bucks
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