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How good can you get in a ski season?

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eheeth
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How much progression can you make in one ski season, skiing ~4 days a week start to finish? I'm kinda curious...
6 years ago
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Andi_G
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Depends on your starting place. A skier with a race background going into park is going to progress a ton vs a totally new skier. How athletic you are is also going to play a big role as well as how hard you push yourself with fear
6 years ago
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b0ss
Posts: 822 - Karma: 6,377
I try to add a 180 and add a grab to whatever I know.
I add a 180 everywhere for example:
My goal this season is
720 cause i can 5
5 with grabs cause i can 360 with grabs
Frontswap and backswap then surface them hopefully
4 off cause i can 2 off both ways
2 on cause i can unatural on and lip on alright
6 years ago
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hi_vis360
Posts: 5381 - Karma: 55,936
I re-learn the same basic tricks every season
6 years ago
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Dilldoes
Posts: 761 - Karma: 5,852
Location really helps as well. Having access to an airbag or even a "good" park will make a huge difference.

**This post was edited on Jan 8th 2020 at 11:33:15am
6 years ago
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thizzizwhatitiz
Posts: 344 - Karma: 464
One of my roommates went from not knowing how to hit jumps to 540s and flat rails last season.
6 years ago
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270on420out
Posts: 7525 - Karma: 51,354
Depends on how you spend those days. If you are actively working on tricks everyday and trying new shit every time you ski you’ll learn a good bit. If you’re crushing beers and just cruising all day you probably won’t learn much.
6 years ago
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oldmanski
Posts: 3646 - Karma: 27,299
Get out of it what you put into it.

Pushing yourself and having a few buddies(crew) to help push and give advice can help you learn very quickly.
6 years ago
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.otto.
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I dont know about one season but in terms of rail skiing, I think a good progression goal to always work towards is
All 8
All 8 with 450 out ( make it super?) not sure what the term is for this
All way 270 ons
All ways 2 pretz 2's
Both way back 4's and front 4's
Both way 6's if you find the right rail

Once you got those down than move onto
450 ons ( I dont think its important to have this bothways )
one Sw 450 on variation

A couple 2 p4 variations ( alot of this is rail dependent)

Some clean 3 swaps
and of course the classic 4 p2

This type of progression makes for a classsic well rounded 2012 skier. Kinda boring if you stop there, but its a good base that you can than move on from and make your skiing more interesting ( grabs, front/back slides, nollies shuffles, butters ect)

Alot of skiers unfortunately lack a creative mind, so there skill stops at banal rail tricks ( Im thinking of sam zhaner and derek simpson).

All your favorite rail skiers undoubtedly have a base like this, but once you get to certain level, trick selection and style is what separates good skiing from bad skiing.

**This post was edited on Jan 8th 2020 at 12:32:36pm

**This post was edited on Jan 8th 2020 at 4:03:07pm

**This post was edited on Jan 8th 2020 at 4:03:38pm
6 years ago
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OregonDead
Posts: 7098 - Karma: 26,869
sky is the limit. 4 days a week is a lot. if you get into it you can extend your season year round and keep the party going
6 years ago
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armchair_skier
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find a tramp

Once you can backflip, and 7 the sky’s the limit
6 years ago
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goldlion
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4 days a week is huge, you could do anything if you're productive with your time there.
6 years ago
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nmwninjart
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4 days a week? You either live really close to the ski area or have no life stuff that gets in the way.
If you're determined and actually work at it and have friends to help you can get a good solid set of the basics down in a season.
6 years ago
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BigPurpleSkiSuit
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I've never felt so personally attacked
DIRTYBUBBLEDepends on how you spend those days. If you are actively working on tricks everyday and trying new shit every time you ski you’ll learn a good bit. If you’re crushing beers and just cruising all day you probably won’t learn much.
6 years ago
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xxACIDTRIPxx
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pinkcamo1000I re-learn the same basic tricks every season


Zeros, ones, threes, backies, front flips
6 years ago
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ThatSkiierKidd64
Posts: 376 - Karma: 1,120
Depends how much you wanna progress, me and my buddies spent two seasons just hiking rails and jumps, and progressed a fuck ton. It really depends on the effort you put in.
6 years ago
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HypeBeast
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Lol wait.... Op are you talking about park or skiing in general? Kinda funny how everyone just assumed park, although this is NS so reasonably expected
6 years ago
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TheHamburglar
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HYP3R_REAL1TYZeros, ones, threes, backies, front flips


What are those last two things?
6 years ago
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s.j.mitchell
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I focus more on taking tricks to bigger and bigger features rather than trying to pull sus tricks out of my ass every season. (Obviously I learn new tricks too but...) Nothing feels better than stomping something clean on a fat, floaty jump
6 years ago
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xxACIDTRIPxx
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TheHamburglarWhat are those last two things?


Backflips and front flips?
6 years ago
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TheHamburglar
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HYP3R_REAL1TYBackflips and front flips?


Its a joke because I'm bad at skiing
6 years ago
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-eREKTion-
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oldmanskiGet out of it what you put into it.

Pushing yourself and having a few buddies(crew) to help push and give advice can help you learn very quickly.


Totally correct. The crew I usually ski with doesn't hit park much so my "big mountain" game has stepped up considerably over the past few years. That said, catch me missing grabs on 3's.

OP, find a crew that rides where you want to ride and fucking chase them, you'll get crazy good.
6 years ago
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skiguy04
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The gates will seem more ‘open’ and slalom technicality will blossom

have fun racing
6 years ago
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b00mSkis
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HYP3R_REAL1TYZeros, ones, threes, backies, front flips

what is a zero?
6 years ago
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xxACIDTRIPxx
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b00mSkiswhat is a zero?


A number
6 years ago
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b00mSkis
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HYP3R_REAL1TYA number

ok but what does it mean
6 years ago
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skiguy04
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b00mSkisok but what does it mean

Don’t worry just focus on a clean tuck when turning around those gates

&& ski race safe
6 years ago
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b00mSkis
Posts: 240 - Karma: -816
skiguy04Don’t worry just focus on a clean tuck when turning around those gates

&& ski race safe


i dont ski gates but what is zero?
6 years ago
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Yan_skiing
Posts: 86 - Karma: 368
4 times a week is huge! Once you make 1 with your skis, if you enjoy yourself and keep grinding, you can level up super fast in a single season!
6 years ago
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