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What's a beginner called?

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skigumby
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In rock climbing you call them a gumby (I'm climber if you can tell from my name...) and in mountain biking you call them joeys. What about skiing? I'm labeling myself one forever for starting this thread...
4 years ago
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Sharko
Posts: 2274 - Karma: 4,104
Why is it important that we label and stigmatize inexperienced people?

I call them skiers.

**This post was edited on Jan 20th 2021 at 12:12:31pm
4 years ago
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poofartpee
Posts: 7436 - Karma: 1,540
Punter, Jerry, Gorby. Americans seem to like Gaper
4 years ago
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PsychicMigration
Posts: 2099 - Karma: 10,552
Novice if you want to be technical.
4 years ago
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deathvalley69
Posts: 631 - Karma: 4,222
Jerry or Gaper depending who you ask
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GreenMonster
Posts: 25 - Karma: 156
jerry. i just call them a jerry
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GrandThings
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Jerry =/= Beginner. You can be a skier for your entire life and still be a Jerry if you have a wack attitude or do ignorant shit.

If anything I'd call a new skier a grom but thats more of a snowboard term IMO
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ReturnToMonkey
Posts: 6448 - Karma: 70,211
GrandThingsJerry =/= Beginner. You can be a skier for your entire life and still be a Jerry if you have a wack attitude or do ignorant shit.

If anything I'd call a new skier a grom but thats more of a snowboard term IMO

Groms are just kids, whether it's their first time on skis or if it's kai jones
4 years ago
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wyld_stallyns
Posts: 475 - Karma: 4,630
Type I Skier
4 years ago
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Biffbarf
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How's about just calling them beginners

Gapers are the skiers who ski 4x a year on their annual trip from texas to aspen and will tell you they've 'skied their whole life'. It's different.
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Bended_Toenail
Posts: 1417 - Karma: 10,230
Jerry/Gaper: Skis a couple of times a year, or just bad at skiing. Often douchey

Grom: Child who may or may not be good at skiing. I've also heard Grom used to describe a significant other that is being taught to ski

Beginner: could be a jerry, but only if they are doing something completely wrong other than being bad at skiing.
4 years ago
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SendyMcSendyface
Posts: 3178 - Karma: 28,856
Beginners. Fuck this labelling newcomers bullshit. Got mad respect for anyone trying it out, especially as an adult. Save kook/gaper/jerry for people who actually deserve it.
4 years ago
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piss.boy
Posts: 1491 - Karma: 10,623
richiiiJerry or Gaper depending who you ask


gaper master-race
4 years ago
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typicaldenverkid
Posts: 115 - Karma: 1,133
A beginner is simply a newcomer to the sport

A jerry is one who will tell you they’ve been skiing for 20 years but only have 40 or so days in their skiing career
4 years ago
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TRVP_ANGEL
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beginner
4 years ago
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first_rodeo
Posts: 2385 - Karma: 7,781
fukin Kook
4 years ago
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GayWolf420
Posts: 38253 - Karma: 131,516
leave those who are getting into this stuff for all the reasons we did alone, man. Its all fun, and we've all had plenty of experiences bagging on gapers, but its just playing more into barriers to entry in our sport and keeps things exclusive. Not everyone is some rich asshole from Cali on an ikon pass.
4 years ago
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snowmosexual
Posts: 1941 - Karma: 10,090
These are the bread and butter of the ski industry. We may provide the media culture, but they are the ones buying day lessons/rentals/tickets, getting full lunches in the lodge, and over paying for goggles when they forget their own. Without these Gapers we would pay too much to ski or have to earn all our turns. Maybe the culture would be solid, but we would suffer in diversity. Plus who would be amazed at our crappy nose butter 3s.

tldr: Respect the Gapers
4 years ago
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gilbertressel
Posts: 639 - Karma: 8,508
snowmosexualThese are the bread and butter of the ski industry. We may provide the media culture, but they are the ones buying day lessons/rentals/tickets, getting full lunches in the lodge, and over paying for goggles when they forget their own. Without these Gapers we would pay too much to ski or have to earn all our turns. Maybe the culture would be solid, but we would suffer in diversity. Plus who would be amazed at our crappy nose butter 3s.

tldr: Respect the Gapers

Holy fuck this man spittin
4 years ago
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SlitherySnake
Posts: 1169 - Karma: 8,625
snowmosexualThese are the bread and butter of the ski industry. We may provide the media culture, but they are the ones buying day lessons/rentals/tickets, getting full lunches in the lodge, and over paying for goggles when they forget their own. Without these Gapers we would pay too much to ski or have to earn all our turns. Maybe the culture would be solid, but we would suffer in diversity. Plus who would be amazed at our crappy nose butter 3s.

tldr: Respect the Gapers


not the hero that we deserve, but the one we need
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