The social thing is soooo true. I'm a florida boy and went snowboarding for the first time at age 16. Got pretty good pretty fast, third day of vacation and I was going up the mountain and down alone. I found a group of 20 something, longhaired, snowboard dudes, and they were the nicest ppl I ever met. They took me down double black diamond and literally showed me the slowest best way to do it, then all the faster ways. Those guys literally made the whole trip for me. Ended up shredding every trail on the mountain with them (they shredded, I cartwheeled down a couple of em lol). Hands down best vacation of my life.
As a park skier I love to see new young people trying new stuff and working to get better because that’s what I do all the time but when they just get in the way it’s not good
Speaking as an older guy getting into park, one big thing that intimidates people is that one time when they tried a trick, crashed and got hurt. I remember landing on a rail on my shins as a 16 year old and I never hit another rail after that because "it wasn't worth it." I tried throwing a 540 of a park jump and almost knocked myself out, and from then on I didn't want to spin on park jumps anymore. My problem back then was that I had no idea about what I was doing and no concept of progression. Kids nowadays have RU-vid videos for everything from 50-50 on a rail to corked 540s, and it's a LOT safer if you know what you're supposed to do before you try a new trick, and how to work up to it instead of just trying to send it because the other guys in the park can do it. Now I'm wishing I wouldn't have taken a 15 year break because my body gets hurt easier than when I was in my 20s, but finally I'm starting to throw spins off of jumps and hit rails again. The other big part is being intimidated because beginners don't actually know how big or how difficult a feature is, they just have no experience to gauge it by. So explaining to beginners that they should STAY AWAY from big jumps and rails, to start from the absolute smallest jump and hit it 100 times until it's comfortable before they move on to the next size jump, and to understand which rails are easier or harder than others, that's really important for them to know so they aren't intimidated.
Yo man sweet vid!! Not sure if you have made any of these vids yet so apologies if I'm just not looking hard enough but could u do a how to 1. 270 on 2. Go in switch 3. Add grabs and spins together Sorry if you have made these vids and I'm not not paying attention, if not maybe consider those as vids!! Thanks for reading and keep it real man
Thx for this bro I ski park all the time and people always thinks of us as like mean people and we are not at all we always help people when they fall and try to make everyone feel welcome
Awesome video. I'm the 30 year old haha. I tried some park when I was in my teens, never got great but would go for smaller hits and spin 180s, and ride boxes (not rails) straight on and off. Still ride my twin tips, but have shied away from the park since then. Would love to go back.
The fact that I just watch this and I want to learn how to ride park, and he said that most people are pretty cool about asking about how to hit it, made me definitely want to start doing it now
I think one of the biggest hurdles to jump (pun intended) into the park scene was not giving an eff what others think. It seems that parks are always under a ski lift. I always thought people are just staring at me fail (they are). This is where not giving an eff comes into play. I'll tell you this, though, once you overcome that feeling of being watched, the feeling after stomping a trick is so so so nice.
Aye im a huge snowboarder, i would say im a pretty good rider, ill go jump off of everything and just last season i got a tamedog down (front flip) but i really want to get into the rails and boxes, this video just boosted my confidence. Im so hyped for this season, thanks so much man!!!!!
In the start I was cancerous, but now that 8 have been shredding for 1.5 years, and now I do flipps and spinns, and I can rail! Just keep your hopes up!
Ive just started snowboarding and I can barely ride reds comfortably, cant do any tricks, but I still cruise down the park and get some tiny air time on the jumps and have a great ol time :D I don't care what people think, I paid for my ticket like everybody else lol.
Dope video just saw this in my recommended and I love park snowboarding and couldn't agree more with this video. All the guys in the park that shred are the most chill people I have met on the mountain. They just love what they are doing and if you share that love it's almost a brother hood. And great job expanding the channel you gained a sub off the recommended tab :).
Loved the video. Thank you so much for this! I have been skiing ⛷ over 3 years now and just now built up the confidence to start riding in the park. Your video brought me more confidence 👍🏻👏🏻
I took my then 10-year-old daughter to the park for the first time last year. We weren't very good but could do small jumps, boxes and are learning to ski switch. I was a little worried but quickly figured out that a lot of people weren't all that much more skilled than we are. I'm more worried about trashing the bases on our skis than anything else.
I stopped doing parks after one of my friends fell really hard on a jump, he landed on his butt and it made him pass out for about a minute. After he's sent to the hospital they took an X-ray image of him shows his spine was squeezed to a different shape. My friend ended up in the wheelchair for a month. BTW, the jump we did was not a crazy one, its just a small jump (marked S in the park), but a bad landing can do such damage to him. I can't even imagine what will happen if we hit bigger jumps. We still go to the mountains nowadays but we never tried the parks again, I'm just scared. However, it's still unfair to say the park is not safe, you just need to know what you're capable of and don't go beyond your limit. A good instructor (wish we had one) who knows your capability well is very important. Even though I can't do parks anymore (too scared), I still enjoy watching people riding parks and I admire those who make doing parks look easy.
Bo Zhang What the hell? Did he fall straight to his butt from the air or did his skis touch the ground at all? I have skied the park for a long time and have never encountered anything like that.
I'm a ski racer but I like to do park and I was told by a group of people to fuck off but I think that when it happens to others they just think that everyone does that so they won't go
Great video! I am usually not afraid of the park, in fact every place I go I try to check out one of the parks, I am definitely not a park skier, I tried to hit a jump and fell and have fallen after riding a box! I love the butter boxes, but sometimes I fall. I tried a flat down box at the end of ski season and it was fun. I will admit that some of the park features do intimidate me and get a little afraid to do some of it because I have the fear of getting hurt real bad. Anyway, the locals at Seven Springs were real nice to me when I went into one of the terrain parks that was a little more advanced and was the only one opened on that half of the resort and these guys I asked if there were any butter boxes and they said no, but they encouraged me to do this curved box and I almost did it, but chickened out.
I'm a girl married to a park rat. I was really intimidated but I'm riding boxes and hitting small jumps. Hoping to do butter tricks over humps soon. I'm confident skiing backwards and doing 360s on the ground :)
wouldn't say it's the same risk as getting hurt anywhere else. Maybe I send it to hard to soon (or im just an idiot that should stay away from parks) but I've been hurt almost every time I've ridden the park from breaking my arm to just some bruises and almost never outside the park.
does it make any difference if you're a girl?? when I tried asking for tips, and help while I was learning to skateboard, there were a lotta not nice guys-
This video makes me want to send it in the park. I'm not a horrible park skier but I am far from where I want to be. This video makes me want to go into the park and just shred.
I'm usually scared because I think I'm gona nut myself or slip out and break something and be out for the season. And I'm 12 and theres older kids that make fun of you because you can only 270 out of the box or grind the flat bar
I was young af learning park too and could only hit the smallest rails. but no one really cares if you bad. everyone started somewhere and was bad at some point. you just got to keep learning and practicing.
at my school we do like a rec skiing but it's really just free skiing and or snowboarding and when I go up and look at the terrain park in just like ugh I want to do that so bad but I get scared
I’m a park skier but the biggest thing I hate is most of the snowboarders are absolute douche bags they cut you off, laugh at you and that’s the biggest thing that is slowly driving me away from park skiing
Im a slightly above Average skier in my area and i also have my instructor course and park and coach if you approach me nicely ill gladly shiw you proper technique safety how to shred etc
I liked when you compared the lifting weights with snowboarding because I’m 13 and I skied when I was 5 for 6 Years and now I been snowboarding for the last 2 Years this season will be my third year. Currently it’s November 20, 2017 last year I learned how to make quick maneuvers on my board this year I’m hoping to get to the 3 foot jumps and some box’s, last year I wanted to hit some but I didn’t know how to go off a jump and land so I went to a knuckle and kinda bunny hopped to resemble a jump but I couldn’t land properly. What I’m getting at is this is a BANGER video for me and my crew and one thing I would like to suggest is in any possible way if u could make a really detailed video of how to go off and land successfully on a jump, if possible. By any chance could u give me a shoutout I would like people to know who suggested the video and to add me Snapchat: ledwards315 THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU HELPED ME A LOT
Ok so i have a 11year old brother. My bbrother has eye hand coordinaton,and i year old feels left out as my dad tends to ski with my brother year and so i am trying to do more than jumps,on the park so that way when we go to the park i can have a bit of time with my dad when i showed her this video she gained convidance~I am,on my dads phone~Alana Ackerman
Wood Riding is crazy? I pretty much Ride only in Woods and for me park IS crazy af even i Ride scooters and i am kinda used to jumping and landing and i am not scared of Air Time but with skis Hell nah i can do like 180 and Grind box things but 360 or skigrab thing Hell no doing that.
Went to a little tiny south east coast terrain park. Was the coolest guy hitting my switch backside 180 off a little kicker. All the 12 year olds were screaming Then I tried to grind a box, never did that, and didn’t straighten out, caught my front edge hard slammed into the ground. Bruised my sternum and had to bail for the day
Idk my experience with park rats has been pretty bad I was at a pretty good park and tried to hit a maybe seven foot Jump for the first time I landed it I was feeling good when one of the locals cut me off I fell at the bottom of the Jump and tried to get out of the way before being yelled at by every single douchy park rat there and another time a kid maybe 7-8 fell because h didn’t know how to rope tow and they screamed at him and called him ever slur and profanity in the book
I think its the fact that im not confident and I dont wanna wipe right under the lift with a bunch of people watching, plus I dont wanna be that jerry 😂😉
I wanna do all those cool tricks you see people doing on yt though and I think honestly I could eventually do them, but i just dont have the opportunity to ski often.
oh my god I watched this video when it came out years ago, and only now did I realize one of your clips is from Mount Saint Louis which is like where I go everytime... I wanna meet you a;slkdfj;aksjfd;askjdf;asjf
@@dwhit7451 I ski there, i presume this guy skis there, this park has the lift literally right over top of it and a bunch of kids go in there and the people on the life are always super toxic when the little kids fall
I have a 9 year old who is learning how to ride park, I'm 36, been skiing for 30 years, never done a 180. I go and try, and I'm proud of the fact that I know nothing, I laugh when I fall, I can't ride a rail without falling. BUT, my 9 year old laughs with me, and him watching me fail, and me being ok with failing, since it's part of the process, it took all the tension off him! Now he laughs when he falls, gets back up and tries again. Be a role model, and show other people your perseverance, that is more admirable then doing a 180 or a rail. The guys riding park, know this. After 2 days, I can now ride switch a lil and do 180s both left and right and so can he! We even tried 360s, and he "earned" ice cream for it. I see other riders scared to try out of fear of failing, and I joke with em about how bad I am. All these guys doing the tricks were once there. I feel bad when I see people watch and not try, I know the feeling, I did that for decades. The guys in the park cheer me on, laugh with me, and give me tips.... Be humble and enjoy the process of learning, this guy is right, just start small with the basics, once you get a 180 down, that lil bit of confidence pushes you to do more. But for the life of me, I fall every time on a rail and can't figure it out, and just laugh at myself, but one day... I won't fall! See ya out there!
I don't ride park (but I really wish I did) I think because since I don't know how to do any tricks or really even hit jumps it's kinda embarrassing to ride the park when everyone else there is doing 360s and 720s and I can't even hit a jump Plus everyone on the chair can see you I think a lot of people (myself included) don't ride park because we don't know how to and it's embarrassing when you try and fall in front of everyone
When i started that was a massive problem, people on the chairs that laught at you most of the time wouldn't even have the balls to try tricks. Ignore them, get better and they will respect it.
I really like the gym comparison because it's true in so many ways. So many people are afraid of the gym because of the same exact reasons as the park. You're not gonna feel like you belong at first but when you start putting in the work you'll slowly start feeling like you belong.
Bag O Tricks, Last season I was watching your video on how to do a rail. By the end of last ski season I was watching your video on how to backflip. Your videos really help. I won at least 4 competitions last season because I could k-fed and 540. So thank you very much and keep up the awesome videos
