Every kid in Canada tried this off a snow pile at some point. Some were just better than others.
Basically every winter sport has the same story: Your parents are millionaires and can affort to regularly take expensive trips to resorts. Gear, lessons, and any other fees are all taken care of from the time you were 4.
Most summer sports have many stories about poor athletes making a name for themselves and getting traction. That’s possible when the upfront costs are a soccer ball and shoes, not a custom-tuned piece of modern engineering and 5 accessories.
Eh there are plenty of people who live near the mountains where the resorts are affordable. Particularly in Europe.
*if you live in the US
I mean yes, but I also managed to ski whole seasons by working as an instructor and bought a second hand pair of skis for a case of beer.
working as an instructor
And what did you do to gain the skills necessary to instruct other people?
They actually have a 2 week course that teaches you most of what you need to know; I’ve seen people with less than 3 weeks skiing experience do it for years.
But I guess you’re getting to the fact that I learnt to ski as a child on holiday? That’s pretty priviliged, I’ll give you that. However, it’s normal for those who live in the mountains there to ski.
I don’t want to take your accomplishment from you but this somehow feels like the anecdote about ancient Egyptology being a literal pyramid scheme. i.e. only job you get is a lecturer in ancient Egyptology. My thoughts are known to be highly incoherent so don’t ask how is this even remotely connected. It makes sense in my brain, just roll with it for a while.
Somehow I feel like your achievement wouldn’t be possible without millionaires who can afford regular ski-trips. So you are kinda subsidized by them and the subsidy quota isn’t high as there can only be so many ‘instructors’.
Easy:
- Don’t be dead
- Be consistently good at landing
Everything else is style points.
Well… I would imagine you start by seeing if you can survive off a curb, a bed, a trampoline, a bunny jump with skis on, and so on and further.
The first recorded ski jump was <10 meters in the early 1800s. 60 years later the sport began to grow more popular, and they could hit 20 meters.
The record has basically crawled up from there one or two meters at a time. We’re now at 254.5m, only 4 meters further than we were eleven years ago
It’s because the sport is now about handicapped distance to stop people from just overshooting the hill entirely. They could just build bigger hills if they wanted more distance but what’s the point? With no handicap it just becomes about who has the balls to jump closest to the flat without breaking both femurs.
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Normally your family has a history of launching off mountains. This is often combined with a geographic proximity to said mountain and the necessary funds to afford mountain-launching equipment.
You start by launching yourself off smaller mountains and build it up from there.
Was a psycho little mountan rat flying down mountains with no polls at 4 or 5 years old. You learn quickly that the feeling of speed and weightlessness are one of the best parts.
Sounds like you should go to space.
Khajiit’s in space space space
I think they learn that in grade school in Norway
I learned it in grade school in New Hampshire. Fridays were half days in winter and our PE was going to the mountain for the afternoon and getting skiing instruction. I was in a small poor town with no street lights, we were not rich. Equipment was subsidized for the kids who couldn’t afford it. I do wonder if money to support it came from outside our community. There are a few winter Olympians that I graduated highschool with.
I never realized how privileged I was to have that experience until I was in college. I have probably gone to the mountains less than a dozen times since then. Too expensive, and I have better things to do with my time now.
I would not have guessed because Californians consider the east coast flat
That’s just because the Appalachians are old and worn down. TBF there really aren’t that many proper cliffs out that way. Here tourists fall off the damn things all the time.
I’ve lived in 49/50 states. California is where I came back to stay.
of a mountain
how do even
I don’t get how these things make it this far.
Maybe it’s a ploy to get more of us to post instead of lurk.
There’s no Olympic crap happening in my house.
idk. how do you find out you’re good at launching yourself over a horizontal beam, metres high off the ground, by slamming a massive sitck into the ground?
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