Mooz

Simple solution, be a better influence. I can tell you that the "slacker, rude, F everyone lifestyle" has nothing to do with snowboarding and everything to do with shit parenting.

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tboooe

Mooz, I was not saying that snowboarding somehow transforms good people into jerks but it does for whatever reason attract a high percentage of the type of people I described. Snowboarding is now just as much a lifestyle and attitude as it is a winter sport. Lets face it, snowboarding promotes itself as the rebellious, young, brash alternative which attracts like minded people. You are right though, parenting is important but like it or not, kids are influenced by who they hang out with and their environment.

Instructor

i can somewhat agree there, we dont get alot of little kids in our park but there are definetly people that pass off the traits of young kids.

redneckrider

at my local mountain we only tend to suffer from people being asses when they are from out of state or they dont ride there alot we have a group of about 20 kids who we ride with every week and we all are at different levels and we all help each other progress i have noticed at some of the bigger mountains in my area the people that have all the new shit and can do 540s think they own the place boy do they get pissed when we roll in and start showing them how to do. But back on topic i dont think its the little kids i think its that they see the bigger kids acting up and being asses so they think its cool or something i ride with about 6 kids aged 8-11 constantly and they dont act up and get out of the way fo course one of them is doing rodeo 900s so he knows whats up

JayReece

Kids and there parents teaching them to snowboard/ski is annoying. I'm all for teaching the kids, dont get me wrong, but when its in the middle of the main riding section... im not down with that

chags613

i know my local mountain (wachusetts)you need a park pass

Dcp584

Wow, what provoked reviving this thread. I think some one just hates little kids........

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Simply^Ride

or maybe just snow withdrawals.....

pyro13g

Just as bad is their dumb ass parents in the LZ taking pictures. One caused me to hurt my lower back from taking evasive action. Caused me a loss of ride time in an area with a short season.