Skiing/Snowboarding Injuries Thread

dre

Member
Basically just post up shit that's happened to you while on the slopes..

So, yesterday was my last day of skiing in Banff (a kind of resort town in western canada) and I learned 360's pretty good off a sketchy jump, so I decided to take them to this other jump made up of a small hill right after a big steep black diamond run that you can get wicked air off of if you get enough speed. I saw other kids going off it and they basically started getting speed from half way down the black diamond and got something lame like 3 feet of air. So, being dumb I decided to bomb the whole run from the very top to get maximum speed for the jump to get 6 or 7 feet of air instead. I don't know how it happened but I went wayyy too fast (something like 50 km/h, maybe more) and when I hit the small hill I was gonna jump off, it forced me into a sitting position because I was going so fast, and I hit the jump like that and got about 5 feet of air before landing flat on my back. Apparently when I landed I tore some cartilage in my chest, as well as pulling some muscles there and bruising my shin nicely somehow because when I tried to get up I felt a really bad pain in my chest, as well as when I was breathing deeply. So pretty much I can't breathe deep, laugh, cough, blow my nose, sit up or lie down without feeling a sharp pain in my chest and it pretty much sucks balls and I don't have any idea how long it will take to heal.

Wow, wall of fuckin text right there^^^

Anyway, post up some more stories here...
 

.erik

Member
yea i ski alot soooo

ive flipped an eighty footer table, but fucked myself up the 2nd try. landed first try, went again on camera, and landed on my back halfway down the ramp, which is pretty much a 100 foot long jump to your back. also i was out of bounds skiing and hit a cliff, 180'd, landed switch, and promptly ran into a tree. my ass hurt :) . and at this gay resort called diamond peak i was doing their gay and small terrain park when i did a rail, landed switch, and ran into one of them big ass grooming machines lol. o yeah(same day at diamond peak) i was bombing this green circle called lodgepole and like ran over this kid who came out of nowwhere i felt like an ass. all of these werent to bad cept the flip it was gnarly i couldnt breather for a minute, and i was passed out for half of that. i woke up, couldnt breathe with a bunch of random people i didnt kno (except for one person) around me it was scary.
 

jeff26

Member
i was going down a trail, toe turn, and i hit this gnarly mogul, and just flew and landed flat on my ass. i was so sore for like 5 days.
 

dre

Member
erik said:
yea i ski alot soooo

ive flipped an eighty footer table, but fucked myself up the 2nd try. landed first try, went again on camera, and landed on my back halfway down the ramp, which is pretty much a 100 foot long jump to your back. also i was out of bounds skiing and hit a cliff, 180'd, landed switch, and promptly ran into a tree. my ass hurt :) . and at this gay resort called diamond peak i was doing their gay and small terrain park when i did a rail, landed switch, and ran into one of them big ass grooming machines lol. o yeah(same day at diamond peak) i was bombing this green circle called lodgepole and like ran over this kid who came out of nowwhere i felt like an ass. all of these werent to bad cept the flip it was gnarly i couldnt breather for a minute, and i was passed out for half of that. i woke up, couldnt breathe with a bunch of random people i didnt kno (except for one person) around me it was scary.
hehe nice. Landing switch is fun but gay because you can't see behind you and it's sometimes hard to spot your landing.

What's bad about winter sports is that you never think you'll injure yourself because falling on snow doesn't hurt, but two of my friends who snowboard have broken their arms after catching an edge just going down a run..
 

Big L

Steel Member
well, i was going down beside my friend and he was setting up for a rail (i was riding switch) he landed and when i went to switch over i caught on this slush shit flipped and got knocked out, besides that, i don't usally fall wile i am riding park or hitting some jib, i usally fall on our shitty un groomed excuse for a ski hill
 
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