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Raise your hand if you've ever broken your collar bone skiing?

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t4thoroski
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Sooo many people have broken their collar bone skiing. almost everyone one i know whos skied for a while have done something to their collar bone. i've also seen 5 or 6 people break theirs skiing. i also am a victim on this as i cracked my collar bone at the end of the march break. it was only a crack so i was still able to carry out the ski season in ontario to it's very end under pain killers.. haha.
if you've broken yours before leave a post
Apr 25 2006 2:03AM
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TheStamos
Posts: 9311 - Karma: 910
woot
Apr 25 2006 2:21AM
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bret
Posts: 2845 - Karma: 833
broke it last spring in mammoth.
Apr 25 2006 2:56AM
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Holte
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aye
Apr 25 2006 2:59AM
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JoakimHayland
Posts: 1053 - Karma: 43
broke mine two years ago
Apr 25 2006 3:24AM
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amsterdamned
Posts: 160 - Karma: 43
me, me, me
Apr 25 2006 6:17AM
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crazyfuck
Posts: 5968 - Karma: -7
jeajeajea

definitely a shitty break, but not as bad as my back/ribs.
Apr 25 2006 7:55AM
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Grimace.
Posts: 8345 - Karma: 25
i did
Apr 25 2006 8:24AM
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johnwiechecki
Posts: 1153 - Karma: 344
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Apr 25 2006 8:42AM
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johnwiechecki
Posts: 1153 - Karma: 344
Well that didn't work but I broke mine six years ago...but I was skiboarding...I guess that counts.
Apr 25 2006 8:44AM
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Schoening
Posts: 14332 - Karma: 1,268
i seperated my shoulder.....which is very similar to breaking your collar bone
Apr 25 2006 9:11AM
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Triple_Strum
Posts: 6384 - Karma: 953
who cares about breaking your collar bone. It is one of the least serious injuries skiers get. My buddy broke his collar bone and scapula and was back skiing six weeks later. Knee and ankle injuries are months at a time
Apr 25 2006 9:14AM
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t4thoroski
Posts: 671 - Karma: 19
i cracked my collar bone and was back on the hills in two and a half days.
Apr 25 2006 9:27AM
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twigflipper
Posts: 113 - Karma: 25
i broke my collar bone last year on a rail.
Apr 25 2006 9:33AM
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twigflipper
Posts: 113 - Karma: 25
it depends on how bad you break it. i broke my real bad where my collar bone was sticking like straight up alsmost coming out the skin. i wasnt back to 100% till like 2or 3 months
Apr 25 2006 11:53AM
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K2skier12001
Posts: 428 - Karma: 10
me
Apr 25 2006 11:54AM
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Triple_Strum
Posts: 6384 - Karma: 953
ouch. Okay, well that is valid then
Apr 25 2006 11:58AM
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JONNYZ
Posts: 909 - Karma: 6
nick needs to reply to this. tell of that terrible revert.
Apr 25 2006 12:00PM
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crazyfuck
Posts: 5968 - Karma: -7
come talk to me when your collar bone in in three pieces and coming out of the skin. i had surgery on mine and was out for over three months.
Apr 25 2006 12:13PM
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Static
Posts: 8553 - Karma: 4,089
twice for me.
Apr 25 2006 1:27PM
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Fudispalt
Posts: 30 - Karma: 10
once is enough for me
Apr 25 2006 1:39PM
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robbieA
Posts: 1371 - Karma: 30
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Apr 25 2006 2:45PM
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AKoblitz
Posts: 1201 - Karma: 113
cant raise hand still hurts...but me!
Apr 25 2006 3:03PM
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skimanskimanskim
Posts: 1515 - Karma: 1,715
me
Apr 25 2006 3:15PM
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michelle
Posts: 6290 - Karma: 428
meee. broke it right at the joint. so basically broke my shoulder (i guess?). 5 weeks in a sling or else surgery. no more sling now, and i can just barely lift my arm over my head.
Apr 25 2006 3:33PM
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4frntSkier
Posts: 4008 - Karma: 143
me
Apr 25 2006 3:35PM
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caro.dillon
Posts: 1229 - Karma: 21
my brother did a couple weeks ago
Apr 25 2006 3:47PM
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lenzner
Posts: 1590 - Karma: 80
my left shoulder is shorter because of it
Apr 25 2006 4:10PM
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C_Ewart
Posts: 627 - Karma: 41
I did this season.
Apr 25 2006 4:30PM
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fitz
Posts: 455 - Karma: 54
ME!
Apr 25 2006 5:24PM
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=Carson=
Posts: 665 - Karma: 24
I did in 3 places
Apr 25 2006 5:42PM
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burr
Posts: 817 - Karma: 15
Me.
Apr 25 2006 6:46PM
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LDuggan420
Posts: 1611 - Karma: 13
i have broken it not skiing tho
Apr 25 2006 6:51PM
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Dilla
Posts: 6447 - Karma: 106
ME ME.
took me out for the rest of the season too. so im pissed
Apr 25 2006 6:55PM
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skates_mcfarlin
Posts: 214 - Karma: 10
I did! broke it this year at Okemo on march break
Apr 25 2006 8:25PM
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J.Bass
Posts: 1642 - Karma: 24
same here
Apr 25 2006 8:26PM
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AwR
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jea jea jea
Apr 25 2006 8:27PM
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cj
Posts: 4032 - Karma: 469
i dislocated mine and tore all the tennons surrounding it...apparently would have been better just to break the damn thing...
Apr 25 2006 8:33PM
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M+M
Posts: 7935 - Karma: 25
ill raise nicks hand for him
Apr 25 2006 8:45PM
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SteveStepp
Posts: 9529 - Karma: 20,647
my hand is raised
Apr 25 2006 8:48PM
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AFT
Posts: 160 - Karma: 10
Yeah, I still have the biggest lump on my shoulder from when I did mine in Mammoth. It was on the money booter at the bottom of the park...landed upside down on a backflip on the first day of my five day vacation....sucked real bad. It was definitely the most painful injury of all my injuries: broken back, torn ACL, hyper extension of both knees, chipped tail bone, major concussion. I still feel the nerve effects of it being broken 4 years later.

A GREAT way to not break it is to wear padding. Go to www.skeletools.com and look at that stuff. I have had it for 3 years and I have avoided soooo many injuries from wearing the top and bottom piece. They provide an amazing under layer when it is cold too. Everyday last year in mammoth I only wore a t-shirt and the pads and I was fine. Gives you a lot of piece of mind knowing that if you fall you are protected. Totally worth it!
Apr 25 2006 10:44PM
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Anathema
Posts: 21048 - Karma: 5,061
bad idea. i broke mine skiing, got drunk one night maybe 2 weeks later, tried to hop my fense and bailed, broke it again, and a week after that i was drunk yet again, and decided to have a race with one of my buddies and bailed YET AGAIN on the pavement and broke it a third time far worse than it was originally. shitty..

my advice, let your wounds heal in full before you decide to fuck around and avoid more serious injury.
Apr 25 2006 10:48PM
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fouldsys
Posts: 7404 - Karma: 39
beleive it or not i broke mine playing soccer
Apr 26 2006 6:57PM
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eastAR5
Posts: 15084 - Karma: 730
word it sticks out like a mothafucker now
Apr 26 2006 6:59PM
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t4thoroski
Posts: 671 - Karma: 19
that sucks yo
Apr 28 2006 10:04AM
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iladelph
Posts: 17 - Karma: 10
twice
Apr 28 2006 10:45AM
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nipe
Posts: 2586 - Karma: 6
Well, considering its one of the most painful injuries you can endure without seriously fucking yourself up, its a big deal.


Me too, snapped it in half, 12 week recovery.
Apr 28 2006 1:03PM
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SN0WBOARDER
Posts: 1454 - Karma: 11
my friend broke his thumb once
Apr 28 2006 1:11PM
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t4thoroski
Posts: 671 - Karma: 19
thumbs don't even matter. they don't take you out of skiing at all. u just ski pole less
Apr 28 2006 4:23PM
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snowdiver
Posts: 668 - Karma: 12
im a vetran of 3 breaks :p
1 from skiing
1 form mountain biking
1 form rugby
Apr 28 2006 9:20PM
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Intergalactic
Posts: 1858 - Karma: 47
wouldnt it hurt to raise your hand if u hada broken collarbone?
Apr 28 2006 11:12PM
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