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Worst ski pole related injury

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Cut_Copy
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so today i made a trip up to whistler and decided that my ski poles were probably the most dangerous thing on the mountain

first run of the day, going down switch, just chillin and i got lazy. crossed my tips, fell backwards and somehow, SOMEHOW managed to get myself right in the nuts with my ski pole handles

pole 1
scott 0

that was a bitch, but later on in the day, around 2ish or so, cruising switch again and hit a patch of heavy snow. crossed tips AGAIN, fell backwards, and BROKE my ski pole on my head. yes i was wearing a helmet but fuck that hurt bad. i bent the fucker 90 degrees and it had a gash from the stress and was just dangling.

pole 2
scott 0

i still rocked the old school tod wallnuts no pole steeze and made faces and shouted at gapers but damn, my head hurts


what other funny/painful things have happened to everyone else with their ski poles
Feb 19 2009 10:51PM
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TWoods
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one of my mom's friends in college went skiing withe her boyfriend.

he tumbled down a chute at Mammoth and impaled himself, THROUGH HIS HEART, and she watched him bleed to death.
Feb 21 2009 12:51PM
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SUPREMExDIPSET
Posts: 310 - Karma: 12
jesus^^ makes me want to drop the poles for good and just go all andy mahre like
Feb 21 2009 5:05PM
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DON_EMILIONE
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dammmmmn looks horrible
hows your theets now?
Feb 21 2009 5:10PM
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brandon_
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aha, today i was on the l;ift adn i was sittingo n my poles because i didt weuna hold them my friend is like get off sitting on your poles i was like k easy ?.

turns out it was ahrder then i thought,it got stuck in hte back and i pullled up and jsut SACKED MYSELF SO BAD ! aha dontk ow hwy i use them but i still doo
Feb 21 2009 5:29PM
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Relish_man
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1-i was going for a spin on a quarter-pipe thingy and somehow dug my pole into the lip and got handle right in the ribcage...twice

2-i hit a rail badly and the rail was pretty high so when i came off, my pole got caught in it and smashed me right in the jaw.
Feb 21 2009 5:39PM
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speightphoto
Posts: 182 - Karma: 64
you have skiing PE class? wow you are really lucky i wish my school had that. you must live real close to the mountain.

when i was like 12 there was a midstation on a lift, and being an idiot i stuck my poles into the ground for some reason, and they bent 90 degrees and then cracked in half by the time i was at the top of the mountin. had to go buy some new poles.
Feb 21 2009 6:07PM
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B.G
Posts: 156 - Karma: 14
planted my pole betwwen my teeth by accident and knocked out my 2 front teath and anoter time i got stabbed in the leg
Feb 21 2009 10:32PM
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B.G
Posts: 156 - Karma: 14
replace the first my teath with my skiis
Feb 21 2009 10:33PM
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drewski9211
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At the end of january in a mogul comp my pole handle jabbed into my stomach and up behind my ribs on landing..... blew my spleen into 3 pieces and ended the season. spent 5 days in the hospital.
Feb 22 2009 1:26AM
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Blandct
Posts: 1858 - Karma: 37
flat light and came in to moguls that i didnt see flew forward out of both skis...pole went up under my gogs and i got a huge black eye...ill look for pics later
Feb 23 2009 11:58PM
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Leo.
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like 3 or 4 years ago i was skiing over this little roller i would pop off of, and i popped really off balanced and was flailing, so naturally my pole plants directly under my sack which i land on.  It was the only event to bend my 1080 poles, and it was done with my balls. fuck that
Feb 24 2009 12:56AM
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SUPREMExDIPSET
Posts: 310 - Karma: 12
i did not understand this one bit
Feb 24 2009 1:07AM
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gstoneskier
Posts: 233 - Karma: 41
i feel like i read that in a FREEZE mag. back in the day
Feb 24 2009 1:17PM
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gstoneskier
Posts: 233 - Karma: 41
that's ironic...

 no ski pole injuries but my friend nutted himself at park city on a battle ship rail and ripped his sack open and almost smashed and killed his right nut. his nut sack was the size of a grapefruit. they gave him a bunch of Oxycontin and then he didn't care about shit.  
Feb 24 2009 1:24PM
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Remora
Posts: 196 - Karma: 11
That is fucking disgusting. You win. You have proof and it's gross.
Feb 24 2009 1:44PM
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Z_rob
Posts: 3076 - Karma: 152
stuck up my ass once.

jk ive been skiing no poles like all season
Feb 24 2009 2:05PM
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dvst8
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yoooooshhhhhhh
Feb 24 2009 5:16PM
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m_damianos
Posts: 113 - Karma: 8

took a ski pole to my ribs then my face in the same day it sucked so bad and then I ditched poles 4 life.......

Feb 24 2009 5:34PM
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BennyV
Posts: 569 - Karma: 11
when i was younger I did this shitty 180 and landed awkwardly but looking over my shoulder. When I landed my head whipped down and my pole planted in the ground and cracked me in the face but no major harm, no foul
Feb 24 2009 6:38PM
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^Romano^
Posts: 24 - Karma: 21
stabbed myself in the armpit while doing a hand plant. the grip buried itself like a foot into the snow
Feb 24 2009 6:44PM
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Sir.Steezealot
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i pwn poles so i dont use them anymore
Feb 24 2009 7:08PM
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.brian
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you would incorrect in thinking it was the simpsons. it twas not the simpsons  but it is south park

other than that you were correct

Feb 24 2009 7:13PM
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blindside
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this
Feb 24 2009 7:20PM
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Lmroderick
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I made a profile just so I can share my husband’s freak accident! We were visiting our home state of NH and given lift tickets for Christmas from my parents. My husband had never skied before, so our friends and I took him on really easy green circles. He seemed to be doing really well, so for the last run of the day, we took him on a blue square. The snow was turning into mashed potatoes, so he had a little trouble, but nothing terrible. We were nearing the bottom half when he wiped out. I stopped and made my way back up to check on him. He was laying down, looked at me, and said, “Am I bleeding?”, while blood poured out his neck. I dry heaved and realized his ski pole had inverted when he crashed, and it had impaled his neck. Blood was all over his coat and the ground. The pole had gone through his neck and scraped a molar inside his mouth. The ski patrol brought him down and stitched him up and we went back to my parents’ house.

A few days later, we were still visiting my parents, but the stitches needed to come out. Since we were not near his duty station, we had to find someone who could remove them. The only person we knew was a vet student- she told my husband to bark if it hurt.

He now has a small scar on his neck and has never been skiing since!
Jan 3 2019 6:44PM
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sunsetconoisseur
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caucasian_chad"If you hit another skier your skis are going to cross, your gonna have a bad time."
Anyone else know this quote?


So when is he part when we have a good time?

South Park classic lmao
Jan 3 2019 7:00PM
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JAHSHUA
Posts: 347 - Karma: 200
Picture my friend skiing 80 mph while listening to "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins. He really started jamming out to the drum solo. He mimicked playing the drums with his ski poles by hitting the ground in front of him. Unfortunately for him, he planted his pole on accident so that it was angled directly at his crotch. His forward momentum acted as a launch pad against the stillness of his pole. His pole perfectly housed itself into his crotch. And he was airborne, flying through the air, screaming in agony, launching 30 feet down the run. I have never seen a phil collins drum solo go so wrong.

**This post was edited on Jan 3rd 2019 at 8:33:11pm
Jan 3 2019 7:09PM
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Sharko
Posts: 2274 - Karma: 4,100
LmroderickI made a profile just so I can share my husband’s freak accident! We were visiting our home state of NH and given lift tickets for Christmas from my parents. My husband had never skied before, so our friends and I took him on really easy green circles. He seemed to be doing really well, so for the last run of the day, we took him on a blue square. The snow was turning into mashed potatoes, so he had a little trouble, but nothing terrible. We were nearing the bottom half when he wiped out. I stopped and made my way back up to check on him. He was laying down, looked at me, and said, “Am I bleeding?”, while blood poured out his neck. I dry heaved and realized his ski pole had inverted when he crashed, and it had impaled his neck. Blood was all over his coat and the ground. The pole had gone through his neck and scraped a molar inside his mouth. The ski patrol brought him down and stitched him up and we went back to my parents’ house.

A few days later, we were still visiting my parents, but the stitches needed to come out. Since we were not near his duty station, we had to find someone who could remove them. The only person we knew was a vet student- she told my husband to bark if it hurt.

He now has a small scar on his neck and has never been skiing since!


I call bullshit on this whole thing. Ski patrol doesn’t stitch up neck wounds. Stitches don’t come out a few days later. Any human urgent care office could have removed the stitches.
Jan 4 2019 2:52AM
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DominatorJacques
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Jan 4 2019 9:06AM
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skiguy04
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DominatorJacques


Thank you so much for posting this dawg

What would we do without you homie
Jan 4 2019 10:55AM
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DominatorJacques
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skiguy04Thank you so much for posting this dawg

What would we do without you homie


I'm glad it was not me! The pole snapped, then went through his leg!
After reading here, I'm glad I don't use poles!
Jan 5 2019 9:54AM
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tsingtaofanatic
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Cut_Copyso today i made a trip up to whistler and decided that my ski poles were probably the most dangerous thing on the mountainfirst run of the day, going down switch, just chillin and i got lazy. crossed my tips, fell backwards and somehow, SOMEHOW managed to get myself right in the nuts with my ski pole handlespole 1scott 0that was a bitch, but later on in the day, around 2ish or so, cruising switch again and hit a patch of heavy snow. crossed tips AGAIN, fell backwards, and BROKE my ski pole on my head. yes i was wearing a helmet but fuck that hurt bad. i bent the fucker 90 degrees and it had a gash from the stress and was just dangling.pole 2scott 0i still rocked the old school tod wallnuts no pole steeze and made faces and shouted at gapers but damn, my head hurtswhat other funny/painful things have happened to everyone else with their ski poles


getting the ski pole handle straight to your eye.
Jan 5 2019 1:54PM
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JoeF2661
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I don't wear straps anymore after taking a pole handle tooamy times to the chest or chin

**This post was edited on Jan 5th 2019 at 2:12:02pm
Jan 5 2019 2:11PM
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skiguy04
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DominatorJacquesI'm glad it was not me! The pole snapped, then went through his leg!
After reading here, I'm glad I don't use poles!


I snowboard too
Jan 5 2019 4:38PM
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btedeschi
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landed on my upper chest and my pole went into my collar bone breaking it
Jan 5 2019 6:57PM
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xxACIDTRIPxx
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DominatorJacques


Omg....
Jan 5 2019 7:14PM
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DominatorJacques
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XxAc1DtR1PxXOmg....


Knarly eh!
Jan 5 2019 7:55PM
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Vincent_Diesel
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I wonder if this is the real reason my ski instructor told us to ditch the poles. After seeing this, gladly. Hope you're ok now.
Jan 5 2019 7:59PM
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