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There is no video of it, but I am sure there are a few Vail NSers who can corroberate this. It deserves honorable mention because it was brutal and it's something that I hope comes to mind if you take a beater.
Toby "Awesome" Dawson took Bronze in the Torino Olympics in Freestyle Moguls throwing sick corked 7's. I coached him when he was an ankle biter, and he came back to Vail to make some runs with my freestyle team. This would have been a few years before the Salt Lake City Games, which Toby missed I think because he was injured or was just out of qualifying.
While I was hanging out at the bottom waiting for late comers, Toby took our guys up for a run in the terrain park. A little while later the kids came down describing how Toby had crushed himself. This was Toby's first run of the day, and the guys talked into showing them something. He went for a misty off of the biggest table in the park. The conditions were pretty fast and Toby totally misjudged the speed. He out jumped the landing by about 50 feet and landed almost on an uphill. He completely folded himself.
Somehow he managed to ski down. He told me that he thought he was OK and he wanted to just go home and sleep it off. Based on the description of the crash and the fact that Toby's skin color had changed from Asian American to Martian, the decision was made to sit on him until the paramedics could look at him. It turned out that he was bleeding internally and he had to be flight for lifed down to Denver. He spent a week on dialysis. If he had gone home to sleep it off, he never would have woken up.
The moral of the story: "When in doubt, get checked ourt"!!!
