Replying to Putting it all on the line

Today I had an experience that really made me think about how far I want to step it up with skiing. I was doing a backflip off a decent sized kicker with no light whatsoever, and I just lost myself in the air, cause everything around me was white. I extended and hoped for the best, but instead I came down directly on my head, and I fucked up the muscles in my back so bad that most movement brings on searing pain. Now, I'm lucky because the muscles will heal soon enough, and I could have been paralyzed, but it's made me think. An accident can happen anytime, and you can ruin the rest of your life by crashing the wrong way or at the wrong time. Is it worth it to you to step it up as far as you can for skiing when you know that you could ruin the rest of your life at any moment? Or is it better to just lay low and not have to worry about permament injury while still enjoying skiing-just not at such a high level?


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