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Your worst skiing crash/crashes?

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PowFun
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I don't know if there already is a thread for this, but I'm just curious to hear about other peoples experiences. So if you would like post how your worst slam/slams went down, feel free. If you have a video or pics to share that would be even better.


Mar 19 2011 11:48AM
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PowFun
Posts: 151 - Karma: 76
I'll go first:
It was on a medium size kicker. I came towards the jump riding switch and I caught my tip trying to do a 360. I think I sort of turned my body around and landed on my stomach, I wasn't very lucky though. The landing was quite hard and I fractured my rib. Other than that, I've been really lucky actually, never really broken anything, although I've had some sketchy moments here and there.
Mar 19 2011 11:48AM
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Park_Ranger
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this season i overshot pretty bad on a kicker. got a concussion and strained ligaments in my bicep
Mar 19 2011 12:09PM
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PowFun
Posts: 151 - Karma: 76
Ouch... How long did it take before you got back riding again?
Mar 19 2011 12:11PM
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Loco-Deer-Slayer
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Running into a tree hurt quite a bit
Mar 19 2011 12:14PM
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JIBpsy^^
Posts: 2851 - Karma: 36
One of my freinds was learning three of the first park lane at breck and he wound up and hucked way early and buttered 1 then caught an edge and basicly dove backwards into the knuckel were he folded in half. he got a concussion and strained his back pretty bad. My experience was i went for blunt 3 and dropped my shoulder reaching went cork and my face was the only thing that hit the knuckle. i just had a really sore nose for like a week.
Mar 19 2011 12:21PM
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joshua
Posts: 5046 - Karma: 1,280
I did a half a backflip, my insides were on fire and it felt like my back had exploded.
Mar 19 2011 12:22PM
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Bawlz.
Posts: 109 - Karma: 16
i undershot chads gap. broke both my ancles.
Mar 19 2011 12:22PM
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Elmo.
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went for switch 3. on like a 25 step down. started my rotation way to early caught my edge at about 90 degrees flew forward double ejection mid air to shouldering the knuckle. i thought i popped it out but it ended up alright. thats probably my worst.
OOOORRRR
the time i overshot a 20 footer took it to almost flat on a 1 and my body whipped backwards i hit my head broke my helmet and got a concussion. happy that my helmet did the job
Mar 19 2011 12:30PM
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Xanadoo
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i did the same thing except i collided with a little girl who was in the landing. she was fine. i knocked myself out
Mar 19 2011 12:35PM
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natirider10
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overshot a decent sized jump real close to flat and tore my acl
Mar 19 2011 12:45PM
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.jersey
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I just did a little 180 of a little roller on the bunny hill just fuckin around with my friends. I would have landed it but i didnt know the landing was solid ice so as soon as i stomped it my feet just slipped out from underneath me and i landed right on my back. It still gets extremely swollen but the only thing i truly hurt was my pride.
Mar 19 2011 12:51PM
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hoodratz47
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over shot jump to flat... went HUGEEEEEEEEE!. broken tail bone and messed up back. but the chiropractor has been helping.


and one time i was fucked up and i thought this bump would be a good double to jump so i jumped into a an up hill slant and hyper extended my knee.
Mar 19 2011 12:51PM
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khai@krepela
Posts: 148 - Karma: 791
When I was younger took a 15 foot jump about 45 feet to my back. Couldn't use my legs for a week.
Mar 19 2011 12:59PM
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rtav
Posts: 227 - Karma: 90
Last weekend at Okemo I overshot the 55 by about 30 feet, almost to flat. Minor concussion, back is still pretty sore. I'm lucky the snow was soft. Other than that I shattered my kneecap on a rail, but that was just a freak thing, the slam wasn't even bad at all
Mar 19 2011 1:00PM
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ReignMan
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powder day at vail i tweaked my ski funny. not really sure how it happened but it sent me out of my skis down a 15 foot cliff to like inverted hill and my ankle exploded on impact.
Mar 19 2011 1:32PM
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VanMelle
Posts: 1277 - Karma: 1,141
https://newschoolers.com/ns/content/viewvideo/id/409050/member_id/139235/

Dont have a lot of crashes since I film 90% of the time...but this one was pretty good...im behind the lens btw just in case you thought this was me throwing a huge underflip over the stairs haha
Mar 19 2011 1:35PM
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PowFun
Posts: 151 - Karma: 76
Haha, awsome shot. Too bad with the crash, he stomped it though.
Mar 19 2011 1:52PM
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TPEARL.
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reply with vids or it didnt happen
Mar 19 2011 2:40PM
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Park_Ranger
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i probably should have rested longer than i did, but i was back out in 2 weeks shredding hard. i just didnt want my season to be over haha. but tomorrow will be my last day on the slopes, then i am starting physical therapy for my bicep
Mar 19 2011 3:25PM
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erejto64
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closing week at Breckenridge and for some reason there was a super g course set up at the top. I got in a tuck on my twin tips and got going really fast. the next thing i knew i was in a mogul field both of my skis popped off and i tomahawked 4 or 5 times then came to a stop and slid took me a minute to come to but i skied the rest of the day
Mar 19 2011 6:03PM
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monkatizer
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today, on gaper day, i do a huge daffy over the 30 footer, then decide to hit the next 30-35 footer and speed checked once, like everyone else. but for some reason i came up short, knucked the shit out of it, basicly, basicky exploded on landing, head between legs, both skis off, cartweeled dome the landing. it felt like somone had packed dynamite in my boots and lit it off when i landed. my heels/ feet hurt soooo bad.

it sucked, but i doubt its my worst crash
Mar 19 2011 6:42PM
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Gnarshmellow
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turns out landing on pure wrist isnt as fun as it sounds...

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Mar 19 2011 6:54PM
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PowFun
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That doesn't look good... ;-o
Mar 19 2011 6:59PM
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Jabe
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i was hitting this 55 footer for the first time and going up to the jump i leaned back too far and i landed on my back.  it didnt hurt cuz it was power though. i havent had that mant bad crashes though. 
Mar 19 2011 7:00PM
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teleak
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I blew up on a 25 footer into a somewhat steep runout a couple weeks ago. backslapped which sent me into a 50 yard ragdoll. skied away with just a sore shoulder which was nice. real scary though.
Mar 19 2011 7:01PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Mar 19 2011 7:02PM
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PowFun
Posts: 151 - Karma: 76
Holy shit man! This was you? How did it happen?
Mar 19 2011 7:06PM
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0l_dopePddlr
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there was a wood rail on the way to the secound moutain lift at keystone and i hit it sideways and hit a knuckle in it and faceplanted in the rocks/ice cause it was spring skiing so i got a concousin and got knocked out
Mar 19 2011 7:19PM
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skibeest
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Recently spring skiing/ gaper day.
Took a 30' step down with plaid shorts and a white collared shirt and ate it. I gashed my fingers and legs and it was so cold I could barely yell SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mar 19 2011 7:36PM
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AWALLRUS.
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one time i cased a jump and there was no way i was gonna get enough speed for it that day, so i decided to skitch behind a snowmobile. i overshot it by about a hundred feet but i was back on skis in 3 months.

and this one time i caught the front of a rail and cut my lip open pretty good
Mar 19 2011 7:43PM
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Bittner
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probably my worst injury skiing is when i almost broke my thumb trying to pick my friends pole he dropped while i was skiing really fast. Besides that a bruised tailbone like 6 years ago snowboarding and thats it
Mar 19 2011 7:46PM
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PowFun
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I remember bruising my tailbone aswell, that's pretty much why I quit snowboarding and started skiing. You must have had some slams on the DH bike though, am I right? ^^ I actually had to sell my bike, just kept on crashing... xD
Mar 19 2011 8:17PM
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Crispy.
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Mine was just like this today except i wasn't going switch.

My ski went straight into the box (it was an up box) all the way until my binding was going really fast so i flew and then hit the box. Didn't hurt too bad a bruise on my hip. I get back up not knowing my ski was in the box and like 6 of my friends were standing near the front of the box. As i get closer i see that my ski went straight in and they were all trying to pull it out. I thought for sure my nose of my ski was gonna be messed up super bad but finally after like 6 tries we got it out. i only had a topsheet chip.
Mar 19 2011 8:21PM
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Barsevskis
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last year i went to fast into a 50 foot table. landed at the bottom of the landing on my head. i don't remember hitting the jump at 3:30 till about 8:30 in the hospital. luckily only a second grade concussion and 3 days off of snow
Mar 19 2011 8:29PM
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LivinOuttaBounZ
Posts: 949 - Karma: 382
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfTnMWTi2o
Mar 19 2011 8:34PM
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LivinOuttaBounZ
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And Rowen, I would have been okay if I never saw those pictures again. Dude, it haunts me!
Mar 19 2011 8:36PM
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chill_davis
Posts: 2107 - Karma: 650
i tried to put on my skis and fell over, my pride was in jeopardy that day.
Mar 19 2011 8:43PM
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Lemuel
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Tore my ACL off the bone last year, overshot like a boss doing a 7. That hurt, rehab right after surgery also hurt. Trying to bend a knee that is held tightly straight does not feel good.

This didn't hurt alot, but seeing as we have some overshot stories going on I will share. The other day at sugarbush I overshot the last jump by pretty much the entire thing. They reshaped the jump and the gap is alot smaller haha, I took that think a good 60 feet and probably 15 vertical. Twas scary.
Mar 19 2011 8:45PM
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rankstank
Posts: 1033 - Karma: 223
underrotated a 7 at windells to knuckle. Knocked unconsious for 15 min and had a seziure. Luckily I don't remember about 2 hours of that day.
Mar 19 2011 8:47PM
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i.ski.troll.
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stretched and bruised tendons in my hip. Broken ribs. Tried gapping 15 feet from a lip to a different rail, caught my edge, 3/4 of a lincoln loop later, laying on the ground and cant move.

2 months later, my hip was finally completley healed.
Mar 19 2011 8:59PM
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Wesley.P
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A couple weeks ago I was learning flair in the pipe. I throw it right on tramps so i attempted it on the left wall. I ended up doing an oop cork 540 and landed at the bottom of the pipe wall. dropped 22 feet to my hip on sheer ice. nothing broken but i could barely walk for a week
Mar 19 2011 9:17PM
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PowFun
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Interesting experience's, keep em' coming!
Mar 19 2011 9:18PM
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84891jnf92048
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doesnt compare to any of anything in this thread, but here goes:

today, at sugarbush, i was hitting this 45 degree wallride thing trying to pop off the end and grab tweaked safety. i guess i loaded up my upper ski too much on an angle, and it slid out to the top, i pretty much did a split on the wall, and then in the air, then i landed on my side on hard-ass ice from about 5 feet in the air.

felt pretty good.
Mar 19 2011 9:21PM
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sdfsgdsgdgsdg
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just did this :(



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Mar 19 2011 9:45PM
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sdfsgdsgdgsdg
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Mar 19 2011 9:46PM
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Jesus-FlwrSubaru
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Hit a jump too fast, cleared the landing to the flat, landed sideways, caught my edges and Rodeod to my feet with out a scratch, bruise or any pain. STOMP! The new trend is doing the trick after you landed
Mar 19 2011 9:46PM
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vauban08
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I was ski racing when I was little and once slipped, crashed through the security fence (don't know the english term for it, sry) and smacked against the chairlift pylon. This all happened at about 60mph and I was unconscious for about three days. I was 13 years old old back then and my confidence was definately gone - I had to really be convinced to go back on the hill. I won a national cup 2 years later and finished ski racing as I had just continued to "get over it". It's certainly something that still influences the way I ski, because when in the backcountry, the one thing I'm afraid of and try to avoid at any cost is falling and then sliding down. Not scared of avalanches, not scared of hitting a rock, not scared of crashing hard and hurting myself. But losing control and then being helplessly exposed to gravity and whatever comes my way...really scary! :/

This was the lift...
http://www.abload.de/img/200303230010-st-moritz9phy.jpg
Mar 19 2011 9:52PM
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chill_davis
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you guys fall alot
Mar 19 2011 10:08PM
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PJS.
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OH MY GOD.
Mar 19 2011 10:10PM
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pinhead_larry
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We were hucking small cliffs in the treea and I hit one and hit a tree in midair. Broken nose and bruised ribs
Mar 19 2011 10:26PM
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