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DURK18
Posts: 213 - Karma: 21
i think people should post there concussion stories in this thread. i will start.

one time i was skiing with normal carving skis and tried to ski switch. i dont really remember it... lol go!
Mar 1 2012 11:52AM
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Flying~Squirrel
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ha i did the same thing 2 weeks ago, but i didnt get a concussion.

the only time i did get one was doing a blind 2 out of a cantilever rail and my feet just went out from underneath me. not sure if i hit my head on the rail or the ground though, no one saw it.
Mar 1 2012 11:54AM
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El.Guapo
Posts: 2139 - Karma: 3,173
hit by a car longboarding. crashed while dirt jumping my bmx. hit a side booter and turned out to be a cliff and i whiplashed my head into the ground(i was wearing a helmet for all of these)
Mar 1 2012 11:58AM
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Flying~Squirrel
Posts: 6494 - Karma: 192
oh yeah i also got hit by a car when i was 10 and got a minor concussion, thats it. 10 year olds are indestructible.
Mar 1 2012 12:00PM
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HomieJon
Posts: 621 - Karma: 134
Over rotated a 5 and landed sideways, smacked my head, blacked out for 10 min, had a seizer, woke up in ambulance, dont remember the whole run.
Mar 1 2012 12:00PM
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El.Guapo
Posts: 2139 - Karma: 3,173
profit?
Mar 1 2012 12:02PM
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HomieJon
Posts: 621 - Karma: 134
was wearing a helmet and it was most likely more than 10 minutes.
Mar 1 2012 12:02PM
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PhaedeD
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I dont wear helmets and I dont get concussions.
Mar 1 2012 12:08PM
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Jaimee.
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My favourite concussion story happened when I was in grade ten.

My PE teacher thought of this 'brilliant' game where we had two teams and each team had a medicine ball. The point of the game was to get your medicine ball through the other team's hoop.
Well, I was running one way across the gym and a person on the other team didn't look where they were throwing the ball and I took a medicine ball to the side of my head/neck. It knocked me out. Apparently, since I was running when I hit the floor, I had a bit of momentum left or something and kind of partially spun in a circle.

The next thing I remember is sitting in the medical room with one of the most incompetent teachers in my school attempting to be a first aid attendant. I told him to not bother and just call my mom.
Mar 1 2012 12:16PM
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Jib-Ninja
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This sounds fucking awesome wish i could of seen it lol.

My first concussion happened this season...overshot a 20 foot booter throwing a 5, landed to flat and fell back. black out...my friend comes up to me asking if i need ski patrol, i said "nah son, i aint no pussy"..went back up and landed the same run i just did cept way cleaner.

Oh and i was wearing a helmet.
Mar 1 2012 12:26PM
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smithers
Posts: 40 - Karma: 12
i twas ripping 5th gear racing my buddy through the trails at green lake took a blind corner wayyyy to fast next thing i know im mangled between 2 trees and my bike was no where to be seen. found it later bout 30 feet away
Mar 1 2012 2:43PM
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Cahal
Posts: 945 - Karma: 594
threw a backie of a jump that was berly a foot high. dont remember to much. friends say i was bleeding like crazy and was talking nonsense
Mar 1 2012 2:50PM
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encludemeout
Posts: 285 - Karma: 10
Don't really remember honestly. I was trying to do something in the air I clearly couldn't do. Ended up hitting two more rails on the way down to ski patrol and 270'd out of both. First thing I remember is being in the ski patrol room 15 minutes later. Wasn't wearing a helmet then, I do now though
Mar 1 2012 2:58PM
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paige.
Posts: 1932 - Karma: 924
My soccer coach has sent me on the field and told me to mark the other team's best player super tightly. I was having a lot of fun watching the chick get pissed off as I essentially took her out of the game. Until she decided the best solution was to take me out of the game. I went flying and hit the ground head first and was blacked out for a couple minutes (maybe knocked out? My mom insists I was but I think there would have been more of a reaction if there was an unconscious player on the field).
In the first 10min after play resumed the game went from 0-0 to 3-0 for the other team.


... Also in 2nd grade I tried to jump to the 3rd monkey bar, miscounted and missed the 4th. Landed face first in the bark mulch, hit my mouth on a rock and chipped two teeth. The dumb-ass playground supervisor said I was fine and sent me to class. My teacher took one look at how swollen my face was, freaked out and sent me to the nurse's office. Turns out if you turn up in emergency with a potential head injury you get to skip the waiting room.
Mar 1 2012 3:15PM
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HeyImPeter
Posts: 190 - Karma: 12
Last weekend there was a $10 rental deal at the hill i was at so I tried snowboarding. My little brother bombs by me on the bunny hill screaming "GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!" so i try to avoid him, and I catch my downhill edge and smack the back of my head on the ice. I raged because I was in the park and on blacks all day, and I get my first concession on the fuckin bunny hill.
Mar 2 2012 2:04PM
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[hamnuts]
Posts: 2356 - Karma: 439

Both of my concussion stories involve horses.

The first time, I was at a horseshow, competeting in a jumper class. Its basically a contest to see who can get over the course of jumps fastest. My horse ended up stopping from a dead gallop in front of a big jump and I ended up flying into it. I landed on my head and got whiplash, and got right back up thinking I was okay. 20 minutes later however, I was walking around in circles completely disoriented. Then I started throwing up and then I finally blacked out.

The second concussion I got was just from riding my horse. I was working on a dressage test (no jumping) and the arena I was in was right beside the woods. Some idiot teenage boy was walking through the woods for some random reason and ended up freaking out my horse. She took off, spun and threw me into a wooden fence. I broke the fence with the force of my body and ended up cutting my back on the electric wire on the top. Then I smashed my head on the top piece of the fence and flew forward into the dirt. I don't remember much after that either hahah

all in all, I fucking hate concussions.

Mar 2 2012 2:13PM
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MFM
Posts: 842 - Karma: 77
apparently fell down my steep ass wood stairs and slammed into the cabinet 5 feet away. was found some hours later unconcious with my head in a pool of blood...don't really remember that one
Mar 2 2012 2:33PM
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T.DUB
Posts: 343 - Karma: 36
skiing at castle mountain getting ready for the second day of the big mountain comp last year, hit like a 10 footer, tried to dump speed afterwards, got highsided tumbled into a tree with my tailbone, back and head, skiied down went to patrol and said i hit a tree with my back, while i was barely looking at him because i couldnt see shit, then the most painful ambulance ride on a spine board on gravel road.
Mar 2 2012 2:42PM
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Kingdom
Posts: 408 - Karma: 7
Sounds like a good ol time.
Mar 2 2012 2:57PM
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Drail
Posts: 14012 - Karma: 10,010
I was doing park laps with my friend one night and around 7pm on a Sunday. We went up to the top of the ski hill to smoke a joint. My friend was taking too long rolling the joint so I said "fuck it" and went back down to the park, telling my buddy I'd meet him down there when he's done smoking. That's where my memory stops.

He came down maybe 15min later and I'm wandering around the landing of a jump surrounded by my gear, just wandering aimlessly asking where my skis are. I have slight memory flashes of being in the hospital with my mom and the odd time being woken up the next day, but nothing solid until around 8am on Tuesday morning.

I was wearing a helmet, but I had some good road rash (snow rash?) on my face, so we figure I feel face first into the ground and the helmet didn't really do much to soften the blow. As to what I was attempting at the time, who knows. This was 12 years ago now.
Mar 2 2012 3:09PM
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Lé.Skiing
Posts: 10035 - Karma: 8,128
I have had one concussion as far as I know and it wasn't because of skiing.
I was doing some training in MMA it was mine and a buddies first day sparring and he didn't know there was no slams and picked me up and slammed me.  needless to say the first month of my membership of training consisted of me just getting in shape and didn't do much sparring cause it would give me the worst headaches I've ever had.
Mar 2 2012 3:14PM
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Drail
Posts: 14012 - Karma: 10,010
I have a good concussion story about a friend of mine I can share. This one took place 11 years ago I do believe. My friend entered a skier cross competition, the course finished with two jumps that were very tight. He came into the jumps in the lead but landed the first jump backseat and couldn't get balanced in time - resulting in him eating shit on the second jump, somehow managing to keep the lead and win the race despite the fact he wasn't on his feet.

So he gets up and wanders into the lodge to grab some food before the awards. While eating lunch he looks down and see's that he is wearing a bib, but can't recall why, or what he was doing that day. A friend sees him sitting there and walks over telling him that he will be late for the awards if he doesn't head to the other side of the lodge right away, this is when we all realized he was concussed because he had no recollection of competing in a skier cross. Fucking guy wins a skier cross and doesn't even remember competing. Hilarious stuff if you ask me.
Mar 2 2012 3:21PM
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SARTRON
Posts: 2969 - Karma: 87
3 concussions this year.

first one was in the beginning of the season, we had barely no snow so I was on some race skis. ended up getting to much speed and too much pop which catapulted me over a knoll and off the trail into a cluster of trees.

second concussion I was cruising down a chopped up trail, my ski pre-released and I crashed into a lift tower. that one sucked.

and the last one, which happened on Tuesday, I was skiing down to work before the lift opened, in some deep deep pow. i was having problems with my tips dipping (not sure why though as i ride line pandora's) and my right tip some how caught on a hard mogul beneath the pow, spun me around, and when i was once again facing down hill I crashed into a double posted trail sign. took one to the gut and one to the head. this crash resulted in a sled down to alta clinic and an ambulance ride to the hospital. yey!
Mar 2 2012 3:53PM
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BMB
Posts: 3138 - Karma: 232
Pre season Junior year of High School. Coach starts me the first half in net. Playing goalie in soccer. Don't remember it, so I had anterograde amnesia. From what I've been told, someone on the other team was on a breakaway, and I must have been going out to stop it. Well one of my defenders got back in front of him, and kneed me in the face as I must've been diving down. I was out for 2-5 mins. The team we played was coached by a guy who used to coach when my older brother played, and it was an awkward reunion when my brother and him went onto the field and met up over my concussed body. I got rushed to a hospital right away. CT scan showed no bad damage. I didn't play again for another month, and have had other personal side effects from the injuries. I wear a Full90 headgear thing every time i play soccer now. Just hoping I don't get another big one.
Mar 2 2012 4:10PM
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Dhane
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true story though
Mar 2 2012 4:13PM
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seb_hofmann
Posts: 155 - Karma: 1,453
only time i got a consussion was when i was at my friends house riding ATVs, i was going up a huge hill at around 40 mph hit a ditch and went forward(up hill) and about 10 ft over my handle bars. flipped the 700 utility quad about 4 times and seemed to be fine (aside from my concussion)
Mar 2 2012 4:16PM
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95959
Posts: 2765 - Karma: 377
Set for blind 4 off an up rail, unfortunately ran out of rail because I came in to fast. Ended up drifting to about 360, landed sideways and broke my POC badly. Kept skiing and I remember looking down at my new skis and wondering where the fuck they came from. Eventually came to, just had a splitting headache.

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Mar 2 2012 4:29PM
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Mar 2 2012 4:30PM
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B.Aussie
Posts: 5852 - Karma: 4,531
I've way too many concussions.

This was my first:



Another one was in a ski cross race, over shot a jump into the compression of the next, fell and the three girls behind me skied into me double ejecting me from dead still giving me a concussion and fractured ankles.

I don't remember too many days of my life due to concussion, fuck concussion.
Mar 4 2012 9:38AM
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FartBoy05
Posts: 1306 - Karma: 9
car accident 3 weeks ago. dont remember anything from that day. Still have a headache and my memory is shit.
Mar 4 2012 11:29AM
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oldirtypatstard
Posts: 785 - Karma: 331
playing football, got hit by a kid three times my size, left my feet, caught air, landed on straight on my head on a hard tree root. memories been fucked up since.
Mar 4 2012 11:33AM
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roddy116
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for how many times i have landed on my head i have never had a concussion
Mar 4 2012 12:19PM
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snowisfun
Posts: 215 - Karma: 24
I was hitting a jump and there was a little bump right before it so it sent me directly into the jump and i didnt make it around all the way. Landed on my tips and whip lashed my head into the ground. My neck is fucked up and I have to go to physical therapy now..
Apr 3 2012 12:05PM
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AT-AT
Posts: 3281 - Karma: 3,256
Playing football, i was on kickoff and was running down the field. I went full speed into the "wedge" of the kick return. Destroyed this kid. He saw me at the last moment and proceeded to drop his head. Went helmet to helmet. He was out cold and i got up with hundreds of dancing purple circles floating around me. i proceeded to walk to the other teams bench thinking it was mine. Coach had to walk me back across the field.
Apr 3 2012 3:08PM
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The_Big_Tuna
Posts: 799 - Karma: 75
I ended up sliding on my back somehow on an icy back country trail. There was about a 4 foot drop, and my head clipped it as i slid off. boom. concussion.,
Apr 3 2012 4:22PM
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-MickeyM-
Posts: 126 - Karma: 280
Got my first like a week ago, still recovering. Its at the end of this edit

Apr 3 2012 6:13PM
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95romeo
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first and only was playing indoor soccer mid January. didn't get knocked out because I basically have a noggin of steel. haha but still it wasn't too bad because I got exempted from semester 1 exams but it ended my park season but I basically felt I was high for. a solid month. still get some good space moments.
Apr 3 2012 7:51PM
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The_Big_Tuna
Posts: 799 - Karma: 75
ahhh shit. you had it too.
Apr 3 2012 8:12PM
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TaranItUp
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My first day of the season I was throwing a backflip, ended up going in way to fast. Over rotated and went down to the flats and landed flat on my neck. I dont remember it at all and a vertebrae in my neck was out of place. Still is.

Also, Not a concussion but my only other bad crash of the season was two days ago on our closing day were me and my friend were hauling ass and we slammed into each other going really fast. We both yard saled and my 700 dollar camera setup split into 5 pieces, put everything together and it still works.
Apr 3 2012 9:24PM
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maynaiseman
Posts: 1088 - Karma: 129
Like two or three. Two were from skiing, one was kinda bad the other was minor. I'm sure I've racked up at least another one from boxing though.
Apr 3 2012 9:35PM
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theBearJew
Posts: 10951 - Karma: 15,633
I was playing basketball, went up for a layup and then the asphalt got me.

I was messing around with some friends, running around being idiots. I was being chased by one kid, so I did the ol' drop down and let him run into you... then I looked back to see him coming and his knee got me.

I was playing rugby went for a tackle, knee got me again. I kept playing and all I remember is asking a bunch of times if I got knocked out. Then I woke up in the end zone.

Most recent was playing flag football, went up for a ball, got elbowed in the head, blacked out and woke up on the ground.

Concussions suck.
Apr 4 2012 1:05AM
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Mtougas
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I dont remember. I remember friday night and then I woke up in the hospital monday. I was skiing i think.
Apr 4 2012 1:13AM
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theBearJew
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Forgot one.. I wonder why.

I was snowboarding, caught my heel edge while I was flying down a run. Sent he straight to my head and KO.
Apr 4 2012 1:18AM
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taylornicky
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I really enjoyed how you spelt concussion.

I ate shit ice skating... ahahah
Apr 4 2012 1:20AM
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Miclovin
Posts: 1043 - Karma: 637
1st time I fell off a zipline and didn't rememeber anything but the second time I was skiing a week ago and I was behind my friends and fell somehow. They say I kept asking the same questions so I went to the doctor and they said nothing was wrong but that I cant ski or do anything really for a month? Isnt it usaully like a week or 2?
Feb 15 2013 9:41AM
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Ski_Alot
Posts: 5900 - Karma: 3,642
There was a large black skullcandy pipe that was set up sideways in the sunday river park and on my first hit, i decided to do a tip tap 180 using this corner jump. I took way to much speed into it, got the tap in and it knocked me off balance and i fell like 10 feet and somehow hit my head. I actually skied down to ski patrol and then they cleared me, but then apparently i started asking the same questions and just not acting right, so I went to the ER, I have a 2 hour gap which i dont remember though...
Feb 15 2013 9:50AM
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PigBenis
Posts: 182 - Karma: 99
i was skiing and i tried a lip blind 270 out on a rainbow rail. i must have done the 270 off axis or something but i was told i got fucked and i was basically retarded for the rest of the day.

so manly i know
Feb 15 2013 2:10PM
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PigBenis
Posts: 182 - Karma: 99
i was skiing and i tried a lip blind 270 out on a rainbow rail. i must have done the 270 off axis or something but i was told i got fucked and i was basically retarded for the rest of the day.

so manly i know
Feb 15 2013 2:10PM
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RimJobber
Posts: 3313 - Karma: 10,058
I hit a tree.
High sided a mogul on some new 195 race skis, fell backwards and upside down into a tree and was out for like 5 minutes. A guy saw it from the lift and thought I died.
Skied away from it though /claim
Feb 15 2013 3:21PM
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