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Interesting ski related IAMA
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http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ssje2/broke_my_back_skiing_last_february_iama_18_year/
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Maybe I just didn't read far enough but he said it was on a 4-6 foot jump so I'm extremely curious what exactly happened. I figure he must be talking about the actual height of the jump.
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interesting -_- ...... very, very INTERESTING!!!!
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This was my first day skiing during the season, and to warm up, I was hitting the little jumps (maybe a meter, so like 3 or 4 feet). I did definitely overshoot it, but you skiers out there know that that is something that happens pretty often. In the air, all I was thinking about was how to minimalize the dammage once I hit the ground, and to land on my skiies. Only part of my brilliant plan worked. I landed on both skiis, but somehow, due maybe to the condition of the snow, and probably because I didn't bend my legs enough, my back just snapped.
My T12 vertabrae broke, but my L1 just completely shattered. This is what was the real problem, as the bone fragments are what damaged my spinal cord.
^from the reddit page
i would have loved to see footage of that.. either he has the weakest back of all time, or he fucking overshot the SHIT out of that jump
sucks he got injured, and i hope for a recovery, but i would just like to see how
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