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I almost killed a kid today

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kalle.
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so, now here in finland a huge three week holiday season has started and i was cruising our jumpline. i dropped in because no one was in sight and aimed for a nice curved stale for a speedcheck. but then i saw this little kid, maybe a 7-year-old, standing in the knuckle collecting his gear. if i hadn't raised my skis, my edges would have hit his throat or head. so then i landed and climed up and yelled to the kid about park etiquette, that if you fall, you go to the side so everyone can see you. i was super pissed to the kid and now i feel bad. like i shouldn't have yelled to a little boy. but he did learn, next time he was on the side of the jump. so this makes me feel like i did the right thing.

BUT did i do the right thing? would it have been better if i told it nicely?

and if you have similar near-miss stories, you can share them as well.
Feb 16 2015 12:24PM
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BWalmer
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Meh, you did the "right thing." Kids need to learn for their own safety. It obviously would have been great if you could have said it calmly and nicely, but it's always so hard to do that in the heat of the moment. It's funny that people don't understand that the reason your angry isn't because you weren't able to land your trick, but more that what they're doing is really unsafe and could have hurt both of you. Either way, he's less likely to do it again.
Feb 16 2015 12:45PM
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fratskier69
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dont feel bad, you getting mad at him could be the difference between him actually dying or being out of the way next time he goes through the park
Feb 16 2015 1:05PM
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hippy.killer
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This past weekend a 5 year old girl cut me off right before a rail then slowed down going up the kicker to a rail and slid back down it. My skis clipped hers and I almost decapitated myself on the rail. I dont get why people like that even go in the park
Feb 16 2015 1:09PM
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snowpocalypse
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How about not dropping until you know the landing is clear and always using a spotter? Not saying the kid was in the clear but there are two "rules" of park etiquette that would have save you both the trouble.
Feb 16 2015 1:12PM
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Steezmiester007
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I was night skiing a few weeks ago and I was teaching my girlfriend how to ski. I was in the middle of helping her up from a fall, I glance up the trail and see this little kid, maybe about 6, coming full speed at me. I try to get out of the way but he just moved to where I moved. Long story short he slams into me full speed and gets close lined by my leg and arm and does a backflip. Thankfully he was wearing a helmet and I was able to get the little guy back on his feet and off and going again. His parents were no where insight when he hit me. If parents watched to see where there kids went I feel as if there would be less of these incidents.
Feb 16 2015 1:25PM
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powerbong2000
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hippy.killerThis past weekend a 5 year old girl cut me off right before a rail then slowed down going up the kicker to a rail and slid back down it. My skis clipped hers and I almost decapitated myself on the rail. I dont get why people like that even go in the park


"this 5 year old girl"

"I don't get why PEOPLE LIKE THAT even go in the park"

dude.....yer joking right?
Feb 16 2015 1:25PM
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powerbong2000
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probably because they are like "I love ponies, I love my mom, ooohhh look at the trees, what's this stuff over here? Ooooh bumpy stuff and metal chunks, I'm gonna go check that out, I like dolphins, I think I pooped my pants."
Feb 16 2015 1:27PM
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LightSyde
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It was clear, and I was doing a 360 into a quarter pipe off of a small ramp on the lip. While I was in the air a kid (maybe 10/11) came out of nowhere and smacked right in to me after he had sped off of the same ramp. I fell 15 feet straight down and landed on my left side. Not exactly a near miss, but definitely a park etiquette problem. The kid was alright, and I only had a couple of bruises, so I just told him that he needed to wait a little after someone else hits the feature so you don't smack them. Shit happens, and I didn't feel like ruining this kids night by screaming at him. He got the point.
Feb 16 2015 1:44PM
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bnewbs6
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powerbong2000probably because they are like "I love ponies, I love my mom, ooohhh look at the trees, what's this stuff over here? Ooooh bumpy stuff and metal chunks, I'm gonna go check that out, I like dolphins, I think I pooped my pants."


Exactly. Its a 5 year old kid. What more do you expect out of them? They don't understand and they wouldn't understand even if you told them
Feb 16 2015 1:58PM
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veng_m
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went into the woods off schoolmarm at keystone, hit a tree and tweaked my knee
Feb 16 2015 2:01PM
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artrud
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glad everyone is okay.

here you go: https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/799337/Proper-way-to-react-to-noobs-in-landing--etc----
Feb 16 2015 8:16PM
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op14
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Same thing kinda happened to me on saturday. Friend hit a small feature to throw a three and laned shitty and his ski popped off so i slowed down and grabbed his ski for him. We moved to the side and some snowboarder kid completely dodged my frend but somehow smashed right into me. I got up and yelled at him but after a second i gave him a high five and was like it's alright man im sorry just watch out next time.

About 20 minutes later he had his older brother, yet still 2 years younger than me, yell at me for yelling at his brother. I told the kid I apologized and he still yelled at me so I told him to fuck off. Kind of a stupid night.



#stabsnowboarders
Feb 16 2015 8:31PM
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John18_6
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I was having a shitty day until I saw powerbong2000 being himself. Thank you.
Feb 16 2015 9:33PM
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Lucas
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SVmikeHow about not dropping until you know the landing is clear and always using a spotter? Not saying the kid was in the clear but there are two "rules" of park etiquette that would have save you both the trouble.


You need help pulling your head out of your ass?
Feb 17 2015 12:10AM
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Park.
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You did the right thing... I was once in the same position as that young child but this snowboarder jumped over me when I was getting my ski which fell off midair. Dude freaked the fuck out at me and I deserved it. Ever since that day I know...

Now switch places and I'm going to hit a jump and do a 3 tail. The race team was swarming the park that day.Anyway I drop and hit the jump when out of nowhere this tiny racer flies from behind me, goes around the jump, and stops right in the middle of the fucking knuckle. I already set my 3 and sort of had to throw it but I knew this fucker was in the way and did a 180 spread to 180 so his head went right between my legs. My coach was stoked. But both me and my coach got lectured by this racers coach since I endangered his entitled racer. My coach didn't take that shit sitting down and he went off with park etiquette and how racers don't own the mountain. That day was a win for the good guys.
Feb 17 2015 1:01AM
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Dobber
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If I actually killed somebody skiing.. I would never ski again. That would be pretty fucking traumatizing.
Feb 17 2015 7:48AM
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freestyler540
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The most annoying thing about gaper: they ride everything in sight, and don't do anything. I had my fair share of incident in the park with gapers; we heckle them out of the park if they dont follow etiquette.
Feb 17 2015 9:05AM
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KravtZ
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You did the right thing and you dam well know the kid won't be doing that again. There are only 3 ways humans truly learn:
1. pain
2. humiliation
3. loss of money / life

In this case the kid probably experienced a combination of pain / humiliation.
Feb 17 2015 9:49AM
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Bpas1801
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Just land on him next time, that will teach him a valuable lesson
Feb 17 2015 10:02AM
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LeHutch
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bnewbs6Exactly. Its a 5 year old kid. What more do you expect out of them? They don't understand and they wouldn't understand even if you told them


Correct. This is why there needs to be park passes for bigger parks and people checking them at the top of the run. Bottom line is park etiquette and safety are top priority if you are going to be throwing down and before a certain age and certainly if nobody has ever taught them that, a little kid is not going to understand that.

Sidebar: Also if I'm a parent skiing with a small kid I'd be keeping tabs on him/her 24/7 so that kind of stuff doesn't happen
Feb 17 2015 10:41AM
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NMMedia
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SVmikeHow about not dropping until you know the landing is clear and always using a spotter? Not saying the kid was in the clear but there are two "rules" of park etiquette that would have save you both the trouble.


1) He said no one was in sight.
2) Didnt sound like he had anyone to be a spotter

if you used a spotter for every hit then you would never be able to mob a line, or really get any skiing done ever. Imagine it, 4 jump line, have to get 4 of your friends to stand out one on each knuckle. Its just ridiculously impractical. If you go down on a jump just move out of the way, solves the issue for everyone
Feb 17 2015 11:17AM
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kalle.
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Bpas1801Just land on him next time, that will teach him a valuable lesson


nah dude.. i'd like to try as much as i can to avoid hurting other people physically, only mentally like in this case. and like i said, the kid did learn from my little lecture.

and on a side note, i realized today that if i didn't do what i did, a ~90kg snowboarder who came little after me undershot the same jump to the same spot as the kid had landed. so actually i saved that boys life by shouting at him. that image has haunted me for hours.....
Feb 17 2015 12:21PM
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John18_6
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Bpas1801Just land on him next time, that will teach him a valuable lesson


Adding a new meaning to "stomped it"
Feb 17 2015 12:45PM
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Flowbear
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Happens to the best of us man. One time I was hitting a whale tail and a little snowboarder kid who was stopped a good distance away decided to slip slide in front of the landing when I was mid rail luckily he heard me yell at him and he dropped to the ground and my skis just missed his head. If he didn't duck it definitely would of been a hospital trip for him and maybe for me. After words I yelled at him and told him about the park etiquette. pretty similar scenario as yours. I think you did the right thing, yelling at him would've helped him understand the seriousness of the situation a little more in my opinion.
Feb 17 2015 12:51PM
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hulkhoganite
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I usually hit them to assert dominance
Feb 17 2015 2:08PM
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