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Worst Ski Injuries

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YungTwinTips
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Wondering what everyone's worst injuries or wipeouts were out on the hill this past season? Landed on my head in a mogul field airing out and almost broke my neck this last season. Almost broke a few ribs getting bodied by a tube too
May 30 2019 12:33PM
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Eastcoastskier95
Posts: 795 - Karma: 675
tore my acl ,meniscus mcl and had a stress fracture on my femur on a quarter pipe in early december
May 30 2019 12:53PM
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SnickleFriz
Posts: 333 - Karma: 906
Rib on a rail.
May 30 2019 1:03PM
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crustyboot.420
Posts: 989 - Karma: 4,275
It was the best snow fall in years. We drove to the near resort and I was so fucking hyped to finally ski some deep snow! Unfortunately it was flatlight. On the first damn run I skied to some bump, hit my knee on my jaw, broke a couple of teeth and fucked up my tongue. It didn't hurt that much but I lost a shitload of blood and passed out during the ride to the nearest hospital.
May 30 2019 1:04PM
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oldmanski
Posts: 3404 - Karma: 24,895
Tore my ACL and partial tear on the MCL, fractured the top of the Fibia(right leg) all while making a left turn off a small hit. My right foot just tweaked to the right as I was jumping off and it popped like a rubber band and when I landed it smacked pretty hard. Didnt go down but I was hurtin for certain, was able to make it to the parking lot and drive myself home. 7 weeks after the surgery, I feel like I could go skiing now but the graph is not healed so I have to hold off from about every active activity over the summer.
May 30 2019 2:22PM
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lickmyballs
Posts: 489 - Karma: 1,158
cork sev in mineral off a side hit and didnt check the landing before hand. ended up landing right on some great fucking sharp ass rocks, and no lie they ripped a fat hole in my bibs and my lulu underwear :'(. yaaaaaaa broke my tailbone and had some phat bruising
May 30 2019 2:24PM
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Colingarnes
Posts: 610 - Karma: 2,646
Ribs to rail followed by same ribs to rail 3 weeks later.

Sprained MCL.

Pretty lucky really.
May 30 2019 2:36PM
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theabortionator
Posts: 52146 - Karma: 168,476
I broke my pride once. Doctor said it was one of the worst he'd ever seen. Recommended therapy and self help books, but told me there was little chance I'd ever be the same. Even a few beers in, blasting hip hop bangers, I still feel a bit lost in this world.

I'd say my head inuries are the worst though. they've had the biggest impact on life. I cracked a vertebrae and my femur once, but I was 17 and even though I didn't let it heal right, I bounced back easily.

My knees and back will probably kill me in the end. I'd say that and head injuries are what Im most concerned about.
May 30 2019 3:24PM
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JoeF2661
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theabortionatorI broke my pride once. Doctor said it was one of the worst he'd ever seen. Recommended therapy and self help books, but told me there was little chance I'd ever be the same. Even a few beers in, blasting hip hop bangers, I still feel a bit lost in this world.


Damn, keeping you and your pride in my bedtime prayers.
May 30 2019 4:56PM
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theabortionator
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JoeF2661Damn, keeping you and your pride in my bedtime prayers.


Thank you. One day I hope to make a full recovery and share the story with the world. It's hard to talk about it sometimes but my therapist says it's good to get my feelings out sometimes.
May 30 2019 6:53PM
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Craigskis
Posts: 6650 - Karma: 1,645
C3 Quad would be the worst.
May 30 2019 11:24PM
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ReturnToMonkey
Posts: 6438 - Karma: 70,039
Definitely when I crashed when my gf was filming a cork 5, she dumped me and broke my heart.
May 31 2019 1:11AM
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Pigeon.
Posts: 2367 - Karma: 3,998
ill start this off by saying im not good at hitting jumps.... i got 2 decent ones this year.

1) went for a cork 10, landed thug zone still off axis and whiplashed my head real good

2) caught tips setting hand drag 7 off knuckle, caught edge at 630 halfway down landing, whiplashed head again

safe to say im down several more IQ points
Jun 1 2019 11:35PM
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KingofFroth
Posts: 70 - Karma: 133
Got super barred out and drunk and went down on some random kids snowboard (ski boots still on) on my stomach super man style down a double black and hit a snow making machine going 40 mph. Had to be airlifted off the mountain and ended up rupturing my adrenal gland causing a hematoma the size of my entire stomach which turned it straight black. In a wheel chair for 6 months and sparked a savage opioid addiction for the next 4 years. I killed it on that one.
Jun 2 2019 1:44AM
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Pigeon.
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KendoDrayGot super barred out and drunk and went down on some random kids snowboard


based on ur experience i do not think i will be taking bars and hitting the slopes
Jun 2 2019 4:49PM
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KingofFroth
Posts: 70 - Karma: 133
Pigeon.based on ur experience i do not think i will be taking bars and hitting the slopes


ahahahah for real.
Jun 2 2019 6:26PM
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YungTwinTips
Posts: 40 - Karma: 224
KendoDrayGot super barred out and drunk and went down on some random kids snowboard (ski boots still on) on my stomach super man style down a double black and hit a snow making machine going 40 mph. Had to be airlifted off the mountain and ended up rupturing my adrenal gland causing a hematoma the size of my entire stomach which turned it straight black. In a wheel chair for 6 months and sparked a savage opioid addiction for the next 4 years. I killed it on that one.

Jesus man hope the recovery went alright, those snow machine will get you, in the east they have so many of those in the trail. Those things are a hazard
Jun 4 2019 10:26AM
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CalumSKI
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broke both my femurs
Jun 5 2019 9:07AM
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SuckleBrick
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**This post was edited on Jun 5th 2019 at 5:35:11pm
Jun 5 2019 10:29AM
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CalumSKI
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SuckleBrickgetting bad head on the chair lift

AS IF
Jun 5 2019 10:57AM
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JmckR
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Caught my tips last year after under-rotating a backie into what I thought was deep powder, but was maybe only 20cm max and then ice underneath.
My only initial symptoms were a nasty nosebleed and a sore neck and shoulders, whiplash basically. Nothing too bad.

Fast-forward 18 months, my neck and shoulders still ache and my upper muscles are super tight, I feel this pretty much 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and have done since the accident.
I've tried physio & chiropracticy, nothing has solved it. I feel like I have to accept I've now got chronic whiplash and will probs have to live with this for the rest of my life. I'm 26 but every morning when I get out of bed I feel like I'm 50 as I can barely move my upper body. I probably stretch 10x a day to try and release the tension.

Thankfully it hasn't stopped me skiing or biking, or any sports for example, It's not exactly a life changing injury like some of the above, but the fact that it's constantly there, even ask I type this message, really gets me down sometimes.
Jun 5 2019 11:00AM
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HaydenB
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I was throwing a quad cork and I got shin bang
Jun 5 2019 11:04AM
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Colingarnes
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Can take years to recover if nerves were involved dont get your head down. I messed my neck up and thought I was done forever after 1 year of constant pain with certain exertion. 4 years later I have no problems.
TheMailManCaught my tips last year after under-rotating a backie into what I thought was deep powder, but was maybe only 20cm max and then ice underneath.
My only initial symptoms were a nasty nosebleed and a sore neck and shoulders, whiplash basically. Nothing too bad.

Fast-forward 18 months, my neck and shoulders still ache and my upper muscles are super tight, I feel this pretty much 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and have done since the accident.
I've tried physio & chiropracticy, nothing has solved it. I feel like I have to accept I've now got chronic whiplash and will probs have to live with this for the rest of my life. I'm 26 but every morning when I get out of bed I feel like I'm 50 as I can barely move my upper body. I probably stretch 10x a day to try and release the tension.

Thankfully it hasn't stopped me skiing or biking, or any sports for example, It's not exactly a life changing injury like some of the above, but the fact that it's constantly there, even ask I type this message, really gets me down sometimes.


**This post was edited on Jun 5th 2019 at 2:35:26pm
Jun 5 2019 1:58PM
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JmckR
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ColingarnesCan take years to recover if nerves were involved dont get your head down. I messed my neck up and thought I was done forever Fter 1 year of constant pain with certain extortion. 4 years later I have no problems.


That's a little uplifting...thanks. Did you do a lot of physio or chiropracticy?
Jun 5 2019 2:32PM
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dubmasterskanka
Posts: 788 - Karma: 2,825
Obligatory "MY ANKLES ARE BROKEN".
Jun 5 2019 9:21PM
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MountainInMyMind
Posts: 352 - Karma: 3,566
my best friend broke his back in three places right in front of me and knocked himself out cold
Jun 5 2019 10:33PM
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tsingtaofanatic
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i scraped my back really badly cause i fell and my ski just sliced my back
there was a lot of blood, but other than that i didnt take much big slams

my friend doesn't have an ACL anymore though
Jun 6 2019 2:45AM
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Stephenlr
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spiral fractured femur summer 2018 doing a double cork and spunout
Jun 11 2019 2:33AM
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HaydenB
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satanworshipperi scraped my back really badly cause i fell and my ski just sliced my back
there was a lot of blood, but other than that i didnt take much big slams

my friend doesn't have an ACL anymore though

Vienna sausage
Jun 11 2019 3:45PM
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Thegenericskier
Posts: 2721 - Karma: 31,483
Mine was getting a bruise on my hand from the chair bar falling on my hand
Jun 13 2019 1:18AM
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Colingarnes
Posts: 610 - Karma: 2,646
Thoughts and prayers.
ThegenericskierMine was getting a bruise on my hand from the chair bar falling on my hand
Jun 13 2019 2:20PM
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Thegenericskier
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ColingarnesThoughts and prayers.


Thank you this recovery has been very tough I don't know if I will blade again
Jun 13 2019 2:26PM
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