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Dumbest ski injury

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bzmn_ski_rat
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What is the dumbest ski injury that you have had?

I'll go first, one time I was skiing in my yard with some homies sessioning some pvc. I decided that it would be smart to ski of my porch so the pvc was like a down rail. I ate it at the bottom of the rail and dislocated all my fingers in my left hand.
Jan 27 2022 2:59AM
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sethoscope
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Bruised heel imo.

It was a semi-windy day I was going into a booter and thought I felt a big gust right before the jump. Instead of sending it I scrubbed all my speed and fell off the side of the jump like 8 feet to flat. Couldn't walk on my heel for like two weeks that fucking sucked.
Apr 4 2023 6:45PM
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Brother_trucker
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bzmn_ski_ratWhat is the dumbest ski injury that you have had?

I'll go first, one time I was skiing in my yard with some homies sessioning some pvc. I decided that it would be smart to ski of my porch so the pvc was like a down rail. I ate it at the bottom of the rail and dislocated all my fingers in my left hand.


Knocked myself out trying to gap a crevasse into a river..... out cold for 15 mins after knuckling the landing side hard and last thing I saw was my ski coming rebounding off the snow toward my face... Woke up and was like, did it look good, think I can make it with a bit more speed LOLs. Mate was like, fuck off, I'm not waiting round here for another 15 mins again trying to stop everyone from getting the ski patrol. Skied rest of the day with no issue and went to the pub that night. Ahhh the 1980s, fun times. And damn I though I was never going to fail when I was a teenager skiing!!
Apr 5 2023 3:58AM
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Brother_trucker
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SethoscopeBruised heel imo.

It was a semi-windy day I was going into a booter and thought I felt a big gust right before the jump. Instead of sending it I scrubbed all my speed and fell off the side of the jump like 8 feet to flat. Couldn't walk on my heel for like two weeks that fucking sucked.


Wind in the face is pony for sure. I have knuckled XL line kickers twice cause of just slight wind in the face one run to the next. Both times it resulted in no more booters for the season. Heel injuries take fuckin ages to sort themselves out enough, and to be fair mine is still not 100% 7 years on from the last time I came up slightly short... still hitting them booters though :-)
Apr 5 2023 5:27AM
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Brother_trucker
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KilaTsunamiCompound fracture on my T12 vertebrae from bombing closed trail… so fucking stupid, makes my stomach turn thinking of how invincible I thought I was when I was 22.


Savage.... and one reason I never ski rails. Had a bit of experience with them on skateboard before they were a thing on snow, and damn they can hurt when you fall on them... loads of respect to the lads and lasses that spin on and off em but it ain't for me :-)
Apr 5 2023 5:31AM
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Brother_trucker
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dynafitdaffyI caught my edges while reverting from switch and went straight to the back of my head, I got a nasty concussion


I wonder if everyone that skis backwards takes a hit to the back of the nut while learning?!! I was skiing switch at local mountain in Scotland and should've known better. They were crap at grooming, and left a little too much seam in the piste I was skiing on, and I was looking uphill at the moment I encountered it... yard sale... lucky for me it was really nice fresh snow so my beanie hat was adequate protection :-)
Apr 5 2023 5:34AM
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Brother_trucker
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chills__Tried ducking under the rope to get into the park and clotheslined myself by my upper lip. No stitches or anything but very stupid of me lol


LOLs, made me laugh. Belter.
Apr 5 2023 5:35AM
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Brother_trucker
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KCoCMlike 4 seasons ago i had never successfully slid a rail before, had prolly only tried like 3-4 times on a tube, but one day out on the hill with my friends I drunkenly thought id grease a flat down, slipped out on the flat to down transition, landed right on the rail and dislocated my elbow. fully healed up at this point but elbow has never felt 100% the same as it did


I'd say falling on a rail is one place a beer jacket will not protect you... And this is not one where I laughed at the fail, intake of breath and grimace for you mate, must've been a sore one.
Apr 5 2023 5:39AM
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Brother_trucker
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FaunaSkisFollowed my friend who was a foot shorter than me into a kicker, matched him turn for turn and was surprised when I sailed over the landing deep into the gucci plateau. Had enough air time to fully comprehend what i’d done and think about how much it was going to hurt my knee (which had no ACL at that point)
Landed on my feet but just crumpled on impact, full yard sale.
Picked myself up, was stoked to not have a sore knee but my shoulder felt funny.
Skied down to the table of the next kicker which my friend was waiting on having heard me swearing about how big I went, showed him my shoulder and I was close to a compound fracture of my collar bone. Once I looked I went light headed and I got told to sit the fuck down before I fell down.
Managed to avoid getting heli’d off (they love a trip in the helivac in Europe), got a sled down and a taxi to the hospital (despite their attempts to call me an ambulance) and that was my season ended with 2 weeks to go.


No need to ask who has the better pop out of you two then!!
Apr 5 2023 5:42AM
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Brother_trucker
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ReturnToMonkeyHeard of a guy who had liver complications from drinking at apres too much


Only one.....????
Apr 5 2023 5:45AM
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Brother_trucker
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Deez_McskisWhen I was 10 I went into the park at 9:00 a.m. when it was still super icy because I thought it would be less crowded. I went down and overshot a jump 15 feet straight to my back almost broke my back in the process.

Lucky i was small so I bounced back pretty quick afterward.


I saw a lad overshoot a small park jump which was on a really large knuckle/plateau they had built it right on the top of. Thin the lad must've seen the same spot the year before and not cased it. The season before it was a decent sized kicker of at least 10m maybe 15m flat. He went at it like it was still 15m, but the kicker was for beginners that season and was right on the top of the bump. Dude soared like an eagle til he was no joke about 30 foot off the ground above flat hard snow, panicked, started the windows, and landed on his arse... was told he broke his back, not sure if he walked again. It is deeply unpleasant when you realise you've gone in too hot on a big sender, you can tell as soon as you hit the tranny before take off, at which point its an exercise of controlling the compression and not going backseat.
Apr 5 2023 5:52AM
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Brother_trucker
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DutchMastaTHCLast week I fractured my patella(kneecap) trying to lazily nollie onto a 4ft. flat box, proceeding to catch both tips like a total gaper and smash my knee on the very end of the box.

Its always the little things when you're not fully focused that get me lol


I got away with a little air off the side of the rail take off, last feature in the park one day after sending the booster line.... I hooked my left tip on a curved rail which sent me off on a half spready with my left leg horizontally out. Landed one legged and got away with it... but as you say complacency was the enemy. No way I'd go into a full send booster with that level of it. Bet the viewing public were having a good chuckle though :-)
Apr 5 2023 5:57AM
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Brother_trucker
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bzmn_ski_ratI did the same thing with the backy


I wonder how many others have too :-)
Apr 5 2023 5:59AM
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Brother_trucker
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twotter150Last year - wasn't paying attention and hit a little kicker and caught an edge on landing. Fall wasn't anything dramatic or anything...no yard sale. Next day, could hardly walk, couldn't lift myself up on my right leg. After a week, my right foot went completely numb. Ended up being diagnosed with a herniated disc at L5/S1 and had to have spinal surgery to have the whole disc removed. In fairness, I think that the disc was already fucked up and the bad landing was just what caused the thing to push fully against the nerve bundle and totally gimp me


My L5 is also a bit fucked. Had been on and off problem for a good 10 years. Last time it struck me I was eating breakfast, sitting reading the paper at the table, but I was seated at 90 degrees to the table. Stood up from a twisted seating position and threw it out.... took about 2 weeks to calm down, and I went to physio and a doc diagnosis as I had private health at the time. Degenerative disc at L5.... Got into a bit of pilates at the behest of the physio, which dramatically helped to strengthen my spine and haven't had too many problems in 20 years. Hope there is no return to the gimp for me in store :-)
Apr 5 2023 6:05AM
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Brother_trucker
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M.Manother time hitting street i was hitting this gnarly down flat double close out with a 10 foot drop off. i escaped death 3-4 times then laced it. i was hyped but immediately said i wanna do it again. dumbest decision... i wanted to trick it. i died, somehow no broken bones or problems that i know of... didnt go to the hospital and get checked out, but i was bruised and couldnt walk but was fine... i think.

the bail clip:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6056Rml215/


If you ever think, just one more.... walk away.... I was skiing park in France one time, having the best session I'd had for some time. Sticking nice 3s with mute, ninja and blunt gabs. Was loving it. Was starting to get tired and thought ok just one more.... was a tiny bit short and the end of the knuckle bucked me a bit and threw me over the handlebars. Torn muscle in rotator cuff.... end of play for that trip.
Apr 5 2023 6:13AM
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Brother_trucker
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Don_KedicWait compound fracture on your spine? How tf are you alive?


Mate of mine totalled 2 vertebrae in his mid-spine and got a scaffold installed, was walking with him in the hospital same day of the surgery later on.... couldn't quite believe it myself that he was up walking that quick after we found out what had happened.... one was cracked, the other was in bits. It was just skiing fast on a groomer, which had some death cookies about and I'd just warned him to stay clear of em the previous run down it.... probably should've gone for a different piste next run in fairness.
Apr 5 2023 6:17AM
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whatscore
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Tried a back swap .. 2 weekends ago, landed on my ass on the tube and eventually hit my head on the ground

also I remember maybe 2 years ago when I started park, tried 360.. no pop on take off landed like 270 edges caught the knuckle and fell side ways. First thing that hit the ground was my head. Neck was sore for a good week
Apr 5 2023 8:37AM
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weastcoat
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b0ssI got a miner concussion doing a backflip once.


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Apr 5 2023 9:51AM
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Brother_trucker
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weatcoastminer


Yeah, where he hit his head was a coal seam :-)
Apr 5 2023 11:12AM
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SmokedGouda
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Falling on ski edges or making my mouth bleed getting clotheslined by hidden ropes. Haven’t broke anything yet skiing, but might happen pre soon tbh.
Apr 5 2023 12:48PM
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weastcoat
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SmokedGoudaFalling on ski edges or making my mouth bleed getting clotheslined by hidden ropes. Haven’t broke anything yet skiing, but might happen pre soon tbh.


This reminds me, nearly forgot. Clotheslined myself when I was like 15 ducking a rope at the base of a side hit. Didn’t get low enough. Rope gave me a nasty cut from lip to jawbone and got nasty rope burn all along my bottom gumline.


I was lucky it didn’t hit my neck or adams apple that shit could be lethal
Apr 5 2023 1:29PM
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McFetty
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my local mountain didn't have anything really big enough to double back but it was a powder day and i wanted to try so i said fuck it and tried taking it to flat. backslapped hard and my head whipped down into the ground, but it was fine the first time because of the pow. every try i was smacking my head and by attempt 4 the landing was back to being pretty firm. try 5 i hit my head so hard i started seeing lights so i gave up. pretty bad concussion and i'm pretty much over my huck and pray era. mostly stick to rails now
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