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Worst ski pole related injury

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Cut_Copy
Posts: 21 - Karma: 13
so today i made a trip up to whistler and decided that my ski poles were probably the most dangerous thing on the mountain

first run of the day, going down switch, just chillin and i got lazy. crossed my tips, fell backwards and somehow, SOMEHOW managed to get myself right in the nuts with my ski pole handles

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that was a bitch, but later on in the day, around 2ish or so, cruising switch again and hit a patch of heavy snow. crossed tips AGAIN, fell backwards, and BROKE my ski pole on my head. yes i was wearing a helmet but fuck that hurt bad. i bent the fucker 90 degrees and it had a gash from the stress and was just dangling.

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i still rocked the old school tod wallnuts no pole steeze and made faces and shouted at gapers but damn, my head hurts


what other funny/painful things have happened to everyone else with their ski poles
Feb 19 2009 10:51PM
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salomoNShreder
Posts: 127 - Karma: 14
i was like 12 and i was skiing at gore. and i went off like this little kicker with a flat landing and stuck my pole in the ground my head like whiplashed forward hit me right on top of my eyelid. i had to get it stiched up. this was like in 2004 haha. i had a mark on my cheek from the screw in the pole.
Feb 19 2009 10:53PM
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EvanMeyer
Posts: 3804 - Karma: 3,244
Nose bleed once that happened I threw those bitches in the woods
Feb 19 2009 10:53PM
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WILLFRO07
Posts: 392 - Karma: 15
this didn't happen to me, but it happened to a kid in my hall two days ago.
he fell and was getting up and another kid in his skiing PE class tags him in the mouth with the sharp end of his pole. it cut his gums above is front teeth pretty damn badly.
Feb 19 2009 10:56PM
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@skiinmitch
Posts: 2781 - Karma: 78

my poles broke my phone

skiing switch snowboarder cut s me off i try to avoid fall down land on ski pole= Cracked phone

Feb 19 2009 10:58PM
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ChadThundercock
Posts: 3070 - Karma: 783
fucked up wrist, broken thumb
Feb 19 2009 10:59PM
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Calb3rt
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who was it that took a pole to the nutsack? i remember hearing about that along time ago...
Feb 19 2009 11:01PM
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dylansiggers
Posts: 1661 - Karma: 5,841
Going switch, long poles dig into ground, swift punch to the face.

Now poles are no longer than three feet
Feb 19 2009 11:02PM
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no_steeze
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it seems to be that your skis crossing causes all of these misfortunes.......try snowblades
Feb 19 2009 11:08PM
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JordanClarke
Posts: 998 - Karma: 1,922
broke my thumb, faceplanted into my pole... ALWAYS bending my poles it sucks
Feb 19 2009 11:11PM
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chase.
Posts: 716 - Karma: 18
like two years ago i dropped this cliff into some heavy snow
and my pole went really deep into the snow and i keep on going but
my pole were stuck and my pole strap were tight
and i fucked up my solders muscles.
so for like a year i never used straps on my poles and when i was spinning
my pole would fly off me and i lots so many poles haha
Feb 19 2009 11:15PM
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Freeheel4real
Posts: 909 - Karma: 95
joke???? hope so lol
Feb 19 2009 11:33PM
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caucasian_chad
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"If you hit another skier your skis are going to cross, your gonna have a bad time."
Anyone else know this quote?
Feb 19 2009 11:52PM
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HPskier
Posts: 1072 - Karma: 30
well self inflicted is a classic jam the pole into the ground and have it hit me squaw in the nuts...

someone else's own tuition was getting smashed in the back while i was sleeping, left a welt for like at least a month
Feb 20 2009 12:01AM
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*LiNeLover*
Posts: 1224 - Karma: 256
i guess i have never had anything bad, but like a month ago i got really bad skiers thumb and now everyday i ski i keep on re-injuring it. its weird how it happens on the same thumb everytime.. but damn it hurts
Feb 20 2009 1:00AM
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Krush
Posts: 1312 - Karma: 12
pretty sure this is one of the worst yet

i was doing 2 on to a 6ft box

caught a down hill edge while sliding on the box

i put my hands out to break my headfirst fall into a bowl shaped landing cuase it was so rudded out

my left ski pole was facing horizontaly across my face

i bent my pole to a 90 degree angle across my top row of teeth to the exact shape of the huge rut, and now i have a dead tooth and im supposed to get a root canal for it

Feb 20 2009 1:11AM
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AALT
Posts: 1775 - Karma: 60
south park.
Feb 20 2009 1:15AM
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powderhound100
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hahaha.
Feb 20 2009 1:15AM
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Happy.
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Seeing Ahmet take a pole to the teeth in the Real Life webisodes scarred me for life.
Feb 20 2009 1:23AM
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Josh_Jibz
Posts: 236 - Karma: 28

Would i be correct in thinking it was the simpsons the rest of it was something like:

"pizzzza....french friy....pizzzza....french fry....if you try to french fry when ur meant to pizzza, your gonna have a bad time" - Something along those lines?

Feb 20 2009 1:25AM
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Cut_Copy
Posts: 21 - Karma: 13
shhhhhh! i suck at skiing switch and thats why i was practicing all day=P
Feb 20 2009 1:28AM
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huge-go
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Sounds like you were the victor of the second battle with your pole.

Feb 20 2009 1:32AM
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S3B
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thumb dislocation a few years back (straps), followed by a bad sprain this season (no straps), i'm going to get my poles cut down tomorrow,
peace
Feb 20 2009 1:34AM
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Brian.
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Back when i was young i had a ski instructor decided to go off a drop he landed on his poles and jabbed his stomach he had to go to the hospital and had internal bleeding.
Feb 20 2009 1:39AM
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popNfresh44
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mine are a bit too long, so they occassionaly impale my kidney when riding switch.
Feb 20 2009 1:54AM
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skithe49th
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i was skiing with some homies and one of my buddies dropped a little 5 footer and landed but his ski pole hit first and impaled his chest...he ended up fracturing his sternum kinda bad but he was able to ski down
Feb 20 2009 2:12AM
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Cut_Copy
Posts: 21 - Karma: 13
i like to think that

but now im sitting here with a massive headache so victory came at a price!
Feb 20 2009 2:13AM
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Malcolm
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i broke both my thumbs failing a backflip because of my poles
Feb 20 2009 7:17AM
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skihillraod
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I broke my pole in half on my nuts, landed a small small 3, stuck pole in ground hit nuts and broke in half = black mark about 1/2 inch away from my balls on my leg, only the size of a quarter but blacker than night!  made me sick to my stomach it hurt so bad.

Feb 20 2009 4:03PM
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punkrock32
Posts: 1183 - Karma: 21
My dad had splintered a fiberglass/carbon fiber/whatever it was, pole the day before this happened.  It was going to be our last day skiing (late spring) when I was younger, and because of this, my dad decided to keep using his same poles and buy new ones next season.  Being that I was ready to go, i decided to help unload the car and grab all the poles out.  This was a poor decision, and i had about a cm. wide shard that was still attached to the pole go through my gloves, through my finger, out the other side of my finger and out of my glove.  Basically, the shard went all the way through my finger and i could hold the pole up without actually gripping it.  Needless to say, I had to snap the shard that was through my finger from the pole, and have it removed.  When I went to get it removed they gave me two options.  I could either have it taken out (which apparently causes immense pain) or have it numbed up first and then removed.  I decided to have it numbed up, which didnt work, so when they came back they asked me again if i wanted to get more shots and numb it more, or just have it taken out.  At this point (being afraid of needles at the time) I had them remove it without it being numb and it was probably the most painful experience of my life.
Feb 20 2009 4:15PM
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Chrris
Posts: 568 - Karma: 211
lmao
i was riding pipe
and pipe at this one hill is pure shit
you get one hit that you don;t case
and i did it but i was going really fast and totally forgot
So i was about 5 feet out when i realized i m goin to case this.
And i did
i got throw to flat and somehow my pole dug into the ground and the handle hit me in the kneck
bent the pole in half
And fucked up my wind pipe
Havn;t rode with baskets since that.
Feb 20 2009 4:18PM
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Shifties4Dayz
Posts: 1657 - Karma: 553
i was watching that ski patrol show on trutv or whatever channel it is. and some kid did a 720 off a kicker and got his pole stuck in his neck. he had to be airlifted out to a hosptial. im pretty sure the kid turned out to be ok.
Feb 20 2009 4:22PM
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=FLO=
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Luke Van Valin in Shanghai 6?
Feb 20 2009 4:52PM
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Blurst
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one time my friend came up bvehind me and stuck his pole between my legs, trying to avoid this painful joke a tried to grap and remove the pole from this sensitive area. As i went to grap the pole my poles dug into the ground causing me to run my groin straight into them and do a frontflip right over them landing on my back in much pain
Feb 20 2009 5:03PM
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ASkierNamedJaymz
Posts: 1209 - Karma: 341
off a crappy lip jump didn't make the landing, jammed poles up and killed my shoulders.
Feb 20 2009 5:35PM
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HamFaceGirl
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yeah the same thing happened to me with landing switch and the tips crossing but the end result was a nose bleed  so not that bad
Feb 20 2009 7:06PM
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95959
Posts: 2765 - Karma: 377
my friend cracked his sternum with his pole a few weeks ago.
Feb 20 2009 7:15PM
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DJSTEVEINNIAMIXX
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faceplanted into mine and broke my 2 front teeth in half.
Feb 20 2009 7:22PM
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XxECskierxX
Posts: 66 - Karma: 10
Yeah, a ski pole went through my whole body cutting me in half and the surgeons somehow fixed me.....lol nah, for me, just came out of a rail and somehow stuck my pole in the ground as I landed and cut my lip. Kinda caught me off guard but no big deal.
Feb 20 2009 7:27PM
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TheBigD
Posts: 250 - Karma: 10
a couple years ago my friend was just getting into freestyle, and he went for a 3 and ended up landing at 270, his pole planted into the snow and his chest causing him to puncture his lung, he spent like 4 days in the hospital
Feb 20 2009 7:47PM
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putzld
Posts: 140 - Karma: 30
I was screwing around riding switch and caught an edge throwing me backwards and my head hit my pole which was on the ground. This was before I wore a helmet and it gave me a nice little cuncussion.
Feb 20 2009 7:50PM
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onearmwanderer
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i think there was a thread a couple weeks ago about a guy whos ski pole actually punctured his nutsack
Feb 20 2009 7:51PM
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SteezyOhio
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yea i read the thread few weeks ago, some snowboarder hit a kid well going fast and the basket pierced through his pants and through his sack, the whole basket through his sack, dayyum
Feb 20 2009 11:04PM
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reverendwrong
Posts: 3145 - Karma: 142
so back in ye olden days when my mom was racing she crashed and got her ski pole stuck under her patella.
Feb 20 2009 11:08PM
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MotherFuckaJones
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Anyone know where I can see this?
Feb 20 2009 11:10PM
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koitere
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worts accident by poles must be that when i was on skielevator i had the pole in my hand and then i almost dropped it down and it stucked in snow and then pole went to my nuts and my poles are made of aluminum so my legs went to air and all of my weight was on my nuts withs were on pole.
And that hurt if you get what i tryed to say.
Feb 21 2009 8:26AM
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MoistAbode
Posts: 1132 - Karma: 37
at WV last year on my birthday [3 more days!] and i overshot this little jump and i waas using pole that were too big for me. yeah pole hit the ground first, and i continue to punch myself right in the trachea [sp?] hurt like a BITCH
Feb 21 2009 9:44AM
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partyalex
Posts: 131 - Karma: 11
fuck some of these sound fucking painful
i caught an edge coming down into the flat in the pipe a few years ago, right pole stuck in the ground and the handle smashed me in the mouth, bottom tooth went through my lip! So lucky i didn't lose a tooth or something.
Feb 21 2009 9:54AM
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DrZoidberg
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I was sitting on my heel pieces of my bindings, going rather fast, and had my poles out in front of me. Bad idea. My left pole hit the ground, and shot up into my face. I did have a helmet and goggles, but i still had a bruise the shape of the left side of my goggle on my face for a day or two.
Feb 21 2009 10:14AM
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mtsteez03
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pushed my teeth in with my poles on monday, and lastyear i blind 270 outa canon rail and cracked my eye socket but the teeth were worse they hurt like a bitch and i spent 5 hours in surgery
Feb 21 2009 11:49AM
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ScooterLapooter
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40 foot cliff to flat landing and the ski pole went straight into my eye and i broke my eye socket
Feb 21 2009 12:24PM
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