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Shit this is gonna hurt...

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hippy.
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If you ever have had that moment where you know something is gonna hurt and you wait for impact... what was it? I was mountain biking and accidently crashed and fell 30 feet into a river..
May 23 2013 9:42PM
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JWeinstock
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Hit a 50 footer at Snow. Knew i didnt have enough seed but went for it any way. I only went about 40 feet and it felt like i was in the air for an hour
May 23 2013 9:46PM
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Ski_Alot
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hanging in the air a sec before slamming down of a jump onto my head when got my concussion
May 23 2013 9:47PM
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hippy.
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Worst feeling ever knowing you're gonna come short
May 23 2013 9:48PM
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Otherside
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What? Pics are required of where this happend
May 23 2013 9:52PM
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mowglii
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was driving shotgun with my stupid friend down a dirt road. He lost control and we went head on with a tree then slid into a ravine and got stuck on another tree. He got knocked the fuck out and I had to climb over him to get out through his window haha.
May 23 2013 9:53PM
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hippy.
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Next time I go up there I'll take pics. I currently don't have a bike because I sold frame and fork.
May 23 2013 9:55PM
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GIF
Posts: 468 - Karma: 1,279
Trained my friend into a backcountry booter and he backflipped to his head with just enough time for me to react, my reaction was the tree in the landing instead of him, felt like the longest airtime ever.
May 23 2013 9:56PM
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theschneidler
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Also related to not enough seed
May 23 2013 9:59PM
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270on420out
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I was training into a foam pit for about 2 hours one day. The next day I was mountain biking and I hit a rock. I was about to land stomach first and I was thinking "I'll be fine".
May 23 2013 10:01PM
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ForeverYung
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Right when you take off you know you are going to come up short and just thinking "fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck." Or when you spot your landing and realizing shit I should be landing now, but you still got a ways to go. Two worst feelings
May 23 2013 10:06PM
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Schlutz
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I think it's soooo much worse when over shooting. you have even more time in the air to contemplate that you will soon hit the ground after falling 20+ feet from the air.

I did this at T-line last summer. Friend was too pussy to lead train so I did and waaaayyy misjudged the speed and threw a 3. I ended up going at least to flat if not past. I just remember coming out of the 3 and seeing there was still 15 feet til the ground, worst thing ever. As soon as I hit the ground I exploded like a fucking bomb. My fucking glove came off. Wish I caught this on camera. Didn't get too seriously hurt, but my back still hurts now and again.
May 23 2013 10:11PM
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joelski
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it was the last day of the season at whistler and i was making my way down to the bottom on my last run and i hit this little side hit i had no time to stop but the landing was all rocks and dirt and i did not have enough speed to clear it i ended up with a concussion and a bunch of core shots.
May 23 2013 10:12PM
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hippy.
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You can't see full distance from bridge to creek, but it is 30 feet maybe even more..When I did it they were renovating the rails and well you know the rest...
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May 23 2013 10:12PM
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000000000000
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Coming into a natural booter waaaaaaaaaaaay too hot, and knowing that I was going to land flat. It was an experience from the top of the lip to breaking a pole off in my gut.
May 23 2013 10:19PM
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BigScaryLarry
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was hitting an urban rail and knew i didnt have enough speed but felt the need to to be a pussy so i tried to hit it anyway. fell off the rail way to early got my left ski caught in the side rail and it twisted and crack smash boom that was the end of my season. the oh shit moment was went i felt myself fall off the rail. knew it was gunna be bad

May 23 2013 10:24PM
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450out.
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Back when I was just starting to ski, I came off a box switch 50-50 with little to no speed. The landing was really bowled out, since it was warm and people were hitting it all day, and I fell backwards onto my arm, hyperextending my elbow, and breaking my radius just above the wrist. As I fell backwards I was just kinda like sheeeeeeeeeit.
May 23 2013 10:26PM
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Toaster-Tony
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I've been having recurring nightmares of hitting a jump with way too much speed and flailing through the air before waking up on impact. The embarrassing part is I know how to lucid dream so that means I fuck up and crash even when I can control what's happening..

But now for something that actually happened.. I got rear-ended by an SUV a few years ago and watched the hole thing happen in my rear-view mirror. He was cruising pretty good and he locked up his brakes before slamming into my car. I felt so helpless watching the whole thing unfold. Luckily, no one was hurt and I'm still driving my shitty Honda Accord today after a pulling out the trunk and getting a new bumper.
May 23 2013 10:30PM
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whoa-dere
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before i have to take a shit really bad
May 23 2013 10:33PM
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Balbertt
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I was on my dunebuggy type thing doing donuts like a idiot, and it flipped over. All I saw in slow motion was my arm going towards the ground and getting stuck between the rollcage and the ground. Watching my bone stick out of my skin and have my arm bent behind my back was one of those awhh fuck moments.
May 23 2013 10:39PM
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grapejuice3000+
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so back in the day i used to sneak into places at night, like malls and office buildings that sort of thing. I was down near the denver zoo, like just walking, and I noticed a cleaning lady who had left the gate open while she was emptying a trash bin. I took the opportunity and my friends and I dashed in. We found ourselves near the african section of the zoo, and wanted to just make our way safely through the zoo without being seen. We got kind of lost because we were actually in like walkways not open to the public, like behind the habitats and stuff. I looked down at one point into an exhibit and saw a fucking rhino just sleeping within 8 feet of me. Kinda spooky. So we were weaving our way through the employee paths, and came to a chain link fence with like, green canvas on one side so we couldnt see through. We decided to jump it, because we were a little spooked by a janitor who was walking behind us a way back. Once we got over we realized two things--- the floor on the other side was at least 5 feet lower than it was on the side we jumped from, and secondly, we had just jumped into the tiger exhibit. my friend turned his ankle and let out a yell, alerting the tigers to our prescence. I had the foresight to jump back up onto the chainlink fence and start climbing, all my friends following. I reached the top and tried to swing my leg over in a quick manner, and I felt my weight shift weirdly, looked down, and saw myself falling 15+ feet down into the tigers lair.
May 23 2013 10:43PM
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E__
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Mountain biking a trail a couple years back and hit a gap, my front tire came loose...







Now I check, double check, and triple check my tires.
May 23 2013 10:45PM
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edai
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The worst is hitting the peak of a jump and realizing youre gonna deck

May 23 2013 11:05PM
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.Apex.
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When I pull a back 3 (cough snowboarder) and catch the back of my board and start soaring through the air backwards
May 23 2013 11:35PM
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Logey.
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That moment when you fart, but steamy gas isn't the only thing that came out
Stubbing your toe
When you get home and look in the mirror and see something weird on your face and have no idea how long it's been there
May 23 2013 11:59PM
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Logey.
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Woops. My brain decided that it remembered the title being "oh shit moments"
May 24 2013 12:01AM
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timmi
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Any time you're looking at the sky things aren't going to end well for you.
May 24 2013 12:06AM
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pink_squid
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I had the EXACT same dream for a month after I shattered my heel

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pics motherfucker
May 24 2013 12:39AM
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.AR6rider.
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I was hitting a gap on my bike a few years ago where it was road, then a 5-7 foot drop over about 10ish feet of rocks to a plywood landing over grass Think a stairset type of drop, but over rocks instead of stairs. Anyway...I hit it a few times to get a feel for it, then decided (stupidly) I was going to try and 3 it. I came into it hauling balls, got a bad feeling, and tried to bail out at the last second, but it was too late. I did this awkward hop thing with one foot off the pedals and everything seemed to go into slow motion as I'm looking down at the rocks that are about to fuck my day up. I ditched my bike and missed the rocks by what felt like inches haha. Left the spot and went home for the day.

Honorable mention goes to learning heelside backside spins behind the boat. Too many times to count where I lost the handle and felt like I was floating blind before catching my heelside edge and eating shit.
May 24 2013 12:55AM
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EC-Skier
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I was in a comp at my home mountain, last comp of the season before nationals and I was warming up my misty 5 on the last jump. But I kept taking it too big and doing misty 7 to just about the tranny. Well, my landing looked like shit when I did this so I decided I would slow down a little during the comp so I could actually land a clean misty 5. Either I slowed down too much, or a gust of wind, or something. I took off and started to flip, but just as I took off I knew I wasn't making it over the knuckle. I was upside-down looking at my landing and saw the knuckle coming at me. This was when I knew my season was over.

I had pulled my patella tendon the year before and had tried just rehabbing, but I didn't do that long enough and my knee was still kind of weak.

I pulled my feet under me and felt my knee go out right when I hit the knuckle. I tumbled down the landing and just lay there, not able to move.

The guy on the knuckle yelled down "Are you ok?" I just yelled back "Nope" the he asked "Do you need a sled?" "Yup".
I've been told I have a high pain tolerance so it didn't really hurt that bad and I just kind of laughed at it as I laid there being put on a damn sled.
May 24 2013 11:00AM
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skiierman
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That trail is feet wide... how the...


Maybe you shouldn't have taken the training wheels off, bud.
May 24 2013 11:03AM
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fortyvalve
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when you're driving in the pouring rain getting ready to turn left then all of a sudden you see headlights come head on at you, hear a loud pop and then it's all black. probably the scariest experience ever
May 24 2013 11:18AM
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daannnnieel
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That is an amazing feeling, I don't care what you say it's the most unique feeling i've ever felt. It gives me the biggest rush.

Skiing, I thought the snow was a lot slower than it really was, and I decided to straightline into the first jump at my hill. I spun a 3, and when I was spotting my landing, I realized that I was already a good ten feet past the knuckle. I hit the ground damn near flat and lost both my skis, my hat and glasses and phone. It was fun as fuck, until I realized that my entire face and arm had snow burn on them.
May 24 2013 11:22AM
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Panda_with_Guns
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i had a dream the other night i was skiing some crazy trees with some gnarly huge cliffs and i was going fast as fuck and then i was soaring like 100 feet and realized i was gonna land on a tree. only in my mind was "oh shit ohshit oh shit"
run on sentence, i know. come at me.
May 24 2013 11:48AM
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I_Am_Mod
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overshooting is the scariest imho
undershooting is imho usually more painful but as mentioned before, you have so much time to think when you overshoot, it's fucking with your head :P

anyways, my most recent 'oh fuck' moment was when i was leadclimbing and was about 15ft above my last bolt and if i slipped i was pretty sure i was gonna hit some nasty protruding rocks below the bolt and it was just in the hardest section of the route, i was completely cramping up but i knew falling was a really bad idea so i somehow pulled through anyways, i don't think i've ever been so happy of clipping into the next bolt :P

my belayer said he had never seen someone clip a quickdraw as fast as i did then :D

i'm usually pretty level headed when lead climbing 'exposé' routes but i just knew this could've gone so wrong, it was by far the most scared i've ever been on a route ...
May 24 2013 2:02PM
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gotti
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When you are overrotating a backflip and you come around and you just see the landing come into your vision and leave your vision and you know its going to hurt
May 24 2013 2:08PM
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Bjudes
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Didn't turn sharp enough while mountian biking and kinda got out of control, it a berm and launched off it and it was a 10 ft drop from the berm and i went about 20 ft up, landed, bent my rim and flew off another 15 ft. It hurt really bad...
May 24 2013 2:13PM
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ThatBrokeSkiKid
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Similar story, I was at Gulch this year for late spring skiing and though the snow was slow. The first jumps two in the line were closed. So I ended up just bombing into it and realized I was fucked as soon as I hit the lip. I was prob at the max height around the knuckle and knew it was going to really suck. The impacted was a yard sale. No injuries except for my back but overshooting sucks.
May 24 2013 4:38PM
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hippy.
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I've hurt my back so much skiing is ridonkulous!
May 24 2013 4:43PM
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.Jacob
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I was working on my deck, so there were lots of pieces of wood that weren't secured. I lost my footing and stood on one that just fell right the the floor, my legs were on either sides of the support beams underneath.

It seemed like an eternity that I was in the air straddling this bollock-mashing piece of lumber. It didn't help that I was carrying a reciprocating saw, so I had nothing to stop the fall but my testicles.
May 24 2013 4:43PM
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daannnnieel
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you did not jump 10 feet tall off the top of a berm, drop 20 feet and walk away without a broken leg/legs/neck/arms. If you did, you would have launched a solid thirty feet, and fucked yourself right up.
May 24 2013 4:44PM
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connecticunt
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I vaguely remember the moments before I shattered my nose and eye socket on a rail. I knew that pain was about to be unleashed. But luckily I was unconscious like on impact.
May 24 2013 7:39PM
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*ninja*
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today! did 5 backflips in a row than threw a cork 7. Fucking flew right over the net it was like 15 feet crazy thing is i landed right on my feet. I have 60 witnesses and one of my friends has an ns if if u dont believe me. i just tweaked my arm still hurts a little.
May 24 2013 7:42PM
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kung_powpow
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I overshot a jump at Snowmass last spring almost to flat. Thought I was going to pull a T-Hall from overshooting but ended up dislocating and breaking my shoulder.
May 24 2013 7:42PM
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skiierman
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I'm sure there's a lot of kids on here that care enough to find out...
May 24 2013 8:07PM
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Funnel
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Kegs. One of my coworkers told me he dropped a 15.5 gallon keg on his toe and said he knew it was going to hurt so bad. That's why I'm careful when delivering kegs.
May 24 2013 8:24PM
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schusson
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i was going for a solid 50 foot transfer between landings and i was absolutely hauling but came up about 5 feet short and literally exploded. i was sent into a backflip and landed on my neck at the bottom of the landing. in the air people on the lift heard me yell "OH FUCK!". hit the ground so hard i dented my helmet. *cgski* is a witness
May 24 2013 9:05PM
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taylornicky
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I was bombing it down the mountain at kirkwood and hit a lip in the snow at the same time that my contacts dried up. then the "shit this is going to hurt" thought and then torn ACL/meniscus and fractured femoral condyle.
May 24 2013 9:12PM
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hippy.
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shieet!!
May 24 2013 9:13PM
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Mag
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I don't see how you manage that when they have the perfect handles

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When you're skiing fast and you go into the top of a big rock and you just know you're fucked.

Worse though when you catch your feet on cables(laptop, headphones etc) and almost tripping, or when you catch your headphones on doors/handles)

This seems like a weird post
May 24 2013 9:37PM
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