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Worst way to fall

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El_Barto.
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Whats the worst way to fall? I dont ski park like I used to but I remember one time catching a ski on the lip of the pipe as I was coming back in and ate shit so freakin hard. It was by far the most painful fall ive ever taken and one of my toe pieces exploded.

Whats the most painful fall youve ever taken?
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11 years ago
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Ekis
Posts: 106 - Karma: 193
probably this way https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/910594/candide-thovex-crash-sur-bertha
11 years ago
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seanahue.
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you know that part of the side of your hip, like just below your oblique/side-ab muscles, i think its called the 'crown' of the pelvis...? i never get ribs real good when i taco, just that spot. fuck that shit.

for me its pretty much a tie between that and whacking your shin/knee on a support bar. anywhere there's little to no muscle hurts so fucking bad, and takes forever to heal.
11 years ago
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C-Wal
Posts: 185 - Karma: 1,370
Somehow caught the tip of my ski on the knuckle or a jump when doing a straight air screamin seamen. Felt so retarded and my shin/knee hurt for days
11 years ago
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pastysmasher
Posts: 780 - Karma: 664
I crashed into a tree cat skiing and that hurt like fuck, also sucked so bad that i had to miss that last couple runs of the day. Inside the park, I over rotated a backflip on a pretty big jump and that hurt a fair bit.
11 years ago
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.Hugo.
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Railersailerlook buddy there isnt any room on this site for more assholes.

your not being cute.

we already have Hugo


thank you for the complement
11 years ago
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soulskier
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Dicking around in the woods I somehow fell and slid fwet first into a tree, I don't remember how but my head ended getting thrown into a tree

Had worn a helmet occasionally and luckily I had that day, almost always wear one now
11 years ago
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Miklop
Posts: 293 - Karma: 2,222
I was pretty hungover and did a backflip on a large kicker, a trick I had done hundred of times before, but for some reason that one time, I forgot to huck with my hips, so after laying it out, I could just feel that I wouldn't make it around, so I try to tuck all I can. I get to spot my landing just before impact, so I manage to turn it to the side, and land on my side.
Concussion and broken rip, that was a fucking bitch.
11 years ago
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hi_vis360
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smellstomahawks can be painful


I've only tomahawked once but I was having some mild back pain/stiffness beforehand, tomahawked four times and I literally felt incredible afterwards. It loosened me up in the best way possible-probably not a typical experience though.
11 years ago
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Ali_Dibden
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Overshooting is never a pleasant experience!
11 years ago
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ANDR01D
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I once caught my edge on a rail (this is before I knew about defining) and ended up cracking a couple ribs. This is why I'm still kind of a bitch when it comes to rails.
11 years ago
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JeremyH
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most painful for me was slamming my knee into a rail after the kink on an elbow. scariest however would definitely be when I've scorpioned and had the tail of my ski slam into the snow next to my head- surprised no one has ever died from that without a helmet..
11 years ago
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grol
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landing your knee right on the rail when doing a front swap, also scorpion are pretty bad; I remember i could feel the pain going form my neck down to my legs.
11 years ago
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Preston+
Posts: 172 - Karma: 107
Squires, Griffons, axials, pivots up the as sucks pretty bad. But the worst fall for me was when i was just haulin ass, caught an edge saved myself from falling but somehow got revertet to switch the caught my edge again and got launched backwards down the slope landing on my back.
11 years ago
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kim_jong_ill
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loganschnurThis looks bad, but not as bad as Clayton's first slam in Mutiny


I hate that fall. Makes me cringe every time
11 years ago
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Mrworm10
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https://www.newschoolers.com/watch/699081.0/Kid-Eating-it-in-The-Sticks

The infamous double detach on a kink. This has happened to everybody, can't deny it. Still a brutal way to crash in east coast ice/hard pack.
11 years ago
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smooter
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coming in way too fast for this tiny cannon rail that my mountain had in the park, flying to flat and then just crumpling to the ground
11 years ago
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yhprum1720
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Came off a rail sketchy and I was falling forwards. My pole planted in the snow in front of me and I as I fell it jammed straight into my throat right under my chin.
11 years ago
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pattyWhack
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Getting that third buttcheek in mid-january... fall a couple times on a tube, or onto concrete in the same half-assed-directly-to-your-hip way and then the rest of the season you are butthurt
11 years ago
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SteezyMagee
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shit whipping is definitely the worst.
11 years ago
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270on420out
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I set for flat 3 of the corner of the landing of a closed jump. Overrotated in to a flat 5 and went into nosebutter position. In the air i thought "i'll just butter it out into a 7". Both skis came lose and i went straight to my face. Dislocated jaw as well as a cut on my eyebrow.
11 years ago
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SNP
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tips down on a dub backy
11 years ago
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.Asain-Skiier
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falling off the rail on a close out.
11 years ago
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bedin
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Whenever a trick goes wrong from the takeoff and your left in the air just thinking. "Oh shit."
11 years ago
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bengreeneiscool
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I raced in High school, catching an edge on the east coast ice going 40 mph in a GS suit is a rough time.
11 years ago
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Aiur
Posts: 267 - Karma: 1,944
If you fall the right way, going mach10 and catching an edge actually feels pretty cool. You're just sliding down the hill at 40 mph and you get like 10 seconds to contemplate your life before you can control your body again.

But #realtalk falling on my neck has always been the worst. I don't want to end up in a wheelchair.
11 years ago
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Toaster-Tony
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I hate when you over rotate and your stuck at that awkard 90 degree point when you're touching down.. tomahawking sideways is never fun.

but I say that because I've never skied a half pipe so I have no idea how bad decking really is.
11 years ago
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SteezyStokes
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tried 2 on a dfd then it didn't go so well
11 years ago
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gapersarefriends
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Was going Mach 5 at the end of one of the face runs at mammoth, hit a bump lost it and tomahawked four or five times.

I couldn't turn my head left for a week
11 years ago
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Pigeon.
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overshot a 50 ft jump by 45 feet. that one takes the cake so far.
11 years ago
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.Hugo.
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Pigeon.overshot a 50 ft jump by 45 feet. that one takes the cake so far.


I highly doubt that
11 years ago
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c0rkmanJones
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Hit a patch of slow snow as I rolled into a flat gap down rail and caught my back ski on the front of the flat part and when my back ski ejected, I straightened out, slammed my kneecap on the front of the down rail, and managed to slide the rest of the rail on my stomach... luckily skied away without a shattered kneecap.
11 years ago
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La_Lisa
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I have a top 3:
1) tearing your ACL.... Anyway you do it blows the most hard- it hurts, ruins the season and blows all your money on surgery!
2) taking a gate to the face while racing then feeling like all your teeth are gonna crumble out
3) Tanner Halls, "ahhhh I broke my ankles"
11 years ago
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SimplyClean
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Sending a 3 in flat light on a 40 footer. Couldn't spot my landing till last second and was leaning super forward as I landed. Basically took the fall with my shoulder and fully dislocated it inward - it was in my armpit. Most pain I've ever felt in my life...surging pain for 2 hours until it was placed back in it's socket.
11 years ago
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georgen12
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catching your front edges on one of these



is not pretty
11 years ago
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Toaster-Tony
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georgen12catching your front edges on one of these



is not pretty

I have a love/hate relationship with those bastards
11 years ago
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Pigeon.
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.Hugo.I highly doubt that

upon impact chairlift gapers asked if i was alive.


ask any of these 3 members who saw me overshoot that hip:

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/members/profile/member_id/158053/

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/members/profile/member_id/187574/

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/members/profile/member_id/187191/


i have 2 other eyewitnesses who aren't on NS
11 years ago
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.Hugo.
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Pigeon.upon impact chairlift gapers asked if i was alive.


ask any of these 3 members who saw me overshoot that hip:

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/members/profile/member_id/158053/

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/members/profile/member_id/187574/

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/members/profile/member_id/187191/


i have 2 other eyewitnesses who aren't on NS


Wow you really care that much about what i think that youd go and do all of that? Im flattered

But why would I ask 3 profiles that are obviously your aliases
11 years ago
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gnarles.
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falling on your ass/hip onto hard ice. going big or small it sucks either way
11 years ago
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mafs
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Seriously, catching an edge on a pipe. Ended one of the most promising careers in snowboarding
11 years ago
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Aiur
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georgen12catching your front edges on one of these



is not pretty


I just hear this ungodly noise every time I slide one of those. But it looks sick when people do it right.
11 years ago
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Yaraelpoof.png
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My most painful falls normally are whiplash and hitting the back of my head. Also anything with hard ice, because ice hurts at all speeds.
11 years ago
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Ski.o.die
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Landed a backflip. Right after the backflip I ate shit on flat ground. I popped my shoulder out of socket.
11 years ago
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deleted5
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directly onto your head.
11 years ago
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El_Barto.
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zzzskizzzdirectly onto your head.


i lold
11 years ago
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deleted5
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El_Barto.i lold


Don't be nice to me, its weird.
11 years ago
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Mingg
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georgen12catching your front edges on one of these



is not pretty


Love/hate relationship with those bastards.
11 years ago
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gotti
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MinggLove/hate relationship with those bastards.


so original
11 years ago
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