 Poster: A snowHead
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Two scenarios, we've all been there...
You are skiing slowly when for some reason you just begin to topple over...
You come to a stop (hockey stop usually) and at the last moment you just topple over.
In both cases it just happens slowly.
Some years ago I had an instructor who was very insistent...in these situations you should take the fall. DON'T FIGHT IT...TAKE IT!
Some of the worst ski injuries are at slow speed, when the body is over straining to say upright. Knee and ankle ligaments are particularly at risk. Just take the fall and almost certainly the only thing hurt will be your pride.
Well on friday his words were prophetic:
My wife is in Verbier for a girls weekend. One of our friends had just such a slow speed fall...she strained to stop the fall and felt an ankle ligament "pop". Blood-Wagon...Medical Centre...and an operation to be scheduled back in the UK. She'll be off games (for her that means riding) for quite a long time.
If only she had known to Take The Fall.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I'd second that - just plop, it usually hurts far less than trying to stay up and still falling rigid. I'm surprised she didn't do that, what with riding horses and all . I was always falling off horses when jumping and eventing, and worse injury was once when I landed flat on my back and winded myself. Instead of falling off horses now, I fall off motorbikes and worse injury has been a big of a bruise when landing on rocks.
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rungsp, all the injuries I've had have been at low speed on blue pistes. I've learned my lesson : never ski a blue piste again 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Mike Lawrie,
Tell me about it..they are the most dangerous places.
Skied last week all manner of crazyness (IMV) and I get wiped out by a Frenchwoman on a blue run... !!! FFS..!!!!
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I have noticed that I am far better at going with the fall now that I wear a helmet, because I'm not busy trying to protect my head.
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clara_jo, It's funny I wore a helmet for the first time this year, and fell over far more than last year (I was average 3 or 4 times a day!) - perhaps helmets make you fall over 
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what is this falling over you all refer to
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It's the fall from the wagon you got to watch 
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