| How many hard falls do you take per season? |
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| can't remember: I hit my head... |
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 Poster: A snowHead
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By hard I mean anything that causes bruising or more serious injury, sliding out of control, other lingering pain, binding release, or that causes a lingering confidence shakeup.
Silly pops into the snow not worth remembering except for the laughter or ego deflation are not included. If in doubt: not included.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Wed 19-03-08 0:05; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I just brush myself down. Like Jaws in the Bond movies. And ski on 
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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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comprex, I don't ski in seasons - I ski in weeks - so far I've averaged one per week!
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why have "fewer than one per season"?
i'm sure people would understand "0"!
I'm not commenting on my crashes as it may jinx me 
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Whitegold, me too, or used to.
Last two seasons it's been a season-ender each time.
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If you include a binding release as a hard fall I fall into the highest category, if you permit the pun. But is a binding release really a hard fall?
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I did take a belter on some off piste just above Plagne Bellecote this year, just by the jump.
Tried to turn right, weight too far back, skis went straight downhill.
My body eventually overtook my skis and I landed head-first, much to the amusement of the people in the chairlift I was ski-ing underneath.
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rob@rar, I wouldn't think so, as I have had some quite innocuous falls where my bindings released, and one nasty one where they didn't.
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rob@rar, I started this thread after reading about not carrying things (rib bruising etc.). So, on those terms yes, unless each release is really a walk-out.
I do expect to gain insight on
- how hard people do indeed push themselves
- how people expect their bindings to release
- how much people indeed remember (or think they do)
through the comments.
Last edited by Ski the Net with snowHeads  on Tue 18-03-08 14:54; edited 1 time in total
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| comprex wrote: |
| rob@rar, I started this thread after reading about not carrying things (rib bruising etc.). So, on those terms yes, unless each release is really a walk-out. |
OK, got yah. In which case I fall a lot, although some of them would surely fall into the category of crash! Just last week I pulled muscles in my arm after a high speed fall when I failed to make a safe transition from piste to off-piste, a double heel release and superman impression after finding a hidden hole in the powder and an accelerating face-first slide down a gully.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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So if someone while skiing offpiste has a bit of ice on their boot which later causes them to pre-release from the binding causing them to tumble a bit but without being bruised or confidence shattered, is this classed as a hard tumble?
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DB, I think so, for the purpose of this thread.
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You know it makes sense.
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Not sure I can average it out. I've fallen more this season than in the last 5 put together. Had a good one last week where we all had to go round again and inspect the various (distributed) holes in the snow where skis, poles and body landed. Hip's still purple from that one OTOH I think I'm skiing better this season. Maybe there's a correlation?!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| rob@rar wrote: |
OK, got yah. In which case I fall a lot, although some of them would surely fall into the category of crash! Just last week I pulled muscles in my arm after a high speed fall when I failed to make a safe transition from piste to off-piste, a double heel release and superman impression after finding a hidden hole in the powder and an accelerating face-first slide down a gully. |
I've done that, except it was a 5-foot wall of snow hidden by fog. Park City, 1993, 102inches of fresh in the week. Cracked jawbone, split goggles, blood gushing out onto the turtleneck, ~1000 feet of vertical left to ski. Had momentum enough to launch myself ~40 feet past the transition, so of course had to posthole back up to the piste.
Worst of all, I didn't even know I was injured until heard my partner moaning, stuck on his back in bottomless, ski tails anchoring him down from moving anything. "Dude, you're bleeding". Gee, you're welcome there Patrick, sorry to drip on ya.  At least the Japanese guy stuck behind -him- was polite about it. To complete my luck, one of the guys in the patrol shack was a plastic surgeon.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Oodles then. Heading close to one a day.
The best to date being a slow-mo "ooooooohhhhhhh sshhhhhhhhhhiii....." through a tree, a double sideways release when I turned into gully that turned out to be some 6 inches narrower than my skis were long and (the perennial favourite) the classic double-heel-release-powder-landing-to-superman-to-face.
Carry a rucksack all the time, tend not to use pole straps much and run bindings at type III. No injuries yet.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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plenty... hitting rocks , tree stumps or marmotts etc. off piste  overdoing it in rutt lines... most painful are the lowish speed edge catches doing braquage or 360 spins. ouch...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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skimottaret, or attempting to ski on one ski down a red piste round a pole slalom 
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| skimottaret wrote: |
| ... or marmotts ... |
I came within six inches of skiing into some kind of mountain hare last week, on the back side of Mont Chery. It suddenly appeared out of the snow just in front of me, then made a dash for some nearby trees. I was so surprised a took a tumble!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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beanie1, exactly I am still sore from that little tumble and the elbow is all bruised up
rob@rar, i flushed a bunch of birds once out from a tree and was soo shocked when they flew into me i went straight into the tree 
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skimottaret, You're a COCK.
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I agree that 'binding release' and 'hard fall' are not necessarily synonymous. I don't think I've EVER had a 'hard fall' (as in one that caused "bruising or more serious injury, sliding out of control, other lingering pain," but my bindings have let go a couple of times after a tumble.
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I had a bit of a cartwheel on the gates on plastic a few months back - quite a big one and horribly grazed / bruised knees, but didn't affect confidence. I find the ones that do that are the high speed edge catches.
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None so far this season, one last season which broke three ribs and a hand (broke ribs on hand )
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Axsman, it seems to be working nonetheless. If in doubt, leave it out.
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comprex,
Skied very poorly last time out but the worst I have had was in La PLagne last year when I got taken out on a piste. Just as well that it was the last day as it ended there anyway.... F**** silly cow...!!!!!!
Most dangerous place these days in some resorts..
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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comprex, Yeah, I voted 'fewer than one' on that basis. 
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Axsman, very good sir.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| shoogly wrote: |
why have "fewer than one per season"?
i'm sure people would understand "0"!
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You might consider yourself to have 1 such fall every other season in which case your number per season is 0.5, which is fewer than 1 but not equal to 0.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I always seem to come away from a trip with the odd bruise and various aches. Then again... I'm over 40 and am getting into jumps, drop offs etc. I seem to have little interest in skiing where I am not pushing myself to advance. Guess I'll never grow up
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Normaly have one fall per season that stops me skiing for a few days this season it was while walking over a sledging slope
Season = 30-40 days for me.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Skiing, I generally fall in powder, or in bumps, with no harm done. But on the snowboard, bone-jarring/bruising edge catches happen too often.
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Less than 1 a season, but it's normally a full on garage sale, when I do go over.
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I've only had a couple this year - sort of sit-downs in quite deep powder. The hardest thing about those was getting back up.
Last year on the other hand, I fell very hard and bruised a rib and hurt my thumb (which still isn't mended) with my ski pole. Then a bit later the same week, trying to do a jump, I landed full frontal. The river of blood that came out of my nose is on video somewhere public  and I broke the rib I'd bruised a month or so earlier.
I don't really like falling - it generally hurts.
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Only had one painful one this year, bent my thumb and it's still sore now. There's a name for that type of injury I think..............and no it's not muppet's thumb before anyone makes that or similar suggestions
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Don't really know how to answer the poll, so make your won mind up from this:
Tumbles resulting in lost ski/headplant etc - probably average about 1/skiing-day, generally in innocuous terrain.
Tumbles resulting in slide requiring some kind of control/arrest - maybe 1/skiing-week.
Tumbles resulting in bruising/pain, on snow: now maybe 1 in 8 skiing weeks, nothing more serious than a slight bruise though for > 3 years
Tumbles resulting in bruising/pain, on plastic (racing): 3 broken fingers in last 2 years, 2 bad thumps to knee in previous year resulting in several weeks reduced mobility.
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RachelQ, I did demonstrate to you at the end of last season how to fall over without hurting yourself. See... my instruction must have worked
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Scarpa, I reckon it must have done I've still got another week to go though.
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