Two to three times a week these days. I do like going fast so if I fall it is usually a feet out of bindings with me travelling half way down the mountain minus skis. However I have never had a collision or injury.
It is just too much fun going fast to worry about falling.
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I did have a big wipeout at the start of a chairlift in La Rosiere once. No idea what happened - one minute I have the pole between my legs waiting for the pull, next minute I'm in a heap on the floor!
Hmm. Yes. I can kind of see the problem there.......
fall prob every day but the topple over when standing r getting caught in mogul type fall, not bothered about those type but once or max twice per week I catch an edge going flat out and in a straight line towards the end of a run where you may need a bit of speed to get past a flat bit folowed by a 20-30 meter forward roll/cartwheel. this usually scares the sh*t out of me and then im useless for the rest of that day. the 1 main thing that worries me is coming in contact with a ski edge during the fall, ever happen to anyone? going thru the posts its the "catching the edge" which gets most people, whats wrong with us?????
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Never ever when on Piste no matter what the slope. Off into deep powder and and i end up like the abominable snowman covered head to toe in snow from falling all way down!
Clearly I need to watch off-piste people to see some proper wipe outs. There must be loads on youtube...
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Don't often wipe out on-piste these days - I know when I'm close to my limits and back off. Still have the odd face-plant off piste, which happens maybe once a day, since I started going out of my way to go off piste. I'm quite happy falling over, it means I'm learning.
I also have a once-a-week, standing still, talking-to-family-and-just-fall-over-off-balance, to everyone else's great amusement. I think it's because I'm looking across a piste on the slope and get my balance instinct confused. Or I'm pi$$ed, I don't know...
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I guess the equal question is, if you fall with skis on who here finds it difficult to get up again without springing one off?
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Having said that though, when I see a spectacular wipe out (one of my ski buddies did it last season) when the skis fly off and a big cloud of snow erupts, it does look kinda cool. As long as the person concerned is uninjured of course.
I think what seperates faller from fall-avoiders are how well they fall!
I'm gifted in I fall rather gracefully. So it's a non-event for me.
As a result, I'm free to "push myself" and fall over from time to time. I "average" about 1 fall a day. There're days I don't fall over at all. And there're days I fall over more than once. It all depends on what I'm doing on that day...
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When practising freestyle on dryslope on a bad day a lot, sometimes more often than not if I'm trying something new. Never less than once every 6 runs.
On piste though I'm pretty annoyed/suprised if I fall and it only really happens if I hit some ice I really wasn't expecting or the two times I've accidently hit a mogul field I didn't anticipate at full pelt. Once I'm down though it doesn't bother me in the slightlest, I'll try and keep both skis on if possible, get up and chase my party down the hill.
Oh, and the one time I skied completely smashed, in the dark, mostly switch, I don't think I managed more than 20 metres in row without a fall.
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Almost never and on piste, I really can't remember the last time I fell. As you get better when you screw up you have the skill and balance to catch yourself and not actually stack it.
If you are falling a lot you are a danger to yourself and others, get your technique sorted on easier terrain. There is a time and a place though, being silly in powder with no rocks etc. around is fine.
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i fell once in 1993, was a bad day
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On piste usually only if taken out.
Off-piste - well if you aren't falling you are either a God - or not pushing yourself. Obviously there are places where it is best not to fall.
queen bodecia, here is A certain snowHead showing how to fall well
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Frequently & embarassingly of course. More often when on a board usally while cruising to a stop.
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although I did have a big wipeout at the start of a chairlift in La Rosiere once. No idea what happened - one minute I have the pole between my legs waiting for the pull, next minute I'm in a heap on the floor!
I'm trying to work out if this is a ski lift tumble or an embarassing incident with another foreign national
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Swirly, numerous ones for me last season but two good ones spring to mind.
1 - Resort Q and jumping off the lip by the restaurant, landed with weight too far forward, cue double eject and face plant.
2 - Getting to the bottom of signal and jumping round to ski switch to see where everyone else is, tails catch, back flip, whiplash and a bent pole that I ended up losing a week or so later!
Not sure whether getting no air and stacking it in the half pipe counts. I'll discount the injury as it wasn't even wiping out!
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I think that everyone who knows me will confirm that I tend to wipe out many times a day. From racing RachelQ for the freshly groomed strip to attempting hucks when I have no idea what I am doing to constantly trying to ski slopes I have no business even being on. I really don't seem to mind falling. Yet when climbing I'm a real wuss. Put me on snow and I get carried away untill I crash. Always when I can see that there are no folk below me though, and these days it's almost always off piste. I can often be found impersonating a snowball underneath a rock band the size of a front door step.
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ph wrote:
Two to three times a week these days. I do like going fast so if I fall it is usually a feet out of bindings with me travelling half way down the mountain minus skis. However I have never had a collision or injury.
It is just too much fun going fast to worry about falling.
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Has anyone else noticed how much learning to snowboard rips your upper body!? I did a week or so last year and my arms/shoulders got so strong from constantly pushing off them.
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rob@rar, well I guess you'd have to know who it was - it doesn't yell, 'that was me' does it?
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Never, except when Im pushed over for being smug about it.
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rob@rar,
And proof that I never give up...
If only I had the courage to get some speed up
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queen bodecia, I'm pretty much the same as you, I hardly ever fall. My main problem with all my skiing is confidence, I don't have it. So I tend to ski slower than I actually can for fear of falling. Which is stupid, when I've fallen over going fast I haven't hurt myself. I need to buck up!
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Scarpa, what's the opposite of "Red Bull, Gives You Wings"?
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
rob@rar, "Imagination with no skill... makes you fall like a pile of bricks"
The importance of counter rotation.
This was the start of a cart wheel.
Whats worse is its one of the best pictures of me skiing
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The sheer level of ineptitude just makes me laugh whenever I see those old clips. Thank god my mate filmed me.
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RPF, I love that... it's one of those 'guess what happened next' pics.
Can you still remember the moment when the realisation that it had 'all gone wrong' first dawned on you?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Scarpa, You cant beat video analysis as a teaching tool
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Aside from the occassional falling over while standing still and reading piste signs (which is kind of more of an unintentional sitting down on back of skis), I tend to go flying maybe once or twice a week - usually involving some cartwheeling and sliding down slope head first and then having to wait for charitable fellow skliers to drop off various items of equipment shedded in the process
RPF, I love that... it's one of those 'guess what happened next' pics.
Can you still remember the moment when the realisation that it had 'all gone wrong' first dawned on you?
That whats in my head in that picture at that very moment is "whoa poo-poo, should be facing down the fallline" followed bybang bang bang, "thank god im wearing a helmet, I wonder when I'm gonna stop tumbling I love soft snow, why does this happen under a lift, I hope Hugh got this on camera, I'll post it on snowheads, wont dare put it on TGR, ah I've stopped tumbling."
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I'm still doing 3 - 4 crashes a day when attempting to keep up with more adequate skiers off piste; especially when those pesky drops raise their heads. On piste I no longer seem to feel the need. Moguls spit me off every five minutes if I'm attempting to push my comfort zone. With experience I can now fall and bounce straight back up at times with barely a pause
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Loving the videos people. Much better than tonight's pap on telly!
anotherproblem, yes, you could in fact be me.
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Four times in two weeks last year.
1. "I told you - if you look at something you will ski towards it - so why did you keep looking at that large lump of snow, not the tracks you were supposed to be following"???
2. "Ah, now I understand the term breakable crust, but how the **** do I get up again??"
3. So that's what happens if two people on a 2-man chair both do even a small snowplough on the exit ramp........ is that your leg or mine?
4. The boarder appeared as if out of thin air - and disappeared just as fast leaving me sprawling. Trouble was I was practising technique on my own, and it was the steepest bit of slope I've yet fallen on - after I'd caught them up it took me about 10 mins to stop the skis escaping and making their own way to the restaurant every time I tried to reunite them with my boots, despite numerous helpful comments from the busy chairlift just above my head
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When I do tend to fall it tends to go like this,
"Oh poo-poo I'm going fast"
"Instead of thinkin how fast and scary this is, I should probably slow down"
"Oh poo-poo, too late"
Crash, Bang, Wallop
"There goes a ski"
"Sliding on your back head first is a strangely nice way to descend this mountain"
"I do hope I stop sometime soon"
Eventually stop, stand up and look down slope
"dangly bits, why is it everytime I lose a ski it ends up on that angle that it manages to still ski down the hill on its own"
Some kind soul stops my ski and waits for me to walk down or slide on back bottom
"I'm not bloody doing that again"
Ski like a 95 year old man for rest of afternoon, Apres as usual
Anyone else find this?
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RPF, always nice when a mate obliges to take a photo at the point of fall
I knocked this up at the end of last season and it probably deserves a repost, in frame 2 I'm most likely thinking why is the board no longer on the ground.
I accept the point about not falling = not pushing yourself. That's precisely why I don't push myself, I really don't want to fall or get out of control. It's not about progression for me, it's about enjoying my holiday.
that is (or should be) the most important thing for everybody.
Some people get enjoyment from learning more and doing more difficult things.
Others get enjoyment from doing what they know they can.
So long as you are not a danger to others or yourself, there is no reason why you should push yourself to "progress" unless that is what gives you enjoyment.
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