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According to research for the National Ski Areas Association in the US, snowboarding has less risk of ending in serious injury than skiing. Jasper Shealy, a professor emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology who has studied such injuries for 40 years, concluded that snowboarders are about 30% less likely to be killed on the slopes than skiers. However, they are 50-70% more likely to get injured....Source and more details: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/jan/17/skiing-snowboarding-study-deaths-injuries
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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 if those stats are right, given that the chance of being killed on the slope is exceptionally small, I'll go with skiing, thanks.
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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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in other news scientist find drinking leads to being drunk
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Hmm...no mention in the grauniad of the possibly quite large number of skiers, being an older demographic who peg out by heart atack on the slopes.
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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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It is probably quite difficult to get seriously injured or killed sitting about in the middle of the lift station exit, 
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Thornyhill, damn, that was going to be my joke! 
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Mmm, most skiers probably die of boredom during their interminable conversations about angulation.
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Richard_Sideways, don't forget inner tip lead...
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What an unbelievably poo-poo article. No mention of sample sizes in the 'research'.
And the comments /opinion from the so called experts take inanity to a new low.
None more so than this
[quote]...Skiing columnist Gabriella Le Breton says she has never seen so much snow so early, though the conditions have been changeable "The temperatures have been erratic. I went from minus 33 in Gstaad [Switzerland], to plus 3 degrees in Val d'Isere [France], in a matter of days..."
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Advice from the Mail...
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| Shorter skis can lower the leverage on legs and help prevent tibia and fibia breaks. |
so, who's for blades! 
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