Deep Dark Fears in Skiing

Hamlet

Hamlet

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I worry that I will do a mute grab and pull the ski right of my foot, flying trough the air holding a ski in my hand.

What are your deep dark fears in skiing?
 
Knee/ACL injuries are the one fear thats always in the back of my mind when I ski.

Falling down chutes fucking sucks too though. Going too fast to control where you're falling and not knowing if you're about to slam into a rock or over a cliff is rattling to say the least.
 
13272497:.boz said:
Knee/ACL injuries are the one fear thats always in the back of my mind when I ski.
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I sometimes think I'm going land some trick a little wrong and tear my acl. I also think I might catch my tips and and fuck up my face.
 
Definitely ACL. I don't know if its true or not, but my employer told me that an ACL replacement surgery cost $100,000.00 (not sure what insurance would cover...) but that scares the shit out of me still.
 
As someone who has pulled a ski off a handful of times in the air, it's a lot less scary than you'd think. You wash out and hip check, like landing a bit off balance, unless you're like Dumont at X-Games 2009 where you pull off your ski and still stomp your cork 10s like a boss.
 
topic:Hamlet said:
I worry that I will do a mute grab and pull the ski right of my foot, flying trough the air holding a ski in my hand.

What are your deep dark fears in skiing?
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This has happened to me, tweak it to hard to fast and your flying through the air just holding your ski.

Honestly not that scary though, it happens so quick it took me a second to realize even what happened. plus i was fine
 
1) ACL/MCL accident. who isn't afraid of that?

2) not committing to a trick and bailing half way through

3) hauling ass down the hill, hitting some unseen bump or snow snake and eating shit at high speed

4) ACL tear. again just because it's what keeps me up at night
 
13272531:Charlie* said:
Definitely ACL. I don't know if its true or not, but my employer told me that an ACL replacement surgery cost $100,000.00 (not sure what insurance would cover...) but that scares the shit out of me still.
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lolol unless you have absolutely GARBAGE insurance it will be no where near 100,000

my fear is retearing my ACL
 
13272531:Charlie* said:
Definitely ACL. I don't know if its true or not, but my employer told me that an ACL replacement surgery cost $100,000.00 (not sure what insurance would cover...) but that scares the shit out of me still.
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I live in Canada, free health care bitch
 
13272799:fresh_prince said:
I live in Canada, free health care bitch
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You still have to pay for some stuff and something like this you have to pay fro then we still have to pay for our knee brace and pt so it is never compleatly free
 
hitting my head again, and avalanches. broke a small slab tree skiing last year and it scared the piss out of me. im also dumb and didn't report it to patrol, which is what you should do I believe.
 
13272953:DeebieSkeebies said:
hitting my head again, and avalanches. broke a small slab tree skiing last year and it scared the piss out of me. im also dumb and didn't report it to patrol, which is what you should do I believe.
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Huh? if it was just a small surface release in some trees, why would you report it?

i typically am hiking to the outer reaches of the resort to find fun stuff and my biggest fear is going headfirst into a tree well and not beiing found till the spring.

And being paralyzed. worse than quick death.

having a ski blow off and come up into my neck slicing my carotid artery.

maching down a groomer, having a ski blow off or lose an edge in the middle of a turn and go sliding/tumbling into the trees at 50+mph.

having a slab release on me while above exposure on something i was going to billygoat down because of the tight, shitty runout.

losing and edge and taking out a a gaper...especially a small child.
 
13272799:fresh_prince said:
I live in Canada, free health care bitch
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Can't argue with that. If you get hurt in US you're pretty much fucked even if you have insurance. If you have a serious injury and don't die from it, the hospital is going to financially kill you. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

No matter what the cost though, ACL tear is not on my to do list.
 
getting stuck in an avalanche and not being able to breath and getting stuck in a tree well and dying a long slow death
 
13273002:dgraves said:
getting stuck in a tree well and dying a long slow death
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Tree well?
 
13272982:Charlie* said:
Can't argue with that. If you get hurt in US you're pretty much fucked even if you have insurance. If you have a serious injury and don't die from it, the hospital is going to financially kill you. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

No matter what the cost though, ACL tear is not on my to do list.
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Lol, if you have decent insurance and are remotley responsible with your money, youll be fine. Might be different for canucks coming to the states, IDK. But americans who have their act together and arent knowingly risking it, will be far from financially ruined due to a medical emergency.
 
Last year I pulled my ski off grabbing mute mid 7 on a rather sizeable jump...right around 540 i yanked it off and i thought i was dead haha it led to some bruised ribs which sucked but it could have been alot worse.

Other than that ACL/MCL/anything knee related terrifies me
 
topic:Hamlet said:
I worry that I will do a mute grab and pull the ski right of my foot, flying trough the air holding a ski in my hand.

What are your deep dark fears in skiing?
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That exact thing happened to me...Lucky there was an airbag underneath!
 
The chairlift rolling back. I believe there is a video of it on YouTube from a mtn in Idaho(?) who expiramented it. Scary as shit.
 
definitely lift related accidents. My local hill had a lift roll back 3 years ago. I wasn't there that day, and no one was killed, but people who were there said it was chaos. So I'm always looking for a quick escape whenever I'm on a lift.

Also today I noticed on the "smart style" park entrance sign it warned of the possibilities of serious injury or DEATH in the park. It went straight to my head and I psyched myself out getting onto a rail and took a nice digger...

deep dark skiing fears are all in your head.
 
13273149:__skiara said:
The chairlift rolling back. I believe there is a video of it on YouTube from a mtn in Idaho(?) who expiramented it. Scary as shit.
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[video]http://youtu.be/D8rXiN_Oys4[/video]
 
Just got surgery on the ACL, never being able to ski as fully as I used too terrifies me

Also, Avalanches

And Fuck Snakes, even though they are unrelated to skiing those things are unnatural
 
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