Injuries: L or cost of doing business?

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gnarley_marl

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I cracked ribs on the dfd at Big Snow a couple weeks ago and I broke my fifth metacarpal clean which required plates and screws a year and a half ago at snowbowl. What frequency of injury do you tolerate? Would you say these are a big L or just a part of pushing myself?
 
All about risk management to lessen you odds of an injury. Set yourself up with a good chance of success, make sure the bad case scenario isnt too bad, and learn how to fall. At the end of the day, its cost of doing business but you gotta keep the costs low so business can boom
 
That's just show biz baby. Only a true loser would take a battle scar as a "loss". You'll be back up and rippin soon bro. I broke my t12 and came back next year to stomp all sorts of new tricks.
 
14557458:KilaTsunami said:
That's just show biz baby. Only a true loser would take a battle scar as a "loss". You'll be back up and rippin soon bro. I broke my t12 and came back next year to stomp all sorts of new tricks.
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T12 wow yeah that’s gnarly! I definitely trend more towards getting up and moving forward, never going to take the L for injuries. I took a few runs after the rib hit and then went back again 7 days later.
 
All part of the game. Everyone is different though. Some people will get injured more and people tolerate injuries differently. Some people will go roght back no matter how gnarly a crash was. Other people will slow down. Age impacts this as well.

I'll be honest I'm relatively scared of gettin injured these dsys and it def impacts my riding in the park.

If you love it though, it does feel nice to prioritize riding though even for a period of time. Yiu will get hurt in some form. Pretty much impossible not to. But if that joy of learning tricks and skiing with your friends is worth it, then send it.

As mentioned doing preventive stuff and staying strong helps a bunch. Also keeping the reps up. If you're not feeling it some days maybe start on the smaller stuff and warm up. That confidence boost can go a long way
 
Its all part of the game. If you couldnt get hurt in the sport, everyone would be ripping tripple cork 1800s by now.

Skills and good judgment are the best factors to prevent from getting hurt. Risk management is to be taken seriously to avoid ending up in a situation where you could get hurt. If you dont fall, you dont get hurt!

Some days I can flip off 40ft cliffs and some others, I can barely land a 360 on a side hit.

In 34 years of skiing, Ive got a lot of overuse injuries (ankles, knees and a cool abdominal hernia). But Ive never ended up in the emergency room.

Prevention is the best tool to stay off the injury bench when you do crash. Staying flexible and having strong muscles go a long way but they dont prevent concussions or broken ribs.

Like my MTB bro told me: If you dont get hurt, you havent tried hard enough! When you do, just means you gave’er that day.

I do wear my injuries with pride.
 
I try to not push myself to the point I get hurt, I definitely progress much slower as a result but all the skiing I missed due to injury as a result of that is like a week due to a broken thumb, then I skied casually in the cast. Personally, it just isn’t worth missing time on snow from sending extra hard to progress faster. I just love skiing too much and without it for long periods of time I’d be crushed. Not to mention the cost financially of getting injured frequently.

Totally makes sense to push yourself to that depending on your goals however. For a lot of people it is just part of the reality of skiing and in some ways you can never truly escape it as our sport certainly comes with its inherent risks. And to get to high levels of skiing it’s almost required to deal with injuries. All about your goals and risk management.

**This post was edited on Oct 14th 2023 at 5:07:47pm
 
Learning how to fall/bail without getting hurt is huge. I've had my fair share of injuries but each one has been a learning experience. Also letting yourself wash out is often a lot safer than trying to save a trick.
 
Sometimes you have to learn the hard way that the mountains will always be there but you won’t if your dumbass just has to get after it and send it to the moon off a side hit the day after a three day cold snap with an average nightly high of -3 Fahrenheit made Cannon a skating rink.

**This post was edited on Oct 15th 2023 at 12:38:17am
 
An injury could be an L for sure. Some of my biggest L’s didn’t even come from my biggest sends, so keep that in mind.

my hardest / most painful fall was on a single barrel that was ~18 inches off the ground. Was cooking in hot for a switch lip like I’d done many times, caught my tip under the rail and basically did a disaster to my spleen. Cost of doing business there bub
 
This is going to sound pretty lame, but as I've aged I've placed more of an emphasis on injury prevention and I really wish I did it sooner. I try to stretch every day before skiing, stay fit in the off-season, and take way more calculated risks compared to when I was younger. Unfortunately for me that meant gradually trading my park thrills for more all-mountain/pow-day thrills. My goal is to have fun skiing for the rest of my life. Also, getting off of my parents health insurance was a huge motivator not to get hurt anymore...
 
depends on how you hurt yourself imo. I concussed myself last season doing something really dumb and that was definitely an L. Often it's just the cost of doing business as you said. So many injuries just happen randomly and aren't really preventable or predictable
 
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