Scariest crash you've ever had.

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cc-crew

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I have 2 that tie. (1.) I was 11 my mountain had a 45-50 ft jump, i was little so i had to tuck for quite a bit to clear it. It was a spring day after school with that weird kind of snow thats sometimes, fast sometimes slow. SO i tucked in knew something was wrong thought i was gonna knuckle so stayed tucked popped as hard as i could and took it to about 75-80 at flat and broke both my ankles.

(2.) This was recently closing weekend really nice 40ish ft jump. I was throwing sevens off of it which i was beggining to like them off a big jump versus a small one. I go to throw one and at about 270 my ski come off mid air... at first it didnt really click as bad to me i was just thinking get it to 7 and land/washout tom walnuts style. then i relized its really hard o spin with one ski took it really deep and landed at 630 instantly lost 2cnd ski and whipped my shoulder/ head into ground... saw stars

P.S have video of run before ankle break taking jump pretty deep
 
I know this is going to be pretty mellow compared to some of the other crashes in here but we all know the feeling of knowing that pain is coming and how terrifying that feeling is:

As soon as i came out of the butter I knew that I was too far forward to land. It had to do with the slush being soft enough that my noses sunk down pretty deep, the slush pushed back on my noses with just enough force to send me on a one way trip to doom. Though, have to thank the slush for saving me from a worse concussion, this one was very minor.

[video]https://www.newschoolers.com/membervideo/761072.0/Nosebutter-to-concussion?s=184731[/video]

Also a couple years back i was doing gaper butter 3s off jumps (where you just revert to set your spin), front edge caught, got sent upside down then knuckled on my back on ice and had a big ass hematoma for the next month and a half. Those memories of the feeling right before the impact are something that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
 
watched a guy under shoot and case a 35 footer. he double ejected and broke his nose and seized up. had to help him and got his blood all over me
 
I was straightlining a run this year with moguls/ice/chopped snow and my binding exploded out of nowhere (Marker Squires), causing me to crash going 120+km/h.

Broke my elbow and cracked my boot shell.
 
Entered a mogul field, and hit a cookie while going 55 mph. Tomahawked 30 feet down the hill. Thought I was dead, but I jus tweaked my knee
 
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Kind of a crappy picture but it shows the spot (there was a lot more snow at the time). I started at where the top arrow was and was going to hit the little jump thing that was part way down the steep part of the hill. I went down, popped, and went for a three. I must have been leaning a bit too far forward because I think I caught the front outside edge of my left ski. Anyways I hit my face on the ground and slid to about the other arrow and was unconscious for about 3 1/2ish minutes and had a seizure. Got a nice expensive ride to the hospital and took a couple weeks off.

I really like Powder Ridge and will always consider it my home, however I'm glad I'll be going elsewhere this winter. There's just not enough terrain to keep me interested, and the little that there is is not proper for what I want to do, case and point.
 
wasn't actually that bad at all but I feel better a lot of people can relate. I got cut off in very slushy snow but I could still get enough speed to clear the jump as it was the first time I was hitting it. as soon as I went off the jump I realized I couldn't make it. though the fall wasn't actually that bad the split second when I realize that it wasn't going to make it felt like a really long time. I guess you just don't like the feeling when you know something bad is gonna happen but you can't do shit to change it.
 
Skiing with a race coach and a sales rep at Sun Peaks a day after it rained to the top, so the hill is covered in about two inches of ice on slush.

Nuking down Blazer, waaaaay too close together. Race coach hits the brakes in front of me, and I throw them sideways to try and avoid him. Downhill ski catches an edge and now I'm airborne. Miss the coach by about two feet, and fly through the air backwards for about twenty feet. At this point in time I'm now facing backwards and coming back down to the snow. My tails catch and instantly slam the back of my head into the snow and then the rag doll began.

Helmet was toast. I should have gone to patrol. My brain was messed up for a few days.
 
Dropping cliffs in Vail. Too stoked. Threw a lazy three of a 20 footer. Stomped it, but was too focused on the chair above cheering and my steezy landing to notice there was a tree. Dodged it with my body, but it caught my right foot. Literally blew open my boot, entire tongue snapped and the thing was fccked. Only a minor contusion on my shin, but I had to ski down the rest of the mountain with one ski on. In pow. I only fell like 20 times though...
 
topic:cc-crew said:
I have 2 that tie. (1.) I was 11 my mountain had a 45-50 ft jump, i was little so i had to tuck for quite a bit to clear it. It was a spring day after school with that weird kind of snow thats sometimes, fast sometimes slow. SO i tucked in knew something was wrong thought i was gonna knuckle so stayed tucked popped as hard as i could and took it to about 75-80 at flat and broke both my ankles.
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serious doubt
 
First time ever going for dub back, that moment when you realized you didn't hold your tuck tight enough after the first rotation but its too late to stop.
 
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slid down this face first and only stopped by running into a bunch of brush on the side. thought I was going into the trees or the lift tower for sure. Some guy died in a similar situation this season.
 
I overshot a hip + bonk feature this season, landed from about 10 feet up to complete flat. Thankfully it was a warm slushy day (even though I think it was jan or feb), and I had the good sense to at least try to soak the impact with my skis, but I knew it was going to suck. I yelled some obscenities in the air, landed with both skis flat on the ground and immediately exploded out of my bindings (at an 8 din). I then rocketed forward and landed on my chest, slammed my sternum hard enough that I almost puked and my heart felt weird. Thankfully after a couple minutes laying there I seemed fine enough and skied the rest of the day.

Another kid was not so lucky on that feature and did the same thing I did a week later but got carted off by ski patrol. I definitely felt like I dodged a bullet on that one.
 
Like 2 seasons ago I landed my first 3 off a park jump. I felt like I stomped it pretty solidly and was on an adrenaline rush and decided I would try a 5 on the next jump(a jump I had never even hit before). I ended up coming 3 feet short and only spinning 450. Came down and slammed the knuckle with my downhill hip and rag dolled down the landing. Shit was not fun.
 
I uploaded this clip off my phone super fast just for this thread, so yeah the quality is kind of awful haha. It was my first try putting a blunt grab in a cork 7 and I forgot to throw it haha I just reached back right away. Scariest few seconds in the air but I sorta got my feet under me so I came out alright.

[video]http://youtu.be/OCC4_kbvoZk[/video]and then this one felt good until the last .25 seconds where I saw the ground and then exploded haha
https://vine.co/v/OtbZHMBH9bK

And here's the shots I got after that first bail if you're interested
 
A jump that I had backflipped the previous week had melted a little, I thought I still had enough air to backflip it. I ended up catching my tips and double ejecting hard but I was fine, just a bloody nose. @jerryoftheday on Instagram just posted the picture lol it's pretty funny
 
I had a real close call years back, that really shook me up.

I had signed up for a big air comp. And they had built an INSANE money booter on the front of the mountain just for the event. The jump was glorious, and I was stoked.

But they wouldn't let me hit it or rent any equipment (like a helmet) until my parents had signed a waiver.

My parents were running late, and I wanted to practice.. so I headed to the super park on the backside of the to get a few practice laps in.

They had a huge jump on the backside park that could fuck you up. Jump was 65+ feet and you had to straight-line it from the top just to clear it.

I had hit the jump a few times the day before.. so figured I had my speed dialed in. I was wrong.

and was a dumbass..

I completely forgot about the fact that it was early morning and right now EVERYTHING was SOLID ice.

I was the first person to drop into the park. I dropped in an straightlined for the biggest jump at the bottom.

Holy shit balls I'm going fast.. TOO FAST.

And as if that wasn't bad enough, the jump was FUCKED.

They hadn't groomed it and it was all choppy at the top. (my guess is they were so busy on the big air jump that they didn't even get to the backside park yet)

As I'm going off the lip of the jump I caught an edge HARD and it instantly threw me upside down.

FUUUUUU...

I'm completely upside down.. looking down at the ground.. am still going up in the air and realize I already overshoot the whole freaking landing..

oh shit. I'm fucked. The only thing I remember is saying to myself 'this is going to hurt!'

Next thing I remember.. I'm in a tobaggon, then I'm in a helicopter with IV's, and then I'm in ER.

I had no idea what happened..

But several witnesses and ski patrol saw me wreck, and they all said I was over 30+ feet in the air and landed straight on my neck on solid ice.

All the ski patrol who saw it was convinced that I was either paralyzed or dead.

They rushed to the scene.. I was completely unresponsive.

They called in a mediflight.. and flew me down to the hospital for head trauma.

Miraculously, I lived. no broken bones or serious injuries.. which is unreal. All I had was a severe concussion and some serious bruising. (which in contrast to death seems minor lol)

My memory was screwed up for the next few weeks, but all in all.. I walked away from it so am completely thankful..

I think that accident was really the tipping point for me. I knew that had I landed a little bit differently, that there's no doubt I would've been completely paralyzed or dead.. so I really took things easier after that.
 
Went past Gucci on a 15ft jump. It was my first time hitting the jump and took it to about 40ft onto the flat and broke my toe. My feet just exploded on impact and I didn't even pop out of my bindings. Didn't know it was broken so went back up and then felt, had to ski down basicslly on one foot 5000ft ish at Vail
 
I was scared shitless when I was trying a shifty 3 over like a 30 footer and I completely stopped spinning at 270 and thought I was gunna die. I ended but being fine but it was just scary as fuck
 
It was about 5 years back, an open competition was going down and the largest big air was a 60 ft flat.

The way it was designed, there was a 25 ft booter into a pitch and then slight curve towards the 60 footer. On both sides of the 60 footers there was 50 foot hills of snow going down into trees.

So everyone was starting to hit the jumps and people were beginning to stack and watch. Nobody went into the 60 footer switch yet, it was still pretty early.

I decided to go switch 540 truck driver into the 60 footer first. The snow was pretty soft and it was hot outside so I tried to get as much speed as possible after a 180 on the first 25 footer. To get maximum speed I took (by mistake, like a dumbass) the 60 footer in diagonal and booted off towards the 50 foot drop into trees.

As soon as I got at the second half of the 60 footer, I just knew I was gonna wreck myself. So I started doing switch 540 and mid spin I started flailing and crashed mid hill on the side... Lost both my skis on impact and tumbled all the way until I hit the trees down the hill. I wrecked my shin, luckily my boot took most of the hit and the plastic broke..

When I was in the air I just remember thinking : "I'm so fucked" and mid way in the air I heard the commentator going "HOLY SHIT" and then after my fall, everyone was silent. Some patrol guys arrived but I showed I was mostly fine

Was scary as f***
 
caught my edge on one of those things you tap and got a black eye. My scariest was when i was hitting a 30 footer on a poor visibility day. i thought the jump was a lot smaller and knuckled badly and fucked up my knee.
 
13407717:Gnaruto said:
watched a guy under shoot and case a 35 footer. he double ejected and broke his nose and seized up. had to help him and got his blood all over me
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Something like this happened to me on a windy day this year. I saw where i was going to land and didnt even bother trying to land it. I was ok but i felt a sharp pain in my leg and thought it was brocken for a few seconds.
 
When I was maybe 11, I was at my norquay on vacation. I was flying down a slope and at the bottom was a fairly sharp corner which was the bottom of the mountain. There was orange fencing on the edge of this corner as below it there was a forest with the odd rock. I flew round this corner way to fast, slid out and went straight through the fence. There was maybe 20m of slope without trees/rocks etc and then the forest started. I slid down head first on my back (so looking up at my feet) just praying I would stop due to friction rather than a tree. No idea how but my wish was granted about 10m deep into the forest without hitting a thing.
 
practicing for carinthia open I took the last inferno jump to the sweet spot but freaked mid air and hit one of my skis off and tumbled to the bottom frightful I tore my acl, fractured my thumb from chrushing my pole. I was fine and competed the next day and sucked :)
 
Christmas day this year me and some buddies hiked up to the top of peak 6 at Breck. Let me tell you dropping in with some skinny ass punx was the worst decision of my life. Had my dark lenses on a cloudy ass day I was unaware of how much speed i was gaining. Took one turn in hard packed pow and my tip dig in. Before i know it my face is in the snow and my toes are touching the back of my head along with an excruciating back crack/pop. Scariest moment of my life couldn't even stand up and got taken down behind a sled. Went to the hospital and with some serious pain meds I was good in about a month
 
not an injury but I fell doing a butter 5 once, my ski came off without brakes and it flew over the next knoll and i never saw it again. I spent like 2 hours looking for it.
 
13407714:john18061806 said:
I know this is going to be pretty mellow compared to some of the other crashes in here but we all know the feeling of knowing that pain is coming and how terrifying that feeling is:

As soon as i came out of the butter I knew that I was too far forward to land. It had to do with the slush being soft enough that my noses sunk down pretty deep, the slush pushed back on my noses with just enough force to send me on a one way trip to doom. Though, have to thank the slush for saving me from a worse concussion, this one was very minor.

[video]https://www.newschoolers.com/membervideo/761072.0/Nosebutter-to-concussion?s=184731[/video]

Also a couple years back i was doing gaper butter 3s off jumps (where you just revert to set your spin), front edge caught, got sent upside down then knuckled on my back on ice and had a big ass hematoma for the next month and a half. Those memories of the feeling right before the impact are something that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
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So reverting into a nosebutter makes you a gaper?

[video]http://youtu.be/z1i4YuS_FjI[/video]
 
13409682:kryptonic said:
So reverting into a nosebutter makes you a gaper?
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He means when you do a little surface 180 and pretend like it's a nosebutter. Then you do a continuing 180 off the jump.
 
13409685:L0gic said:
He means when you do a little surface 180 and pretend like it's a nosebutter. Then you do a continuing 180
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he clearly did a surface 180 and popped off his nose in that video. he deftly didn't pop into it like John did in his video.
 
Was hot lapping my park right before it was about to close. Went down a down tube and for some reason my edge caught dropping me 5 feet to my neck. I winded myself and my hip was pretty much black. Just that feeling like you know pain is about to happen is the worse.

Also, a month or two ago I was skiing with some buddies and picked out a gnarly pillow type line. I went of the first one and was going to turn but my ski caught sending me flying of another pillow. I went to hike up to get my ski, and hiking down to put my skis on my friend said, "just slide down you will be fine." So naturally I thought it can't be that bad so I start sliding. It was way steeper than he thought so I started ripping down. Trying to stop myself I accidentally got out of control and started sliding down towards a super narrow chute without skis on. I am able to get into a standing position and tried running down this chute that was 2 feet wide. I hang on to it until the last second and start tomahawking down the hill.
 
Late season Abay last year. Wide open run with SUPER soft mini-moguls and a bunch of dirt patches. Jumped a dirt patch, landed on the uphill side of soft mini-mogul, double eject, tomahawk about 150 feet, stick it, profit.
 
It all started early winter of 14'... Me and like 20 other kids were going skiing/snowboarding for a school trip (Winter carnival) Anyway, we had like 1 and a half hours until we had to leave and me and my friend (Saga_Fireman) had just gone through a nice little tree run that ended in a little pow kicker. So maybe 3 runs later I tried it again... rookie mistake. I got way too much speed and not really paying attention I ran right over a stump and it threw my knee right into a tree. Luckily I had a friend with me to help me down the rest of the mountain and trust me it hurt like a bitch. So later we were just getting ready to leave and I checked my knee, literally 3 times the size of my other knee. Haha i'm fine now but rides in the car over a hour long kill my leg.
 
Probably this year when I was going switch lip onto the easiest single barrel (done it dozens of times on this rail), caught my tip and smashed right onto my lower rib / gut area. They were afraid I ruptured my spleen, it was extremely painful. I had sharp shooting pain up into my shoulder for days afterwards, unbearable pain. Definitely made me nervous but all is well.
 
Dropped a cliff off piste at Livigno... My skis sunk in the slush and I tomahawked into a rock, breaking my back. I could barely breathe and now my summer plans are over.
 
Finally day of the season at blue moutain and i tried to ski across a 50 ft patch of grass in some glades. i had a decent amout of speed and about 5 feet in my skis hit a stump i ejected face first into a tree,
 
13410256:caucasian_chad said:
Pretty much any time I've fallen in a chute, because I know if I don't self arrest I'm gonna get fucked up.
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This. Ive never really had a brutal crash in the park, but I can definitely relate to that feeling of fear when you realize you overshot/undershot a jump.

Going down in a chute or an exposed face is terrifying. Worst crash I had this year was at the top of Lake Chutes in Breck. I dropped in and was traversing for a bit to reach the line I wanted when my downhill ski caught on a covered rock and I tumbled the entire way down. Worst part is, you know you're going way too fast to arrest and the entire time you're praying you're not about to fly off a cliff or smash into one at mach one. Got my hands shaking a bit for the rest of the day.
 
I've had two that top the list for scary for me

The two scariest ones were charging sidehits way too hard, the first one I found a jump with a stupidly uneven lip and no landing at the bottom of the lift so I sent it blind as fuck. Did half a lincon loop before I realized that my torso was landing on a pretty skinny, solid ass broken tree sticking out of the snow, mixed in with a clump of trees. My friends watched me fly like 10 feet in the air and 20 feet long into a small patch of trees and die.

The second one was drunk-rock sniping in the slushiest weather. 10 or so foot tall angled rock face, into a really bad transition with two rocks sticking up out of the ground on either side, the lip was literally a slush V where I hit. I missed the smooth transition and the clearing in rocks, I hit and flexed out without ejecting and went head first down the rock face as I watched the jagged ass rock come closer. I missed it but clipped the other side with my knee super fucking hard.
 
>skiing in rocky area right above cliff band that I'm about to huck

>hit rocks barely covered in fresh snow (didn't see the rocks)

>loose balance, know I'm about to fall

>tomahawk off middle of cliff band in highest spot

>know there's rocks in landing

>land on rocks

>tomahawk off those rocks

>tomahawk directly into tree at high speed

>break goggle lens

>big dent in helmet

>people from chairlift asking if I'm okay

>casually tell them that I'm fine and ask if they see where my poles are

>have to take two more runs to find all my lost gear

I was unharmed aside from having a sore mouth for like a month.

13410812:.boz said:
This. Ive never really had a brutal crash in the park, but I can definitely relate to that feeling of fear when you realize you overshot/undershot a jump.

Going down in a chute or an exposed face is terrifying. Worst crash I had this year was at the top of Lake Chutes in Breck. I dropped in and was traversing for a bit to reach the line I wanted when my downhill ski caught on a covered rock and I tumbled the entire way down. Worst part is, you know you're going way too fast to arrest and the entire time you're praying you're not about to fly off a cliff or smash into one at mach one. Got my hands shaking a bit for the rest of the day.
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>falling at the top of the Lake Chutes

That sounds gnarly.
 
Tried a nose butter off a 30ft jump but an edge got caught in the deep grooves made by people carving on the take off. Watching the icey landing while flying sideways was the worst feeling...I ended up with a bleeding ice rash on my arm so not too bad
 
40' with a ton of pop. First jump of the season. Went riding with friends from another mountain. Everyone wanted to scope it out. I was like fuck it, I'll send it.

First run of the day, first real jump of the season. Straight tucked into it like my stupid self usually does. Ended up peaking in height as I was going over the knuckle.

Also this mountain built true tables in the flats at the time. Jump was at the bottom of a steep hill.

Anyway completely cleared any sort of landing, and landed dead flat. (That flats are probably technically like 5 degrees or something) Also There was lots of ice to cushion the fall.

It wasn't quite a simon dumont, but I legit wasn't even close to catching any of the landing slope.

I had a tweaked out grab the first 3/2 maybe half of the air. Then started flailing when I realized how completely fucked I was.

I tried to skip off my tail of my board to save my legs. Hit so fucking hard. I'm not sure if I remember the impact vividly or am going off of reports from people. But basically park crew was sitting there near by and ran over cause they thought I was donezo. Ski patrol got there and tried to help me, and I got up and tried to get away and then collapsed.

Ended up getting super lucky. Cracked a vertabre and broke my femur in a bunch of spots(concussion too maybe? I can't remember) and I think that was about it. I honestly think I did the landing about as good as possible, straight to the legs I might not have been walking for a long time, straight to the back, well I'd probably be toast. Also as said above got super lucky.

I kind of wish I had a video, but then am also glad I don't. Even though I didn't get hurt THAT bad idk that I'd be able to watch it.

To me, there's all kinds of bad falls, anything can end horribly, but over shooting something to that extent, I don't think there's anything scarier. Even when you accidentally send a jump to the very end of the landing you're like HOLYYYYYY FUCKKKKKK in the air and get that feeling of OH SHIT OH SHIT.
 
Trying to go as big as i could in the Eagle superpipe, got a huge hit, then went into the next hit and launched a bit too out, landed halfway in the deck and frontflipped into the middle of the pipe, tomahawked way bad and hit my head way hard, bloody back and stuff ya know
 
I have two....

I just learned 2s on and I thought if I spun faster I would get a 4 on easy but my skis flew off and I slammed straight on my back really hard.

Another was when I threw a superman front flip and I barley got it around to my ass.... Scary ass

hell...
 
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