Snowboarder Hits Kid on Skis>Kid's Dad Hits Snowboarder With Kid's Ski

The level of absolute incompetence with general skiing in this thread is ridiculous to me. The father and his son have every right to be going down a run that looks rather beginner in the first place and even if it was a blue run they can be on it and should have reasonable expectation not to get drilled by some out of control snowboarder.

I remember when my brother was just starting out and my dad took him down a green run where he then got drilled by someone completely out of control. The idiot ended up breaking my brothers arm despite hitting him with less speed than it seems in this incident. That single event pretty much ruined skiing for him for the rest of the year and it took quite a while for him to regain confidence. I'm not saying that this excuses the fathers violence and I would certainly agree that he overreacted but I remember when my brother got hit my dad picked up the other skiers ski and looked like he was about to murder someone but didn't end up hitting anyone, he just picked it up so they couldn't leave and had to wait for ski patrol to throw them out.
 
Id be pissed as fuck to if that was my little guy. Should the man have hit the kid? no. Does he have a right to be fucking pissed? absofuckinglutely
 
Why is this a 4 page thread? The snowboarder fucked up but he apologized and stayed cool... That gaper dad is a complete disgrace to all of skiing the way he flipped his shit like that right in front of his kid and if i was the snowboarder i wouldve beat the shit out of that fucker right in front of his kid
 
watching this i really can't tell if the little kid was really stopped or if he just ski's as -2 mph, we've all seen those type of young kids who ski literally the entire width of the run barely moving. Anyways, the snowboarder is totally at fault, not that he was riding excessively fast, but it was a crowded run. it's an unfortunate accident and hopefully nobody was too seriously injured. too bad the snowboarders just end up looking like a bunch of punk asses cursing the guy out and then taking off (although I probably would have apologized and gotten away from an adult that was trying to beat me up too if I was that kid)
 
The dads a goon. My dad would have whacked me for skiing completly sideways on a crowded trail. And MAN look at all those snow plowers!
 
the dad straight up assaulted the snowboarder with a weapon (ski).

i probobly wouldve stuck around and gotten his name/involved ski patrol. especially with that footage
 
It was that little faggot's fault, the boarder was going downhill, then she started going straight across the hill (this is alpine, not nordic, dumbfuck kid) without looking uphill and yielding to others. Therefore not only was she in breach of common sense but she was also in violation of the responsibility code. I'm no fan of snowboard faggots, but in this case the skier kid was in the wrong and the snowboarder did absolutely nothing wrong. Not that I'd really hold it against her, she was just a kid, but it was still her fault. Or her dad's if he told her to go. And yet the snowboarder still apologized, making him even less in the wrong.

This might be the first and last time I defend a snowboarder, but fuck those skiers.
 
Watch the video again and read the responsibility code, bro. The skier kid was at fault in this case.

'Before starting downhill or merging onto a trail, look uphill and yield to others.'

'Do not stop where you obstruct a trail or are not visible from above.'

inb4 'Always ski in control and be able to slow down or avoid other skiers and objects', regardless of how much control you are in, you don't have much choice if someone runs into your line only a fraction of a meter in front of you. Snowboarder did nothing wrong.
 
You should never be in a position where someone can run into your line "a fraction of a meter in front of you". That's part of staying in control.
 
Totally the kid/father's fault. If you're merging onto a trail from the side, it's your responsibility to look up and make sure you're not cutting anyone off. I didn't even see the kid until it was too late.
 
Let me guess, it's also out of control to ski within a few meters of the edge of a trail? It's out of control to straightline a couloir that's too narrow to turn in? It's out of control to ski in a thick glade where making a wrong turn means hitting a tree? No, skiing *near* hazards is perfectly acceptable. That kid running in front of the snowboarder is no different than if I'm skiing a coiloir and a rock randomly falls into my path, or I'm skiing a glade and a tree randomly falls a foot in front of me.
 
If I hit a kid like that boarder did, I'd deserve a beat down. You're at fault if you hit someone, no matter how much they suck.

As a dad, I can't say I would have destroyed that snowboarder or not, but I would have wanted to. Maybe I would give him an option of taking a punch or being turned into patrol, though I think the punch would be the respectable thing to take...

As for the people who would beat up an agro dad for being pissed that someone hit their kid, you have no clue what it's like to be a parent. If you did this, you'd punch yourself in the nuts when you eventually become a parent and realize how much you fucked up by hitting a kid and then the kids dad... Think about it...
 
Yeah I kind of agree with this, and its not like he took a full swing at the guy, he wacked him on the top of the helmet with the ski like a football coach would do to a player that messed up. Yeah its an ugly situation but I doubt that snowboarder is going to run anyone over again.
 
That doesn't even make remotely any sense. If he hit the kid on purpose, yeah, maybe, but if it was an accident, it'll do absolutely nothing.
 
He deserved to be hit much harder than that. I can absolutely understand the dad blowing up. What a fucking battler
 
Agreed I woulda fucking boot stomped him he could have seriously destroyed that little dude. People need to learn how I ride before go poring as they flail down the hill with no control
 
I'm 99% sure he used his gloves fist watch and you can see he swings with his free hand I feel the ski was for If the buddy wanted to jump in. Either way it was a massage compared to the hit that boarder put on the 60 lb girl
 
You don't sound bright enough to deserve to have kids.

The idiot deserves a low grade assault charge. He was not defending anyone, and had no business hitting the kid. Did the kid deserve to be cited by ski patrol? Yes, but that does not justify the actions of the idiot father.

Mr. Huck is exactly the sort of person who should not reproduce.
 
From Mr.Huck - "I wouldn't beat up a kid, and I would have been checking to make sure my kid was OK. I would have ripped his Gopro off his helmet and turned it over to patrol at the bottom so they could have seen what happened."

He didn't say he would do the same thing. While he understands where the dad was coming from (as most dads would) he would have taken a better route.

Another quote from Mr.Huck-

"Anyway, I'm done with this thread. I apologize for coming across as "Dickhead Dad". There are other dads on NS, and they will tell you that your perspective changes a lot when you have kids. Rational thought goes out the window when one of them is threatened."

He's exactly the type who should reproduce.
 
No way that you can blame the snowboarder 100%, it was an accident and he definitely took responsibility and asked the kid if he was okay, the dad on the other hand didn't even care. Sure, the rider who comes from above has to look out but if that idiot of a father stopped in the middle of the slope and just pushed away his kid without looking he is the one to blame. HE has to take responsibility and look out for his kid, HE knows that he is in a public ski area, HE isn't the only one aloud to use the slope. HE should know better/be more careful than to just push out his kid in the slope.

How many times haven't you skied and a gaper or a kid has just made an turn you definitely couldn't see happening, or not making a turn which results in that the gaper/kid moves in to your planned way down. In those moments, its you who has to turn away, which clearly the snowboarder does when that little girl comes in his way. The snowboarder could have gone in to the dad and the kid even if they were standing still and I would still consider them to share the blame. Once again, other people is using the slope and if you are standing in the middle of it and something happens above that makes a skier/snowboarder to make a sharp turn, brake or such he should have the place to do that.

The dad should have been in a kids slope. And you talk about speed, clearly he wasn't going warp. The dad is also standing, what it looks like, beneath a corner and where the slope seems to get a bit steeper which makes him harder to see.

The snowboarder has some kind of responsibility as well but not nearly all of it. I would say 50/50 maybe, and the dad definitely doesn't see his part in it. You shouldn't take your kid out skiing in big slopes if he isn't ready. Even if the snowboarder hadn't crashed in to him, what says that the girl hadn't? The kid is going straight over the slope and would probably didn't make a turn or would be able to move out of someones way, rather to get in everyones way. A kid that young can't make perfect turns and he would zig-zag his way down over the whole slope, he is going to be an obstacle.

since they share the blame, the snowboarder came out as the good guy for asking if he was okay and the dad comes out as a fagbitchtitsidiot for acting like he did.

Sorry for sounding retarted, but my english isn't that good and it is hard to wright so it makes sense when you can't get all the words right. Here is a picture of a Swedish falukorv.

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That snowboarder has no ability to read a situation. The up hill person is always at fault and he wasn't leaving himself much room to stop or avoid anyone. I buzz people all the time but you have to be able to read movement. He did not. He was behind two people and managed to hit both of them. In the end it's his fault.

Plus, the first three minutes of the video were him sitting under a fucking roller like a tool.
 
This is probably the stupidest comment in the thread, comparing a little kid skiing slowly down a green run and a tree falling in front of you? Jesus dude you are a special kind of retarded.
 
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