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feihlination

feihlination

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lets say 20 years?

and i mean in regard of increasing risks/injuries. easy maths: more people do it, more people will get injured while skiing.

it strikes me when i see doubles done by guys that cannot do switch 7s or other guys that dont feel like a 3 is a fundemental thing that is needed to go for a cork7. then i know skiers that cant do a 1 over a 30 ft kicker but tell me they wanna go for a double superman front next week (and i ski with them, they WILL/ARE doing it, its not just claiming).

now i built up my point and its time to draw my conclusion: imo, serious injuries will increase to a level we dont want it to, in the progame and in the amateur-area. imagine a fatal/paralyzing accident on national TV (xgames). this would create an attention for our sport that we dont want to have and it would cause insurances to raise their rates for skiers (i even know a case where an insurance cancelled a contract because of ski injuries). and by that point i think we all would have to look for some kind of solution. i love skiing, but if i cant afford insurance, then i cant do it anymore, because of the injury risk and the costs that even a minor surgery (for example) causes.

so, i dont know how we will counteract that (maybe freeski-clubs like oldschoolskiing did), but it will happen. it happened with freeride-mountainbiking when they shut down red bull rampage, for example.

how can we prevent this?

and please dont hate. its just my thought that we depend more on the insurances than we think and if they make deficits with skiers, we all know what they do.

 
An increase in the number of people doing the sport will create an endogenous increase in demand for safety equipment.

In 20 years time, skiing will probably be more dangerous, but safety equipment will probably be cheaper/ have better technology, health services will be better. So there is a good chance that injuries per capita will in fact decrease.
 
but at the same time how much can you really protect against landing on your head and breaking your neck? i mean with how huge people are going even now a helmet can only do so much. look at kevin pierce. he was wearing a helmet but with a fall like that you are still going to sustain extensive damage. and people are only going to be going bigger. i just dont know if equipment can keep up
 
i have had 22 broken bones and 5 reconstructive surgeries, about 15 and 4 of which were skiing caused. i have been denied from colorado state insurance and vermont state insurance because of the risk and yeah it sucks a lot. i still ski just as hard as ever because i would rather be dead than not ski to my top ability but it is a major financial and health risk. i'm only 25 but its about the same age as the oldest non ncaf newschoolers (tanner, jon, etc.) and it happened to me already. by the time kids who are growing up watching wallisch are my age look for more broken bones and more surgeries. in 20 years there will be way more stories like mine and it sucks because i really like skiing.
 
Sucks that the U.S. has no universal health care. I mean, it really really sucks. Why can't it just happen? No more worrying about insurance.

And that's quite a horrendous record also. Wow. Just. . . Wow.
 
oh that bitch i saw a facebook group for snowboarders against her she's so damn stupid it's just silly
 
haven't seen you around the forums in a while... geez, sounds like you've had a tough time since we talked last. I haven't had any serious skiing injuries yet... knock on wood.

good to see hear you're still going for it though. come ski some pow if you find yourself in the kootenays.
 
but guys what while happen when they can repair spinal cord, it isnt impossible i think

i just read a really intressting artical in summer!!

then how big they are going when probobly nothing happen!!

it is really scary when you ride with someone than you hear omg she is fucked up

broke her neck!! it is a kind of scary!!

just go skiing if you love it you dont have to throw down doubles!!
 
There might not be as much skiing, because there won't be as much snow. Over the past couple years, since I've started skiing, I've noticed more rain and less snow each year where I ski, which is a place that normally gets a lot of snow.
 
you didnt got my point. of course medical progression will help to heal even more serious injuries than now.

but i thought that insurances and resorts will eventually control our destiny in a way that they wont provide us insurances and parks. i just meant that it takes one dumbass 10-million-lawsuit against whistler, mammoth or whatever because someone broke his back or got some other serious injury there and the thing could be done. maybe there will be a park for permitted skiers of a club, but this whole "free" thing could be over very fast.

i dont say that this is unavoidable or anything and i dont even hope that it happens, but who knows
 
i dont think it there will be tons of laws against mammoth or other resorts!! i think there arealso tons of sign like on your on danger!!
and it is your own decision to hit really big obstacles!!
but what will happen in future nowbody knows it!! thanxs good!!
 
what a dumbass she said that the reason snowboarding halfpipe is more dangerous than ski racing is because of the speed and the ice
 
omg, that's for sure 1 more person that goes on my list of people i want to punch in the face....
only one point of sense that i could draw from her explanation and that is the fact that organizers of commercial freestyle events care more about ratings then about the actual sport and the athletes...
just look at last years x-games where alot of athletes were injured because the course was so gnarly and simon wins it with a crowdpleaser ....^^i don't want the sport progressing in that direction either ....

 
^^word

see in china these days, snowstorm and everything? mid-europe the same, a crazy winter like it hasnt been in a dozen of years. of course there is a warming, but we dont know what will happen and its pretty sure that my mountain is skiable as hell in 20 years.
 
Skiing has turned into Gymnastics. all the flips and twists and everything is getting crazy. Kevin Pearce landed his dub cork a bunch of times before he had his accident. All it will take is one 12 year old kid attempting a back flip or something out of his ability and his parents sue the pros for making this stuff look to easy. Stupider law suits have been filed. kmon if OJ can get away with murder, Rodney King can get away with being on PCP, stealing a car and driving drunk, then sue the cops for beating his ass. Anything is possible. I love watching the park rats but you never see them falling when doing this stuff. Like all the urban stuff, its cool but there are real consequences arent really worth it unless your pro.

Like the dude who broke 25 bones or something, like how do you hold a career with that, you have to be in the hospital constantly or physical therapy. I can see loving the sport, but I wouldnt wanna put my future at risk for doing a dub flip. Like he said, he cant get insurance because of it and you can run up medical debt real quick and work forever to get out it.

I have been sky diving like 4 times, i have been white water kyaking and rafting more. Those are some extreme things and give you hardcore adrenaline. I would rather chance jumping out of a plane again then try a cork 5 because the risk is to great for the cork 5.

I thought marking the trails with dfferent signs would stop people from skiing out of your ability. With the different size hills, you can at least see, holy Sh*t, i will hurt myself. WIth parks and rails, its all about "i think i can do this" I am all about putting my life on the line, but for something i can continue to do. Park skiing and jibbing is just a phase. Tanner is seeing the light, you cant ride park forever, its not worth all the pain, look at his tatoo as proof. We have to look at where the sport is going and change it because I dont wanna see it go away from gapers trying pro tricks. Line catchers was the future of skiing, it combines all the aspects of the sport, except, you have to learn to ride. Many riders of today have forgotten the purity of the sport. Tanner Hall was right with wat he said when he was wasted.
 
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