What would you do if you could not ski anymore?

Isabelle

Isabelle

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what would you do if you got paralyzed or for some reason you could never ski again? I was thinking about this I was wondering what other people would do.

Like Tanner Hall says in Like a Lion "No I don't think I could be happy without skiing" and that were my thoughs exacly, and is living life still worth it if you could not be happy? just wondering what you guys are thinking.
 
have more money.

actually, it would really only get to me when my buddies are heading up to the hills. Since i have to travel a bit to get to decent skiing, it wouldn't be a slap in the face every morning. It would just suck when everyone else is going, and im not.
 
there are sports similar to skiing, so i would probably take up something like that, but if i was actually injured.. that would suck. and if you are paralyzed then you can't feel your penis. so if that happened i would probably just kill myself. except i would film myself and have shows where i do "death defying" stunts. only to have an "accident" cause the death of a "beloved public figure." and i would be that "beloved public figure" from having a long long career of doing "death defying" stunts all the way up to my death where an "accident" caused my death during on of my "death defying" stunts.
 
die in my sleep.

fall into a very deep depression.

if i could still roll around in a wheelchair, like my upper body worked, i would just fucking rip the wheelchair all day. dub flips.
 
if i can't ski because of old age:i'd start playing old chicks @ the retirement home...
if i can't ski because of serious injury, let's say i'm in a wheelchair:try backflips and other radical stuff on my chair....
if i can't ski simply because of some divine intervention:do one of the other sports i love doing...
even tough skiing means a lot to me, and i'm willing to dedicate my life to it, i still think that i'd pick up something new rather quickly, i just can't sit still and do nothing/not be stoked about something ....

and, inb4 masturbate fiercely !
 
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HOLY SHIT!! you guys have seen the wheelchair kid that does backflips (dub actually)??? what if someone started that for skiing?? like extreme special skiing with a twin tip and some special bindings to a chair, and like twin tipped special pole ski things. it would only suck if his binding pre released him from his chair. but that would be sooo illll!! no one has done it that i know of and could you imagine that guy sliding a box and pretzling with his pole skis??? that would be soooo illl
 
Honestly my passion for skiing is being phased out more and more with my love for motorcycles and bicycling. When I was in highschool and my parents financed skiing, it was my favorite thing to do all winter, and I got close to a hundred days of skiing in a year. now that I have to pay for everything myself, and go to school full time and work full time, skiing is not only a cost-prohibitive, but also a horribly time consuming (it takes 12 hours to drive up, ski for 8-9 hours, and drive back), so I can't budget for skiing any longer, and only ride 10-20 days a season. hopefully I'll have more time for it in my future, but I basically can't ski any more.

So to answer the question, ride bicycles. and motorcycles.
 
Damn that dude is a major badass. If i couldn't ride anymore I'd play a whole lot more guitar and would probably learn a lot of other musical instruments i have wanted to pick up.

And I'd do a shit ton of snow tubing duhhh
 
Yeah, he is pretty amazing.
He surfs all the time. Skis in the winter.
He is now an outside sales rep for about 6 different companies.

So... not being able to ski anymore means stephen hawkings status. In which case, I lack that sort of intellegence and would probably just read all the time until I got sick of it and then i'd find people to donate my working organs and save some lives.
 
Continue playing guitar, have a more steady girlfriend. Make a lot more money; probably get better grades, listen to less vulgar music(or not). I think I made my point
 
marc-andre belliveau.. he was paralyzed in 2006 (I think that was the year).. since then he slays the sit ski.

I think I would sit ski too.
 
During the summer time when skiing seems so far away i get depressed just thinking about it. But waiting for winter to come is what keeps me going. I always know i have something to look forward to.
If skiing was taken away from me and i didn't have that thing to look forward to the next winter i would definitely have to come up with something else to do that would give me the same kind of feelings that skiing gives me.
For me that would probably mean moving somewhere equally as beautiful as mountains, but with no mountains like to hawaii or some other island. Swimming in the ocean and being in the sand and having the chance to be on the water ever day would probably be what i would have to do in order to keep my mind from constantly being pre occupied with the thought of skiing and not being able to ski.
 
i don't really like the way you said 'is life even worth living if you can't be happy'. my grandfather was left paralyzed from the sternum down after surgery to remove an infection in his spinal chord. are you suggesting he should just x himself because he can't take his boat out and go fishing any more? you find other things that make you happy. life's too short to feel sorry for yourself and get hung up on your inabilities. believe me, if you ended up paralyzed, not being able to ski would be the least of your concerns. you're back to baby steps.
 
i agree.

yes, a lot of people are like "yeah, skiing is my life, blablabla" but most us would have other issues as not being able to ski.

life wont end with a spinal injury, although it would suck hard at first. depressing people might not be able to pull themselves out of this hole, but most people (like that awesome guy in that vid above) live on.

on a semi-related note, i feel the same way about people with mental deficits. from the outside looking in, you might think that they have a life not worth living, when in the end most of them appreciate life more than any of us.

i dont say i could say goodbye to skiing/sports in a heartbeat, but i am pretty sure i could find other stuff after getting used to it.
 
i remember this interview thingy in teddybear crisis (got to be an oldschool movie for most of you, lol)

tanner is like (he was hurt in that season, this ankle thingy, you know?) "taking away skiing from me is like taking medicine away from a dying person".

i dont like that statement at all. same with the quote in the OP. i know, if tanner was to die next season while skiing, these quotes would appear in every other sig and stuff, but after all, i dont like that shit.

to say it in other words, no disrespect to CR (NO, not at all, he is a legend, not because he died, but propaganda and sm3 were one of my first movies, he was one of my idols back in the early 2000s), but i highly doubt that his "the joy i get from skiing, is worth dying for"-quote was 100% serious. with having a family and everything, i am not sure if he is regretting all that stuff.

with that being said, rip CR and every other guy we lost over the past years.
 
Well I don't think I could find anything that would make me as happy as alive as I feel when I Ski, I have a knee injury at the moment and i've been really depressed, and just waiting to get back to skiing to start living again. thats how this feels like, and I don't think I could get back to living if I didn't have another day of skiing to look forward to. skiing gives a meaning to my life.
 
dont whine and look for sympathy over a knee injury. my grandfather's life was destroyed because he had a sore back, and here you are saying that you wouldn't want to live if you couldn't ski, and that you're depressed because your knee hurts..
 
youre just digging your hole deeper every minute. this "dont judge me, if you know nothing about my life" is just too stereotypical.
 
i am not a father who lost his wife and son

i am not a guy who lost two brothers

we all have enough to eat, clean rooms to live, hell, we even have separate rooms for watching tv and for sleeping, let alone a separate toilet.

with that being said, mourning about how it is tough if something minor as skiing is taken away is highly inappropriate. i love skiing, dont get me wrong, get about 80 days in per season, but there are worse situations imaginable as not being able to ski.

i am lucky to have that, but i wont cry if its taken away from me, because WE ALL were winners in the global lottery when we were born in canada/US or western/northern europe.

grow up. having to eat and a warm roof over your head is worth more as skiing. i hope you understand that.
 
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