Your worst skiing crash/crashes?

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I don't know if there already is a thread for this, but I'm just curious to hear about other peoples experiences. So if you would like post how your worst slam/slams went down, feel free. If you have a video or pics to share that would be even better.

 
I'll go first: It was on a medium size kicker. I came towards the jump riding switch and I caught my tip trying to do a 360. I think I sort of turned my body around and landed on my stomach, I wasn't very lucky though. The landing was quite hard and I fractured my rib. Other than that, I've been really lucky actually, never really broken anything, although I've had some sketchy moments here and there.
 
One of my freinds was learning three of the first park lane at breck and he wound up and hucked way early and buttered 1 then caught an edge and basicly dove backwards into the knuckel were he folded in half. he got a concussion and strained his back pretty bad. My experience was i went for blunt 3 and dropped my shoulder reaching went cork and my face was the only thing that hit the knuckle. i just had a really sore nose for like a week.
 
went for switch 3. on like a 25 step down. started my rotation way to early caught my edge at about 90 degrees flew forward double ejection mid air to shouldering the knuckle. i thought i popped it out but it ended up alright. thats probably my worst.

OOOORRRR

the time i overshot a 20 footer took it to almost flat on a 1 and my body whipped backwards i hit my head broke my helmet and got a concussion. happy that my helmet did the job
 
i did the same thing except i collided with a little girl who was in the landing. she was fine. i knocked myself out
 
I just did a little 180 of a little roller on the bunny hill just fuckin around with my friends. I would have landed it but i didnt know the landing was solid ice so as soon as i stomped it my feet just slipped out from underneath me and i landed right on my back. It still gets extremely swollen but the only thing i truly hurt was my pride.
 
over shot jump to flat... went HUGEEEEEEEEE!. broken tail bone and messed up back. but the chiropractor has been helping.

and one time i was fucked up and i thought this bump would be a good double to jump so i jumped into a an up hill slant and hyper extended my knee.
 
Last weekend at Okemo I overshot the 55 by about 30 feet, almost to flat. Minor concussion, back is still pretty sore. I'm lucky the snow was soft. Other than that I shattered my kneecap on a rail, but that was just a freak thing, the slam wasn't even bad at all
 
powder day at vail i tweaked my ski funny. not really sure how it happened but it sent me out of my skis down a 15 foot cliff to like inverted hill and my ankle exploded on impact.
 
i probably should have rested longer than i did, but i was back out in 2 weeks shredding hard. i just didnt want my season to be over haha. but tomorrow will be my last day on the slopes, then i am starting physical therapy for my bicep
 
closing week at Breckenridge and for some reason there was a super g course set up at the top. I got in a tuck on my twin tips and got going really fast. the next thing i knew i was in a mogul field both of my skis popped off and i tomahawked 4 or 5 times then came to a stop and slid took me a minute to come to but i skied the rest of the day
 
today, on gaper day, i do a huge daffy over the 30 footer, then decide to hit the next 30-35 footer and speed checked once, like everyone else. but for some reason i came up short, knucked the shit out of it, basicly, basicky exploded on landing, head between legs, both skis off, cartweeled dome the landing. it felt like somone had packed dynamite in my boots and lit it off when i landed. my heels/ feet hurt soooo bad.

it sucked, but i doubt its my worst crash
 
turns out landing on pure wrist isnt as fun as it sounds...

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i was hitting this 55 footer for the first time and going up to the jump i leaned back too far and i landed on my back. it didnt hurt cuz it was power though. i havent had that mant bad crashes though.
 
I blew up on a 25 footer into a somewhat steep runout a couple weeks ago. backslapped which sent me into a 50 yard ragdoll. skied away with just a sore shoulder which was nice. real scary though.
 
there was a wood rail on the way to the secound moutain lift at keystone and i hit it sideways and hit a knuckle in it and faceplanted in the rocks/ice cause it was spring skiing so i got a concousin and got knocked out
 
Recently spring skiing/ gaper day.

Took a 30' step down with plaid shorts and a white collared shirt and ate it. I gashed my fingers and legs and it was so cold I could barely yell SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
one time i cased a jump and there was no way i was gonna get enough speed for it that day, so i decided to skitch behind a snowmobile. i overshot it by about a hundred feet but i was back on skis in 3 months.

and this one time i caught the front of a rail and cut my lip open pretty good
 
probably my worst injury skiing is when i almost broke my thumb trying to pick my friends pole he dropped while i was skiing really fast. Besides that a bruised tailbone like 6 years ago snowboarding and thats it
 
I remember bruising my tailbone aswell, that's pretty much why I quit snowboarding and started skiing. You must have had some slams on the DH bike though, am I right? ^^ I actually had to sell my bike, just kept on crashing... xD
 
Mine was just like this today except i wasn't going switch.

My ski went straight into the box (it was an up box) all the way until my binding was going really fast so i flew and then hit the box. Didn't hurt too bad a bruise on my hip. I get back up not knowing my ski was in the box and like 6 of my friends were standing near the front of the box. As i get closer i see that my ski went straight in and they were all trying to pull it out. I thought for sure my nose of my ski was gonna be messed up super bad but finally after like 6 tries we got it out. i only had a topsheet chip.
 
last year i went to fast into a 50 foot table. landed at the bottom of the landing on my head. i don't remember hitting the jump at 3:30 till about 8:30 in the hospital. luckily only a second grade concussion and 3 days off of snow
 
Tore my ACL off the bone last year, overshot like a boss doing a 7. That hurt, rehab right after surgery also hurt. Trying to bend a knee that is held tightly straight does not feel good.

This didn't hurt alot, but seeing as we have some overshot stories going on I will share. The other day at sugarbush I overshot the last jump by pretty much the entire thing. They reshaped the jump and the gap is alot smaller haha, I took that think a good 60 feet and probably 15 vertical. Twas scary.
 
underrotated a 7 at windells to knuckle. Knocked unconsious for 15 min and had a seziure. Luckily I don't remember about 2 hours of that day.
 
stretched and bruised tendons in my hip. Broken ribs. Tried gapping 15 feet from a lip to a different rail, caught my edge, 3/4 of a lincoln loop later, laying on the ground and cant move.

2 months later, my hip was finally completley healed.
 
A couple weeks ago I was learning flair in the pipe. I throw it right on tramps so i attempted it on the left wall. I ended up doing an oop cork 540 and landed at the bottom of the pipe wall. dropped 22 feet to my hip on sheer ice. nothing broken but i could barely walk for a week
 
doesnt compare to any of anything in this thread, but here goes:
today, at sugarbush, i was hitting this 45 degree wallride thing trying to pop off the end and grab tweaked safety. i guess i loaded up my upper ski too much on an angle, and it slid out to the top, i pretty much did a split on the wall, and then in the air, then i landed on my side on hard-ass ice from about 5 feet in the air.
felt pretty good.
 
Hit a jump too fast, cleared the landing to the flat, landed sideways, caught my edges and Rodeod to my feet with out a scratch, bruise or any pain. STOMP! The new trend is doing the trick after you landed
 
I was ski racing when I was little and once slipped, crashed through the security fence (don't know the english term for it, sry) and smacked against the chairlift pylon. This all happened at about 60mph and I was unconscious for about three days. I was 13 years old old back then and my confidence was definately gone - I had to really be convinced to go back on the hill. I won a national cup 2 years later and finished ski racing as I had just continued to "get over it". It's certainly something that still influences the way I ski, because when in the backcountry, the one thing I'm afraid of and try to avoid at any cost is falling and then sliding down. Not scared of avalanches, not scared of hitting a rock, not scared of crashing hard and hurting myself. But losing control and then being helplessly exposed to gravity and whatever comes my way...really scary! :/

This was the lift...

http://www.abload.de/img/200303230010-st-moritz9phy.jpg
 
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