Your most spectacular fall ?
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Started by Moogy in Ski Chatter 08-Dec-2011 - 36 Replies
Iceman
reply to 'Your most spectacular fall ?' posted Dec-2011
Does falling down 6 steps tonight on the way home from work count? Had big golf brolly, 60mph gust hit me and I took off and went down the steps! :twisted: :shock:
The Northern Monkey. Jan'23 Les Arcs
Acarr
reply to 'Your most spectacular fall ?' posted Dec-2011
Why it's Mary Poppins :shock:
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GummyBear
reply to 'Your most spectacular fall ?' posted Dec-2011
Austria - Mayrhofen - Harakiri.
Pretty much speaks for its self eh ? Anyway, for anyone who has skied the Harakiri plenty of times knows that a patch of ice usually develops on the skiers right just bellow of the knuckle where it stars to get step....However, i didnt as it was my first time. Went down there full steam ahead not knowing what i was in for when i slepped on the ice and got swept straight onto my a*se and started to fly down the 78% degree slope, but this wasnt the worst of it, little did i know that avalanche barries were also to my right ! As the snow sprayed in my face i got glimpes of the barries and lucky directed myself away from them but still flew off the run and into some deep snow where i rag-dolled and ended up having my buddy dig me out - who was in histarics by the way. We then spent the next 20-30 mins digging to find my skis and poles as they were skattered all over the place !
I laugh about it now, but think how lucky i was not to hit them barriers, ouch !
Pretty much speaks for its self eh ? Anyway, for anyone who has skied the Harakiri plenty of times knows that a patch of ice usually develops on the skiers right just bellow of the knuckle where it stars to get step....However, i didnt as it was my first time. Went down there full steam ahead not knowing what i was in for when i slepped on the ice and got swept straight onto my a*se and started to fly down the 78% degree slope, but this wasnt the worst of it, little did i know that avalanche barries were also to my right ! As the snow sprayed in my face i got glimpes of the barries and lucky directed myself away from them but still flew off the run and into some deep snow where i rag-dolled and ended up having my buddy dig me out - who was in histarics by the way. We then spent the next 20-30 mins digging to find my skis and poles as they were skattered all over the place !
I laugh about it now, but think how lucky i was not to hit them barriers, ouch !
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Iceman
reply to 'Your most spectacular fall ?' posted Dec-2011
*tut tut out of control on unknown pistes* :roll: ;)
The Northern Monkey. Jan'23 Les Arcs
Ian Wickham
reply to 'Your most spectacular fall ?' posted Dec-2011
GummyBear wrote:Austria - Mayrhofen - Harakiri.
Pretty much speaks for its self eh ? Anyway, for anyone who has skied the Harakiri plenty of times knows that a patch of ice usually develops on the skiers right just bellow of the knuckle where it stars to get step....However, i didnt as it was my first time. Went down there full steam ahead not knowing what i was in for when i slepped on the ice and got swept straight onto my a*se and started to fly down the 78% degree slope, but this wasnt the worst of it, little did i know that avalanche barries were also to my right ! As the snow sprayed in my face i got glimpes of the barries and lucky directed myself away from them but still flew off the run and into some deep snow where i rag-dolled and ended up having my buddy dig me out - who was in histarics by the way. We then spent the next 20-30 mins digging to find my skis and poles as they were skattered all over the place !
I laugh about it now, but think how lucky i was not to hit them barriers, ouch !
:mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Far Queue
reply to 'Your most spectacular fall ?' posted Dec-2011
I think the best one I have had was on the mens downhill course in Lake Louise.
About 2/3 of the way down you come over a ridge and hit a shortish steep bit. Not really sure what happened, but I suddenly found myself no longer on my skis :shock: I could not stop myself at all, and am sure I was accelerating as I slid for the best part of 80 yards down the piste towards a left hand bend. Fortunately, the catch netting had been put up prior to a competition, and I can honestly say, it is very impressive in the way it stops you when you hit it.
I passed the two buddies I was skiing with on my back, and they both nearly wet themselves laughing as I floundered down on my back :shock:
The good news, throughout all this, I kept both my skis on and both poles stayed attached, and I simply stood up in the netting and was back out on the piste before the others were even half way down the bit I had slid :twisted:
It was probably this single event which caused me to start skiing with a helmet, as I was totally stunned at the way I just accelerated down the slope on my back.
About 2/3 of the way down you come over a ridge and hit a shortish steep bit. Not really sure what happened, but I suddenly found myself no longer on my skis :shock: I could not stop myself at all, and am sure I was accelerating as I slid for the best part of 80 yards down the piste towards a left hand bend. Fortunately, the catch netting had been put up prior to a competition, and I can honestly say, it is very impressive in the way it stops you when you hit it.
I passed the two buddies I was skiing with on my back, and they both nearly wet themselves laughing as I floundered down on my back :shock:
The good news, throughout all this, I kept both my skis on and both poles stayed attached, and I simply stood up in the netting and was back out on the piste before the others were even half way down the bit I had slid :twisted:
It was probably this single event which caused me to start skiing with a helmet, as I was totally stunned at the way I just accelerated down the slope on my back.
OldAndy
reply to 'Your most spectacular fall ?' posted Dec-2011
I feel totally indequate ........
I don't have any brilliant stories about amazing falls. :cry:
Mine all seem to be of the very silly variety rather than the wow variety.
:XD:
I don't have any brilliant stories about amazing falls. :cry:
Mine all seem to be of the very silly variety rather than the wow variety.
:XD:
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Moogy
reply to 'Your most spectacular fall ?' posted Dec-2011
Far Queue wrote:I think the best one I have had was on the mens downhill course in Lake Louise.
About 2/3 of the way down you come over a ridge and hit a shortish steep bit. Not really sure what happened, but I suddenly found myself no longer on my skis :shock: I could not stop myself at all, and am sure I was accelerating as I slid for the best part of 80 yards down the piste towards a left hand bend. Fortunately, the catch netting had been put up prior to a competition, and I can honestly say, it is very impressive in the way it stops you when you hit it.
I passed the two buddies I was skiing with on my back, and they both nearly wet themselves laughing as I floundered down on my back :shock:
The good news, throughout all this, I kept both my skis on and both poles stayed attached, and I simply stood up in the netting and was back out on the piste before the others were even half way down the bit I had slid :twisted:
It was probably this single event which caused me to start skiing with a helmet, as I was totally stunned at the way I just accelerated down the slope on my back.
That sounds exactly like what happened to me!!!!!!!!! lake louise downhill course 1997....no netting to catch me though, luckily i went past the trees and not into them! I have to show erindoors exactly where it happened as every skier goes past on the mens and womens downhill race......"thats where i almost killed myself"
Whats the chances! :D
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Topic last updated on 14-December-2011 at 15:31