k2slopesurfer

Add me to this one, again. On March 2nd, day after my birthday, I was softy carving on a super wide black with some skier pals. Two fresh inches on perfect cord. Wide 6 lane highway type run, and I am sticking to smaller radius turn on boarder's right. I see a skier stopped on the left hand side and continue my line. Two turns after I saw her stopped, I am on heelside and see her coming straight at me. My only option was to crank a quick toeside. I almost made it. Bottom of my board hit her skis and boots. My helmeted head and face smash into the hill, and my right arm is killing me! I push myself into a kneeling position to see my buddy with his go pro staring at me. Skier chick has lost her skis and her hubby is looking down at her. She stands up and has zero injuries, but doesn't know how to put her skis on on a slope. Her husband says, "Don't worry, you will get the hang of it honey.":smashfrea I tell my buddy I am ok and board down after the skier chick and hubby leave. When I get to the bottom, I take off my goggles and have scrapes and cuts on my face and a black, swollen eye. They are all worried about my eye, but I think I messed up my shoulder. Upside down mountain so I ride the lift up and trudge to Ski Patrol with buddy's wife. I get some ice and a sling, and turn down transport to the ER. Spend the rest of the day chilling in the condo and get a friend to drive my car the 7 hours home the next morning. (My car is a standard, and his got totaled in the lot.) The next day, at the GP, they do Xrays of elbow and shoulder and tell me no breaks, so sling, drugs, and rest see us in two weeks if not better. Blah Blah blah! Two weeks later, they can't fit me in so I get Ortho referral. He trusts me that something is not right and I get an MRI middle of the next week. Schedule an appointment with Ortho to get results for the following Monday, 1 day shy of a month after my injury. He suspected rotator cuff, but immediately tells me on Monday, that I have some edema and inflammation but no rotator cuff tear. Instead, I have lived and worked for the last month with a non displaced, y-shaped fracture of the humeral head that basically cuts the ball from the rest of it and then cuts the ball itself in two! :angryfireWTH! I have been mowing my grass and all that , and NOW they tell me it is broken! I haven't been taking any meds and my Doc is convinced I am super human. More Xrays in 1 1/2 weeks, and As long as there has not been any migration, I will not need surgery, yet. By the way, I have video of this and xray and MRI I will upload soon.

My first car was an '81 Impala. 350 engine, crappy tan paint job, vinyl seats. It had a busted grill that made closing the hood an operation in which I had to sit forcefully on the hood. But it ran well, gas was still under a buck a gallon in louisiana at the time, and I could lay fully across the back seat and sleep it off if I hit the quarter too hard. It still ran when I let the city of New Orleans keep it a few years later. (I wasn't paying the towing fee that was more than i paid for the car, lol.

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sorry, i'm going to timberline for feb 29-march 3rd... an aasi event or, i'd move my dates up. have fun!

I want to vote yes on the skiboards too... you can even get bombers for em. http://www.skiboardsonline.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=bomber_elite&Category_Code=bindings&Product_Count=6 I have used a pair when I was working on body position over my skis for moguls. They can handle faster and steeper than you would imagine.

get them a lesson. you will have more fun. they will have more fun, and likely more success. I am certified, and still don't teach friends.

twice...

Thanks Ray, 3800 I got had small scuffs on topsheet and storage marks on base, near minty for such an old board! Didn't even look like it was mounted once?! It even came with a stomper and bomber sticker. Happy camper. Thanks, Jessica

I ski in much the same manner as I board, so i guess that's why I follow mostly the same lines. I usually attack the slope the same way. Though, I must say, I usually go midweek, and I generally slide with instructors, and they usually let me go first, being "the girl." I generallly have only been hit while instructing, either by students going pretty slowly, or by the idjits who refuse to take lessons and decide to hit the greens instead. Those collisions usually involved me trying to protect my students by being upslope from them. Luckily, since I was a supervisor, I was armed with a pair of wire cutters and "red cards." Red cards were pretty cool, as the offenders could get their pass back by watching a safety video in the office and reciting the code after. Generally okay reactions, except for the father of the 14 year old who slammed into my skiwee class of 5 year old skiers. The father chased down my class and cursed me out in front of them!

$$$ sent :)

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<--- female BTW, and not a rookie beckmann, sorry i forgot to genuflect before i gave some friendly advice

Bugs.... I can no longer view the forum from my tablet.

Fun video! jealous of the snow. Sorry, I don't have input on shops for you, but tell your honey to keep her hands more in front of her with her poles more vertical, and bend her knees a little more, good habits for her to start, looking great for a newbie. (FWIW I'm a certified ski instructor)

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