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k2slopesurfer

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. sorry, i'm going to timberline for feb 29-march 3rd... an aasi event or, i'd move my dates up. have fun!
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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!
  8. <--- female BTW, and not a rookie beckmann, sorry i forgot to genuflect before i gave some friendly advice
  9. Bugs.... I can no longer view the forum from my tablet.
  10. 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)
  11. I was in softies when I sustained my head injury, on an almost deserted blue slope, with fresh manmade snow, just crusing with a skier buddy. As an instructor and buddy of ski patrol at my mtn, I see way more people of lesser skill, (skiers, or boarders) get a sled ride down the mountain. As a rule hardbooters seem to be more in control, and the frequency of injury is reduced. Certainly though, as we get better as skiers or riders, we take more risks, and I sat ot the rest of the season because of post concussion syndrome, but I am not giving up on skiing, softies, or hardboots. For reference, I also enjoy kayaking, and climbing, but stopped riding my sportbike 2 years ago.
  12. Shipping to 27603? Thanx:biggthump
  13. Last January I decided to meet up with a new local buddy and road trip up to Beech Mountain. It was my first day on snow last season, and my last. I hit a little roller in a snowblower fog and dug the nose in some softish manmade. I face planted with my helmet and some huge goggles and still managed to split the skin on my right temple. Or so my buddy tells me. I remember nothing of that day, except when he dropped me off to my partner 9+ hours after my accident. 4 hours in er, 2 cat scans, and 3.5 hr drive home, plus the time it took ski patrol after I snowboarded to my car and asked him who the heck he was! I apparently cracked up the patrollers, and the er staff, and later the 2nd er staff because apparently me with a head injury is like a drunken comedienne (after I got home and hours later couldn't stop vomiting, I got to have a third CT, and told the nurse that not only was it not my first time, but that I am a certified ski AND snowboard instructor...) Diagnosis: Grade 2+ concussion (would have been 3 but no LOC) initially told no physical activity for 3 days, and no activity in which i could sustain even a slight knock to the head for 2-3 weeks after cessation of symptoms. That turned out to be 3 months, because I had headaches, don't remember the 2 weeks following the accident, and had trouble finding the right words when speaking. ( That was the worst, as I have always been a pretty verbal person, and it was frustrating to be unable to just say the word "apple" if that was what I wanted, for example.That lasted the longest, still had some problems 7 months later.) So I sat out the entire season and have a trip planned for february 6-10, 1 year and 1 month after my accident. I have already purchased 2 new helmets, and plan on taking it easy. Yay Helmets! Hope you heal quickly TB!
  14. hey j Now that my brain is all healed:freak3:, maybe I can trip on up to Beech too!:D I got 2 new helmets... hopefully I only need the one. p.s. I saw on SSE that u wanted some standards for teaching the boys, I gotta pair of snowpros I'll loan ya.
  15. Nice try... luckily, my better half knows my finances better than I do, and has a nice medical insurance policy...
  16. First day of the season on softies in fresh snow (and new manmade) I was having a lovely day on nearly empty midweek slopes. Or so I'm told, I don't remember driving to the mountain, the day at the mountain, and only bits and pieces of the next 4 days. (I think some of that is due to percocet.) Apparently, I hit a roller on a trail that we had gone down many times before, landed a little forward in a pie of new manmade, and did an endo onto my face. Thankfully my goggles and helmet took the brunt and I didn't end up with a fractured skull. I did end up hitting the ground so hard that I split the skin on my left temple. My ski buddy realized something was wrong when I couldn't remember who he was, or even what year it was. $150 copay for er in BFE. cat scan, sent on 4 hour ride back home with buddy. (don't remember the ride) Get home, intractible vomiting, $150 copay for er in the city, 2nd cat scan. (out of network, $232 extra for that) sent home with drugs. Slept most of the next 4 days, follow up with Doc 1 week later, still having short term memory issues, told that I am out for at least a month, valentine's day possibility. So, as a certified ski and snowboard instructor who isn't allowed on snow, I guess I'm SOL. But hey I'm alive, and I ordered a new helmet so I'll be ready when I can get back out.
  17. all these comments about her ankles and nipples, and inserts, and all, but all i keep seeing is what looks like a toilet upon which she is sitting?!?! is that a reminder for your heelsides?
  18. I live in North Carolina and my local Harris Teeter has both the Aero chocolate bars, and Bob's choclate digestive biscuits... just let me know if you still need/want em.
  19. Lmao! Too funny! I grew up in St. Charles Parish, in Luling. I lived in the city starting around age 15, and my last place during college was in the Lower Garden District, half a block off the parade route. We did the Jazz fest thing last year, but I'm going down this time so I can go to Disneyworld with my Grandmother and my nephews... Somehow I doubt that'll be any cooler.:smashfreaBut you know how it is, just couldn't say no when she asked. And as for the "eaux," my first two semesters in college at age 16 were spent at "Harvard on the Bayou" in Thibodeaux. My friends in NC laughed when I told em we had pirogue races in the bayou every spring. Ok, to get back to the original topic, I would have been extremely interested in trying new liquors back when I was in college, so have fun with that.
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