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Whos fault?

MidnightJester

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Wow talk about TAG-TEAM partner coming in to STOP that interaction. Wild video
Here is a more complete breakdown of what happened and a more complete video.
According to the comments, the first snowboarder slipped out while hitting a jump and collided with the skier in black. While the skier and snowboarder were handling the situation, the skier in blue came in and started yelling and pinning the snowboarder to the ground with his ski poles between his legs. The snowboarder attempted to push the skier away, and the skier responded by hitting and stabbing(poking) him with his poles.
 

BenedictGomez

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It is what it is, snowboarding has blind spots that skiers don't.

This became reality today. A snowboarder came from behind me & from my right and plowed into my right ski boot from behind. How I didnt fall I have no idea, but he exploded himself so violently his magnetic goggles blew apart.
 

Edd

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I saw this on TikTok last night,... what a whack job! Completely the skier's (he was on tele skis BTW) fault.
With that attitude and lack of skill he should hang up his boards forever and direct his rage towards being a shitty golfer.
 

kendo

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That's definitely a Huntah accent. You can recognize it anywhere, especially on the Belt.
 

kendo

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Tele-skier should be thankful ... boarder saved him from the carnage of rocketing into the trees. Expect this isn't Tele's first or last dust up with a boarder!
 

skiur

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I posted this on Kzone, but it was hard to take that blowhard serious with his deep Boston accent and intense rage...

That's where I saw it, some people on kzone were saying the boarder was at fault, I've tried to find some blame on him but just can't besides him being a boarder.
 

deadheadskier

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I've seen the argument made so many times about boarders making wide and dangerous back / blind side turns being at fault in these kinds of collisions. This guy wasn't making such a maneuver. Even if so, I still say that the uphill skier / rider always needs to yield to the downhill one. Making exceptions just complicates things.

Costanza Fd up here. And now he's a star on the Internet for behaving like an entitled A-hole.
 

JoeB-Z

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Odd that he did no tele turns. I see now they are when he puts the one on. Turning any skis with your shoulders ... The boarder was too polite.
 

letitsnow1

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That guy was so over the top, it makes me think it was staged but you never know there's lots of whack jobs out there. It was clearly the skiers fault if it's real. He needs to learn how to pass, when the boarders turning left pass on the right or vice-versa
 

SkiingInABlueDream

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In addition to everything already mentioned, another major common sense fail I see here is that the skier tried to pass in the narrow space on the left when there was a much wider space on the right of the boarder. This is one of the clearest examples of "who's wrong" I've seen in a long time. NGL, I also can't help somewhat wondering if it was staged. The skier is so perfectly hateably wanna punch in the face douchey over the top😅
 

Edd

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Boarder wasn't turning much prior to collision; he seemed to be very much "holding the line". I'm amazed the skier wasn't wearing a football jersey and jeans, he's the quintessential Joey.
 
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