Whos skied a whole winter without falling?

[frozencorn]

When I was a kid, I used to brag about not falling the whole day. But you gotta fall if you're going to challenge yourself on the hill. I'm not talking all-out wipeout, but falling is part of the whole deal.

 

[FRITOLAYGUY]

I guess the key is knowing how to fall when your about too. I still havent figured that out yet, i always end up in some awkward position that looks like a scene from the twister game.

 

[Brettski]

Depending on the steepness of the hill...when I start to go down, I would try and pop back up by pushing off...works pretty much...

See when we used ski in packs before kids, if you were down, you were fair game to get snowed by any or everyone with in range.....good incentive to get up quickly...you could always feign being injured...but that only works once...

 

[Zand]

I had a streak of 24 straight days last year going. From about day 10 and on, I wasn't really pushing myself trying to keep the streak. Some pople I skied with really tried to get me down, some even trying so hard they took themselves out. Finally, at Okemo in March, I decided to go down a 1 mile long bump run, and was in a good groove. Finally lost it and went down. Funny thing was the last time I had wiped out before that was in the bumps at Wachusett, exactly 369 days before that. This year, I'll be pushing way harder as I don't care if I get a streak going or not. I went a full year so I accomplished what I wanted to.

 

[riverc0il]

we should seperate out the "falls" which can be pretty harmless and look innocent enough, from the total and complete yardsales :lol: man, i always have a good laugh when i loose half my gear cause of a really nasty fall

 

[teachski]

A nice DMC fall at a VERY crowded Hunter Mountain

Those damn snow snakes!

It's nice to see a snowboarder carving and actually turning, rather than side slipping...you are ok DMC, you can hang around. :wink:

 

[NHpowderhound]

teachski wrote

Those damn snow snakes!

When I was first leaning to ski I remember seeing a sign on the Bretton Woods lift towers that said "Beware of snow snakes".
"WTF are snow snakes?" I thought to myself. Diddnt take long to understand.
((*
*))NHPH

 

[eatskisleep]

I used too be able too but not anymore.

 

[BeanoNYC]

If I'm not falling, I'm not pushing myself enough therefore I'm not learning.

 

[ga2ski]

I fall at least a few times every day... I constantly push myself into different types of terrain. I try and carve turns too low for a freeride board and fall... I try to stay tight in the line when I'm skiing bumps and fall... I haven't let myself go enough to fall telemarking yet.. The falls are scarey with the free heel..

"No falls - No balls"

If you are not falling you are not trying hard enough.

Plus I often get attacked by those snowsnakes.

DMC - I agree that tele crashes can be scary, especially the "mouse traps". I don't know which is worse a mouse trap on a board or teles. Mousetraps on teles are facefirst, but you might catch yourself with your hands. A few of my mousetraps on the snowboard, knocked me unconscious (sp?). One of the reasons i don't board. Luckliy none of my moustraps on the free heels have lead to me seeing stars. (knock on wood)

 

[dmc]

A nice DMC fall at a VERY crowded Hunter Mountain

Those damn snow snakes!

It's nice to see a snowboarder carving and actually turning, rather than side slipping...you are ok DMC, you can hang around. :wink:

Don't tell anybody... But there's lot's more where I come from

 

[BeanoNYC]

What trail is that DMC? Eisenhower?

 

[Geoff]

I last fell about a month ago. We were skiing on 8 feet of new powder at Valle Nevado. Even on heli-skiing boards with a huge amount of float, it was thigh deep on me and I'm 6'3". I was transitioning from untracked to cut-up and didn't absorb a clump of cut-up properly. Walked out of a ski and shoulder-rolled. My wife commented that she couldn't remember the last time I'd fallen. I probably average 60 days per year and I might fall a couple of times per year.

As I've gotten older, fatter, and have more failed body parts, I've been skiing much less agressively. In my 20's, it was no big deal to make 20 extra turns in the bumps beyond where I was exhausted and launch over the handle bars. I'm now in my late 40's, have no ACLs in either knee, and a shoulder that's been stapled back together. I'm still mostly on the ungroomed stuff but I stay out of the big bumps. With modern equipment, it's pretty easy to stay centered and let the equipment do all the work.

 

[thetrailboss]

Last season I fell three times...all at Sunday River. The first was due to some HUGE powder bumps after the MASSIVE DUMP during our vaca. The second two, one a somersault after crossing skis and the other just loss of control of skis, were purely the result of fatigue--five STRAIGHT days of skiing. :x It hurt, but nothing wrong with skiing that much! :beer: TWO powder days as well! Worst of all the latter falls took place on BROADWAY, the flattest trail at SR!

 

[BeanoNYC]

Worst of all the latter falls took place on BROADWAY, the flattest trail at SR!

Confusious says: When man climb a tree, he is safer at the top, than when closer to ground.


He also says: Man who who stands on toilet is high on pot.

and

man who farts in church, sits in his own pew.

 

[dmc]

What trail is that DMC? Eisenhower?

Lower CrosssOver

 

[Marc]

Worst of all the latter falls took place on BROADWAY, the flattest trail at SR!

Confusious says: When man climb a tree, he is safer at the top, than when closer to ground.


He also says: Man who who stands on toilet is high on pot.

and

man who farts in church, sits in his own pew.

Man with hand in pocket feels cocky.

 

[dmc]

DMC - I agree that tele crashes can be scary, especially the "mouse traps". I don't know which is worse a mouse trap on a board or teles.

At kicking Horse a friend of mine went over the front of his tele skis in a steep chute... Took a ski tip to his upper lip... It was a bloody mess.. HE's a hockey player so he didn't thinjk it was that bad.. But we eventually haued his ass down to Golden for stitches...

 

[skibum1321]

I last fell about a month ago. We were skiing on 8 feet of new powder at Valle Nevado. Even on heli-skiing boards with a huge amount of float, it was thigh deep on me and I'm 6'3".

I hate you :wink:

 

[Marc]

I think at an AZ gathering this year, several members should find a fairly empty trail, ski in a line across the width of the trail, and all fall at the same time.


And someone else taking pictures.




The AZ avalanche! Imagine the possibilities...