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First aid

You have to appreciate the kinship of the cameraman who does his best to aid the victim despite the running commentary and obvious amusement -- payback time cometh.

Slow, no air but pretty grisly

This is one of those with little glamour to it. Slow, no air and in what looks like pretty ordinary conditions. The impact is not good.

Ski jump fall on synthetic surface

A few  things about this one:
-shame it was not a better camera angle
-the audio reaction is somewhat understated
-where is this glamorous resort that is built on a slag heap?

Big, big air

Massive air and little to be done about it after launch but every chance that guy is lying in the snow thinking ‘wow, someone has to have caught that on cam.’

A landing as bad as you will see

Huge air followed by a shocking landing – just needed a bit more speed and air time but those small margins…

Wrong line – finding a pebble in the Atlantic

“Go left dude and fast!”

Really great powder line and then bang, very, very wrong route. Impressive ability to find rocks in what is an untracked off-piste paradise .

Too much or too little commitment?

This one is hard to call, it seems like a progressing snowboarder who wants to move on to the next level but wasn’t quite ready for it. The result of the indecision was  a pretty heavy landing.

Flat and tarmac – a bad combination for a landing

At some point during this road gap jump the rider must have realised the landing was going to be bad. Added to that were the numerous onlookers who saw this one coming.

Overcast, miserable snow and a landing that ends seasons

This was likely to be the last jump for a while. This is definitely one of the ones that lacks any positives.

Second day on skis and circa. 20m air – hero!

Light reprieve – this had to hurt but at least there was visible movement from the victim. The cameraman has a great time watching from the safety of the rear of the camcorder. The best thing about this one is that it is apparently the second day ever on skis for the ‘victim’. In that sense whilst there are harder impacts and bigger air out there if you calculated a skill/experience to impact ratio then this guy would be podium material. In the gloomy light I think you can even make out the denim ski pants – this guy is an absolute hero of ours.