ski & snowboard crashes from the dark side
This video crosses the line I am afraid – I cant even manage a wry smirk – it is a shocker. Skip it if you are faint hearted, it is a pretty bleak crash. The next one will be more uplifting – promise!
There is little redeeming in this picture, save the fact that it only goes knee high – image © Skidiots.com
Skidiots are not restricted to making serious errors in the powder, air or terrain park – they can do their wrongs in ski shops as well. I will fall off my skis if I ever see a leopard skin pair of ski boots being worn as retro fashion – I think these boots were a one-off designer signature boot. They are quite terrible as was the rest of the skier from boot up but from my perspective you still need to admire this woman’s detached sense of reality.
Great air but it went wrong in the final sections – nicht gut! The last rotations are pointing toward a messy landing and they don’t get too much worse face plants than this one.
This guy must have been buzzing until the impact. Nice switch and landing in what is a fairly confined area and then bingo (or lotto if you are on the continent) champagne podium moment over mein freund.
This one wasn’t even close – 200 feet too far! I think they need to find the envelope where they sketched this one on to see where it went wrong.
The second box slide was really pretty elegant but the exit was not good – that must have been some extreme pain.
The crash is a shocker but you keep going back to the opening frames and thinking how? How the hell did this one develop? Maybe some fogging in the goggles?
I really hope this skier was OK but one other thing caught my eye, despite the impact and the loss of both skis they still managed the full box -- nice job.
……alas, no, nein, non. He breaks many fashion rules but crucially sets off on this Alaskan descent with just his golden locks as cranial protection. Early into the route his straight skis throw him out and what follows is a less than controlled descent.
This goes wrong from the off. The jump is made on a football field -- you know the margin for error is tiny. It kind of looks like he scored though on landing 