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Craziest snowboarding injuries....?

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#1 ·
I have heard everything from ripping your asshole open and shitting your pants to torn ACL's and broken bones...

What is your craziest snowboarding fall/ injury?
 
#2 · (Edited)
I fractured my leg after slipping out on a nose slide and having my leg right under my knee be the only point of contact as I fell. It was the first day of the last week of this past season. I went everyday that week..

another incident this season was be doing a bonk hit off the lip adjacent to a rail. The take off wasnt really sloppy, and it had a dip in the middlie, I caught air off the dip, hit the lip funny and came down head first, got a concussion. got up (I dont remember this) finished my run, pulled off a cab melon on a 15ft table, and a few other worthy hits. according to my friends it was my best run of the night, but I dont remember it
 
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Skullplanting on ice off a jump and denting my helmet. Wouldn't be here right now if I didn't wear it...

And ofcourse the usual wrist sprain, knee sprain, tailbone fracture.

One time I collided with a skier and the end of his pole went into my hip. It was purple and green/blue for about 3 weeks.
 
#6 ·
I was turning heelside and I went over a buried ski poll handle first then down the pole and hit the plastic base and it stood up right into my hamstring and poll vaulted me down the slope. I had a huge bruise on my leg.Man was I pissed,if the stupid skiers can't keep all their crap with them they should no have it in the first place!!
 
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#7 · (Edited)
Ahhh broken collar bone....that sucks

I broke my right humerous bone trying to save my pre-existing chipped tailbone injury...basically I just put my arm behind my back (I KNOW, that was dumb) and tried to cushion the tailbone...didnt really work out lol, i just snapped my arm all the way back (I was falling onto my back). When I popped back up from the fall...my arm was swinging in all sorts of ways it wasn't supposed to go...pretty freaky.

Injuries are all part of the game though...

Thats a picture of my X ray right after it happened...




It sucked lol...I was out for the rest of the season, luckily I broke it March 9th...so it wasn't TOOO bad. Sucked more for the upcoming surf season though...
 
#32 ·
I broke my right humerous bone
that seems pretty ironic to me:D

As i posted before, i sprained both my wrists when i first learned to board by trying to learn to go heelside, catching an edge and flying forward. i also summer-salted like five times after sipping on some ice last season and bruised my tailbone- nothing serious, i just had a hunch back for the rest of the week :dunno:
 
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#8 ·
Ohh that looks painful! One thing to read someone describe it, another to see the aftermath for yourself.

Where do you surf? I've been dying to learn but doesn't seem like there is any place near with waves.
 
#9 ·
The only real snowboarding injury I've ever had was two cracked ribs suffered at Vail. I caught an edge and came down in a weird way that shoved my elbow into my ribcage. I don't know how I didn't break my arm. That was the second time I've suffered broken ribs. The first was not snowboarding related. I wouldn't wish broken ribs on my worst enemy.
 
#11 ·
I would say craziest cause I've seen worst, but for me last year I bruised my left side of my rib cage pretty bad doing a toe steep turn. The following week I did the same but this time on my right side. Towards the end of the season I badly sprained my thumb and know I can barely bend it, without this snap crackle pop sound.:D
 
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Badly sprained ankle as a result of riding too fast at night on an unlit off piste area in the trees under a full moon. I attempte to 360 off a wind lip and did`nt clear it. Board stopped suddenly while I kept spinning. Had to ride the rest of the way to the lounge. Took months to ride halfway decently again. To this day, if I step wrong it hurts.

They say that sometimes a bad sprain can actually be worse then a break. From the sound of your story though your lucky you didnt break it
 
#13 ·
Not sure what to classify it as since I still have no idea what it was that got hurt. Was going down hill fullspeed initiating a carve from a series of them and my foot magically somehow came out of my front binding and gave me a split second to realize I was facked to slam chest first into the hard packed snow. Turns out I also put my cable lock in a chest pocket that so happened to be the spot that hit first.

No idea what got hurt but it was internal. I couldn't hop, jump, jog, run or move too quick without throbbing pain that felt like someone was hanging on my nerve lines everytime I did so. Took me out of commission for a few months.
 
#15 ·
I've never been too seriously injured. Broke my wrist riding when I was 13, slipped out on some ice and broke my fall with my hand, never did that again. I've gotten a few big bruises from falling off of handrails but no breaks or anything. The most uncomfortable injury was a dislocated arm that happened while fucking up on a 540 off of a 40ft booter. It required a lot of massage therapy to get the scar tissue out and re align the shoulder.

My right arm is way weaker then the left because all my snowboarding injuries have been on the right!
 
#17 ·
was riding witha buddy and we hit the park, saw a box i decided i would hit without scoping it out first, hit it way to fast and off balance, slipped off the side fell 6 feet face first onto a patch of ice. Goggles cut into my face giving me a clean goggle shaped cut around my right eye, bloody nose and 2 cracked front teeth.
the teeth only got worse from there but thats a long story and im too lazy to type it, basicaly though you do not want to get an abcess(sp?) in your teeth/gums, hurts like a motherfucker.
anyhow took 10grand in dental work to fix the teeth, thank god for insurance
 
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#18 ·
was riding witha buddy and we hit the park, saw a box i decided i would hit without scoping it out first, hit it way to fast and off balance, slipped off the side fell 6 feet face first onto a patch of ice. Goggles cut into my face giving me a clean goggle shaped cut around my right eye, bloody nose and 2 cracked front teeth.
the teeth only got worse from there but thats a long story and im too lazy to type it, basicaly though you do not want to get an abcess(sp?) in your teeth/gums, hurts like a motherfucker.
anyhow took 10grand iy ton dental work to fix the teeth, thank god for insurance
Thats usually what happens! Me and my crew always try to make a conscience effort to make a dry run through the park before actually hitting the stuff in there first.

Broken teeth is one thing I am absolutely petrified of! I cracked my front tooth my first season (also broke my arm my first season..and got some concussions, and bruises I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, but hey go hard or go home right). The cold/hot sensitivity is the worst on that tooth! Sends chills down my spine.
 
#23 ·
well first time i was boarding i dug in with the tip of the board at beaver creek, slammed myself into the mountain. tore a bunch of muscles off my rib cage and shoulder, the was the most painful thing that's ever happened to me. and i've broken most of the bones in my body.
Then this last winter I threw an arm out to retardedly cushion a slip out and it lifted my arm right out of the socket. didn't hurt alot, was was fucking nasty. like wrong feeling, just wrong. I popped it back in took and aleve and kept on boarding the rest of hte night. every once and a while it clicks.
 
#30 ·
I've gotten plenty of concussions, but the one that was probable the worst was at the end of the day of some hard riding / smoking at keystone, at the bottom of the mountian, I kinda just relaxed and didnt pay attemtion to my front edge and caught super hard and ended up getting terrible wiplash resulting in a cuncussion and a ruptured splein. ouch. Some how I drove home, and peeing felt awkward. I learned to not let my guard down, even when the days over and I'm at the bottom of the mountain, lol.
 
#31 ·
Craziest injury = Toward the end of last season, I hit a huge jump at A-Basin and somehow, crashed and landed on my keys that were in my front pocket. The key-FOB dug into my leg and I could barely walk for almost a week and it took nearly a month for my leg to be back to 100%.

Worst injury = Cracked 2 ribs a few seasons ago trying to bomb the moguls early in the morning when they were still pure ice. Caught an edge and slammed down onto the top of an icy mogul. Cracked 2 ribs, bruised my entire stomach & chest plus got a concussion.

Most painful = Broke my tailbone 5 seasons ago hitting the 35 footer at Copper and landing on a patch of ice. Kept riding the rest of the season and kept re-injuring my tailbone from hitting the same damn jump.
 
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