Skiing Etiquette

bandit wrote:

Pablo Escobar wrote:

I have joked if you are going to hit someone make it someone bigger than you, not only will they cushion your fall they are not going to be hurt as much. 15 stone of Ian Wickham :wink: vs 4 stone of Young Child would not be a pretty out come.

Perhaps the woman that ran into me in Val Thorens Jan 2005 had been to one of your classes. She hit me hard enough to break my collarbone with me still standing. Once inertia took hold, I exited my skis in an upwards direction and was only vaguely conscious by the time I pancaked back on the slope.

That little bit of target practice took away 16 weeks of my life, and killed plenty of nerve endings in my shoulder.

As the bones knit into a different position, I will never look anything other than a freak in a swimming cozzy.

Should have been explicit, not to a class. Think about what that did to you, if that lady had hit a 4 year old child her target practise may have been a horrible fatality.

Sorry to hear about your shoulder/general incident.

Is there anyone here who hasn't been hurt on a ski-ing holiday? It's beginning to read a bit like a hospital Accident and Emergency support group!

I haven't been hurt on a skiing holiday to the point where it has stopped me skiing-touch wood.

Edit: that's a lie.

AllyG wrote:Is there anyone here who hasn't been hurt on a ski-ing holiday? It's beginning to read a bit like a hospital Accident and Emergency support group!

I haven't! Probably will on the next now I've said that. :roll:

Well, I am very glad to hear it Pablo, although I'm not too sure I like the way you qualified it with 'to the point where it has stopped me ski-ing'.

I was ski-ing last holiday with someone with cracked ribs, and my instructor happily told me he'd skied several times with a sprained ankle, and my other instructor told me someone had crashed into her once and broken her wrist, but she still skied with it in plaster.

I am beginning to wonder if maybe I should switch to something less dangerous, like swimming with sharks, or sky-diving or something, especially if people are going to appear out of the blue and crash into me and carve me up, like poor Bandit.

Ally

AllyG wrote:Well, I am very glad to hear it Pablo, although I'm not too sure I like the way you qualified it with 'to the point where it has stopped me ski-ing'.

I was ski-ing last holiday with someone with cracked ribs, and my instructor happily told me he'd skied several times with a sprained ankle, and my other instructor told me someone had crashed into her once and broken her wrist, but she still skied with it in plaster.

I am beginning to wonder if maybe I should switch to something less dangerous, like swimming with sharks, or sky-diving or something, especially if people are going to appear out of the blue and crash into me and carve me up, like poor Bandit.

Ally

I damaged my PCL in a pretty nasty over-shoot. Skied the rest of that day and another 3 days mostly because I wasn't completely aware something was up. Some pain-nothing major.

Thanks Snowb4ndit,
Maybe I won't give up ski-ing just yet, then.

Ally

Pablo,
What does 'damaged my PCL in a pretty nasty overshoot' mean?

Ally