So while reading through this section of the forum, it occurred to me that it would be fun to keep tabs on our season's respectively, not through days skied or resorts visited, but through injuries sustained while enjoying the sport we all love. I'll start...
I came into the season with a laundry list of preexisting injuries, but I'll start about 5 months ago. Late September, about 6 weeks before Copper's projected opening day, I crashed HARD on a trampoline while training some inverted tricks to take to snow. While in a tuck, my knees made direct contact with the frame of the trampoline. By my estimation, G forces easily exceeded 10 and my speed was in excess of 40mph. Long story short, I tore my meniscus in both knees, severely strained my MCL in my left and my ACL in my right. Couldn't walk (at all) for 4 days. However, didn't stop me from enjoying opening day at Loveland towards the end of October.
So I heal up (kinda), and just the other day while training for a big mountain comp at the beginning of March, I'm hit with the brilliant idea to Ollie over a snowfence towards the base of a lift. The Ollie was solid, but I unexpectedly tapped the fence with my tails and got bucked forward in a particularly aggressive manner. Both tips dig into some heavy snow and I go over the bars. My right hand got out in front of me and I ended up spraining my wrist, hyper extending my elbow, and separating my shoulder (2nd degree, no biggie). To add insult to injury, my tomahawking body decides to come to a rest upside down, in a tree well, on top of a damn rock! The only rock within a 100m radius. Ended up scoring a solid bone contusion on my right femur, which was undoubtedly the most excruciating of my injuries.
So I decide to continue skiing for another hour before the pain becomes so unbearable that I have no option but to hit up my local clinic for some much needed pills. I have a punch card at the clinic so the visit was fairly routine; I self diagnose the trauma, ask for pills, Doc confers, sends me on my way with some of the good stuff.
One week later I'm back to 85%, which has become my new baseline. Skied the last few days like a champ. Just have to be careful that I don't tweak my right shoulder for a solid 6 months.
Your turn. Post here as you crash throughout the season. Major likes for people that include photos.
I came into the season with a laundry list of preexisting injuries, but I'll start about 5 months ago. Late September, about 6 weeks before Copper's projected opening day, I crashed HARD on a trampoline while training some inverted tricks to take to snow. While in a tuck, my knees made direct contact with the frame of the trampoline. By my estimation, G forces easily exceeded 10 and my speed was in excess of 40mph. Long story short, I tore my meniscus in both knees, severely strained my MCL in my left and my ACL in my right. Couldn't walk (at all) for 4 days. However, didn't stop me from enjoying opening day at Loveland towards the end of October.
So I heal up (kinda), and just the other day while training for a big mountain comp at the beginning of March, I'm hit with the brilliant idea to Ollie over a snowfence towards the base of a lift. The Ollie was solid, but I unexpectedly tapped the fence with my tails and got bucked forward in a particularly aggressive manner. Both tips dig into some heavy snow and I go over the bars. My right hand got out in front of me and I ended up spraining my wrist, hyper extending my elbow, and separating my shoulder (2nd degree, no biggie). To add insult to injury, my tomahawking body decides to come to a rest upside down, in a tree well, on top of a damn rock! The only rock within a 100m radius. Ended up scoring a solid bone contusion on my right femur, which was undoubtedly the most excruciating of my injuries.
So I decide to continue skiing for another hour before the pain becomes so unbearable that I have no option but to hit up my local clinic for some much needed pills. I have a punch card at the clinic so the visit was fairly routine; I self diagnose the trauma, ask for pills, Doc confers, sends me on my way with some of the good stuff.
One week later I'm back to 85%, which has become my new baseline. Skied the last few days like a champ. Just have to be careful that I don't tweak my right shoulder for a solid 6 months.
Your turn. Post here as you crash throughout the season. Major likes for people that include photos.