Intense slalom crash

[cwillygood]

not even a chance to tuck, absolutely brutal

 

 

tony lightfoot just posted it on facebook

[jackski]

That hurt to watch

[Spesh]

That is a hideous wipeout. I had exactly the same crash just last month. Needless to say, serious whiplash and bruising followed. I also perforated my eardrum.

[Than_Bogan]

Ow.

 

Really comes outta nowhere.

[skihart]

Wow....thats gotta hurt.....hope she is okay.

I had one last year that felt like that. I felt like my heels kicked the back of my head....whiplash and concusion.......not fun....

[usaski1]

we need a freeze frame of that in mid crash when BOS goes down!

[Razorskier1]

Female friend of ours did it one worse. She came off the second wake and the ski tip literally went underwater. Needless to say, the ski stopped instantly, and she got completely slammed into the water. Brutal.

[E_T]

dont you just hate when you just stick the tip hard...

[SDNAH2OSKIER]

I watched it a bunch of times and can see the back end of the ski pop over the second wake and the tip catches. Hope she is ok. Ski hard crash hard.

[6balls]

The girl at Razor1's place got smashed. Her husband was driving, I was spotting, and I've never seen worse. I actually yelled out "OH NOOOOO, BAD CRASH BAD CRASH" Sure lucky she was ok. It was similar to the video but she had overloaded, built a bunch of speed and the unload pulled her more upright just before the tip went under so was her head was higher up when the ski stopped, she went straight over the front and just got slammed.

[Horton]

@cwillygood I should ban you for not warning me that Tony was going to SCREAM .

[H20SkiGirl]

Ouch I sure hope she wasn't seriosly hurt! I did that same crash a few years ago and had a third degree seperation of my shoulder... Ouch:(

[danbirch]

She got a broken bone in her left shoulder.

[spicoli]

that was bad. i went down 8 weeks ago at the wake didnt even see it coming broke my leg.radar boots ,pulled the frt out and fractured the the upper and lower leg under the knee cap.got my brace off yesterday and rehab starts today

[cwillygood]

@Horton haha sorry, Tony's reactions to crashes are always...well..ill give you another example

 

[estrom]

That's brutal! Crashing at the landing never scared me about jumping, it was splatting into the ramp like this that scares me enough not to try it. He also had no coverage on his face as he went in the water backwards. He must have had a LOT of water crammed up his nostrils.

[kfennell]

I am not sure how this happenned, but from talking to the college skiiers at SMRR it seems like there are guys who like to take 100+ foot cuts when they barely know how to ski (like they first saw a 3 event boat 2 months ago). Was that the case there?

 

Also - I would probably take that crash over a tip stop out the front on a slalom any day. The last one I had was at 34 -15 and it was just BRUTAL! I even bruised a rib where my hand hit me after bouncing off the water, mild concussion, and I wasn't even going that fast, I am scared what will happen next out the front while trying to learn 36 -28 :(

[TonyLightfoot]

Beatrice was actually well enough to attend the award ceremonies on site and then the final night party at Lake Maggiore after they x-rayed her. Broken bone in her shoulder, so it'll be several weeks before she gets back out on the water again. She was still happy that her brother Matteo skied to a silver medal position - and that she has new claim-to-fame. She actually wanted me to get the video out sooner than I did.

 

She's certainly a trooper and I look forward to seeing her compete again in the near future.

 

 

Tony Lightfoot

 

P.S. I make no apologies for adversely affecting Mr. Horton's hearing.

[cwillygood]

@TonyLightfoot thats good to hear! a real trooper......and without your announcing i don't think any of these crashes would be the same!

[webbdawg99]

Fun fact about the above jump crash that @cwillygood posted: it ended up on Tosh.O on comedy central. I think it may have also ended up on Sports Center's NOT top 10 plays!

[TonyLightfoot]

....not to mention ESPN's "Around the Horn" and "SportsNation", Big Ten Network's "The Big Ten Pulse", TruTV's "Not fit for Work" and "Smoking Gun TV", Right This Minute, and a large number of local TV stations around the US that receive footage from NBC-Universal's affiliate network feed.

Yup, it went viral and then some....

 

Tony Lightfoot

[SkiJay]

What the hell?! I watched this video over and over last night, trying to see if there was anything she could have done to see it coming or reduce the severity of the fall. Then today, I went out and had the exact same freakin' fall at the same line length. Damn it happened fast! I hit the water so hard on the first impact it broke my Bomber safety glasses in half and unzipped my vest! My driver told me he didn't believe me when I gave him the OK sign. My whole body is seizing up nicely right now as I sit here wondering if watching this gross video so many times had anything to do with it.

[mshaw200]

First of all, anyone that knows Horton in person knows that when he gets excited his squeal gets pretty high pitched.

 

@estrom As a jumper and Horton at least as a former jumper can attest, the majority of jumpers will go thru most if not all of their career without ever taking a fall like that. I've been jumping since I was 9 (minus a 4 year hiatus from skiing) and I had a fall this year where I actually hit the water first then bounced onto shore. Completely freak accident and it doesn't even cross my mind that it will ever happen again. AND I totally get how lucky I was not to get hurt. Jumping doesn't have to be unsafe. It's all about getting good coaching and approaching it the right way

[ScarletArrow]

Kyle Dammeyer crashed again this spring and shredded his ACL, MCL, PCL.

[cwillygood]

something isn't right there then ^... just like what @mshaw200 said, jumping doesn't have to be unsafe if your smart about it, i totally agree with that, obviously if you want to go far your going to crash at somepoint, i had my first good jump crash in like 4 years this year, because i took a cut over my ability haha (wanted to get that 120), its all about pushing it in moderation