Baller DangerBoy Posted January 9, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 9, 2022 In this thread, I'm inviting people to show off their most impressive wipe-out/crash photos. Photos that record the most horrendous, explosive crashes you and your ski friends have ever captured in an image. All are welcome to contribute so please share your best images. Videos are welcome too.Want to see flailing limbs and huge mushroom clouds of spray as your/their pass/run comes to a sudden, explosive, fiery and ignominious end. I'll start things off with what I think is the best waterski crash photo I've ever taken. This one is a ski buddy of mine caught airborne between his first and second bounces following a horrendous OTF at high speed. Complete yard sale. Can't even see his ski in the photo (I think it burned up on re-entry) but you can certainly see the huge mushroom cloud of spray his first bounce created and if you look closely, you can see pretty clearly that his shorts are half way down his thighs ready to come off after the next bounce. That's my best. What else you peeps got? With all the years of waterskiing experience on this forum, I have to think there's got to be some impressive and amazing crash photos out there. Let's see your best ones!I've got a few more to share after this but I wanna see some of yours before I throw those in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmudave Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Not horrendous... But a cool photo Imo. Freeskiing pulled way too far. Slack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Cam Posted January 9, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 9, 2022 That one hurt spring broke in the release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DangerBoy Posted January 9, 2022 Author Baller Share Posted January 9, 2022 Yard sale! (good one!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller 2Valve Posted January 9, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 9, 2022 My buddy, always skiing like he's in the Finals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller 75Tique Posted January 9, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 9, 2022 The two OTFs are pretty tame but all the others were pretty good bell ringers, especially for this old man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller BobF Posted January 10, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 10, 2022 Finally, a thread on BOS that I feel qualified to comment on. One of my favorites, because it didn't hurt (much). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller mfjaegersr Posted January 10, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 10, 2022 From 1985/6, on a Jobe Carbon V: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller 503Kento Posted January 10, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 10, 2022 Having an off day and then it got worse :( Get high, Get fast, and do some good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DoubleD Posted January 10, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 10, 2022 I felt this one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Skiphreak Posted January 11, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 11, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Milford Posted January 11, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 11, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Dirt Posted January 11, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 11, 2022 This is nowhere near a Brian Detrick crash but it hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Dirt Posted January 11, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 11, 2022 This is nowhere near a Brian Detrick crash but it hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller JBB Posted January 11, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 11, 2022 Great body position, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller 75Tique Posted January 11, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 11, 2022 A friend of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller mfjaegersr Posted January 12, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 12, 2022 Restaurant-quality OTF capture, from video shot by SwerveMaster-T: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller GMC Posted January 12, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 12, 2022 Apparently you can't always salvage a bad 5 ball and "just get outside of six!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller 503Kento Posted January 12, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 12, 2022 best facial expression so far ;) Get high, Get fast, and do some good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller lefty Posted January 12, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 12, 2022 this hurt my ribs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DangerBoy Posted January 12, 2022 Author Baller Share Posted January 12, 2022 Here is a two-parter. I call this series, "Houston, we have a problem".In the first image you see the set-up to the fall: breaking at the waist on an off-side turn. Nothing good can come from that...Next you see me midway into the explosive OTF that resulted. Not hurt at all. Just glad someone got a picture of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikashae Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dezthecorgi Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Felt this one for well over a week!Phoenix, AZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller FunoRyota Posted January 13, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 13, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller FunoRyota Posted January 13, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 13, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DangerBoy Posted January 15, 2022 Author Baller Share Posted January 15, 2022 @FunoRyota Wow! :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogerpt Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Salt water different feel. First pass through gate…yard sale!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogerpt Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Ooops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Cam Posted January 15, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 15, 2022 Trying a new ski, didn't buy it B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller BG1 Posted January 16, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 16, 2022 Steep learning curve on those hover skis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ISP6ball Posted January 16, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 16, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller 503Kento Posted January 16, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 16, 2022 @ISP6ball yikes, that looks like it might have hurt. Get high, Get fast, and do some good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ISP6ball Posted January 16, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 16, 2022 @503Kento It was a buddy of mine. He got his bell rung pretty good, but luckily no serious injuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DangerBoy Posted January 19, 2022 Author Baller Share Posted January 19, 2022 @Cam I can see why you didn't buy that ski. It doesn't seem to ride very low in the water or rather it seems that it rides a little too high in the air. Pretty hard to make it around a ball when a ski does that. ;) Epic crash though. While completing many tumbles and flips in the dismount will earn you lots of points for technical merit, the dramatic arm flailing you're doing during those tumbles is really critical to racking up the artistic impression points which can make the difference between finishing on or off the podium. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DangerBoy Posted January 19, 2022 Author Baller Share Posted January 19, 2022 Okay, here are a couple more of my best. This is what I call wipe-art; artistic shots of epic ski wipe-outs. These were taken with my Sony A7II mirrorless camera using a vintage manual focus Russian (I think Soviet era) 105 mm prime lens. Great glass in some of those old film camera lenses. These are both of my best ski-buddy of over 30 years doing what he does best; crashing. I like how the images seem to capture the essence of that moment of desperate realization and resignation you have when you see the handle has just left your grasp and you know you're about to pile in and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ForrestGump Posted January 19, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 19, 2022 We need @The_Krista on her 2x6. That was epic. Well, maybe not for her. But I laughed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Dylan_wick Posted January 19, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 19, 2022 Check the background! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller scuppers Posted January 20, 2022 Baller Share Posted January 20, 2022 now that's a good one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DangerBoy Posted January 25, 2022 Author Baller Share Posted January 25, 2022 Digging through my old old photos I found these. These next two are of two different crashes I had on the same run. I don't usually fall that often so I must've had a bad day. Beauty crashes though ;) (P.S. I'm on my '06 Monza. Graphics and color-wise, one of the coolest looking skis of all time IMO) a few minutes later I pile in again... Head first this time. This one's of my ski buddy. I have quite a few shots of him crashing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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