This is why i love the internet

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BRi5tYzBBSv/

[bigskieridaho]

Epic! Bad thing is that we all have done the same thing more than once!

[Edmund]

Nice binding release. :D

[Than_Bogan]

What @Edmund said. Do we know what type of release system this fellow is "endorsing"?

[art90notch]

I would laugh, but I did the exact same thing coming through the gates yesterday. There may actually be video of it somewhere. @aupatking

[ScottScott]

Shit.....great wipeout, fun to watch.....someone else doing it. So, what did he do wrong?

[MISkier]

@ScottScott, the main things I think caused the crash:

 

1. Butt dragging behind, didn't have hips up.

2. Arms away from body and chest high, instead of lower and on the hips.

3. Leading with shoulders first.

4. Riding a flat ski into the wake, instead of leaning away from the boat with ski on edge.

 

There was probably more that happened before the video started to put the skier into this bad position, but I wouldn't speculate as to what it was.

[Bill22]

That kind of OTF can take a day or three to recover from. I did that last year and did not release.

[Texas6]

I did it yesterday too. Used my head as a fulcrum for which to rotate my body around right behind the boat. 2nd set of the year does not mean you're back in rhythm

[Horton]

@ScottScott @MISkier you are both close to getting Pandas. This thread is about skier pain.

[ScottScott]

@Horton yes, a pain I have felt many times so trying to learn to avoid as much as possible..... I've never gotten a panda tho....looking forward to my first.

[Gloersen]

pretty sure that's a dismount score of 90 with ZBS - regardless of speed

[lakeaustinskier]

Back when I was much younger and much more stupid a friend and I took two very attractive girls out on a public lake. Massive rollers and boat traffic but darn it I was going to ski and make big spray.

 

Right after the driver pulled me up I realized I needed to shove one foot deeper into a rubber binding so I jumped up on the ski and tried ram my foot deeper.

 

Unfortunately when I came down I completely buried the tip (like this guy) and took the hardest fall I've ever taken in my life. At full speed right behind the boat in the hard white water. As the driver came around to pick me up the girls said "yeah it looks like we need to take you home and we'll just go out solo with your friend". And thats what happened.

[UWSkier]

@lakeaustinskier you must have taken quite a shot to the bean to let your friend get away with that... I don't care if I'm near death, I'm not giving that opportunity away.

[lakeaustinskier]

Like I said - worst fall in my life. Big eye peeler. Next day I had a red eye and bruised ribs. Catching a tip is the worst.

[lpskier]

The best thing about a crash like that is that you almost never see it coming.

[Edbrazil]

Some of the worst crashes used to be on shoe skis. Even though you aren't moving all

that fast, you can splat barely before you can shut your eyelids. Yes can be worse than

barefooting falls, since you can sense with your feet what is going to happen in a few

milliseconds ahead.

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BRrf8MsAcx1/

[Bruce_Butterfield]

@horton more awesomer. Great slowmo

[UWSkier]

@horton, how do you embed IG? img src HTML doesn't seem to work for me since it's not an img format. I'm an ol' skool HTML nerd but what's the trick here?

[MattP]

@UWSkier just paste the share link. It will auto embed.

[One_Ski]

Total yard sale! This is hilarious.

[MattP]

https://instagram.com/p/BRt0RXUANmk/

[Horton]

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTUlzQ-BeL_/

[So_I_Ski]

It really is very hard not to laugh. Immediately when you see the jumper hanging up there with all that time you know he's thinkin ..... this ain't gonna end well! I suspect that I may have seen the hardest, most violent slalom fall that did not end in death when I was driving for my ski partner and he was free skiing in the spring about 10 years ago.

 

He was going full tilt boogie after about 5 really hard turns on short line and was just exiting the wake when he hit a dead head about 20 feet long, half submerged laying right across his path. I had not seen it and had driven right along side it about 4 feet from my boat. His ski skipped right over it but when the fin hit the log it drove the tip into the water. He smacked the water so hard that his first bounce was about 6 feet in the air. He told us after that he not only had time while he was airborne to get over the shock and wonder what the hell happened but he could even look around before the second impact which was followed by a third and then a tumble. We still laugh at the first words out of his mouth when he climbed onto the swim grid cause he repeated them at least four times. He said ... jesus guys, that really hurt you know! NO KIDDING!

[MISkier]

This is what happens when you lead with your shoulders going into the wake.

 

[Beastmode]

Im very familiar with OTF's I take a few a week. The worst ever was April 2015 Skiing for @lakeaustinskier Driving test for Assistant Driver. My first set on a used Goode Nano Twist ski with an Interlock plate. I had pulled the plate off to look at the way the boots were mounted on the plate and didnt know how to reattach the interlock and just push it on with my hand and foot. My first cut at the gates the plate came off and caught the front edge of the interlock plate- my head slammed into the water so hard and my legs bent over my head and my back locked up. had to be rescued and floated back to the swim step. Jokingly they told @lakeaustinskier "You hurt your skier You FAIL"

[Beastmode]

here's a good OTF from last Mays tournament at Bennetts That Tony Lightfoot posted on Utube-

[MattP]

@Beastmode a few a week!??

[UWSkier]

If I took a few OTFs a week, I'd find another sport. I take a couple a year and that's enough for me.

 

I do wish we had a camera in the boat on my worst ever. Entering the course, blinding sun and glare in my face. Way, way late. Bad form entering course and hooked the left gate ball. Ski stopped, I didn't. People on shore said it looked like I skied over a WWII era anti-ship mine. I'm told my ski did about 5 flips in the air before it landed about 20 yards from where I eventually surfaced.

[MISkier]

@Beastmode, that is some shallow water!

[ToddL]

@MattP - yeah, probably true - a few a week. Still, considering that @Beastmode skis about 60 passes per week, that's only 5% of the time OTF.

[Beastmode]

@MISkier yep that is Bennetts for ya! lol. @MattP and @UWSkier Yes a few a week. Always had a saying since I was a kid "if your not crashing sometimes your not pushing hard enough" Only 4th season competing and increased Tournament PB from 4@32' in 2014, 1@35' in 2015 (injured after first tournament) to 2.5@38' in 2016. Im finally to the point of Technic that I dont try to hold on to every thing in practice.

[UWSkier]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUiCBVohDtN/

[jhughes]

This one is from a few years ago. Had to have hit something out to 1. This one really hurt and I ended up taking a knee or ski or something to the face. Came out of nowhere.

 

 

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BU1xAf7AWml/

[Mateo_Vargas]

Weak, I was waiting for @CParrish43 to throw down a dunk.

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVA4nGFgKEm/

[ALPJr]

Ouch

[Texas6]

Just brutal

[ktm300]

The hand wave is merely to signal that we are still alive. OK=Still breathing

[ShererSkier]

I can't believe that first bounce off the water, must have been disorientating!

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVnYkJ9jQJr/

[ALPJr]

Ouch!

[B_S]

You can tell that @Beastmode has a lot of OTFs by the way he nonchalantly tucks in mid air for the hit.

[Beastmode]

@B_S that is true. lol Took an OTF out the gates at 35' last Saturday. Rope in the water and held on, but it lifted my fin out of the water and i skied out the gate on the tip then it finally pulled me OTF.

 

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BV0H9rsFNPI/

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BV9d0wBD_4I/

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BV-qnuXlXO1/

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BWAhMFfho5x/