Re: First time skiing last night.....
 

$900 seems little steep unless you have seriously deformed feet!

This destination place will be worth a try, but be wary.......it says on their website
Hopefully they know more about boot fitting than driving times!

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Hah. I saw an advert for a property development in Squamish claiming to be 45 mins from downtown Vancouver and 30 mins from Whistler.

Friday evening I'll go to Comor and this other place.

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[QUOTE=bazzz;6018719]Hah. I saw an advert for a property development in Squamish claiming to be 45 mins from downtown Vancouver and 30 mins from Whistler.[QUOTE]

Have they built a private road parellel with the S2S?

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Did you see that Austrian skier on the news, now that's what I'm talking about - he had to have is leg amputated, you could see it wobbling around :eek:

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That's horrendous. I wonder if they overlooked the severity of his leg injury as he was knocked out, and they might have been focussing on that and not realised he was bleeding out in his leg. :blink:

I worked once with a young lad who was a long time in a coma after a car accident. I saw him some years later, and he had recovered well from his head injury, but was permanently disabled from the inadequate management of his complicated upper limb fracture. At the time it seemed less vital I guess! :unsure:

On further reading it might be the fact that there was no medically equipped helicopter available to fly the guy to hospital played a significant part in the outcome. He was eventually flown by private helicopter after they removed some of the seats, and a delay of 5 hours I read!

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I really envy people who can throw themselves down the mountain, I would love to be able to ski but as I get older I get more squeemish. When I saw the replay on the news and his leg wobbling it made me feel really sick. I used to work on an orthopaedic ward and look after people that had been in car accidents, fallen, defects from birth etc - they say nurses make the worse patients and although that was many years ago the squeemishness has stayed with me. :eek:

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We don't have a TV - have you got a link to it on t'web?

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http://canadianpress.google.com/arti...QUm4daNovnhTPw

this is a write up, don't know if there is a video yet. I saw it on CBC


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V28GKbLN3pE

As usual someones pain on a video

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Thanks. If you put it in Google it is on news websites all round the world, but no gory pictures in Google images.

Well he's got 2 years to learn how to ski on one leg ready for the Paralympics

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I have not doubt he will be there cos from what I know of sports people their glass is always half full :thumbup:

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Here you go for any more kool kids who don't think it is worth paying for cable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V28GKbLN3pE

I would say this is a good warning to all your newbie skiers out there (Calgary Colemans, bazzz et al) that you should have the DIN setting on your skies set appropriately.

If both of Matthias Lanzinger's skies had come off when he first fell then I dare say he wouldn't be in such a bad state. It was his left leg that had to be amputated, and it was left ski that didn't come off.

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Considering that "Lanzinger's career best World Cup result was third at a super-G in Beaver Creek, Colo., in December 2005" then he might have better odds of getting a medal now too (just looking for the silver lining)

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Wikipedia also agrees with me about the ski not releasing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Lanzinger

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wow :ohmy: I can't beleive how quick these things get on the net

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Wikipedia is hardly a recognised authority .... on anything! But that was my first question as well.... and i'm the first to admit that I know little about ski bindings!

However, it would appear that racing professional skiers subject their bindings to much higher forces in the normal course of the race than recreational skiers, so they tend to crank up the resistance accordingly, and presumably accept that increased risk.

Human tissues are not able to be cranked up in the same way, and so the leg in this case broke before the left ski was positioned in such a way against the snow that the release mechanism worked .... either that or the leg was sufficiently twisted that the soft tissues eventually afforded that resistance.

I'm sure the ski/boot/bindings will all be checked to see if there was any factors there that contributed to this horrific accident. Like most terrible things that happen, there is normally a collection of circumstances often including very bad luck which lead to the end result.

Just for balance, I'd add that this horrible accident should not put off the recreational skier, any more than a Formula One race car crash should dissuade somebody from taking driving lessons! :huh: