Green line= what i should have doneRed Line = What i didJan 10 2008, a day that will live in my mind for the rest of my life. This was the day i made the mistake and greatly underestimated the size and pop of this one jump. So im sitting at the top of the terrain park looking down, i drop in hitting a few rails on the way. Then i stopped at the top of a line of three jumps, i hit the first two cleanly, then came the last jump. As i approached it i was gaining speed, i forgot for that instant that the snow was really fast that day. I straightened myself out way too early and next thing i know im flying in the air sideways. When i hit the ground i have never in my life felt such pain. The rest of the story is really boring, i just went to the hospital and stayed there overnight so they could monitor me. My snowboarding season is over for this year, but you can count on it i will be back.
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Seems to me you left out some important pieces of this story like the compressed vertebrae in your lower back, and a guesstimate of how far you fell before you hit mother earth. I do, however, love the drawing. Next time please submit x-rays.
Love the graph. But to say that the “rest is boring” is just so wrong! Steve holding you up in the ER, Kristin fighting with the nurse… come on! Keep the drama going…
Anyway, here’s an interesting bit:
“In terms of injury rates, most ski physicians agree that boarding carries a slightly higher risk of injury than alpine skiing – between 3-4 injuries per thousand boarder days (as compared to 2-3 per thousand days for alpine skiing injuries).
Another way of looking at injury risk to calculate the mean days between injury – this is the total number of snowboarder days in a season divided by the number of injuries seen. The higher the value, the less likely an injury is to occur. Overall, there are about 250 MDBI for all snowboarding injuries. This means that an individual snowboarder is likely to injure some area of the body every 250 days they spend snowboarding. Given that the average boarder does about 12 days per season, this means an injury on average once every 19 years!!
I have confidence that Goose can do better than average.
I want to hear about Kristin fighting with the nurse! I have many of those stories myself and it’s always comforting to hear other’s encounters.
Glad you’re OK Goose. Sorry you’re grounded for the season.
Post the x-ray!
Wonder what the MDBI is for racquetball? For me it was about 200. (Maybe I should take up snow boarding.)
I’m sure you’ll be back boarding, Goose!
ahh yes but biking is more dangerous then both and who doesn’t bike?