Fester
15-02-04, 11:13 PM
One of my mates spends half of the year out in Courchevel in France teaching skiing as a junior whilst doing his training to be able to do it fully professionally, went out there for new years was a good laugh.
Anyway one of the modules they have to pass is a speed test. They piste and ice up a run with water and compact it, then a professional goes down as fast as he can and you have to get within a certain % to pass the module, he says it normally takes people a couple of years.
The run they were on featured a harsh corner followed by a small jump. He said the idea was to come off the turn and then tuck to absorb the jump without getting airborn. He messed the corner up doing 40mph+ and went over this kicker completely off balance and actually got launched off it.
Net result can be seen below:
The top bone there is supposed to go all the way along the top. You can see it's snapped and has been pushed down below the bottom one. If you look just beyond the end of the snapped bone you can see where the end of it has shattered and those are the bone fragments floating about in the elbow :S Also look at the actual elbow joint itself; nothing is where it should be, you dont have to be a doctor to work out it shouldnt look like that.
A plate and a few screws later the fragments are removed and everythings where it should be, but he's got a whole lot of doing absolutely nothing while this all heals.
http://www.stevenjames.co.uk/Images/Stuff/jamesxray.jpg
Anyway one of the modules they have to pass is a speed test. They piste and ice up a run with water and compact it, then a professional goes down as fast as he can and you have to get within a certain % to pass the module, he says it normally takes people a couple of years.
The run they were on featured a harsh corner followed by a small jump. He said the idea was to come off the turn and then tuck to absorb the jump without getting airborn. He messed the corner up doing 40mph+ and went over this kicker completely off balance and actually got launched off it.
Net result can be seen below:
The top bone there is supposed to go all the way along the top. You can see it's snapped and has been pushed down below the bottom one. If you look just beyond the end of the snapped bone you can see where the end of it has shattered and those are the bone fragments floating about in the elbow :S Also look at the actual elbow joint itself; nothing is where it should be, you dont have to be a doctor to work out it shouldnt look like that.
A plate and a few screws later the fragments are removed and everythings where it should be, but he's got a whole lot of doing absolutely nothing while this all heals.
http://www.stevenjames.co.uk/Images/Stuff/jamesxray.jpg