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Show off your most impressive/awesome wipe-out pics!
DangerBoy
Posts: 473 Crazy Baller
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.
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Not horrendous... But a cool photo Imo. Freeskiing pulled way too far. Slack!
That one hurt😣 spring broke in the release.
@Cam Yard sale! (good one!) 😉
My buddy, always skiing like he's in the Finals.
The two OTFs are pretty tame but all the others were pretty good bell ringers, especially for this old man. https://youtu.be/lsIsIgd-_e8
“Well, let me see…sun burn, stiff neck, screwed up back, assorted aches and pains….yup, my weekend was great, thanks for asking.”
Finally, a thread on BOS that I feel qualified to comment on. 🙂
One of my favorites, because it didn't hurt (much).
From 1985/6, on a Jobe Carbon V:
Having an off day and then it got worse :(
I felt this one...
https://youtu.be/TT6OOQF5_94
This is nowhere near a Brian Detrick crash but it hurt.
This is nowhere near a Brian Detrick crash but it hurt.
Great body position, eh?
A friend of mine.
“Well, let me see…sun burn, stiff neck, screwed up back, assorted aches and pains….yup, my weekend was great, thanks for asking.”
Restaurant-quality OTF capture, from video shot by SwerveMaster-T:
Apparently you can't always salvage a bad 5 ball and "just get outside of six!!"
@75Tique best facial expression so far ;)
this hurt my ribs
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. 😄
Felt this one for well over a week!
Phoenix, AZ
Salt water different feel. First pass through gate…yard sale!!