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STROKER ACE
06-04-2005, 11:09 AM
knocked my front 4 teeth out water skiing. Whats yours?

CrazyHippy
06-04-2005, 01:48 PM
cracked 2 ribs when i broke a rope and caught the 1st wake w/ my ribs :supp: :hammer2:
It hurt to laugh for almost a month, but i was skiing 2 days later :D
BJH

phebus
06-04-2005, 02:07 PM
The worst was a dislocated/seperated shoulder that required surgery. Next worst was some stitches in my forehead/scalp from a ski tip. Used to ski a lot, never got that great, was more into how fast I could ski. Loved speed.

Sherpa
06-05-2005, 09:04 AM
knocked out once when I fell and hit a log with my head.
broken ear drum from falling riding my skurfer....... (that just dated me..)
--numerous torn-off caliusus-sp? my hands were torn up the entire summer
from skiing.......... I like those kind of war wounds though...
--Sherpa

Wavemaker
06-05-2005, 01:38 PM
Broken shin bone when a friend's ski rope broke while I was skiing behind his boat. Happened the first day of my 2 week vacation. After visiting my doctor the day after this occured, I visited him at his shop to hand deliver him a new ski rope of the highest quality, replacing a cheap rope he had. He was suprised I bought him a replacement rope and such an expensive one at that! He never asked me how my leg was. It was purple from upper shin to my ankle. I never skiied behind his boat again. We're still friends though. - Wavemaker

HCS
06-08-2005, 08:26 PM
Broken jaw. Dead mans float. Lucky to be alive. :chi:

olbiezer
06-09-2005, 04:58 AM
a 45 mph enima! lol

DeltaSigBoater
06-09-2005, 09:47 AM
:hammer2: (knocking on wood)

jeepinscott
06-09-2005, 09:38 PM
I tore my mcl the first trip out wakeboarding with my new tower. We were on our way to lake powell for 10 days and stopped off at mohave to meet friends 'on the way.' I was riding the following week only because the water was so smooth.

Community
06-10-2005, 10:27 AM
in the forehead from a wakeboard while trying to do backflips in shallow water at Kings River.
A buddy got an expensive airplane ride from Parker to Phoenix when he cracked his skull with the back of his ski taking a digger on a cut. When he threw up at breakfast after the fall we thought there may be a problem...

Kachina26
06-10-2005, 10:43 AM
I injured my shoulder and required surgery :(
On another note, how many of you that were behind other people's boats sought financial compensation from their insurance? A "friend" did that to me.

h2oski2fast
06-11-2005, 07:50 PM
Stepped off the race ski at 80mph, rang my bell pretty good and had whiplash for 5 days.
Jumped the wake and racked myself up, I guess thats what happens when the ski breaks it 2 when you land.
http://www.hillbankusa.com/signfx/ski/DSC01014.jpg

Mandelon
06-11-2005, 08:02 PM
Herniated disks in my neck....numb fingers and tingles for 6 weeks, pain for 15 months.....I don't do it too much anymore. :(

Seadoo Mark
06-14-2005, 07:26 PM
I cracked 2 ribs doing a flip on an Air-Chair handed on my chest. :hammer2: :hammer2: :eat:

Seadoo Mark
06-14-2005, 07:29 PM
Revision to story it was 3 ribs ouch. :jawdrop:

EXTRMBT
06-14-2005, 08:21 PM
Took the front of my wakeboard in my left temple. 3" gash, a bunch of blood and a whole mess of stitches. Hurt like a mother. I now wear a helmet ;)

voodooCanoe
06-14-2005, 08:31 PM
Not to me, but to a good friend of mine, Simple tip stuff tumble. Got his bell rung. Got back to the boat house at Shasta, 1/2 hour later getting life flighted to the hospital for a ruptured blood vessel at the base of his neck causing a stroke. 8 years later, doing well but still not full recovery. Lost a good amount of his short term memory, motor skills slowed, and all the time lost in recovery including the stress of the family that broke his marriage.
Sorry to be a bummer, but be careful.

Sleek-Jet
06-17-2005, 11:24 AM
Getting a little cocky on the first ski run of the vacation and fell hard into the wake.... cracked a couple ribs and spent the rest of the vacation (and the better part of the next month or so) in pain.

piper
06-23-2005, 07:22 PM
Dislocated my shoulder and wrist. I have no idea what happpend. One minute I was skiing the next, I was seeing water, sky, water, sky, water, sky, then trying to breath.

northern baja
06-24-2005, 04:10 AM
Once when a guy on a jetski decided to jump the boats wake in front of me......I spilled my beer and lost my sunglasses! :cry:

76 Sleekcraft
06-27-2005, 06:07 AM
Rounding #3 bouy, tore my rotator cuff. Ouch!!! Had it repaired and went through all the rehab. Now I have done it again..... Probably no more skiing for me, considering the age and ability factors.

wrenchdaddy
06-27-2005, 03:07 PM
was sliding forward on my wakeboard and face planted, almost knocked myself out, couldn;t see for like 30 seconds, pretty scary.

H20skier
07-05-2005, 01:23 PM
Separated shoulder-ski racing
Husband broke 1 rib and cracked 2 others, not racing but acting like he was

Rexone
07-05-2005, 01:47 PM
not racing but acting like he was
:D