I broke myself today.

[freediver]

So true!!

What's a zero point landing? Doesn't there have to be at least one point of contact if you actually land :06:

A zero point landing? That's when you hit with such force, you strike the ground and start rolling head over heels with enough velocity, whereas you form the numeral "0" with your body!

 

[Diver0001]

So true!!

What's a zero point landing? Doesn't there have to be at least one point of contact if you actually land :06:

That's zero on a scale of zero meaning as bad as it gets to 10 meaning you dodged a bullet...... I don't want to hijack Jon's thread but I fell something like 10 metres from a ledge to the sloping side of the mountain below and landed at an angle on my arm which was raised above and behind my head in the optimum position to have it ripped almost entirely off of my body in the split second before my head contacted the ground where the whole incident exploded into a black cloud of somehow comforting silence. The last thing I recall was the sound it made. I was exactly the same sound a tree makes when it gets blown down in the wind.

I had to walk several km back to my truck after that too and believe me that was the *last* thing I felt like doing.....

R..

 

[jonnythan]

That is of course when 2005 the diving season starts for you

As for the lifts, in Europe they are called button lifts i believe, there are plenty of them over there for the smaller jaunts, the gondolas and real chair lifts are for the major hauls.

It will restart as soon as my shoulder heals enough. I've gone diving already this year

 

[Snowbear]

Ahhhhh - Zero points as opposed to a perfect 10... Got it...

Johnnythan - I suppose I should put a plug for your brokenness as well. Give it the time it needs to get better so we can make fun of you for not diving.

If you take the drugs for pain, you won't get hooked. If you crush 'em up as someone suggested... they won't last as long and you will get hooked. Definitely NOT what you want :11:

 

[SubMariner]

Ouch! Sorry to hear about your accident, Big J.

Sending you lots of positive healing vibes for a swift & complete recovery.

 

[baltimoron]

Alright, I got it now. If I am not mistaken, I think it's somewhat like a J-Bar, no? The kind of surface lift that curves down like a "J", which you put in between your legs or behind your butt and lean back (but not sit.) and let it push you up… They have one of those to get up to the half-pipe at my local resort. Rather dismal of an experience, but I try to stay away from anything freestyle.

Um, that's skier here, not snowboarder. Please don't confuse the two.

Sorry.

Oh, you poor poor expat from a warmer climate...

Well it was snowing out earlier, so I'm not complaining…

Jon- I'm curious. How do they have you set in in means of a cast? I assume it's a pretty hard area to immobilize. I asked my dad (who's an MD), and he said that all they do it put a band around your loin and your arm to immobilize the shoulder and hope it doesn't move out of set. Is that how they have you up? Just curious. Hope it doesn't hurt much.

 

[jonnythan]

Immobilize? Haha. They put my arm in a cheap sling, but it's not in right now. I put it on when I stand up or walk around, but sitting here on the laptop keeps the elbow in place equally well. Not much else they can do.

It actually doesn't hurt much at the moment, and I haven't taken any meds for the past 6 or 7 hours.

I'm going to need to get the x-rays from the hospital somehow to take to the orthopedist.. I'll scan em and put em online for you guys. Pretty gruesome looking

 

[SueMermaid]

Yeah! I wanna see! Can you top Ken's from late last year? That one made me wince audibly.

 

[simbrooks]

I've never heard the term "button lift" over here in Europe, unless that's a translation from maybe French.

I have heard pomas being called "platter lifts" in English, for obvious reasons.

The Germans call any surface lift a "Schlepplift" = drag lift... I've never heard them differentiate between T-bar and poma, though come to think of it I've never seen a poma/platter lift in the Alps. Maybe once.

Not just for "smaller jaunts." Some of the lengths and pitches of T-bars in the Alps are horrendous.

Up until a decade or two ago, you were as likely to find surface lifts as chairlifts in many places... particularly in Germany. Austria was always much better about having chairlifts; though I still now have to do some research before I go somewhere, to make sure I avoid surface lifts.

Then there's here in Eastern Europe.

I hate surface lifts. Just ask my kids.

--Marek

Maybe its just an English phrase, not commonly used outside Brits abroad on the slopes. I definately used them in Andorra on shorter trips, but that was a few years ago (9 in fact - finally going skiing again in a couple of weeks, got a bit rusty ).

 

[FreeFloat]

Button lifts, I remember those. Wheeeeeeeee!

(skiier here, never tried a snowboard)