• Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I used to be an avid skier as a kid. I was at the top of a beautiful powder bowl. I started going down and near immediately hit a chunk of ice hiding under the powder and down down down I went. I tumbled from the top of the bowl until the ground got flat enough for me to slow down. I was the definition of rag-doll physics. People were picking up my equipment as they skied down.

    Didn’t get hurt somehow.

    Now I shudder thinking of the damage skiing can cause. If I fell like that now, would I still bounce back up unhurt?

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      1 year ago

      If you rag doll again you may be fine, people hurt themselves when they lockup falling. Try penguining next time.

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      1 year ago

      If I fell like that now, would I still bounce back up unhurt?

      Generally no, simply because you are now heavier and taller and longer-limbed and as a result all the injury-causing forces are much larger.

      I’ve seen kids try and do a backflip and land on their neck and get up laughing. If I tried that? I’d be fuckin’ DEAD.