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?
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?
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.