This is what Ted Ligety had to say about the video of his Alaska crash, and obviously it describes what you see in the video better than I can:

“I had already skied this line a couple times with no problems and the light had gotten too bad to film so I took one last run for fun with my GoPro on. I hit a piece of hard snow or rock while my sluff took out my tails simultaneously. Luckily I was just able to get onto my feet but not in balance before the cliff. 2nd big fall of the trip, first one I lost my other GoPro so no footage.” – Ted Ligety YouTube description

We’ve all been there, the one last run that goes wrong. That’s why we ski 2 more and skip the last. It’s a good sized cliff that Ligety half falls off/half sends from the looks of the footage. It’s also a good thing he wasn’t any farther left and he had some speed off the cliff. I think his own title is a bit misleading though, and I would call this a recovery rather than a fall. Great sunset behind him though.

Check out the screen shot below. Recovery or fall?

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Ski racers (yes, we’ll consider Jon Olsson a ski racer for the purpose of this post) have the reputation of being reserved, spandex-clad, and generally the antithesis of freeskiers/riders. Apparently, not so- at least for this crew. Check out this footage from last month’s New Zealand car jumping session. The apparently annual event goes down amongst this crew every year during training camps in the southern hemisphere. The idea is pretty simple/redneck: buy junk cars and drive them as fast as possible off of dirt jumps. I gotta hand it to them, these guys aren’t afraid of getting hurt cross training. Well done boys, well done.