Posted Nov 2004

To kick the season off in a quirky way, we decided to hold the first ever X-Ray contest. It may seem like a weird way to get stoked for the season, but who knows, maybe it'll get you stoked because you're glad these X-ray's aren't yours. Or maybe it'll force you to stomp those early-season landings so that you won't end-up with an x-ray of your own.

Apparently not everyone has a light table and a digi camera at their disposal, but the few entries that we did receive are pretty sweet. So rather than an X-Ray contest it's more of an X-Ray art exhibition. Enjoy...

'I Love Hospital Jello' by Chris Mansbridge

We were on the Annual Comor shoot and myself and Moss Patterson were eyeing up this cliff with a nice big flat landing. I like flat landings because its very rare you come cartwheeling out of them. Moss hit it first and made a good sized hole in the 80 cms of snot on the landing. I could barely hear him yelling, "Whatever you do, don't try to stomp it." I was like, "What? Try to stomp it? Okay."

I was being rushed to the hospital trying not to pass out just thinking, "Man the whole left side of my face hurts, and so does my knee. I wonder what happend?"

When I got to the hospital I saw Doglotion.com's main man Jamie Bond there with a broken humorus. Jamie was so excited,"Chris, you came to visit me. Man, you don't look so good."

After this X-ray and a CT scan in Vancouver, they told me that I had fractured my jaw, cheekbone, and pushed in my left sinus and orbital (eye socket). I would need to get my jaw wired shut and three titanium plates put in my face. I said I would be fine without them. They told me I was an idiot.

And the moral of the story is: You don't have to go to math class to find the value of X.

-Chris Mansbridge

'Not So Humerus' by Jamie Bond

April 9th, 2003 was a busy day in the Whistler Medical Clinic. It was the first powder (actually chowder) day in about 6 weeks at Whistler, and everyone had a little too much energy pent up inside. Early in the day before anything good opened, I was doing routine laps of the cliffs on Jersey Cream Wall on Blackcomb like I'd done since I knew what skis were. On my third lap I decided rather than going 'big to flat' I'd do a double drop on the far right wall, but rather than stomping it... something possessed me to be totally lame and kick back on landing... slamming my humerus bone against a covered rock. The freakiest part was when I started wiggling my fingers then turned around to look at my hand... and it wasn't there. It was about 1 foot away from wear I thought it was, because my nerve was damaged. Mmmmm, fun.

-Jamie Bond 

'Slinky Pinky' by Kevin Gibbs Spring 2004.

Kevin didn't do this skiing, but to his credit, it was the first activity he did after the ski season... and thanks to a bad setting job... the last activity he did until this coming ski season. This one isn't as substantial as the other x-rays, but you have to admit -- it's pretty creapy eh? .

'Screw This' by Brice

Here we have a shin & fibula break with 12 inch pins and a nice screw... The problem with ice cascades is that underneath, you still find ice under a thin snow layer. Too thin probably! Happened in March 2002 in Arc 2000, French Alps.

-Brice

'My Leg Hurts... alot' by Sloppy Joe

Sloppy Joe may not be his real name, but this x-ray is his real game. What bone is that you might ask... the femur. Yep, that big bone in your leg, wouldn't that be fun to break? Needless to say, Sloppy's leg is now decorated with several titanium rods and screws, and he'd probably beep in metal detectors. But his leg is recovering really quickly, and he'll be skiing better than you again soon. .

How do you choose a winner with an exhibition like that?

1st Place: Sloppy Joe clearly ruled it, and his x-ray ruined our breakfast. Sloppy wins a Doglotion.com T-shirt of his choice and maybe we'll get him a Swedish Masseuse until he has recovered.

2nd Place: Brice walking around with 12 inch pins and screws is a disturbing thought. Brice wins a pair of Ryders sunglasses and world fame.

3rd Place: Chris Mansbridge's face x-ray rules, mostly because the skull looks so cool. Mansbridge doesn't get a prize, because if we reward him he might do it again. Well, maybe he'll get a t-shirt too.