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In the session that was supposed to be Sammy Carlson's last big session as a park skier at Copper Peak, MI, Carlson just ended up established himself as the first skier to hit a “ski-flying” long jump with freestyle intent.
Now, he recounts his experience, firsthand, of the crash during his session on the ‘Ski Flying’ hill. Warning: it's pretty gnarly.
That's not all, though, also some other ‘Ski Jump’ highlights from this wild session.
First, on slide 1 and 2 of the Instagram slideshow, Carlson shows off his crashes.
The professional freeskier, 8-time X Games medalist, and 3-time Real Ski Champion Sammy Carlson partnered up with Teton Gravity Research to deliver "another world’s first in the #SammyCMemories series" (The Sammy C Project).
In this Instagram post, Sammy shares some of the B-roll, and man, is it heavy! (I mean, what did you expect... it is Sammy Carlson and a monstrous jump. There's bound to be carnage.)
There are wins, too: like as Carlson explains the cork 7. "This cork 7 was my last and final hit. Everything felt good in the air, I got a little too comfortable and the impact from the landing launched me into a violent Tomahawk."
Tomahawking is when a skier plummets down the mountain vertical, their feet and head hitting the snow on their way down, making only two contact points with the snow. In other words: it's painful.
Sammy's experience was even a little worst than just tomahawking, somehow. "I knew there were these metal post cemented in the side of the landing from an old fence that used to line the landing, if you watch close, you can see as I’m rag dolling I was trying to grab at the snow to stop my self as much as I could from drifting into the fence post."
"Luckily, my skis popped and I walked away with only minor shin bang from that one."
Minor shin bang? I guess that's what makes you a pro. Sometimes when I ski bell to bell, I complain about shin bang. Recently, I fell down The Slot on an icy day and called my dad complaining I thought I had a concussion.
On slide 3, Carlson showed off his first 360 that kicked off the session.
Slide 4 was a casual Cork 7, and slide 5 has footage of his Switch 5.
"If you look close on the in-run you’ll see the in-run was starting to melt out. The in-run had all these old 2x4’s running across the slope to help hold the snow, since the ramp hadn’t been hit in so many years prior to this session, nails were starting to pull out of the 2x4’s and digging into my skis as I bombed switch. After the session my skis looked like a bear had clawed at the bases from the head of the old nails digging into my bases as I bombed the in run."
I don't think even P-Tex will help you there. Gnarly!
The last slide "shows you the size of the massive 24-story ski jump; Copper Peak is actually a “Ski Flying” jump — slightly bigger than the Nordic Jumps you’re used to seeing at the Olympics."
It's all heavy. Sammy, we salute you.
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