ski chair lift fail
The best (and most terrifying) ski chairlift fails Before skiing down a slope, you must first make your way up it. For novice skiers and snowboarders, one of the hardest skills to master is keeping your balance - and dignity - on a ski lift. With wobbly legs, the simple sequence of standing, sitting and gliding away can be more difficult than it looks, and don't forget chairlifts - it's a long way to fall. Even those who know where to stick their T-bar can still find themselves in trouble when ski lift journeys go dreadfully wrong. Unluckily for these ski lift victims, someone - more often than not a close friend - filmed their chairlift misadventures as they happened and posted them on the internet for the whole world to enjoy - we're rounded up the best for your entertainment. "Sorry about that, I just like, slid into you." A man gets more than he bargained for when queuing for the lift. How did he even end up like that? This victim's snowboard got caught on the chairlift when he fell and was left dangling upside down - much to the amusement of the internet.
How not to use a T-bar. "Like riding a board downwards, but uphill."
ikea desk chair pad Despite coaching from the sidelines this novice snowboarder still fails to master the button lift. Thank goodness for large trampolines A boy was left dangling 30 feet above the ground when he slipped out of a chairlift in Mount Hutt in New Zealand. We're sure there are more comfortable ways to get to the top of a mountain. Don't be fooled by an innocent magic carpet Used by beginners when learning to ski or snowboard conveyor belt magic carpet lifts aren't as simple as they first seem. Don't leave me hanging A terrifying wait for a youngster caught on a chairlift - in true fireman Sam style his resucers return him to safety down a giant ladder. 11 Time When Humans Tried To Ride Ski Lifts… But Failed MiserablyWedgies, face-plants, and broken skulls: these chair lift disasters will make your day - now with added stupidity...
“You’re not going to eat your own food until you can do this” threatens this poor snowboarder’s friend as he attempts to catch a button lift. This video was filmed in 2009, but we hear the guy is still there trying to get up the hill. Is this a new way of getting up a lift, or somebody who’s only succeeding to get frostbite in their knees?It’s the frostbite one, isn’t it.You’ve got to go up there!” insists this guys friend, with the kind of sympathy Ronald McDonald reserves for fat kids. One minute in, when the liftie starts praying, you know you’re in for a treat. If it’s any conciliation, Dave, we think you’re a hero. Shitty at lifts, but a hero. If at first you don’t succeed… Remember what your mom told you when you were learning to do things when you were young? “If at first you don’t succeed, try again badly, fuck up, before eventually getting it just about right.” Your mother always did have a potty mouth.
It’s not just snowboarders that struggle with the lifts, as this naive skier proves. Faced with a tow rope, he decided his best option is to pop one leg over, and go on the ball-chafing ride of his life. Unconfirmed reports suggest that it took him eight weeks to retrieve his y-fronts from his bum crack. The lift that keeps on giving Initially, you’d be forgiven for thinking the guy that set up his camera to see people fall getting of this chair lift is a bit of a sadist. It soon turns out, he’s actually a comedy genius. Five seconds in we see somebody get clouded in the head by the chair. 20 seconds later there’s a fall. A further 20 seconds and a skier both crashed and gets hit on the head. But it’s two minutes in when the video really peaks. A terrified skier reaches the top, loses her bottle, and decides to stay seated until the liftie comes to her rescue. Back to snowboarders and drag lifts again. This chap looks like it’s all just plain sailing until the most innocuous of bumps on the run proves disastrous for him.
Within a second, our pal is on the floor, being dragged up the run unceremoniously. Although R Kelly may disagree, it turn’s out there’s quite a lot wrong with a little bump and grind. There’s no helping some peopleLET GO!” cries the friend of this struggling snowboarder at he tries to master a T-bar. In fairness, he appeared to struggle with the turn-style, let alone manage to balance on the bar up to the top. When, following a few hapless attempts later, a rogue T-bar hooks on to our hapless hero’s bag and almost drags him up the slope until an increasingly irritated liftie comes to the rescue (his buddy remains on camera, you notice). Forced onto the nearby button lift, things don’t seem to improve. Shit, he even breaks the lifties fake teaching lift. Was this chap born on a native American burial ground? Let’s stop hanging out, let’s stop having fun Back to the safety of the chair lift. Or at least, what should be the safety of the chair lift.
Just a few meters out of the station, this skier has managed to lose both skis, become dislodged from the chair, and stuck dangling from the safety bar.Drop!” cry concerned onlookers.First there are cheers. But then it goes quiet… Is this one of the more experimental bits of footage that didn’t quite make it to the latest Candide Thorvex edit? We’ve all see Scott Stevens sliding around butter boxes on his knees, maybe this dude’s trying to push the boundaries in the same way. Or, you know, maybe he had a tumble on the lift and was so bad for so long, that the person behind him on the lift had enough time to unzip his jacket, get his phone out, unlock it, select camera, and capture the humiliation for all of the internet to see. Newsletter Terms & Conditions Please enter your email so we can keep you updated with news, features and the latest offers. If you are not interested you can unsubscribe at any time. We will never sell your data and you'll only get messages from us and our partners whose products and services we think you'll enjoy.