Kaya Turski severely injured
up : Kaya Turski. Photo source : newschoolers.com
Kaya Turski, the female rollerblader and freestyle skiing champion sponsored by Salomon was seriously injured.
Female skiing phenom Kaya Turski was severely injured last Saturday night during the second annual ICER Air event in San Fransisco.
Upon landing a 540, Kaya veered off to the side of the landing, catching a ski on a wooden quazi-stair case that ran the length of the landing. She was sent tumbling down the steep wooden slope until coming to a stop at the bottom.
She was then taken to a near-by hospital for treatment. Last night (Monday), she underwent surgery to repair internal injuries. Details of the surgery are not being released to respect her privacy until more details are known about the extent of her injuries. source
up : Lauching ramp at the ICER Air. Photo source : newschoolers.com
up : Kaya Turski Wipeout. Photos source : Jim M. Goldstein
Update on Kaya Turski :
I spoke with Kaya today and she is in good spirits and eager to get out of the hospital and back to her home in Montreal after completing surgery last week and overcoming some minor complications.
Doctors have told her that she’ll be back in action and 100% in two months. She’ll rest at her home with her parents until then while she finishes up school (a sort of “junior” college, called CEGEP in Quebec).
Kaya sustained serious internal injuries after crashing down the wooden stair case set up along the sides of the landing at Icer Air in San Francisco November 4th. She finished in 2nd place at the contest with her first run and crashed on her second.
Everyone at Freeskier wishes Kaya the fastest of recoveries. Keep your head up and your stick on the ice.
You can send Kaya cards, flowers, chocolates or love letters to the following address, and they will be delivered to her when she gets back to Montreal in the next couple of days :
Kaya Turski
c/o D-Structure Montreal, 2043 St-Denis, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 3K8 Canadasource : freeskier.com
Videos of the wipeout :
ICER Air event Video :
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December 1st, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Sale.
December 1st, 2006 at 1:40 pm
this kicker looks real dangerous and she had a real bad landing only because the landing area was too small for a kicker big like this!
I wish her the quickest possible recovery!!!
December 1st, 2006 at 1:41 pm
damn that sucks… i hope she gets better soon…
December 1st, 2006 at 2:13 pm
nigga got fucked up.
December 1st, 2006 at 2:16 pm
we are all with you kaya , recover fast !!!
December 1st, 2006 at 2:17 pm
who the fuck made that ramp, that was obviously a deathtrap. idiots should be ones in hospital not kaya. i hope she fully recovers quickly.
December 1st, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Kaya,
Nice 5, hope you heal quickly and keep rolling!
December 1st, 2006 at 2:32 pm
that video is crazy, she slammed into the concrete with so much momentum.
December 1st, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Ouch… Hope u get well soon as possible. Respect!
December 1st, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Get better soon Kaya!!! We need you!!!
December 1st, 2006 at 3:42 pm
get well soon… looks pretty bad indeed
December 1st, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Hope u heal soon Kaya!
Youre really lucky to survive and also be able to recovery so soon(in 2 months expetation from doctors) from so bad hit!
Go girl!
December 1st, 2006 at 4:32 pm
hope she will recover soon!
December 1st, 2006 at 5:13 pm
“# ryze Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Sale.”
Haah
I once fucked myself backflip up on a jump like that and lost my ear. It was stitched back on though. Skiings burly, the wipeouts are much higher speed/distance than skating
December 1st, 2006 at 7:29 pm
get well soon.respect
December 1st, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Wow that was crazy stuff. Honestly get better soon the rollerblading scene needs ya back!!! Hope u recover 100%
December 1st, 2006 at 8:31 pm
Damn that set up looks fucking crazy, who the hell designed that piece of ramp anyways?
December 2nd, 2006 at 4:35 am
As someone that is very involved in the skis scene here is what I have to say…
Damn you guys are slow.
This happened a month ago
On Newschoolers.com the report was out within minutes,
Johny mosely (one of the most overrated skiers of all time) was responsible for the jump. For the 2 years it has been icer has been put on they should know better.
When the skiers went down they would hit flat, then go up again, gap, and land on a landing that is way steep.
It took balls to jump it.
Anybody who threw a SWITCH 10 off it is very talented.
FUCK’IN FRUITBOOTERS AIN’T GOT SHIT ON SKIERS.
(but it is a great past time in the summer!)
December 2nd, 2006 at 4:39 am
5’s ARE SO OVER RATED GO BACK TO ROLLERBLADING KAYA.
i kid kaya. The ski scene loves you.
HEY RETARD!!!!
IT WASN’T A FIVE. THAT WAS A 450 DUMB ASS
December 2nd, 2006 at 9:24 am
jeeeeezus. well wishes
December 2nd, 2006 at 10:30 am
i hope she’s doing alright, she’s a mad skater
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:50 pm
we are all with you kaya !! HANG IN THERE
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:53 pm
voila …
fallait pas faire du ski …
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:57 pm
….
surtout kan ya pasde neige
December 4th, 2006 at 10:13 am
I haven’t skated with you yet Kaya. But I hope that you’ll recover soon and I can see you on wednesday. I’m very sorry that happened to you and Though I can’t feel your pain (Nor would I want to) I can understand how you feel in regards to something like that happening. I wouldn’t want that type of fall on my worst enemy and the fact that you gave a thumbs up just proves that you belong on the same level as the guys.
December 5th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
A Billy la banlieue mdr
Honest she’s lucky, or made of steel, I’d be dead I think
Go on Kaya!
December 5th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
get well soon
December 6th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Ouch.
Best of luck with recovery.
Imagine a ramp like that without the ice, sessioned by the best that skating BMXing and rolling has to offer!
December 8th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
damn. feel really bad for her. that must of hurt like crap.
December 8th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Kaya is a G…
she will survive lol..
good luck Kaya
January 8th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
You will be well soon!
fight!
January 8th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Kaya… with all my heart – I wish you feel much much better and heal super fast and I hope everything goes well and you stay safe for the future and keep killing shit at everything you do =)
-Avichai
January 23rd, 2007 at 12:41 pm
The bail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilWmh2-Ok-k
January 23rd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
f*ck me..
that’s the same video as the one in the article
August 19th, 2007 at 3:09 am
in response to the first few comments… it didnt have much to do with how the jump was built. the snow was we call in tahoe spring skiing snow. it was way too soft and she probably wasnt used to it. plenty of other people landed the jump just fine, there were four or five girls and i believe two of them did land just fine. parker was better than fine on the jump and got screwed out of a prize because so many girls didnt land it. the jump was fine the snow sucked.
July 30th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Hey, nice post, very well written. You should write more about this.
December 31st, 2009 at 9:09 pm
this kicker looks real dangerous and she had a real bad landing only because the landing area was too small for a kicker big like this!
I wish her the quickest possible recovery!!!