Here is the Salomon Freestyle Skiing profile of Kaya Turski who was recently hurt in a wipeout at the ICER Air 2006 in San Francisco. Heal Fast Kaya!

Thanks to Etienne Camus for mailling me

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 Canada

source : freeskier.com

Videos of the wipeout :
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Woodward west, week for girls, edit by Brandi Miller, uploaded by Becci Speck.

Fabiola da Silva, winner of 7 X-games gold medals, was featured on a Dew can in United Arab Emirates.

The photo seems to be recent, which is pretty wierd since the x-games don’t support rolling except in asia… Any clues ?

Thanks Alan.K

The Book of Cool featuring Fabiola da Silva was published in an xmas catalogue called ‘i want one of those’ (thanks to s-r-media from scottishrolling.com for the catalogue shots).

I posted about the Book of Cool in January 2006 (link, don’t miss the Dvd trailer) and purchased it a bit later, here are some photos of the rollerblading part of the book :

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Fabiola bucks trend
Few females giving fringe sports a shot

The Associated Press
Published: Monday, October 30, 2006

Fabiola Da Silva has been around so long that the inline skating pioneer is now more of an anachronism, a back-flipping reminder of the days when women joined men in attempting stunts off a four-metre vertical ramp.

Women are disappearing from alternative sports events such as the X Games and the LG Action Sports World Championships.

Of the 175 athletes who competed this weekend in BMX, skateboarding and inline skating events at the LG event, only eight were women, said Rick Bratman, president of ASA Events, which organizes the action sports tour. There was one event for women, the inline street competition.

This year at the better-known X Games, a mid-season all-star event, there were two events for women. When the X Games started in 1995, there were six.

Although inline skating has high participation rates, it never caught on with die-hard fans when the alternative sports boom hit in the mid-1990s, Bratman said. Part of the reason is that it never developed the rich culture and language that define sports such as skateboarding and surfing.

“It didn’t have any culture,” he said. “It didn’t have its own vibe, its own trick names. It’s not as technical as skateboarding, which is one of the big knocks on it.”

It also doesn’t have much of an infrastructure, lacking the bureaucracy that funnels millions of children into soccer or baseball.

Unlike tennis or volleyball, the sports featured on the action tour don’t fall under the auspices of a national governing body such as the U.S. Olympic Committee, said Donna Lopiano, the CEO of the Women’s Sports Foundation.

Action or extreme sports are run by event promoters who are outside the mainstream of American sports organizations.

At 27, Da Silva’s main competitors from a decade ago have either retired or dropped out. “As the years came down, less girls were competing and it became only like two women,” she said.

The sport’s future is tied to the fortunes of athletes such as Da Silva, someone with potential for the crossover success enjoyed by skateboarder Tony Hawk.

“She’s the real deal,” Bratman said. “Fabiola is in my mind the best female athlete in the world.” source

Check an edit of Cristina Bonilla, an amazing skater girl from Spain :
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