If you're going for it on the mountain, you better take some sensible precautions. Just take a look at this spectacular ski crashes video of carnage!

Well, another month, another set of prizes. January 2011 prizes are awarded to:

3rd Place: Dylan Holt with whopping 1 FB Like. Not awesome, Dylan, but enough to get you the T-Shirt!

2nd Place: Matt Wimberly, you fetched 13 FB Likes and no Tweets. You get a Slytech Hoodie for your for your broken leg in North Carolina.

1st Place: Grant Giller with his spill trying a Rodeo 7. He got 16 FB Likes and 1 Tweet. Sweetness, Grant, you win the Slytech 2nd Skin Back Protector! Check his snowboard slam video here.

Congratulations everyone! Grant, you earned that back protector. Nice work.

I don't think there is any more needed evidence that Kitzbuehel is vicious. I'm not sure what Austrian Skier Has Grugger's status is (anybody know?), but not matter which way you look at it, this crash is bad: shattered skis, the thud, the full impact on the back... insane.

If indeed he is OK, which we are all praying for, a back protector most likely a big contributing factor to things not being worse.

This clip is not for the faint of heart. Don't watch if you can't handle.

Click the Image to watch the video.

Slam Video Details

Skier Name: Grant Giller

Crash Location: Breckenridge, Colorado

Slam Detail:Hi im Grant for Colorado and this is my slam. I was trying a back rodeo 7 and came up 90 degrees short. Allthough I fell on the 7, back rodeo 5s are one of my favorite tricks.

Video:

Disclaimer: Slytech is NOT doing this contest to make light or sensationalize horrible ski or snowboard slams and accidents. Quite to the contrary, we are doing this to highlight how common it is to get into accidents on the mountain (or wherever people ski and snowboard). We are advocating AWARENESS and PROTECTION. When you lessen the probability of serious injury then you gain more days on snow and are ultimately happier.

Help us highlight the importance of protection by submitting your slam video and enter to win a free back protector.

Click here: http://slytechprotection.com/slamvids

Slam Video Details

Skier Name: Max

Crash Location: Russia - Sakhalin Island

Slam Detail:Attempt bs switch cork 5

Photo:

Disclaimer: Slytech is NOT doing this contest to make light or sensationalize horrible ski or snowboard slams and accidents. Quite to the contrary, we are doing this to highlight how common it is to get into accidents on the mountain (or wherever people ski and snowboard). We are advocating AWARENESS and PROTECTION. When you lessen the probability of serious injury then you gain more days on snow and are ultimately happier.

Help us highlight the importance of protection by submitting your slam video and enter to win a free back protector.

Click here: http://slytechprotection.com/slamvids

Slam Video Details

Skier Name: Matt Wimberley

Crash Location: North Carolina

Slam Detail: We were warming up on this small handrail when Rookie decided to wu-tang pop off the lip and break his leg. Season=over.

Video:

Disclaimer: Slytech is NOT doing this contest to make light or sensationalize horrible ski or snowboard slams and accidents. Quite to the contrary, we are doing this to highlight how common it is to get into accidents on the mountain (or wherever people ski and snowboard). We are advocating AWARENESS and PROTECTION. When you lessen the probability of serious injury then you gain more days on snow and are ultimately happier.

Help us highlight the importance of protection by submitting your slam video and enter to win a free back protector.

Click here: http://slytechprotection.com/slamvids

Slam Video Details

Skier Name: Dylan Holt

Crash Location: Idaho Backcountry

Slam Detail: I'm 25 yrs old, I have been snowboarding for 16 yrs and I ride the backcountry of Idaho in the winter with my friends, this is a slam from a couple of years ago that was pretty gnarly. For my entry for best slam here, I was trying to ride these pillows and as you can see on the 2nd try, I hit the tree pretty hard, I thought I broke my hip but it was just really bruised.

Video:

Disclaimer: Slytech is NOT doing this contest to make light or sensationalize horrible ski or snowboard slams and accidents. Quite to the contrary, we are doing this to highlight how common it is to get into accidents on the mountain (or wherever people ski and snowboard). We are advocating AWARENESS and PROTECTION. When you lessen the probability of serious injury then you gain more days on snow (or sand) and are ultimately happier.

Help us highlight the importance of protection by submitting your slam video and enter to win a free back protector.

Click here: http://slytechprotection.com/slamvids

Slam Video Details

Skier Name: Pete Tupper

Crash Location: Sanya Bay, Hainan, China

Slam Detail: We took a snowboard to the beach in China and spent an afternoon asking local drivers to tow us. The rickshaws were too slow, so we found a big car and couldn't communicate the speed to the driver properly... And then this happened!

Video:

Disclaimer: Slytech is NOT doing this contest to make light or sensationalize horrible ski or snowboard slams and accidents. Quite to the contrary, we are doing this to highlight how common it is to get into accidents on the mountain (or wherever people ski and snowboard). We are advocating AWARENESS and PROTECTION. When you lessen the probability of serious injury then you gain more days on snow (or sand) and are ultimately happier.

Help us highlight the importance of protection by submitting your slam video and enter to win a free back protector.

Click here: http://slytechprotection.com/slamvids

The November Slam Contest is closed (12 midnight EST). The votes are in. Any votes that come in after this post has published (midnight EST) are NOT counted.

It was a hard-faught battle between Libby, the J3 Racer from Middlebury, Vermont who crashed hard in her GS race and Cedar Jocks, the man who attracted a love-hate relationship with people in the blog comment area, a freeskier who ripped his derriere wide open in Breckenridge, Colorado.

It was neck and neck for the 4 days since Cedar submitted, with Libby getting mad support from her friends on Facebook. It looked like she might just catch up to Cedar...

... but in the end, it was...

1. Libby McCusker who pulled out the unbelievable upset with a late flurry of TWEETS, reeling in 406 FB Likes and 214 Tweets for a total of 620 VOTES! She wins the and wins the back protector!
2. Cedar Jocks was KILLING IT for days now, but in the end Libby's Tweet mania knocked him off the top spot. Cedar got a total of 492 FB Like votes and 9 Tweets for a total of 501 votes;
3. Chad Lichtenberger with 98 FB Likes and 3 Tweets (101 votes) wins a T-Shirt.

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Thank you everyone for participating and for those who are a bit are a bit heated about the final outcome, I can only tell you to come back in December, submit your best slam vid and get those votes in.

Libby McCusker, the J3 Racer from Middlebury Vermont takes home the 2nd Skin

Hey all the Slam Video Contest participants... just FYI: you can garner votes for the rest of the day until 12:00AM (midnight) EASTER STANDARD TIME. Since I'm out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, I'll be checking the vote totals at 7:00PM HI time and tallying them.

Right now it's anyone's grand prize with...

• Libby's J3 Crash (http://www.slytechprotection.com/slam-video-contest-libby-crashes-out-of-a-j3-giant-slalom) with a whopping 281 FB Likes and 11 Tweets.
• Cedar Jocks' Slam video (http://www.slytechprotection.com/cedar-jocks-repost-of-bloody-breck-video) with 289 FB Likes and 6 Tweets.
• Chad's Gap Jump Video (http://www.slytechprotection.com/chad-lichtenberger-a-crash-he-wont-soon-forget) with 98 FB Likes and 3 Tweets

Support your favorite slam video by clicking the FB Like or Tweet buttons on their post. Good luck Shredders!