We couldn't help but notice the young athletes on crutches and in casts when we went to USASA Nationals to compete, in Spring 2010. Here we catch up with 6 of them and ask them about what happened. All the injured snowboarders hurt themselves competing or practicing for the slopesyle events, either at Nationals or earlier in the season. Meet Sarah from Sunday River with her broken wrist, Katie Pool with a broken heel, Hunter Murphy of MN with a broken ankle, Thomas O'Hara from NJ with his chipped kneecap, Meghan Tierney from NJ healing from her broken tibia and fibula, and Carter Smalley from CO with his torn MCL. Reporting and video by Lauren Traub Teton, exclusive for SnowboardSecrets.TV.

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After a road trip, Lauren gets back on her healthy regime. Here she shows you the simple 2-ingredient drink. Apple and kale (optional Swiss Chard and blueberries) whirrs in the Osterizer Blender to create a frothy health drink that bathes your cells in healthy pleasure. Drink enough of this and you'll ride boardercross in your 50s too! By Lauren Traub Teton exclusive for SnowboardSecrets.TV.

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Rail Jams are the secret Super Fun underground event of the snowboard world. Lauren takes you to the Hunter Mountain Rail Jam with South American Snow Sessions snowboard camps throwing it down for an event that the riders did not want to end! Meet Robbie Meehan who rides USASA with the Catskill Mountain Series (and his mom!) as Robbie cleanly rides a boardslide to 270 off. Find out what to wear and where to stand to enhance your rail jam spectator experience. More action in Part Deux, see it here too.

See also our video of Fred Trauerts and the Midnight Rail Jam on SnowboardSecrets.TV.  All content owned and created by Lauren Traub Teton for SnowboardSecrets.TV

You Don't Have to Hurt Yourself to Snowboard! Read the popular article by Lauren Traub Teton here:

This video shows you how a safety conscious snowboarder wears protective gear to avoid the bumps and bruises that can happen snowboarding. This info is ESPECIALLY important for beginner snowboarders who fall down hard and often. Snowboard wrist injuries are 4 times more common for beginners and are a bummer! So as a beginner, do consider getting some of this protection and maybe even some good individual health insurance. Wear snowboard wrist guards designed by a doctor and proven to reduce snowboard wrist injuries. Great for other sports too! www.Flexmeters.com as seen in this video and designed by a doctor. Flexmeters are the only snowboard wrist guards PROVEN to reduce snowboard wrist injuries. We've got knee pads for snowboarding now too! More good stuff on SnowboardSecrets.com. Pictures of Shaun White and all your favorite snowboarders there too!

In action! For cold weather and chairlift rides. Neoprene keeps your butt off the snow and warm and dry on the snowy chairlift. If tough guy and Belleayre employee Frank Whims wears them, you can wear them too and you know they're good. Shot at Belleayre Mountain in the Catskills of NY. By Lauren Traub Teton exclusive for SnowboardSecrets.TV.

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