Dude, next time you ski off some really big jump, at least wear some undies or something

THIS will hurt to watch. Some dude just hit Australia’s biggest ski jump at Thredbo with no clothes on. ‘Ice burn’ was the result. Ouch. WARNING: NUDITY

A VERY brief history of clothing.

Once upon a time, man ran naked because clothes hadn’t been invented yet. Then man moved to cold places and needed clothes to stay warm. He hunted mammoths and other creatures to turn into clothes. Cut forward a few dozen millennia and the skisuit was born.

But there are some people who don’t feel the need to wear ski apparel while on the snow. One such man, who thumbs his nose at common sense not to mention evolution itself, is freeskier Sam Ruttiman.

We’d show you a photo of Sam’s face but we can’t actually find one.

The Canadian Australian freeskier competed in an event called the Toyota One Hit Wonder this weekend at Thredbo wearing only his skis and a helmet. Yes, just those two things.

The Toyota One Hit Wonder is an event where you basically pull your gnarliest trick off a huge 30 metre jump out the back of Thredbo and everyone ends up feeling really stoked and sick. That’s good sick not bad sick, obviously.

Most of the world’s best competitive freeskiers show up for the annual event, with $7,000 up for grabs for this year’s winner.

This is not a toy jump and that’s not a toy car. Photo: Jordan Sell

Before the main event there’s a thing called the “game show event” where there are smaller cash prizes for those who display creativity and style.

We’re not sure if what Sam Ruttiman did was stylish, but we’ll give him creativity points.

Australian Olympian Anna Segal, who came an excellent fourth in the slopestyle in Sochi, was one of the judges. She reportedly said she’d mark up any competitor who displayed nudity “but only if have they have a good body”.

Some Swiss bloke won. That’s him there.

We’re not sure if Sam Ruttiman met that criteria either, but he crashed on landing so it didn’t matter if he had a hot bod or not.

For the record, there’s a funny story behind why Ruttiman crashed. Competitors need to manage their speed in this event so they land where they want to land. Without clothes, Ruttiman’s calculations went out the window. He was much quicker than usual and landed way down the jump where it started to flatten out.

Now that’s what we call a ski bum.

Well, at least he sustained no damage to his man parts. His did, however, suffer some pretty serious ice burn on his legs. And ice burn hurts. Believe us, you don’t ever want to experience ice burn.

Like we say though, there are worse things that could have happened, especially when you consider how sharp metal-edged skis are. Ouch.

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