Has anyone got any info on the kiter taken to hospital by rescue chopper from Mandurah this afternoon?

NoBS said..
Waveslave's launch pad had a malfunction maybe??

It was NoBS. Some dude landed his kite and he had a heart attack after he found out the dude was french.

In the ocean or estuary

Especially when your legs go in different directions powered up as with this poor guy. Ouch!

Wish him the best.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

One foot slipped out of his pad, it got stuck in the mud, the kite gave power and he did the splits. Apparently he had never done the splits before.
I got an update last night to say that he has broken his femur and is having surgery, will prob have some bits of metal put in.
Looks like he will miss out on the ski trip he has booked for japan and the rest of the season. I feel for ya, really sucks.

vwpete said..
One foot slipped out of his pad, it got stuck in the mud, the kite gave power and he did the splits. Apparently he had never done the splits before.

I got an update last night to say that he has broken his femur and is having surgery, will prob have some bits of metal put in.

Looks like he will miss out on the ski trip he has booked for japan and the rest of the season. I feel for ya, really sucks.

... oh man , I sorta know his pain, did something very similar couple of years ago, almost exactly the same in fact, only I tore my ham string,,, f'ing painful indeed. Haven't been able to boost properly ever since, constantly get cramps in it, luckily I didn't cop it like this poor bastard!!!

Puetz said..

vwpete said..
One foot slipped out of his pad, it got stuck in the mud, the kite gave power and he did the splits. Apparently he had never done the splits before.

I got an update last night to say that he has broken his femur and is having surgery, will prob have some bits of metal put in.

Looks like he will miss out on the ski trip he has booked for japan and the rest of the season. I feel for ya, really sucks.

... oh man , I sorta know his pain, did something very similar couple of years ago, almost exactly the same in fact, only I tore my ham string,,, f'ing painful indeed. Haven't been able to boost properly ever since, constantly get cramps in it, luckily I didn't cop it like this poor bastard!!!

Me too. Only what I thought was a hamstring tear was a hamstring avulsion (sp?) - detachment from the bone. I didn't find out until about 2 years later when I developed debilitating sciatica (lower back pain), turns out where the hamstring attaches to the top of the leg is where the sciatic nerve comes out and travels down the leg. I'd developed scar tissue from the hamstring detachment, and it had caught around the sciatic nerve and was giving me heaps. Took me about 6 months of pain and god knows how many xrays, scans, visits to specialists etc to finally figure out what it was. I had an operation to reattach the hammie and clean up the nerve from scar tissue and all good now.

So Puetz, if you start getting severe lower back pain go and find someone who'll do an MRI on your hammie and see if this has happened to you too. The bloke that did mine reckons heaps of avulsions get mis-diagnosed as tears (and apparently they're very different beasts).

dirtyharry said..

Puetz said..

vwpete said..

One foot slipped out of his pad, it got stuck in the mud, the kite gave power and he did the splits. Apparently he had never done the splits before.



I got an update last night to say that he has broken his femur and is having surgery, will prob have some bits of metal put in.



Looks like he will miss out on the ski trip he has booked for japan and the rest of the season. I feel for ya, really sucks.

... oh man , I sorta know his pain, did something very similar couple of years ago, almost exactly the same in fact, only I tore my ham string,,, f'ing painful indeed. Haven't been able to boost properly ever since, constantly get cramps in it, luckily I didn't cop it like this poor bastard!!!

Me too. Only what I thought was a hamstring tear was a hamstring avulsion (sp?) - detachment from the bone. I didn't find out until about 2 years later when I developed debilitating sciatica (lower back pain), turns out where the hamstring attaches to the top of the leg is where the sciatic nerve comes out and travels down the leg. I'd developed scar tissue from the hamstring detachment, and it had caught around the sciatic nerve and was giving me heaps. Took me about 6 months of pain and god knows how many xrays, scans, visits to specialists etc to finally figure out what it was. I had an operation to reattach the hammie and clean up the nerve from scar tissue and all good now.

So Puetz, if you start getting severe lower back pain go and find someone who'll do an MRI on your hammie and see if this has happened to you too. The bloke that did mine reckons heaps of avulsions get mis-diagnosed as tears (and apparently they're very different beasts).

... thanks dude for the heads up!