9 months kiting
1. twisted ankle when one foot came out, board rotated, other foot stayed in and rotated with it. Not the first time that ankle has been twisted, already a writeoff. (inexperience - all kooky on the board)
2. multiple lacerations on feet from shell/rocks/trash at Pallarenda (tightfistedness, too cheap to buy bootees)
3. patch of numb skin on left leg after impacting into sand on beach off a mountainboard mucking around in light wind. Expect feeling to return around Christmas 05. The nerve receptors themselves are dead and need to regrow. (recklessness - 17m kite on land with mountainboard set up for 50kg teenager, and me at 110. Wind was picking up too, about 12kts)
4. aggravated old shoulder injury when dragged onto the beach and put my elbow out to stop myself. I hit the hard sand and took most of the blow in my shoulder socket. It still hurts, but that was only icing on the cake after years of rugby and snowboarding trauma so I can't blame kiteboarding. (overpowered, new kite that flew differently to what I was used to)
5. soft tissue damage to groin inside pelvis when dragged over fin of my own board. 24 hours in hospital in intense pain, 14 days off the water, ongoing problems in genital area, subsequent problems with sex life.
(still under the influence of alcohol the morning after a big drinking session - quite a lesson learned on that one)
By far my worst injury happened riding a road bike earlier this year, when I fractured my right hip ( neck of femur), believe it or not this is not an uncommon cycling injury. So far I have not been back out on the water.
Yeah I know I might sound like a bit of a geek to most of you.
and when they are really angry wake you in the early hours of the morning with extreme pain, out on three occasions out twice for a week once for two - seems to be burning itself out this season but is a constant niggle.
