Good luck with the recovery man

I'm also licking my wounds from altona, 1st of feb was doing a backroll kite loop & all went to ****. Dislocated elbow & broken bone (screws) & spiral fracture in hand requiring plate & 4 screws. So will also be off the water for some time

It is fun doing big tricks in the shallows but when it goes wrong it goes really wrong...

Hey guys,

Just wanted to drop in with a VERY BIG THANK YOU for all your support and good advice. Damien heeds advice from fellow kiters more readily than from me or a doctor - obviously experience yields more credibility ... So I can't thank you enough for sharing your own experiences.

He's a pretty good patient and really tries to behave but sitting still for so long is a struggle. It's a massive effort to reconcile what he is capable of doing with what he should actually be doing but it's a battle he's *mostly* winning. Again, your advice and experience has helped here.

On a further note, I hope all of you enjoy the perfect kiting conditions that should prevail for the remainder of this season... He still checks seabreeze regularly just to make sure he's missing out on something

cheers

Wow, you had to wait 3 days for surgery too!!! That was sooo frustrating for me...just waiting and praying there were no emergencies to kick me off the list again.

Do you have trouble with the impact from landings now or does it feel alright?

EEEWWWWWW,
enough of the gorey pictures already !!

I hope you guys all get well and back on the water soon.

DAMMMM ...i done a femur and knee in one wakeboarding a couple of years ago....the hardest thing i found was getting your head over the mental aspects of doing the injury. i still haven't attempted a 'tantrum' since the break......although the idea doesn't make me want to throw up anymore

I've done a mental survey of kiting injuries, mostly local.

More breakages seem to happen on flat water rather than surf. Boosting and doing tricks seem to be the main culprits. Any comments?

Seems like you are quite injury prone Bingles

I love the way everyone helps out when these things happen. Your mate Cameron in your case, Brendan and Jason (who were strangers to me) in mine etc... I spent 20-30 mins in the water waiting for my ambulance to arrive and several people kited up to me in that time asking if they could lend assistance.

This shows a lot of positive in the community as opposed to some of the negative we've all been reading about of late.

colinwill78 said...

yeeouch! falling objects man.....

heal soon pal.
(don't spose i can have that airush kite now??)

quite a few injuries about the place of late.

but echostorm's would take some beating........

good luck with guitar hero. Lucky you didn't do this...........



I won't be guitaring for quite a while methinks, had to turn down a few gigs, but it now looks like a finger again, it's even growing a cute little nail.

It's more like Falling Objects Man atm...

Roni took possession of the 8.5m Flow I chose. You'll have to fight her for it. She loves it though so...good luck

I'd gladly swap injuries with you. I'm currently a crippled, couch living, hairy bum...I'd give anything for a shave right now! Least you have mobility haha

Cut said...

bingles said...

Yer - thats how the name came about.. might leave the list for another thread another time..(dont want to hijack yours). woops

Feel free, we can have an injury-off. I'll start :P

Last January I had an asian chick hit me in the nuts with her car while I was rollerblading (yes rollerblading) to work. Her fault, felt she could speed past me then turn left...she didn't speed fast enough, much like cars cutting off cyclists. Bruised testicles and severe abdominal internal bruising but it only had me off work for 3 weeks.

Awesome adrenaline rush though...

Tell me she at least offered to help ease them back down for you!!??


Ha ha - I can empathise (stealing a thread as is my style) I once wrote off a motorbike and left a dent around 15cm deep and 20x20cm wide in the fuel tank from the Jatz crackers!! Took my mind off my severely mangled hand though..

KIT33R said...

I've done a mental survey of kiting injuries, mostly local.

More breakages seem to happen on flat water rather than surf. Boosting and doing tricks seem to be the main culprits. Any comments?

Mine was in the surf... although, was doing a trick at the time. Simple front roll finishing with a downloop. Aiming to land on the back of an oncoming wave as a downramp but just before I hit backwash caused the wave to increase another couple of feet. I landed on the face of a wave which my momentum, combined with the waves momentum caused the impact. Speaks volumes of Carbrina Custom boards though, legs 0 board 1.

Cut, I am having a little trouble boosting now, however it has lead to a much more controlled and clean form of air. I wont do backrolls because my back foot if prone to land first, If I do then I will land switch or blind, and I wont pull it unless I am 110% certain there are no variables going to fxk it up.

Bones heal perfectly man. A lot of people break legs but dont 'break' legs so there are lot of different levels of broken i.e. a splinter to completely snapped. Joints aren't a good thing. Seeing your foot 90 degrees aint a good thing either (my foot was kicking my knee whenever a wave hit as I was swimming in ). Until they take the plate and pin out it will keep feeling a little pain like when you jump off a roof in barefooted with cold feet. I am starting to think I buggered my cartlidge in the process.


But you will really be amazed at how fast you heal, and how fast time goes!!! I cant believe it has already been a year!!!! Felt like yesterday that I was pressing that morphine button every 5 seconds hoping that timer had been switched off

But right now, read a book, learn a new language, master a new skill, whatever... dont waste it watching tv and feeling down.