Pretty common injury in kiters, rowers, sail boarders, it's possibly an injury that your harness aggravates more than causes, building a strong muscle group in this region is important, also warming up prior to a session, bloody painfull one this injury, hanging off a beam for 1 minute reps helps plus 10x10 reps of alternating pull ups each day has given mee a season free from this injury, the pull from a seat harness is lower and less taxing on the arms which in turn lessens the use of muscles across the back , a good physio would be worth a visit ,emphasis on good, carefull with some anti inflam drugs as they arnt the best with tissue repairs which surround your ribs

cauncy said...
Pretty common injury in kiters, rowers, sail boarders, it's possibly an injury that your harness aggravates more than causes, building a strong muscle group in this region is important, also warming up prior to a session, bloody painfull one this injury, hanging off a beam for 1 minute reps helps plus 10x10 reps of alternating pull ups each day has given mee a season free from this injury, the pull from a seat harness is lower and less taxing on the arms which in turn lessens the use of muscles across the back , a good physio would be worth a visit ,emphasis on good, carefull with some anti inflam drugs as they arnt the best with tissue repairs which surround your ribs

Thanks very much for the info!

I tore some cartilage in my ribs during a kite session in February this year and haven't kited since. The pain has since gone but my ribs haven't healed back into their normal shape, and I now have a lump where part of my ribcage is sticking out. I just bought a Dakine nitrous boardshort/ seat harness after talking to another kiter who had the same injury, and he raved about how good they were. Fingers crossed they do the job. I would spew if I had to give it all away.

As for the pain near kidney, that'd be the actual kidney from the after kite beer sessions, fuuuurk all you can do about that

todd8154 said..
I tore some cartilage in my ribs during a kite session in February this year and haven't kited since. The pain has since gone but my ribs haven't healed back into their normal shape, and I now have a lump where part of my ribcage is sticking out. I just bought a Dakine nitrous boardshort/ seat harness after talking to another kiter who had the same injury, and he raved about how good they were. Fingers crossed they do the job. I would spew if I had to give it all away.

Feel ya pain, smashed mine kiting in march, broke/tore cartlidge from ribs, last couple of ribs on bottom left side, kited for first time very tentatively 2 weeks ago, then again last week, no pain but a big lump and an odd numb feeling where it broke, just started swimming again as well.

Already had a doggy back so have used the nitrous for last 6 years or so, no probs as nowhere near ribs. good luck.

I've had sacro-illiac pain on and off for the past 3 weeks, sometimes so acute i had to lie on the floor and do hip rotations.

Been to osteo and it was only a bit better.

Went for a quick session today down at Rosebud (my safety bungee snapped but that's another story) - waist harness , kite pulling like the clappers....long and the short of it - lower back is now fixed...0 pain....the harness must have pulled the SI joint back into position.

I found this old sailing shanty which seems appropriate at this juncture

As The Sea Is My Mistress
By: Felix L. Perry

Gather round me young lads, pull ye up an empty keg
I’ll tell you of life at sea, of the mistress and the hag
Oh so cruel she’ll steel a young man’s heart away
Once he hears her siren call she’ll have her say
She’ll shackle his soul to the smell of the salt brine
Capture his mind to the lore of foreign women and wine
Ask him to sacrifice his very life in a gale of woe
When Neptune rolling seas will allow no man to sleep below
She’ll make him heed his Captain’s call to risk life and limb
To climb the widow maker’s rigging and sing a hymn

Ah but on those perfect days when the sky is blue
When white sails billow in the wind like they’re meant to do
When the sea birds sing to the hum of the shrouds
Far from the city smog and the bustling crowds
Yes me lads… ‘tis then you will know the kiss of the sea
Yes ‘tis only then… you will love her and forever you’ll be
The lover of the fair mistress of the blue
A sailor of the high seas forever to her true .