Gee, not good... Is 8 weeks a little optimistic, friends who have done the same thing require surgery and sometimes upto 6 months recovery... sorry to put a dampner on it

did both anterior cruciate ligaments, took me a year ,
good luck

mate, don't rush back onto the water, a friend of mine did the same and rushed back, now has lifetime of problems with his knees

Yeah .... and for heavens sake move your knees out of the way when you are looping the kite !!!!!!!



Mend soon

Fitzy - Gold Coast OZ

That sound very bad. Just give it the rest it need mate. If you hurt it again, it's just going to take longer or even be permanent.

Thanks for the rundown, it's good to know what to avoid when landing. Stay back or bail seems to be the go. Once again my condolences to your knee.

last week i landed on a sandbar about waist deep and bruised my heel
yeah i know its no where near as bad as what you guys are talking about but i tried to tuff it out today and every bit of chop i hit was just like hitting my heel with a sledge hammer and thats with LF luxury straps with the nice little air cushions
couldnt dig the board in so thought i better let it heel properly or ill just make it worse

did left acl snowboarding at perisher, dropped down into a big bowl section full of powder and an underground stream , my knee just collapsed beneath me. had surgery, recovered, got back into stuff after 6 months then did right acl playing sport. went to the same surgeon to repair and he broke off bone where he was trying to attach the screw and drove the screw up into my leg! . they had to find a radiologist at another hospital to come find where the screw went to.
The 2 hour opperation turned into 6 hours. they gave me so much drugs to keep me under while they located the radiologist (who was in a black spot @ another hospital) they had trouble reviving me.
had to spend 6 weeks with knee in a splint (no movement) instead of the normal 2 cause they had to attach the screws the older way.
all i can say is do the exercises the physio gives you even though they seem stupid.
i had to change to a directional board (not ready to ride switch yet)
and i bail out if my landing looks suss.

wat lesson did we learn from this kiddies.. BEND UR KNEES for landings

Meh I saw the loop, it was 2m off the water, looped real late. The reason you hurt yourself is because you hesitated and looped it real late and slow. Still don't know your limits.

cwamit said...

hi spacemonkey. when you say he looped it too late do you mean he popped too early? from what i have seen its popping once loaded by the kite at the botom of the loop - least for f16 right?... happy to seek advice from a flat water bandit!


sorry to hear your pain h20fly hope you get a swift recovery - nice new alias btw!

umm the kite didnt catch him is what spacemonkey means. If u land with the kite near the bottom of the loop you will land getting yanked forwards and more likely to hurt yourself. In a properly exacuted kiteloop u will just land like a rock from up high and if your not retarded land on your ass or hip. Go bigger, pull it earlier.

the only way u get hurt in a kiteloop is by not committing enough.

sorry to here u get injured, but its the price you pay when you swing above your weight. You do seem very accident prone.

I had a tiny lateral mensicus tear, constant pounding from kiting really agrivated it and decided to go under the knife, snip snip back on the water in 3 weeks. Best thing i did was sell my underground flx, everytime i get back on a flx i get knee pain. The meniscus tear wont hold u back getting on the water but seriously wait till your ligaments are as good as gold!

One other tip, if your going to do rehab dont go to hard in the gym then go kiting. I made that mistake the other day, ended up with a minor subluxation of my shoulder after having a big shoulder work (recovering from labrum tear) out and not fully recovering.

Spacemonkey! said...

Meh I saw the loop, it was 2m off the water, looped real late. The reason you hurt yourself is because you hesitated and looped it real late and slow. Still don't know your limits.

dude i dont really understand your problem with me but im not going to slander on the internet but definatly wanna chat to you next time i see you at woodies

peace

ben

ha, if your going to injure yourself+claim it on seabreeze you got to expect some **** to come back at ya and yes if your landing with the kite still looping your asking for trouble

Spacemonkey! said...

Don't have a problem but you seem to be very accident prone as carbine said, and your attitude is quite full on. Probably didn't help kiting for another 30 mins after you hurt yourself.

Maybe I'm just being a ****, don't really have a legit reason. Probably cause I had a crap session today.

yeh i was trying to go with the theory of walk it off... in hindsight probably not the best thing just didnt want to admit i hurt myself.