dont foget to really milk it while you can.
and dont forget that when you return to the water you will need new safer kit
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
I know what you going through guys. I broke my tib fib a year ago.
Doctors said it would be 3 mths before I would bare weight and unlikely that I would kite again. Waited for 3hrs for ambo to arrive and for three days waiting for surgery. Our hospital system is rooted. My surgeon thought it needed to be amputed as the muscle had died due to internal bleeding aka compartment syndrome. 1 hr longer in waiting for surgery he said I would have certainly lost my leg, as the calf had already gone brown. He cut the calf in half and folded it outside either side of the leg and let it sit for a week. Miraculously it came back together and three months later I had my first kite.
I now kite every day there is wind. Keep your chin up, use the time off to do something constructive, and without becoming too much of an addict get Stillnox, it is the best ever sleeping tablet to get you to sleep at night.
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?
yeeouch! falling objects man.....
heal soon pal.
(don't spose i can have that airush kite now??
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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.
EEEWWWWWW,
enough of the gorey pictures already !!
I hope you guys all get well and back on the water soon.
), but it now looks like a finger again, it's even growing a cute little nail.
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
Crikey!! I won't be eating a sausage roll or pie (suspensful rolls & mystery bags) any time soon after these pics and descriptions!!
What's going on?? I have never heard of so many breakages (locally and interstate) as in the last season.
Are the kites out there getting so powerful that boosts/lofts etc are getting bigger and bigger? Or is it 'safer' kites leading to complacency? For example, a 1st season kiter I talked to 2 days ago got a 2-3m loft on the beach and had the prescence of mind to push out the bar (instead of death-gripping it) and dropped like a stone landing awkwardly, buying himself a fractured ankle and tibia for his troubles.. In ye olde C kite days he may have depowered as much as poss but probably ridden the kite down and then ejected??
Good luck to all the mangled folks in this thread. Bloody goolies the size of cantelops to get back on a board after some of these injuries!!
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?
im not very technically advanced enough to post the xray shots, but fractured my radius a few weeks ago after being lofted in shallow water and wasnt able to really do anything but think to myself "this is going to hurt-gee dont land on your arm what ever you do" bang... broken. fractured the tip of the radius in 2 places and a nice long crack down the length of it. out for 6-8 weeks possibly more. wasnt even doing anything crazy just unlucky, probably a bit too overpowered and not enough depower to count on. good excuse to get a newer kite with more depower after missing out on kitestock last year (in hospital) - and this happening in the first hour of this years! ill be there next year for sure. some consolation has been the lack of wind over the last few weeks i was only just getting over 3 broken ribs from before chrissy..thanks to cameron for packing up my gear and taking me to the medical center at the time. i am still yet to try any nice new kites!
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.
Yer - thats how the name came about.. might leave the list for another thread another time..(dont want to hijack yours). woops
) , but it now looks like a finger again, it's even growing a cute little nail.
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) 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..
). 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.
