Broken Leg Club

thisis the best tred ever nj prawny got me laughing in a tinme of psain keep that score card goin igot meseven screws plate arsnl all wired had some good tablrets in hospital sill a it shaky now keep m coming oooowwwwwcccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh mmme friken foot urtsg

Toughen up princess!

yes happened to me. picked up and dumped in the shallowest of shallows, dislocated elbow, broken wrist, two operations (one abandoned) and two big screws.

i also broke my wrist bombing the hill at coggee beach on my way to visit a mate who was in hospital with a broken neck.

went down from the top of the hill on the footpath, lost it on the sand covered pavers went over the stairs and into the side of the pub. went on to visit mate flat on his back talking to us via a reflection from the mirror on the ceiling, then went to emergency where they said it would be a four hour wait, skated back to central (those who know the city will know how far that is), caught the train back home (south coast) called the ambulance from the traino and got express service to hospital.

also broke back, neck, jaw, fractured skull, upper arm, shoulder, six ribs and some other stuff thanks to a home invasion.... but thats another story

Excellent horror stories.
But you only need to break a leg to be in the club.

We can hold an election for president. TheDoctor and Chronic should be main contenders for the executive acrod parking spot.

Here is my contribution. It seems that one common factor is a 7m kite and +30 knots. Those little f&*%ers are so fast in that wind when it all goes wrong.

I broke my lsat November and missed the whole season watching my new new 2010 quiver gather dust. It took seven months to get back on the water but its still not 100%. I have a surf board now to keep me on the water more...

See my post titled: I broke my leg at Brighton VIC
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=56613

Besides the injury, what was fantastic about this story was that I used Seabreeze to find out what happened because what I told the doctor did not correlate with the injury. Even though I was the only one on the water at the time, 3 people, who I did not know, saw the accident and replied to my post explaining what they saw. This explained the damage.

'Crowd sourcing' - pulling together disparate views on a single event - Amazing stuff.

I broke my ankle at St Kilda in 55 knots + on a 2.5m PL Pepper ( so called trainer) on a finless board.

It started with seeing a wind line out across the bay, when the southerly change hit you couldn't see the cars on the road because of the air born sand. It was one in a 100 year storm I had to ride it.

It was amazing, 55knots and the water flat as for about 5 min then the wave started to come in, I was skipping from the top of one wave to the other totally over powered but having a great time. Then I decided to jump, very big mistake, I got lifted so fast and high that the kites was under me. not good but being such a small kite I managed to get it above me but when I looked down all I was over wet sand. It wasn't a hard landing but I landed on one leg on hard wet sand and it happened ..

9 screws and a plate two years before full recovery, thanks to my caster board and lots of walking on soft sand I'm back to 100% but still a little bit nervous about jumping high on water, funny but I'm not scared to jump on concret.

I guess with 13 years of kitesurfing almost evey and day it's my only injury.

Kitesurfing can be very safe sport just don't go out in big winds and jump close to shore.

you were only out for 8 weeks?... This story sounds a bit unbelievable.

grand old age of 5, at colan candle in sydney climbing around a cliff, when my mates dad says comedown before we hurt ourselves, ok start kicking a soccer ball on grass that is like a billard table trip over the ball and bust my left leg in three places still aches in cold weather, best part was waiting in emergency westmeade hospital when they wheeled a bloke in with a beer bottle in his head, he cheated at two up it was anzac day 1964 a very easy day to remember

Thats got to hurt. Looks like they needed to brace you before the xray.
I guess you had to drive the windy road to Cairns hospital. I would refuse to go to Mosman with a leg like that.

Here's Bent standing on his right leg. Bet he'd love to pull that off now.

Oh well, that was another story...
I was brought to Mossman hospital. They did the first X-Ray there (you are correct with the brace on). Then waiting for the helicopter which didn't arrive because of problems. Then they booked an ambulance. Waiting further in big pain (no morphine at that time either)...
The transport on the windy road was very painful. On the way both batteries of the machines where they check the pulse, oxygen level and blood pressure with ran out. Then the oxygen ran out too. The driver promised he had enough fuel in the tank to make it to Cairns.
In Cairns I had to wait for another hour in the ambulance until a bed at the emergency department became available.
Whatever you do- don't harm yourself in the Far North! Glad they are finally building new hospital facilities here.

N8 you got that photo off your phone didnt you? You like to look at it when your alone dont you? Who else has photos of men walking up the beach on their phone

Ok so mine was only a fractured fibula but it did put me out for six weeks at the start of the season with a new (as in not old) kite, do I qualify.





Started out as a suspected stress fracture from barefoot beach runnning but nothing showed up on he xray, the doc suggested I have a bone scan but also said it may just be a soft tissue injury and if I took it easy for a coule of weeks it should get better.
It was starting to feel pretty good so when my new kite arrived I just had to have a fly, I knew I had stuffed it as soon as I landed all wrong when a jump went wrong.
The next xray comnfirmed it