INJURIES
Gday,
I was hoping to start some serious downhill and i was just wondering wat are the major injruies that u can get besides road rash and is it easy to break an arm..
I was hoping to start some serious downhill and i was just wondering wat are the major injruies that u can get besides road rash and is it easy to break an arm..
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Benbro on -
head injurys resulting in death,dont mean to scare u but be xtremely careful,always wear a helmet,do lots of practice in estates and quiet areas,cars are your biggest enemy,be aware of them,know your limits,..armco at high speed will sort u out to..shoulder injuries are common.
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Permalink Reply by Cooper Kruize on
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do those head injuries only occur when you dont wear a helmet
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Permalink Reply by Zubin Dubash on
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thats why u wear the full face bro
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Ching on -
do not fall on your hands! i fell on my hands once at the slowest speed possible and ended needing surgery on my wrist (2 rods and 1 month recovery plus weeks of physio).
although i think when you're wearing gloves and you fall on them you just slide
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Permalink Reply by Jonty on
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Easier than you think to break a bone.
Last last year, when I was starting and didn't know a thing, I started a hill I was't ready for, didn't yet know how to footbreak, jumped off and was going faster than I could run. This resulted in me falling over, rolling, smacking my head and a broken thumb. Without the helmet, it would have been rrreeeaaalllyy bad (scraped up/cracked head). Unless going up and down your driveway or your flat street at 10 km/h, wear a helmet in my opinion.
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Permalink Reply by Abdil Mahdzan on
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I just injured my left foot after an unpredictable wobble riding a Dervish going downhill at 40 km/h threw me off the board and I landed on my left foot before falling on my slide gloves and rolling to reduce further injury. I ended up with a swollen / sprained ankle that required massage, ice, and anti-inflammatory medication.
I think that whatever body part hits the road first, will experience the worst injury due to primary impact. Any other body parts that hit after that experience secondary impacts which are less significant and probably experience little to no injury (assuming you're just falling onto the road and not hitting any stationary objects).
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Is the best way to fall by curling up and trying to hit the shoulders and roll?
What do the experienced riders do when they fall at high speeds?
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Permalink Reply by Gilbert on
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Jonty said:Is the best way to fall by curling up and trying to hit the shoulders and roll?
What do the experienced riders do when they fall at high speeds?
http://timeshipracing.com/rollit.htm
according to this it is, but i find it hard to figure out how you'd be able to this if you were to fall unexpectedly at high speeds.
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Permalink Reply by Robbo on
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GP motorbike riders will tell you the best way to fall at high speed and reduce injury is to completely relax like a rag doll... not always easy to do. As long as you don't hit a stationary object and you are in a low riding position you will usually just walk away and dust yourself off. The most serious injuries I've seen occur to riders falling from a high position eg. footbrake fall or going high into a corner fall. When you go fast you build up a huge amount of kinetic energy, when you fall low this is dispersed over about 10m in a gradual curve. When you fall high about 95% of the energy is dispersed in the first 2m, this is a painful position to be in.
Best advice is avoid stationary objects at all costs, avoid falling from a high position (similar to hitting a stationary object in impact), and wear a fullface helmet because you can fuck your head very easily and it is difficult to fix.
Jonty said:Is the best way to fall by curling up and trying to hit the shoulders and roll?
What do the experienced riders do when they fall at high speeds?
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Benbro on -
yeh i dont know about rolling out of a highspeed crash[even50klm/h],usually a crash happens quik,not much time to prepare yourself,so the chance of setting yourself up for the rollit method would be rare,lots of crashes you end up in some sort of a roll but usually after awkward unexpected impact.
but most speedboarding crashes involve sliding on your body,[thats where leathers come into it],hitting stationary objects then become your worst nightmare as far as getting injured,ideally i try to get my pucks down and hold myself up,sliding on the tips of your toes and your handpucks,this minimises wear on your leathers aswell as stops you from rolling and getting injured,it doesnt always work out that way,often u r on the road before you have time to get your hands out,crashing off the side of the road is somthin else,especially with no hay bales,....ive fukd both shoulders from landing on them and rolling when i couldnt get my pucks down in time,its a lucky dip really as to how itll all turn out in a crash,so it is easier to wear appropriate safety gear,learn not to crash...,hope for the best.id have to agree with robbo and stay low,still see a lot of guys standing to tall,especially through corners,they are always gnarly crashes
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by pete hill on -
you want to slide to stop not roll to a stop.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jacko on -
the worst injury u can get is death...
if you try to roll onto your shoulders chances are your gonna fucken em up... think about it, its hard pavement and your moving fast... wear gloves and knee pads, land on them, thats what they are for. Chances are if your gonna crash you are going to have no control of it anyway so just man up and hope for the best.
if your in leathers then rolling onto your shoulder is a completley stupid idea, just slide of your suit/gloves and hope for the best...
Crashes happen usually because your out of control, so im still yet to see a crash where someone is 'in control'... its all a roll of the dice, theres no way to 'crash properly' you are still crashing, some crashes are just worse than others...
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