sir ROWDY said...
**** Max, least I didn't brake my leg I guess haha. Hopping around would have sucked.
I think the danger in it is thinking you are in water? Because I have been skating for a long time and had some really bad stacks but it's kinda like you expect it to happen so you are prepared. Where as the stack on the skim board was really nothing it wasn't even the classic slip out and land on your back (if it had I wouldn't have had time to put my arm out) it was more the fact that i fell slowly to one side and put my arm out and pushed it backwards, as i still had forward momentum it fractured 2 bones. This injury could happen pretty easily kiting n shallow water to I think.
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