Just thankful my fin was'nt any sharper

Hey its only a flesh wound, and no broken bones this time

Isn't there a board called a wave scalpel. Might be hard to sell if they used advertising images like that.

When I was first learning, I was dragging a Starboard Start along the beach (they are HEAVY b@$t@rd$) and I somehow dragged the fin rght over my foot...OWWWWWWWWW that hurt

Wet Willy said...

BTW Haggar's foot has TWO distinct cuts - things must've gotten pretty frantic there towards the end!!

Willy, it was a spinout at 33 knts, I tried to slow down, I should have just gybed. Well another learning experience for me

westhammer said...

Talk about put you off! these blood and gore shots along with all the rest of them shouuld be put under (R)rated and put in ther own section

Sorry Westy, but if you're going to play in the kitchen, you gonna get the heat one day. One reason of why I do post this stuff is to help to remind people to take care. Now if some one can just remind me that would be great

MikeyS said...

Hey Haggar. Was the injury from a sharp leading edge or trailing edge, or was it too much of an explosion to know? If it was from a leading edge, does it reallly make a significant difference to speed if it is sharp. I thought the leading edge should be clean, as in no nicks, but it was better to have it finely rounded, rather than sharp. But then, I don't speedsail so I wouldn't really know.

Mikey, to be quite honest I dont really know how my foot from the front strap came in contact with the fin. It would have been the training edge I'm pretty sure, as the front isn't sharp at all which is how fins usually are. When you have a big stack, who knows what happens, the board must of flipped and been in front of me at one stage. There are a few threads on speed fins in the speed section, you can have a small sqaure edged flat on trailing edge, so they dont need to be sharp.
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=33488&SearchTerms=fin
If you are freeriding or wave sailing, I would get out the sand paper and block make sure your fins are'nt really sharp on the trailing edge, cause they dont need to be.

I am constantly conscience of this type of injury.
Our Formula fins are very sharp and it is super easy to kick the trailing edge when entering or exiting the water. Now i am going to be even more cautious.