Buggying

thought i'd put some pics up. Changing the bandages this morning. i'll still put some up of the x-rays when i get home. tomorrow i hope.

good luck with a speedy recover dude

Hope you have a speedy recovery mate.

I have always been fearful of doing exactly what you did, makes me shudder seeing that it happened to you.

I think I might make some heal straps now!

Looks like your going to have a good scar to remember the incident by.

That's pretty fair looking Mr Wise

Onya back all day ......with drugs on tap = the silver lining.....

Nice stitch job.... Australia's medical system staff.. ... Angels ...

Just a shame they wasted the opportunity to use the bernina and embroider the BrisKites logo in...

take care.
Andy....

Lucky bastard, at least you get a scar for your pains!, all I get is to whinge about how sore my back is!, even the wife has stopped showing sympathy for me now!

haha I know what you mean Brian always thought of getting a tattoo of a shatered disc over mine just so with my shirt off people could see it. not alot of people know i broke mine.

should be a gooden hayn it'll be numb too so i got to watch that.
i got to pumps on my feet as i speak to get the swelling down working alright at the moment. bit pins and niddley. they took the morphine off me this morning.

Bones heal, skin grows back and chicks dig scares.

Yeah I used to think that too, but you know what, its total BS.
Skin sometimes grows back ok, and sometimes it leaves really annoying scar tissue and that can even require operations to fix later as you age or grow, gain weight, etc.
True, bones do heal, sometimes well, sometimes really, really badly, and most often they heal and leave the owner with some nasty and worsening arthritis and other debilitating conditions that have really negative impact on a persons ability to keep kiting (and doing lots of other "normal" things too, like walking, bending, reaching, etc.

I really don't like the promotion of risk taking kiting activities without full warnings of the dangers. There is no future for our sport if people are continually and seriously injured, and whats it going to be like in 10 20 or 30 years, when you are living in agony or just can't live a normal life without a carer.

Going fast, jumping big, riding in tight confined spaces in gusty conditions, etc are all very high risk activities and anyone that does not practice the basics, heaps, and learns their "emergency response" so its second nature, will eventually have a serious accident. I think thats becoming well proven now, yeah?

@ Wise, bugger of an injury mate, hope it mends well and your walking , kneeling, running is not affected too much or at all.

Did you get overpowered as you went faster?
Did you then steer the kite up to reduce power?
Or did you just hit a really big rut and get a foot bounced off a peg and lose control?

Do you remember the accident well enough to talk about what we might be able to learn from your unfortunate incident?

Best wishes

Steve

Yeah I used to think that too, but you know what, its total BS.
Skin sometimes grows back ok, and sometimes it leaves really annoying scar tissue and that can even require operations to fix later as you age or grow, gain weight, etc.
True, bones do heal, sometimes well, sometimes really, really badly, and most often they heal and leave the owner with some nasty and worsening arthritis and other debilitating conditions that have really negative impact on a persons ability to keep kiting (and doing lots of other "normal" things too, like walking, bending, reaching, etc.

I really don't like the promotion of risk taking kiting activities without full warnings of the dangers. There is no future for our sport if people are continually and seriously injured, and whats it going to be like in 10 20 or 30 years, when you are living in agony or just can't live a normal life without a carer.

Going fast, jumping big, riding in tight confined spaces in gusty conditions, etc are all very high risk activities and anyone that does not practice the basics, heaps, and learns their "emergency response" so its second nature, will eventually have a serious accident. I think thats becoming well proven now, yeah?

I got into this sport knowing all well what the risks were, i am a risk taker, if i wassn't i wouldn't do the sport, hell i wouldn't do any of the sports i do and have done. AND I DON"T NEED SOME ONE TELLING ME THAT CRAP, I know and so does everyone else

this part how ever would of done the job by its self, and i wouldn't be so angery with that message.

@ Wise, bugger of an injury mate, hope it mends well and your walking , kneeling, running is not affected too much or at all.

Did you get overpowered as you went faster?
Did you then steer the kite up to reduce power?
Or did you just hit a really big rut and get a foot bounced off a peg and lose control?

Do you remember the accident well enough to talk about what we might be able to learn from your unfortunate incident?

Best wishes

Steve

oooh deja vu

Wise, I quoted Andy666 so none of what I wrote was directed, at you, ok?
Secondly, my comments were not even directed at Andy666, they were just my thoughts and opinions, which I have a right to express here, thats what the forum is for isn't it! (not a question)

The welfare of others is what concerns me most. I hope you you might reconsider and answer the questions that were directed at you so that you, and readers of the forum can learn from your unfortunate accident.

Read QLD :Who's keen.
the lesson would be if you do an extreme sport its not if you get hurt, its when. learn from it. we have a chance to pull out at times i did and got hurt after that.
My time was up.

and if you write somthing like that in a forum that the subject is about that person and you go saying crap like that in it, then your beating them down more then starting a new forum and asking the question directly. What have you learnt from your hurt? (maybe up to my eye balls on pain killers but i can still rhyme kinda)

My lesson to learner, find your limits break them slowly.... walk before you run.

I don't think Steve meant it as a personal attack, just a means for the rest of us to learn from what happened. Sure the sport has risks. And some of us would prefer to learn from mishaps to prevent or lesson the chance of it happening to them. Perhaps the words "where our sport is heading in the next 10 or 30 years" got us off on the wrong foot, oops no pun intended.

I don't buggy, only gave it a brief go, personally I'm a landboarder and for the water action. But I still would be interested to know what went wrong. My son some times eggs me on for a buggy, so understanding the risks is important for me as well.

I've read on some earlier threads quite some time ago, if memory serves me correctly, that the FlexiFoil buggies purposely don't supply foot straps with their bugs (for safety reasons?). Jason meantioned the use of heal straps. So what is the safer option? Is it a technique thing?


Get well Wise and enjoy the pampering of the nurses (the female kind, that is ..... ).

Norman.

moving on
Think heal straps would do the job i find my heal rubbs the wheel at times it could help that.

Wow, I didn't mean to create turbulance. Sorry if I offended you Wise, I only meant my comment to be light hearted and maybe bring you a bit of a smile during this hard time.
Good luck with the recovery mate.

heal straps would definatly be the go. Did you try wolfies buggy while he was up there? simple, but very effective.

moving on
Think heal straps would do the job i find my heal rubbs the wheel at times it could help that.

yes good call dude move on

AS stated in the FIRST POST if you read it what happened to wise was as he said and i found out later that he got overpowered let go one handle but HIT A RUT AT SPEED his foot slipped of the pegs and his right foot dug in and folded back under the bug now !!!!! how to stop this as WISE said should have STOPPED earlier as wind was getting up ,!! buggyed on smoother ground (YEAH RIGHT we dont have bowling greens to buggy on ) but maybe have FOOTSTRAPS to try to stop this or minimise it as wise said he knows the risks we take AND WE ALL DO IT (we love the rush) as for newby buggy pilots learn to walk before you can run (if you can get help to learn ) IT IS A SHAME PEOPLE ARE GETTING HURT but there are more doing it now and by just putting up the post with the FIRST EXPLAINING WHAT HAPPENED maybe people could learn from it BUT THEY HAVE TO READ THE FIRST POST FIRST !!!!! is that so hard i was at wises place the week before and we had piss all wind so could not show him much so there fore this type of thing can happen at any time to anyone !! and coming in to a post and stating the obvious of course is going to create waves but thats life

like a mate of mine getting melanoma cancer from not wearing a shirt when he was a kid (he was 49 almost 50 )next month and in hospital they telling him to stop smoking and as he said WHY IS IT GOING TO KILL ME !!!!!!!! go figure
he took the risk he knew the risks so there for SHIT HAPPENS we just got to try and minimise it LIFE GOES ON !!!!! GET OVER IT