Dave showing what the appropriately name C3 Sting fin can do.
Good thing it wasn't a Venom

That looks very painful
God bless and goodnight

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Good thing it wasn't a Venom

Ha ha ha

Now we just need everyone else to add their injuries to the list. Dave Jacks leg, Kaleb's little toe, Marlon's ankle (I think) and of course Stewies teeth. Sure there are plenty I have missed.
We could also do a board and rig injury list. Kaleb's 2 broken masts, Dave's destroyed Reflex 3 etc etc.

Mat fractured a bone in his hand a few weeks ago, stew with the lost tooth,

and the kite dood i took out at carlton, say no more,

I broke my collar bone at Goats a few years back

I hit a big wave in the sweet spot just before it broke, got some massive air, rotated forward into a midair catipult, my head hit the board and the boom went through my collar bone.

Managed to drag myself onto the beach with some help from 'little Ken' only to find Dr Buzzy eagerly waiting to give me his diagnosis.
In his wisdom he decided it was a dislocated shoulder which he could fix...no problem

Luckily for me Jodi arrived on the scene and just as the good Dr grabbed my arm ready to give it a good hard yank she told him to rack off and promptly took me off to hospital

Thanks Jodi, I owe you

The bone was never set correctly so it still sticks out.....maybe Dr Buzzy could have done a better job....mmm.......or mabe he would have pulled it off

Photos or it didn't happen

I'm impressed that I'm still in one piece after the number of catapaults, fin strikes etc I've gone through in my learning phase. Apart from the odd blister and bruise it's been good so far.

Too many to remember.
Tore my biscept and all the tendons etc around the elbow when my arm got bent back the wrong way sailing at Greens.
Fractured and tore my ankle to bits doing freestyle at Dorans about 2 years ago(nearly back to normal now).
Broke my toe at Stanley recently.
Theres been many knee and ankle strains over the years and lots of blisters.

Andrew Cables knocked both his front top teeth out at Park years ago.

Got more injuries from kiteboarding. Windsurfing is tame, only stuffed my shoulder from a bad catapult in 1996 & hyperextended my elbow in another bad catapult at Marrawah at Nationals 2009 and nearly drowned in a rip at Marion Bay years ago.(thanks to Jubes & Kaleb I'm still here)
Both knees worn out from pounding, twisting & turning heaps.

Strained relationship with girlfriend (now wife)
Inferiority complex - watching gun sailors
Acute frustration-not enough sailing time

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Kazza said...
Both knees worn out from pounding, twisting & turning heaps.

Yeh but thats from all the gym work not windsurfing

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grahamn said...

Strained relationship with girlfriend (now wife)
Inferiority complex - watching gun sailors
Acute frustration-not enough sailing time

Yeah, I forgot about those injuries

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Kazza said...
Both knees worn out from pounding, twisting & turning heaps.

Yeh but thats from all the gym work not windsurfing

More from doing running classes (which I gave up doing). Holding on to the rig and bulldozing through the water & wind last time at Stanley absolutely cained them. The joys of getting old.

I just injure myself at work, which means less time on the water to injure myself sailing.
Back, wrist, elbow, leg....
Latest is tendonitis in both elbows, didn't sail last Saturday because of this. Have swapped job duties and improving already (with anti-inflamitries).
Must say that I saw Kaleb's toe at Stanley, when he came in with a broken mast (and toe), and the indifference he showed to the pain versus his drive to get back out there and get a better 5 x 10secs was inspiring just plain madness.

you bunch of whinging pussies!!.
what about the guy who landed head first into the deck of his board from height and "dead'. (back in the glass board days)
OR the guy who followed a fishing trawler of Torquay, and got caught up by their hooks and dragged along, ripping the flesh off his fingers!
i have a photo of the fishing hook one somewhere in a old sailwind quarterly mag.

Old age i reckon (touch wood)

You know what they say treat em mean keep em keen

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easty said...

I just injure myself at work, which means less time on the water to injure myself sailing.


carrying gear miles through leech infested vertical gullys of inpenetrable scrub

Easty, you've got me intrigued. What is it that you call work exactly? Sounds like typical Tassie hiking to me

Whilst my broken leg is and hopefully will be by far my worst injury, I did suffer another bad leg injury about 10 years back. Again another jump on my left side that I stuffed up, decided to bail mid air but came down and landed on the fin. Another trip to Hospital to have stitches in my gashed leg - but boy it could have been worse - a mere 6" from you know what. I have posted a picture of my new leg with the rod down the middle - could not get it uploaded to this post.

I've broken my foot (Doran's), stepped on lots of oysters and once stepped on the base of a broken bottle while carrying my board and rig up through sand dunes - had to pull it off the bottom of my foot as it was 'stuck' in place.

Plus of course the terrible cut to my hand on the weekend!!

Cracker was wondering when you were going to get off your a.se and show us a bit of leg.....you better get a photo up
Are you sure that fin gash was only 6 inches..........We all reckon it went the full 12 inches and you lost the balls to pull off a decent jump and borke your frickin leg

I stepped on a broken bottle as well! At Carlton in the sand dunes, neck of a bottle into the side of foot, 8 stitches.

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easty said...

I just injure myself at work, which means less time on the water to injure myself sailing.


carrying gear miles through leech infested vertical gullys of inpenetrable scrub

Easty, you've got me intrigued. What is it that you call work exactly? Sounds like typical Tassie hiking to me

Hi Klaas, what I call work is mineral exploration, and typically is hiking, but carrying parts of drilling rigs through the bush to be reassembled to drill holes in the ground. (environmentally friendly drilling, no bulldozers required).
Beats an office job (I say to myself at the miserable times).

I just checked your profile, we have a bit in common - I was into rockclimbing for 10 years (gave up windsurfing for it (late 80's), was addicted, have returned to my senses now), and sea and river kayaking. (again, haven't paddled much since returning to windsurfing, and kids).

Now listen here Ant, sitting on the couch watching footy is bloody hard work. I was going to come down to Carlton on Saturday, but was too lazy to drive down there so went to Dorans instead. Witnessed a couple of bad crashes and saw, and I think his name was Phil, come out with a smashed mouth and a tooth floating around Ralph's Bay. Cannot work out how to get the photos on this post, but I have uploaded them to the photo section - one of my new leg and the other of my 1st windsurfing trophy from some smart arse surfer.

Cracker lets face it you're a useless bastard, next time you come down to the beach bring the camera and improve your IT skills and get you leg on this post

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Plus of course the terrible cut to my hand on the weekend!!

The photo doesn't do it justice Dave, can only see blood, where's the nice big gory gash? Proof please.......

Well Ant, I have finally worked it out, photos follow. Now about Saturday - had the car packed -camera, tripod, thermos, chair, beer, you name it I had it but that bloody couch and football brought me unstuck. Yes I need to get my windsurfing mojo back, but ****, it's nearly winter. Wind blown beach V's couch!!!!

Dave it looks like your leg isn't joined to your body, do you keep it in the cupboard?

Not sure why we have had so many injuries of late.
I think one thing to remember in the quest for higher speeds is if the gear feels in tune with you then go for it .

But if for whatever reason you are pushing it uncomfortably beyond your personal limit Sh.t happens very quickly. Other times you just get unlucky and get hurt but relative to km traveled it's a very good ratio.

on a positive note I find windsurfing heaps safer than kitesurfing on older 40+ frames like mine.
Russ