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[Thompy]

mmm take the above adivce..

on friday evening i was "practising" my drifting technique in my gravel drive way when it turned into a bit of comp lol so going for a fast one i ened up skidding across my drive cuts everywhere

i got cleaned thought no more of it until the next day

i drove to work and had serious pains in my left knee and wrist. Mother dearest was consulted and deemed a trip to minor injuries to get check 6 hours later it turned out i had a menisuc tear in my knee and a scaphoid fracute in my wrist

so thats me off a bike for 3-4 weeks min

Sucks

[damo]

Oh dear, Did you manage to perfect the drift?

Damo

[fly6154]

i drove to work and had serious pains in my left knee and wrist. Mother dearest was consulted and deemed a trip to minor injuries to get check 6 hours later it turned out i had a menisuc tear in my knee and a scaphoid fracute in my wrist

so that's me off a bike for 3-4 weeks min

Sucks
[/quote]That's the technical phrase for big girls blouse hey hey .

[bong69uk]

lol 

[Zeroman_IR]

Scaphoid fracture? I presume you're in a cast so? If your scaphoid is fractured you're more looking at 8 weeks min, probably 12 weeks. That's one bone you really want to heal right. You might get away with riding sooner, but then the bone might die due to loss of its' blood supply and THEN you're in trouble.

[fly6154]

wow how not to make him feel good.

[Zeroman_IR]

Sorry, it wasn't intended in that way. It's just that the scaphoid is unusual in that its' blood supply only comes into one end of it. So when it fractures, if not set properly and allowed to heal, the bone can die with the result that the wrist bones can fuse together and you end up with an immobile joint. Best case outcome at that point is bone grafts from your hip. It often doesn't show up on x-ray for a few weeks after too.

I spent a month in a cast myself last year with a suspected fractured scaphoid, fortunately it turned out to be torn ligaments, that wrist is still very weak though. Hence how I know all about these things. And once again, sorry. I didn't intend to scare the OP.

[Thompy]

Thanks for the support lol

yea perfected it before to fall

yea in a csat aswell which is a bollox am im not sure i really wanted to hear that lol but least i know what im up againest lets hope its not to serious they said that they could see anything in the xray but suspected the fracture i hope its not and its something less

my knee is whats been giving me the most jip..i had a planned trip to scotland at the end of the month which is looking very unlikely now 

[Rufus]

Last year I was in Morzine, we took some lifts over to Chatel to the freeride park. Now I'm not really one to gripe about manmade trails, but there were these 'kids' (probably about 16-20, so younger than moi) that were doing all the drops and jumps. They would have been impressive if they hadn't always ended their sections with a skid.

We ended up eating lunch there just to watch their skids!
It was hilarious!
So much balls/talent and no sense.

The drifting is something else.
It seems very 'in' to drift. It's not faster or cleverer, but it's featured a lot in zee movies.
If your wheels are in full traction your in control and can carry more speed.
But if your riding so fast that they 'let go' it's good to be able to hold that.

But I heard you can end up hurting yourself in your, knee and wrist? I'm not sure, it might just be rumours, put out there by someone who couldn't drift, and has faked getting hurt as an excuse to not have to try anymore... 

Get well soon.

[Thompy]

it might just be rumours, put out there by someone who couldn't drift, and has faked getting hurt as an excuse to not have to try anymore... 

Get well soon.

no fakeness and i can/have and will continue to be able to do it when need be... its not intentional when it happens but its nice to know i can catch it

monster and vodka fueled stupidity may have also featured in the incident

thanks me thinks 

[fly6154]

AND NOW THE TRUTH COMES OUT you were off ya trolley I can do all sorts when I am drunk its easy.

[Thompy]

wouldnt say off my trolly only had two!!!

[chrissturch]

Pints???

[fly6154]

Gallons

[Thompy]

small glasses lol