Wake 2 Wake...Broken Femur...

ACE · Ollie Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 95 City: Zachary

Some of you may have seen on other post about Cramm, well this is it. Cramm and I ride together every weekend and he just got his new 22Ve from Texas Tige. He really just got into wakeskate hardcore with in the past four months. We were out at Texas Round Up riding when he was starting to stick his wake 2 wakes on the skate consistently...He took the last three bigger and bigger, with his face just glowing after each one he stuck...then a turn for the worst, he came off the wake and when he landed his front foot was on and back foot was off. Which caused him to roll into his front leg (left)...he broke his femur in three places. Had to be rushed to the hospital and now has a rod in his leg...

Get well soon my friend...

Bad Luck · Posted: Apr 10, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject:

i hope he has a speedy recovery.

BillyOLDS · Posted: Apr 10, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject:

i hope the best comes of this! i remember when i used to race mx, femurs were real common.
horible and extremly painful, but ussually the rod goes in and things go pretty smooth after that.

xstfu ill pwn youx · Backside 180 Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 837 City: 954.

i hope he gets well soon.

Bird Dog · Posted: Apr 10, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject:

thats is nuts!!!!!!!!! and very un fortunate. get well soon and keep your head up(and thanks for the post...)

Cooter · Ollie Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 54 City: miami

stay strong man

mario c. · Guest

seems every time i start hitting my w2w's, that happens. can't believe i havent torn my acl, or dislocated my hip. after hearing this, i'm boycotting w2w. i already have a ti rod in my leg and 3 screws from a horrific snowboard crash(tib-fib compound fracture). i know alot of riders will argue that you just have to be dialed, and it seperates the men from the boys. whatever. i'm sticking to flip tricks and rails.
that's my word.
tell your boy to hang in there.
he will be 100% in no time.

Sinkoumn · Posted: Apr 10, 2006 5:15 pm Post subject:

That's really rare to snap your femur from a crash like that, let alone in three places. Usually the ligaments go to save a bone break, ouch!! That sucks a lot. Hope your boy gets well.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10751 City: Jefferton

Some of these wake to wake injuries are kind of freakish. Even byerly's...I was talking to someone else, who's extremely talented when it comes to wake to wake. he said he's fallen like that a number of times (all splits like) and he hasn't torn his knee apart.

The one foot on, one foot off can be a deadly maneuver.

mario c. · Guest

brandon thomas broke his leg just doing a three shuv.

dietwater5 · Posted: Apr 10, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject:

brandon thomas is a whimp lol Smash

Raven · Posted: Apr 10, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject:

ACE, that looks just like my x-ray Very Happy

Spiral fracture maybe, I did the same thing on a w2w indy shuv. Tell your bud to keep his head up and to start his therapy as soon as he can. Weight bearing enhances bone growth, so the more he walks on it, the quicker it will heal; and tell him to DO YOUR THERAPY, and I bet he'll be riding by the end of summer. Let me guess, he was riding a hype. God speed!

wake-till-i-die · Pop Shuvit Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 166 City: orlando

all i can say is strwetch boys...it may be repetative and anooying... ive come from alot of tears through soccer and broken bones....by stretcxhing the muscles around your bones and joints... can save you so much injury........

just strech fellas.....

senorbueno · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 1593

that sucks...

am i the only one who can't see the picture?

dietwater5 · Posted: Apr 10, 2006 10:39 pm Post subject:

i cant see it and also wake-till-i-die, i heard on the news of some research doctors found that streching does not do anything. i was like wtf but thats what they found.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10751 City: Jefferton

I don't know. If you continue to stretch over time, it can help your flexibility (I had to do that for awhile and my flexibility did improve). but as far as just stretching before an activity is concerned...I heard that it may not be as beneficial as everyone thought, but I can't even remember why anymore.

Anyway, i still like to be warmed up before I do stuff like that, so I'd still stretch.

Bad Luck · Posted: Apr 11, 2006 9:19 am Post subject:

hardcore stretching before riding will actually make you more prone to injury, because your muscles will be too loose to prevent you from hyperextending things. the only thing stretching like that will prevent is tearing/straining a muscle.

ACE · Ollie Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 95 City: Zachary

seven11dmd · Posted: Apr 11, 2006 11:50 am Post subject:

What happened when he landed one foot on oen foot off i dont get it. Everytime i land one foot on one foot off i severely strain my hamstring becuase i end up doing the splits.

dietwater5 · Posted: Apr 11, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject:

i see his nuts.....jk that would be weird though....an xray of your balls