Interesting that most windsurfing injuries occur during technical manoeuvres. Does this include avoiding kiters?

jontyh said..
Interesting that most windsurfing injuries occur during technical manoeuvres. Does this include avoiding kiters?

...or being hit by a jet ski?

cald said..
Logically makes sense to me and I would consider myself to have been fairly profecient at both sports..

Im more concerned why their maths on the percentages doesn't add to 100% ??

I wondered the same, so found the paper.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5155257/

Turns out not all of the injured ones completed the questionnaire.

jontyh said..
Interesting that most windsurfing injuries occur during technical manoeuvres. Does this include avoiding kiters?

Bit of misleading video, with an obviously massive selection bias at its core. With windsurfing it is very difficult to get injured unless one is doing quite advanced freestyle moves, or radical wave riding. Something the vast majority of windsurfers never does. Take those activities out of the picture, and the injury rate is almost non existent. With Kiting people have died on the beach dragged by their kites.

Anyway, I actually went and read the original study www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5155257/ and the result is that even for the wave spot chosen for the study kiting has a significantly higher injury rate than windsurfing. See discussion "The results suggest that kitesurfing has a significantly higher injury rate than windsurfing. "

Is there even a question?
HUNDREDS of kiteboarders have died from hitting land, and less than a handful of windsurfers have died from any solid object.

Interesting article. However, the original article acknowledges:
"only athletes who presented at our hospital were included. It might be conceivable that these windsurfers and kitesurfers are more prone to
injuries than others. The total amount of windsurfers and kitesurfers is unknown. These factors might result in injury rates that are reported higher than they actually are."
It also means that the breakdown of the statistics in terms of expertise is also flawed.
These issues could have been resolved by doing a survey of kiters and windsurfers on the beach in terms of expertise and injuries. The only windsurfer injuries I have personally heard of were by "expert" windsurfers doing high jumps or extreme tricks. In contrast the recent kiting injuries I have heard of were generally by beginners.

Frodo said..
Interesting article. However, the original article acknowledges:
"only athletes who presented at our hospital were included. It might be conceivable that these windsurfers and kitesurfers are more prone to
injuries than others. The total amount of windsurfers and kitesurfers is unknown. These factors might result in injury rates that are reported higher than they actually are."

Check out the original article. All the numbers are there, they are very small and the study is based on self-reported questionnaire. The video actually does not report the main result of this little study: even in that one wave riding spot kiting has higher injury rates than windsurfing.

Frodo said..
Interesting article. However, the original article acknowledges:
"only athletes who presented at our hospital were included. It might be conceivable that these windsurfers and kitesurfers are more prone to
injuries than others. The total amount of windsurfers and kitesurfers is unknown. These factors might result in injury rates that are reported higher than they actually are."
It also means that the breakdown of the statistics in terms of expertise is also flawed.
These issues could have been resolved by doing a survey of kiters and windsurfers on the beach in terms of expertise and injuries. The only windsurfer injuries I have personally heard of were by "expert" windsurfers doing high jumps or extreme tricks. In contrast the recent kiting injuries I have heard of were generally by beginners.

Most of my injuries are from being thrown on the boom catapulting..rib injuries.

Agree Lee, when windsurfing you can put your self on crutches, when kiting you can put yourself in the morgue

sboardcrazy said..
Most of my injuries are from being thrown on the boom catapulting..rib injuries.

Learn to jump with/into the catapult. Rarely will you get injured, nor will your mast damage the board.
I'm a regular crash test dummy n rarely get hurt.

decrepit said..

olskool said..
Learn to jump with/into the catapult. Rarely will you get injured, nor will your mast damage the board.
I'm a regular crash test dummy n rarely get hurt.

OK if you have super fast reflexes, above 30kts you're under water before you have time to think.

+1, sometimes it happens VERY quickly