Bruised ego
Financial ruin

DavMen said...

Bruised ego
Financial ruin

Whiplash from catapults..Tennis elbow if your not careful.

Sore arms and shoulders
Strained back
bruised shins
scraped knees.
crushed feet (from mast falling on it)
bruised cranium (from mast falling on it)
sunburn
strained hands and fingers from gripping the boom too hard

recommended medication: 2x Voltaren Rapid for after the session 1 every 3 hours after that.

shart attack cuts and contusions....

Bruised ribs, hurt for weeks after!

Broken ankles
shoulder
knee twisting
broken nose on boom

cut feet
and then some more cut feet
and just for a change, a cut foot.

The biggest dammage I have done is to my bank account!

all of the above and talking about toes, if you don't cut your nails regularly, then ripped off toe nails when the stitching on foot of the sail catches usually when spinning out at speed.

Believe me, this happens alot. That's why our feet look like they do.

Flipppin heck......I am putting myself down for extreme ironing or something

Well after the last 2 days in the surf my hands are shredded but the toenails are OK so far.

Its just too much bloomin boomin (pun intended ) fun thoughespecially when I am hanging off the board and chewing up some jellies


Off to buy a board now...
El viento contento

Rad Lad said...

Don't let go of the boom - this tip should stop you from coping a mast cracking your head open.

I got catapulted and hang on the boom like you said (but just the front hand), my whole body went and I still hurt on my wrist 2 years later...
There is a time where you should let go...

And anything past forty takes double time to heal.
Does it do it again at 50 ?

hide the pain no mater how much it herts ( atleast in front of kiters and good onlookers ) but feel free to cry like a baby once in side your car

torn up both Knees and ankles
dislocated left knee
broken left wrist
broken nose (not central for ten years)
6 toes and 3 fingers
10 broken ribs 6 left and 4 right
fractured skull
compressed vertebrae
over 100 stitches, feet, head, shins, back! (really good at stitching myself up now)
carpel tunnel
blue bottle in the eyes and all over face (probably the most painful to date)

confusious says: own every brace for every joint on ya body and always travel with duct tape.

OK next question from the newbie then is...........WTF do you do if a far way offshore and some body part falls off or stops working. Your buddy/buddies are off doing aerials or whatever......think I might take a moby in my life vest just in case

El Viento

I always take a cheapo mobile with me just in case...good to have healthy respect fo the ocean, it giveth and taketh away at will.....so as a last resort, why not?

Not sure your abiity, but if you are first learning how to plane / use harness / footstraps then i reckon a helmet is a good idea too. Forget about it not looking cool. It's way more embarrasing coming back to the beach with a bloody face.

Also when you are starting out, it can be hard to judge the limits of your own ability. But you have to push these limits to get out of the comfort zone...thing is how much is too much?

Do you know how to get upwind properly yet? If not then I reckon the next time it's blowing 20+knt go out on a lake, the upwind side, and make sure you can get back. When you can't get back, it will piss you off no end...but your wife can come and pick you up. Keep doing this until you figure out how to get upwind. Then figure it out how to get back without the use of a centerboard, if your board has one.

I learnt this lesson in the ocean, at a sailing school no so long ago. Full offshore wind, which was totally calm by the beach, but got progressively stronger and the waves choppier the further out I got. Gusting 30 knots about 1km out. Eventually was too tired to uphaul any more....and would have to wait for the school boat to come and get me at the end of the session.

Did this a bunch of times, until I no longer needed any help getting back...great confidence builder....but offshore winds still freak me out because of equipment failure. To be avoided!

Human nature is funny, as people, we learn best from our own mistakes. So for example, the fear of being swept out to sea is only fully appreciated when you get swept out to sea....wouldn't recommend it though...hence the lake suggestion so you can get a feeling for it :)

I hope to never need to use my mob phone !!

Cripes if id read this post before i got into the sport Id never have gone ahead!
Ive been sailing 20years & yes in my day I was a wavesailing whimp ( still alive & in one piece to tell) & still err on the conservative side rigging now sailing on the lake but the worst Ive ever got was a bad whiplash.That was when i was being uncharacteristicaly gung ho ..My tennis elbow used to be stirred up but that was a pre existing work injury. So I think if you just use some commonsense & dont try to keep up with the hotshots you see pics of in the forum you should be able to progress safely & have a ball doing it!