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Unread postby SlickVT » Mon Jun 14, 2004 5:53 pm

Speaking of Sage and Gensic coming back, anyone have any injury stories they wanna share. I just finished up my second of two straight redshirts this year with two stress fractures in my L4 vertebrae. I had to wear a big abdominal brace for three and a half months strait. For having ridiculous lower back pain and feeling like sh*t for about three or four years, my training thus far since I've come back has been awesome. Can't wait for indoors 2004...

Anyway, I'm interested in hearing other people's misery. Haha...
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Unread postby NUVAULTER » Mon Jun 14, 2004 6:27 pm

SlickVT wrote:Speaking of Sage and Gensic coming back, anyone have any injury stories they wanna share. I just finished up my second of two straight redshirts this year with two stress fractures in my L4 vertebrae. I had to wear a big abdominal brace for three and a half months strait. For having ridiculous lower back pain and feeling like sh*t for about three or four years, my training thus far since I've come back has been awesome. Can't wait for indoors 2004...

Anyway, I'm interested in hearing other people's misery. Haha...


ALL I know is I saw Gensic fall I was 5 feet from it and it was the scariest thing I have ever seen, he was attempting 17 7 i belive and he went up poles and pulled stright off the end he didnt even land in the box it was pretty much in front of it very very scary
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Unread postby swtvault » Mon Jun 14, 2004 7:58 pm

I got a pretty good one....

I was jumping at a HS coaches house when I was a senior in HS, hadn't reall jumped much, so I started small. I turned up on a 1570 and landed on the very back of the PV mat. Everything would have been fine, other than the fact that the coach had a brace holding the mats together with 2x4's sticking up 8 inches over the brace extensions......Yep, I landed right on one. I got knocked out, and woke in the car coughing blood, and I could hardly breath. Why they didn't call an ambulance????? I don't know. I broke a rib, and cracked two others, nearly puncturing my lung. Luckily, the fall didn't shake me up too bad, and I managed to have a great indoor season after my ribs healed. Unluckily, about the same thing happened a year later, and I wouldn't leave the ground for two months. Belmore....you remember that one.......at UT!

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Unread postby VaultNinja » Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:06 am

swtvault wrote:I got a pretty good one....

I was jumping at a HS coaches house when I was a senior in HS, hadn't reall jumped much, so I started small. I turned up on a 1570 and landed on the very back of the PV mat. Everything would have been fine, other than the fact that the coach had a brace holding the mats together with 2x4's sticking up 8 inches over the brace extensions......Yep, I landed right on one. I got knocked out, and woke in the car coughing blood, and I could hardly breath. Why they didn't call an ambulance????? I don't know. I broke a rib, and cracked two others, nearly puncturing my lung. Luckily, the fall didn't shake me up too bad, and I managed to have a great indoor season after my ribs healed. Unluckily, about the same thing happened a year later, and I wouldn't leave the ground for two months. Belmore....you remember that one.......at UT!


Holy s*** Man. Thats Intense. My crashes all seem pretty minor after reading that.
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Unread postby bjvando » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:54 am

swtvault wrote:I got a pretty good one....

I was jumping at a HS coaches house when I was a senior in HS, hadn't reall jumped much, so I started small. I turned up on a 1570 and landed on the very back of the PV mat. Everything would have been fine, other than the fact that the coach had a brace holding the mats together with 2x4's sticking up 8 inches over the brace extensions......Yep, I landed right on one. I got knocked out, and woke in the car coughing blood, and I could hardly breath. Why they didn't call an ambulance????? I don't know. I broke a rib, and cracked two others, nearly puncturing my lung. Luckily, the fall didn't shake me up too bad, and I managed to have a great indoor season after my ribs healed. Unluckily, about the same thing happened a year later, and I wouldn't leave the ground for two months. Belmore....you remember that one.......at UT!


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Unread postby RamVault09 » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:18 am

bjvando wrote:
swtvault wrote:I got a pretty good one....

I was jumping at a HS coaches house when I was a senior in HS, hadn't reall jumped much, so I started small. I turned up on a 1570 and landed on the very back of the PV mat. Everything would have been fine, other than the fact that the coach had a brace holding the mats together with 2x4's sticking up 8 inches over the brace extensions......Yep, I landed right on one. I got knocked out, and woke in the car coughing blood, and I could hardly breath. Why they didn't call an ambulance????? I don't know. I broke a rib, and cracked two others, nearly puncturing my lung. Luckily, the fall didn't shake me up too bad, and I managed to have a great indoor season after my ribs healed. Unluckily, about the same thing happened a year later, and I wouldn't leave the ground for two months. Belmore....you remember that one.......at UT!


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Unread postby Robert schmitt » Tue Jun 15, 2004 11:36 am

Frcatured my L4 vertebrea vaulting indoors at our conference meet- when I planted like crap and drifted to the right. I cleared the bar at 15'6" just barley missed the postage stamp of a mat.
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Unread postby ashcraftpv » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:11 pm

not really an injury, but PVJunkie can attest to this one as he saw it. At the Indy State Fair Vault, guessed my step(on the downhill runway) and was determined to take it up. Took off 3' under gripping about 15' 6". Got a good 100 degree bend on the pole before my top hand slipped off and took the pole full in my chest. Knocked the wind out of me and popped my knee pretty good. I hobbled around the rest of the day, but when I woke up the next morning, I had a welt from my right shoulder, across my chest and stomach down to my left knee. I went to roll out of bed and fell over because my left knee had locked up from all the swelling. I spent 2 days on the couch before I had full range of motion in that knee. :yes:
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Unread postby PVJunkie » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:26 pm

Yep.............that was a good one...........too bad Neovault - Bring It wasnt avail back then, you would have been blessed with the wisdom of Besmer.............NEVER let go of the pole..........it is your friend.


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