[Adam Lincoln]

I posted on CT aswell... But some of you might not go on there ;-)

[Bubba]

Fuck!

Looks like that bit of gear would have taken a lot of force out of the fall, but he still decked it pretty hard  :shock:

[T.H.]

Why I don't trad climb!

[dave]

if you're bored at work you'd all do well to read these:

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/4755/climbing/horror/horror.html

 

[T.H.]

Has anyone really f*cked themselves over while bouldering?

I don't mean torn muscles or ligaments, I mean proper hardcore bloodgushing, limb amputating injuries.

The best I can manage was falling off a boulder back first onto another smaller boulder below which had a really good edge on it.

Ended up with a lovely line of bruising all down my back about an inch off from the spine.

Prompted me to buy a mat.

[Adam Lincoln]

Has anyone really f*cked themselves over while bouldering?

I don't mean torn muscles or ligaments, I mean proper hardcore bloodgushing, limb amputating injuries.

The best I can manage was falling off a boulder back first onto another smaller boulder below which had a really good edge on it.

Ended up with a lovely line of bruising all down my back about an inch off from the spine.

Prompted me to buy a mat.

Fell back onto a rock in Kalymnos Deep Water Soloing/Bouldering. Urchine spines all over my hand and a nasty cut to my back. I screamed like a girl when the spines went in. Even more cutting them out with a knife to stop them shooting up my leg and popping out at random place weeks later  :roll:

[dave]

only real climbing injury i've ever had was bouldering - fell off on more or less the first prob attempted on the first day of a week-long font trip and sprained my ankle - touch wood thats it so far.

[AndyR]

Has anyone really f*cked themselves over while bouldering?

....snip...

Prompted me to buy a mat.

I broke my wrist bouldering at the plantation, and that was with a mat - that's it so far thankfully.

[jonP]

I broke my wrist bouldering at the plantation, and that was with a mat

You should have had a spotter or two.

[hongkongstuey]

I broke my wrist bouldering at the plantation, and that was with a mat

You should have had a spotter or two.

Sparky wasn't spotting you by anychance was he  :wink:

[Big Frank]

Formerly known as yorkshiregrit

jonP the Prince of ukBouldering! :borg:

[Big Frank]

Has anyone really f*cked themselves over while bouldering?

....snip...

Prompted me to buy a mat.

I broke my wrist bouldering at the plantation, and that was with a mat - that's it so far thankfully.

I'd of thought your wrists would be very strong! :evill:

[AndyR]

I broke my wrist bouldering at the plantation, and that was with a mat

You should have had a spotter or two.

Sparky wasn't spotting you by anychance was he  :wink:

Not that time - the artist formerly known as yorkshiregrit may have been diligently spotting me (or not) on that occasion.

[jonP]

jonP the Prince of ukBouldering! :borg:

FH, the Fat Punter of UKBouldering.

.. the artist formerly known as yorkshiregrit may have been diligently spotting me (or not) on that occasion.

I know you're crap, but I didn't expect you'd fall off an easy, three foot high V0!

The worst injury I've ever done to myself bouldering was when I slapped a bit too energetically on a well known problem at Widdop, banging my knuckle hard against the rock and causing my little finger tip to go numb.  It took three months to recover completely.

[Big Frank]

jonP and AndyR were with me at Ilkley when my left ring finger made the sound of a starting pistol as somthing snapped inside! I still can not fully staighten my finger.

The injury is ongoing as my wife regularly bends my ear to put my wedding ring back on, but I physicaly cannt!

[lleyton]

not so much badness for myself - a twisted ankle at the plantation then the other went in clwyd.

over the last summer i saw one of my mates fall off from 6m at curbar and totally snap his ankle - looked all wrong, and the bone was sticking out and bleeding. then another mate fell off at the roaches from 10m. he kicked his feet on the way down so inverted :shock: . bad news...but he only took it on his shoulders the lucky f$$ker! got to ride in a helicopter aswell while i talked to the feds!

i guess im bad luck...

[fatboySlimfast]

I popped off backwards at rubicon once, spinning as i fell and my trailing arm caught a spotters face in a full on movie style backhander to his cheek..ouch was his verdict

fatdoc once landed on his brothers face with his arse from the crux of bitter fingers nocking him out cold and sending him to hosser

[Bubba]

fatdoc once landed on his brothers face with his arse from the crux of bitter fingers nocking him out cold and sending him to hosser

Knowing Henry, I'm surprised he didn't give Fatdoc a quick rimming while his face was in position  

[dobbin]

That's filthy Bubs.

I fell off the crux of Black Magic (a route) in Pexhill and fractured my ankle. It hurt.

[underground]

That's filthy Bubs.

But very likely!

I recall slimfast coming off the Usurper at Curbar and kicking meester Berry in the face and nearly knocking his teeth out... I've never seen anyone try to untie the rope so fast to get away from Si who looked like he was gonna rip Cottle's head off!!!

[fatboySlimfast]

http://members.cox.net/mtbbill/images/milescrash-500k.mpg

more amazingly he was able to climb out and cycle back to the car!!

[dave]

"sit down for a minute Miles till you know everything is connected..."

love it!

[Adam Lincoln]

http://members.cox.net/mtbbill/images/milescrash-500k.mpg

more amazingly he was able to climb out and cycle back to the car!!

Fookin yanks!  :roll:

[Bubba]

Good fall!! Show's the error of indecision when mountain biking. If you're gonna go for a drop off, then you gotta *go* for it or you crash.

I like Yanks. When they're not power-whooping.