Face to Knee

maddwakester · Newbie Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 16 City: Rockford

ok, so im out with my neighbors boarding and we were having problems with wake, so its my turn now. i get out and i go for a TS W2W, and i land it, then i go way out and then shoot in for a HS W2W i got massive pop and went skybond, so i let go of rope, then next thing i know im in the water and my face kills! i ended up with my knee into my mouth area and it hit my nose and mouth...so i got out and my nose was bleeding, my teeth were all bleeding, my upper lip was bleeding and so was my bottom lip that is stll bleeding and its 3hrs after....i might need stitchs, but it was pretty sick, sum of my like lip is coming out of the cut...and my face is pretty swollen Evil or Very Mad

theirs some pictures of it attached

im off 2 med center tho, any1 else done sumtin like this? lemme know ~peace~

BurntOrangeWake · Outlaw Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 173 City: Austin

dude that sucks. go see a doctor and make sure that doesn't get infected. although it's pretty hard to get an infection in your mouth...

chaz28o · Posted: Jun 01, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject:

Looks good Laughing

That looks like a stitch or two is needed, or you'll have a funky lip

(which the babes might like) Wink

Craig-R · Guest

yeah my friend did the exact same thing, only instead of his mouth, his knee hit his cheek and shattered it into 11 pieces. he needed reconstructive surgery to fix it but he's ok now...but i think he has a wakeboarding phobia

Scott M · Criminal Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 75 City: Acton, ME

Ive done something like that on the trampoline, not nearly as bad though

Elevation · Posted: Jun 01, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject:

maddwakester, looks pretty bad, good luck healing.

Craig-R, that is crazy. i can see why you would be wakeboardophobic after that haha

DavidHoff · Posted: Jun 01, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:

maddwakester, Quick recovery bro, but atleast you can think of it as progression!

lee doidge · Newbie Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Posts: 30 City: Melbourne

i pulled of the dreaded knee to facial re-arrangment. Put my knee through my cheek, smashed lots of little bones + cheekbone. Needed surgery to tidy up the mess and have some titanium inserted in my cheek to hold it all together.... happy to report that it certainly hasnt given me a wakeboarding phobia although i can see why it would...

//lee

Pope · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 526

yup, lost a tooth and some pride that day...

on a different trip i got stitches under my chin compliments of my knee

Dutch · Addict Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 589

nice work, I too, have taken a knee to my face, resulting in a shaddered nose and 12 stitches from a slice to my forehead from my helmet. Had reconstructive surgery to straighten it all back out. Surprisingly didn't hurt too much. It was more of a numb feeling.
I ride a little more mellow now days. Wink

abovethewake · Addict Joined: 25 Dec 2004 Posts: 583 City: sarasota

i did that ... my braces went right through my lip

it hurtso bad

kdawg · Outlaw Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 130 City: knoxville

ewwwww

J_DOGG · Posted: Jun 02, 2005 8:07 am Post subject:

Craig-R, The good old lower orbital blow out.... got one playn soccer in college. I have 3 plates in my face.....

BurntOrangeWake, I always thought that was funny, can't really get an infection in your mouth but you can pass germs and disease back and forth that way... ODD to say the least...

I busted a tooth once when I slammed my jaw shut on a d-up crash... now I don't yell "OH CHIT!" I just shut my mouth and get ready for impact...

Caco · Newbie Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 14 City: Atlanta , GA

I did that too, but not as bad I have to say.
Last November, with riding at Air-Time in Thailand, while trying to learn tantrum,I fell right face front on the handle. The nose bled just a little bit, and the upper lip was cut inside, and rinsed with the lake water, and then tap water.
It got quite swallow for a week or so, and then I worried because it took strange shapes in the inside and there was a hard bit in the middle.
It appeared it was not normal... I still have the hard bit inside the upper lip... and can't help to touch it every time I think about trying that tantrum again Confused

I hope you will heal quickly...

BurntOrangeWake · Outlaw Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 173 City: Austin

the handle shouldn't be anywhere near your face. keep the handle out away from your body when you turn backside to the wake...

BurntOrangeWake · Outlaw Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 173 City: Austin

J_DOGG, it has something to do w/ the enzymes that exist in your mouth to break down food. Supposedly if you left a morsel of food in your mouth for long enough it would dissolve without you ever chewing. Never tried it. I enjoy doing other things besides eating so I move past that part as quickly as I can... Laughing

But those enzymes are what kill off the infectious bacteria before they can set it the wound... I think...

Caco · Newbie Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 14 City: Atlanta , GA

pointblank12 · Soul Rider Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 313

there werent any hott chicks on the boat were there? at least they would have sympothy for you.

hishy · Criminal Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 83 City: Bahrain

yup knee thru chin = 11stitches. but nowhere near as bad as yours.
hope you heal fast

t b d · Criminal Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 60 City: Coral Springs

My buddy bit the tip of his tongue off with a good knee to chin. Needless to say he dosn't stick his tongue out anymore when he rides

matt1808 · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 1981

chipped my two lower front teeth last year with a knee to the mouth.

Ledmech · Criminal Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 69 City: Gainesville

Looks like a pissed off fisherman got a hold of ya Wink

Hell, my knees are so weak if I did that I'd prob break a knee

I've never done that but one time my buddy was riding and his front foot came out on a jump and the board caught him right above the eye......it was nasty

doinflipsdavis · Outlaw Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 179 City: SML VA

i've hit myself twice in the face with my knee. the first time i ruptured my saliva gland and the second i cut my chin open and had to get 7 stitches. both were 720 attempts off the d up, one hs and one ts

TYLER** · Outlaw Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 220 City: Baton Rouge LA

i did the same thing but on a atantrum

Krown77 · Outlaw Joined: 07 May 2005 Posts: 112 City: Haliburton

that sucks i almsot did that doing a backflip on a trampoline but my lip didnt get that messed Smile

thank god

cdn_ripper · Outlaw Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 174 City: Toronto

Man Same Thing Happend to my buddy ryan!!....He was doing tantrum and His face smoked his knee...chiped all of his molars and front teeth almost broke his jaw.... Shocked

was not a kool moment on the water

J_DOGG · Posted: Jun 03, 2005 3:41 am Post subject:

BurntOrangeWake, those must be the same enzymes that cause bad breath...LOL...

maddwakester · Newbie Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 16 City: Rockford

woohoo! i didnt get stitchs or anything! Twisted Evil

but it hurts pretty bad! but now i got a pool of blood under my upper lip! kinda like a blood blister Shocked

pretty sick if you ask me! but i have to get that pumped out at a doctors if it wont come out on its own! Mad

so heres a pic of underneath my upperlip Razz