Hitting your head on your board?

Roflcopter · Criminal Joined: 12 Jan 2010 Posts: 63

i don't really see how many people end up pulling this off. all the stories ive heard about this seem to be smaller kids who are ore flexible then wakeboarders who are much older. has anyone seen this happen to someone and how old were they? what were the circumstances?

tyty401 · Posted: Jul 16, 2010 1:17 pm Post subject:

Never had it happen.

A friend of mine had it happen due to only one foot breaking loose from the binding..

Chocoholic · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Feb 2009 Posts: 363 City: Dubai

LOL - yup classic one here - a friend who is 6ft 3 and 40, whilst he was learning accidentally took off on the wake, managed to literally fold himself in half and put the front corner of his board through his forehead. A nice triangular gash, needing 8 stitches - he looked like Frankenstein for a while. How he managed to do this without coming out his bindings is a mystery - we still can't figure it out.

Another friend, 32, trying some tricks, did it the other way, she fell face first and flicked the board up behind her into her head - 4 stitches.

_bruky · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 24 May 2009 Posts: 1201

With a wakeskate? I almost wish it did, then I wouldn't have to swim 40 yards to retrieve the thing.

colefooter · Posted: Jul 17, 2010 7:16 am Post subject:

I have had it happen twice this year so far, never any other of the 15 years i've been riding.

One was a friend of mine just learning, did a very very small toeside wake jump caught the front edge, board to the back of the head. 8 staples

The other one was me at the cable park here in ohio, I was doing an air backroll. I somehow faceplanted and the board hit the back of my helmet and cracked my helmet, and gave me a little knot on my head.

I am not particularly flexible and im about 5' 11", my buddy who did it behind the boat was a very short guy though, which probably made it easier.

srhboarder · Posted: Jul 17, 2010 12:59 pm Post subject:

I broke my face with the board once... i was 13 i think. Front foot came out or something and the board hit me rite under my right eye... 3 broken bones including eye socket, and 15 stitches Very Happy

Good day!

Instability · Newbie Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Posts: 35 City: Stuart

yep, just wrote a thread about it haha. Took a girl out, 20 years old, caught front edge, came out of bindings, board flies and hits her in the head, 3 staples right above her ear.

spanky92 · Newbie Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 46 City: Clinton

im not even flexible enough to bend over and touch my toes. but being 6'2 makes it difficult

rc5695 · Criminal Joined: 08 Feb 2010 Posts: 94 City: Greenville

My sone is almost 14. He nosed it in off a 6" jump, board hit him on the top of the head, never even came off his feet, and he ended up with 3 or 4 staples.

Never happened to me; been wakeboarding for ~20 years...