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The last few years I noticed with a few riders that they go knock out at almost every crash. That makes me scared and worried at the same time. Because not that long a go I saw a Grand Prix rider go knock out. It took a while for him to get back to earth, en he cried like a baby because he didn't know where he was, he didn't know why he was there, he didn't know a thing, he didn't even knew his name anymore. After 5 minutes that stuff was gone but I felt sick for him and felt weird for the rest of the day. After the race I went to the medical staff and asked them why the thought he was in such a panic mode and even more why he went knock out from such a small crash.
The first thing they told me, that such panic reaction is sometimes normal especially when it takes sometime to wake fully up. The second thing was even more interesting they told me also that with every concussion and every KO our brain gets weaker for hits, she took FMX riders as example and said that they go KO all the time, after a time. Let us all think about Travis and I think we can say she wasn't talking crap.
Now with the first crash from James Stewart this SX season and his KO, I immediately thought about that story. Is his brain already is such a 'weak' state that all his crashes will end up in an knock out? Is what we're seeing the result of all the concussions and former KO's? And was that Adderall something he needed to get his attention level at a normal level, because his brain can't do it on his own anymore? That last story is told to me by someone who used to work with JS7. It is what it is, but it is also very pity that such a great rider goes true such a depressing thing.
The first thing they told me, that such panic reaction is sometimes normal especially when it takes sometime to wake fully up. The second thing was even more interesting they told me also that with every concussion and every KO our brain gets weaker for hits, she took FMX riders as example and said that they go KO all the time, after a time. Let us all think about Travis and I think we can say she wasn't talking crap.
Now with the first crash from James Stewart this SX season and his KO, I immediately thought about that story. Is his brain already is such a 'weak' state that all his crashes will end up in an knock out? Is what we're seeing the result of all the concussions and former KO's? And was that Adderall something he needed to get his attention level at a normal level, because his brain can't do it on his own anymore? That last story is told to me by someone who used to work with JS7. It is what it is, but it is also very pity that such a great rider goes true such a depressing thing.
punch-drunk or punch drunk; A term derived from boxing where a boxer gets hit by his opponent so many times that his disorientation is described as and similar to being drunk.
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(I want to get in on the speculation game.)
Ringing your bell is a low level concussion too.
The ADD problem is a cover up, because telling teams and the world that you've crashed yourself silly, isn't a good sales pitch.
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