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I've had enough to know when I was "off".
I was knocked out at the bottom of Suicide at Canyon Raceway for you Phoenix AZ riders for about 5 minutes after over jumping it and landing flat and being high sided off and onto the back of my head whiplash style! When the Zack the owner and the medic got to me I was out cold… they did the ammonia smelling stuff and were starting to call the life flight as I was unresponsive… I finally came to and asked …”what happened?”
When I woke up it took over an hour for me to know who I was, who was with me, and where I was at! Out of all my wrecks and injuries I have had this is the one that truly scared me the most and I didn’t ride for about 4 to 6 months after.
TBI is scary stuff; we do similar testing like they do with Astrisk Medical before deploying into theater in the Army. You sit on a computer and establish a baseline, almost 10 years after my wreck I still tested low normal and almost didn’t deploy… the funny thing is when you return from theater you do it again regardless if you were hit by IED or indirect Fire and I actually improved!!!
Is this exact science… no… but are they doing the best they can with the riders…. I for one am impressed with what they do and for everyone to question DR Bodnar and his crew should really just shut their mouths and get off their high horses unless they are neurosurgeons and then please by all means develop a better system for TBI detection, a better helmet, and a better neck brace to make us all “safer!”
Only got knocked out once, that I know of. Woke up and had 3 guys staring down at me saying "don't move don't move". It was a strange experience to say the least.
The second one was 2 weeks ago and i don't really remember what happened.
2008 I was fresh off a championship in 1 series and 3rd overall in the other. The new season was starting and one of our local tracks at Mountaineer raceway had just reversed the track. I had 1 day to get the track down as I wasn't going to be able to ride there again until the race there the following weekend. There was this one pretty big downhill or dropoff double that was pretty sketchy. Everyone told he to be careful and some guys I raced against weren't even doing it that day. After a couple laps I had it down pretty good.
Well, end of the day was coming and I was out on my last session. I was gonna stop but then told myself the dreaded "I will just do 1 more lap". this was the description from one of my best friends Mike that was there with me who had already loaded up and was waiting for me. I came around to the downhill double, over jumped it, flat landed, left hand slipped off the bars and the other hand gave it full throttle. Launched off the berm in the next corner and and did the winding the windows up like Reed at Millville. I landed on a pile of trees that were cut down near the track. My buddy mike yelled at track crew for ambulance as he already knew it was gonna be bad. He said when he got to me he could hear me snoring. Medivac flew me out. I had 5 broken ribs, dislocated hip, asevere concussion with 2 brain bleeds and was in an induced coma for almost 2 days.
Went home and recovered after about 6 months. During that time I had really bad mood swings, vertigo that would make me fall sometimes, severe depression and just feeling like a different person. Ever since then I understand why people kill themselves due to depression because it had crossed my mind a few times. Seeing my daughter, wife, family and friends everyday helped me through it all.
The depression and angry mood swings finally went away after 6 months. I developed a stutter after the crash that I still have issues with sometimes to this day but has got better. Who knows if it will ever go away completely.
I started riding again about a year and a half later and was starting to get back to where I was at before my crash. Then my buddy Mike that was with me when I crashed was racing Budds Creek at a race I had actually planned on racing but work stuff came up and I went to work instead. I got the call from my buddy Bill that mike was flown out from a bad crash. I get to the hospital and he is paralyzed to the chest down
That was 2010. When that happened I sold my bike and haven't ridden since. I had been riding since I was 7 years old and Im 39 now. I miss it soo much and think about riding again a lot. Oh well, maybe 1 day I will make the purchase again. Since I quit riding I got into lifting weights pretty hard and Im currently in the best shape of my life
5 - 2 moto, 2 football, 1 rugby.
The most recent was a month ago (moto-Elsinore)...still dizzy in the mornings.
Where in Frederick...? I grew up in Braddock Heights and Eastview.
Sucks when your kids ask....Don't you remember dad?
Pit Row
The first happened when I was 12. I came over a blind jump on the first lap of practice and crashed into a downed bike. Another rider then ran over the back of my head. Despite a slight headache, I got up and carried on. It took me a while to find our car when I got back to the pits and my vision was real blurry. It came right just before my first race, so I finished out the day. In hindsight, that probably was not a good move.
I had a real bad one in 2007 when I was 18. I got cross rutted on a jump face and literally FELL FROM THE SKY!!! I landed on my head and was out cold for five minutes or so. I felt sick, had blurry vision, was sleepy and asked repetitive questions afterward. I had a really sore neck and a slight headache for a few days. The ambulance officer at the track told me to see a chiropractor and not to ride for 48 hours. I went and saw my doctor the next day, and he could not believe the guy had told me that. He sent me straight to get my neck x-rayed and said no riding for 8 weeks. I still do not remember much about that day.
To the best of my knowledge, I have no lasting effects from either incident.
can someone get that phone for chrisakes ! ! !
My worst was 1981 NBA BMX Grand Nationals Friday night Race of Champions. Was in the 3rd heat race trying to qualify for the Main, and I went for a pass in the Pro section so they say..LOL and went over the bars and pounded the ground and was lights out. They said I was out for about 3-4 minutes before coming to. I do not remember anything about the crash or even leaving the track that night. The first thing I remember is being back in the hotel room with my grandpa sitting in front of me talking with me. It was the first and last time he ever went to watch me race.
What part of San Diego you in? My family is from La Mesa.
still to this day the scariest thing I have done to myself (including 2 tours to afghanistan) and everytime I walk into the Kawasaki Dealership to contemplate getting a new bike I remember that day... and walk back out!
Next one I swapped through some stutters and came down on my head breaking my collar bone, apparenty I was out cold for a couple minutes and then came to. First memory is being wheeled out of hospital in a wheelchair cos I still couldn't walk.
4 weeks later I raced again and my shoulder was still weak and sore, went over the bars and the bike rolled over me. I picked the bike up and rode straight to the pits and sat down, don't remember that or the next four hours. I kept asking where I was, how I crashed etc over and over. In the end my brother told me a plane landed on the track and aliens rode out and I hit them and I believed them.
Last one me and a guy clipped over a step up, fell straight on the ground in the middle of the track, had knobby marks bruised into my back where I got run over, my mum had to run out into the middle of the track to direct bikes around me. For the next few hours someone had to hold me up cos I had no balance.
There may have been more but I'm not sure, I do know I am definitely not as sharp as I used to be.
Oh and when my mum was pregnant with me she fell off a two story balcony
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