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Boots are A-stars Tech 7, new condition, knee/shin guards.
So I made it to both mains last weekend at the vet races at Mammoth Motocross.
My bike had some chronic electrical issues that we chased the entire practice day and all weekend really, which made it tough to get my suspension dialed in..
Anyways they had a stupid wall jump with a trough in front of it. I'd been riding the rear wheel through the trough and bouncing off the face and catching 3rd in the air to land half way down the back to get speed for the following roller section.
It worked all weekend until the 3rd lap of the final Sunday. Brought the front up and all the sudden the suspension just bottomed harder than I've ever felt, folding my right foot over on itself and shattering the bottom of my tibia.
I didn't go down, my feet never left the pegs. I knew in the air that my boot was holding my joint together and my heart sank. Had to ride the track out of the woods and get to the pits.
My question of you guys is do you think having a Tech 10 or other boot combined with knee braces would have prevented this?
Or would have just transferred the energy further up my leg to a tib/fib fracture, or femur fracture?
Thanks for any thoughts or experiences you can share on this.
So I made it to both mains last weekend at the vet races at Mammoth Motocross.
My bike had some chronic electrical issues that we chased the entire practice day and all weekend really, which made it tough to get my suspension dialed in..
Anyways they had a stupid wall jump with a trough in front of it. I'd been riding the rear wheel through the trough and bouncing off the face and catching 3rd in the air to land half way down the back to get speed for the following roller section.
It worked all weekend until the 3rd lap of the final Sunday. Brought the front up and all the sudden the suspension just bottomed harder than I've ever felt, folding my right foot over on itself and shattering the bottom of my tibia.
I didn't go down, my feet never left the pegs. I knew in the air that my boot was holding my joint together and my heart sank. Had to ride the track out of the woods and get to the pits.
My question of you guys is do you think having a Tech 10 or other boot combined with knee braces would have prevented this?
Or would have just transferred the energy further up my leg to a tib/fib fracture, or femur fracture?
Thanks for any thoughts or experiences you can share on this.
I honestly don't think a tougher boot woulda helped. And even if they did that energy woulda had to go somewhere. Maybe your knee? Or like MC on his KTM, your hip.
Get better!
With tech 10 i ruptued my knee.
Years later with tech 10 and asterics knee braces i twisted my leg and had a spiral fracture of tib fib.
Somethings got to give with the force, lucky not to be a hip like townley!
My 2 cents worth.
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I've asked this very question to a few surgeons when I broke legs/ankle/foot and that's what they told me, but I'm sure they have helped in some cases though.
I do believe the best boots are worth the money. They do offer more protection and can definitely reduce or prevent injuries in many cases, and they are usually far superior in comfort and durability. Although when it comes to broken bones in most cases the injury surpasses the amount of protection that any boot can provide.
And what was the recovery time after surgery?
I'm a week in as of tomorrow and still haven't even got to meet with a surgeon since I'm on an HMO plan..
Hard to say if stiffer boots would have helped but I would think they probably would have in that exact situation. Yes, the force would have been applied higher up on the leg, but then it becomes a question of magnitude/intensity of the force and if it is enough to break the actual bone higher up. It should require more force to break a femur, doesn't mean it still couldn't have broke.
Two things I would advise on the recovery.
1) See a good physiotherapist and over-do their recommended dose of exercises for a long time
2) Get the hardware removed once that is possible to do (I waited about 20 months).
I injured my left ankle from all this in 2003 and even today it has way more range of motion than the other un-injured ankle because of all the physio I did on it and feels great.
Had on new SG 12s Mine was a compression fracture on the face of the wall so I don't think any boots would've helped. Total brain fade
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Mine was the same, compressing going up the wall.
What a stupid obstacle. We should email all our photos of our X-rays to the Mammoth MX guys in a thank you letter about this wall obstacle. I know there are some dumb things at race tracks but I've honestly not raced on a dumber thing than that, mainly the combination with the trough dug out in front.
Nobody has worked on mine yet..
Home resting comfortably. The Fibia was plated last Saturday in Mammoth and the leg was put in an external fixation Device. Saw a specialist in LA on Thursday. He said something to look forward to is the Tibia and medial Malleolus surgery in three weeks. In the mean time the fun is is hobbling around on a extremely sprained left ankle. Looks like no weight-bearing on the right leg for three months. After I'm up on the right will take a look at the left ankle.
Don't We love this sport? As Major injury I feel real bless that after 47 years this is my first major injury. Wanted to hit 50 years with no major injuries guess I'll have to start the clock over now.
I've race on all the Mammoth track changes sent 1974 this is the one that bit me.I think its not a Mammoth obstacle more of a super cross. That being said everybody have to get through it and it bite a few of us. Like you said the trough in front of it made it more difficult but personally I didn't like the corner changes more then the wall they all just ruined the flow of Mammoth. Mammoth supposed to be old-school motocross I think they will lose attendance next year if he continues to make it more modern.
did mine on sunday, overshot a tabletop that had been shortened since the last time i rode... failed to roll the track to start off with, big mistake! having a external
Knee braces helping prevent a broken ankle? You might want to try a kidney belt instead.
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