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...and 22 year old Jessy Nelson...
Just to name a few.
DAMN, this sport is brutal!!!!!!
I so love this sport but,
Breaks my heart.
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopes, and certainly prayers to Jessy and his fellow surviving moto buddies.
DAMN!!!!!!!
The guys that scraped me up would not let dad and wade help carry 200 feet to the wagon. When going out my drive they take the fork that was steep as a mules face. At the bottom he slams stop and the stretcher goes forward driving my head into something. I cussed them all the way to the hospital.
Then,when they stuff me in the heli the size of a vw backseat the door slams on my head. At this time I'm neck down and figure this is it. Oh,the 1st hospital said I'd be going home till some doctor saw the break.
I mean you couldn't make it up.
I've never been scared but that time,never been so scared. But,somehow i was the luckiest or blessed guy on the planet.
My doc told me 99percent die on the spot,the other 1 percent wither away. He had never seen anyone recover.
I walked out,shuffled out the hospital a week later.
I think jessy will do the same, it is just needing time to repair,I really do.
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AMA needs to make it manditory for neck, chest and back protection. HRP flack jak style. Nascar has manditory safety gear so why not Motocrossers.
He's frustrated, bitter and mad. He has every right to be. Tough situation for a kid that had everything going for him and for it to all change.
His girlfriend is doing a phenomenal job supporting him right now.
All the best to Nelson, I hope time helps him and things work out well.
Jessy was taken in an ambulance because the choppers could not fly due to the imminent storm that was coming to the area. If you were there you would remember how harsh that storm was that hit right after the second 450 moto, as most of the teams were still tearing down. It was unfortunate timing for Jessy but there was no way either of the local medical helicopter units would go up with that storm coming.
Needless to say, we all really hope things get better for Jessy and his girlfriend and his whole family. He's a great kid and an inspiration to everyone.
DC
Don't get me started on the chopper personnel... they started my chopper ride off by immediately overdosing me with pain meds and putting me in a coma. Atleast I was asleep for the next two days straight I guess....
I was never knocked out like Jessy, thanks to my 6D. I'm not sure if I'd of rather been knocked out or awake. It sucked going to move myself off the track out of the race line and realizing nothing works but my arms...
...an no we don't need mandatory neck, chest, and back protection. Knee jerk reaction to incidents like this are OVER REACTIONS.
This is a dangerous sport and anyone who thinks a piece of safety equipment is going to actually keep them safe from every potential injury is living in a dream world.
This was an accident. It sucks and we all want Jessy and anyone else who has suffered a similar injury to heal. Don't make this a cause for safety equipment. Make it a cause to help a fallen rider.
What you advocate is ZERO protection. Us 30 years knee jerkers propose wearing some sort of advanced protection, just like we wear on our heads and on our feet.
And btw, you are the overreactioner, saying crap like "anyone who thinks a piece of safety equipment is going to actually keep them safe from every potential injury is living in a dream world", full well knowing nobody thinks that. What we do think is that if some Real F'n protection was used maybe we could keep 10 guys, or 5 guys, or even 1 guy out of a chair a year. Read that interview again. Even if one guy is kept out of a chair because of mandated safety gear it was the right call. And I am not arguing for f'n witchcraft, I am arguing for real next-gen high-end safety gear, not thin pieces of plastic that might do as much harm as good.
I am sick and F'n tired of idiots like you, who argue that no protection is better than some. What, riding with a helmet is smart, but riding with nex-gen neck/back protection is stupid? How many times do you ride without a helmet? Is your head that much more precious than your ability to walk?
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As for revising track maintenance, there were ruts in the area where Jessy crashed, but it was by no means high-speed. Jessy suffered an unfortunate crash and the bike bounced and landed on him. Had it been smooth and high speed, it might have been a different type of crash in a different area -- that's the physics and challenges that come with racing motorcycles. We will continue to do the best we can to provide safe and competitive race tracks.
DC
What about Jessy's statement on the track markers that were staked in?
I know that if i was riding down a flat track and something tagged my bars i would go down let alone trying to negotiate an off camber rut.
Will you be modifying the track markers and how they are secured for 2017?
He didn't even bother to put his name on the list, but he did sum it up quite well at the bottom.
I believe the yellow track marker did budge in Jessy's case, and I don't agree that he was "lulled into a false sense of security" because he made the mistake before he hit the barrier, not because he hit it. It was just a strange crash on the inside of an off-camber corner with terrible consequence after the bike hit him, and we will continue to work on making the tracks and the markers around them as safe as possible, while also keeping them competitive and challenging. We have been trying to learn all we can from Jessy's crash, just as we do with pretty much every crash.
DC
These are variables that are near impossible to model in motocross because each crash is so different and the rider is independent of the machine. Whereas in NASCAR, the body is not independent of the machine.
For these reasons it makes it impossible to model and validate whether a piece of safety gear works or does not work.
If you could figure out a way to model a motocross crash, and then be able to independently verify through testing that a piece of safety equipment does help, then the racing organization could mandate it and have the proper testing and verification bodies behind them. Very similar to DOT/SNELL testing for helmets.
Also, requiring the riders to wear certain protective gear is crazy too. If they want to wear a suit of armor, I believe it's within their rights to wear one.
So hard to read. I am so freaking lucky. T6 & T10 compression, L2 burst fractures from crash on January 30. Lost all feeling below the waist on impact, but that came back in a few minutes. L2 spinal fusion surgery. Still have some sensory issues, but thankfully all motor function has returned. 12 hour surgery, lost a ton of weight, unable to do much for first month or so. I have good insurance, thank God. It's been a tough year, but almost all the way back, now.
Just goes to show improvements are always being made by you and your team without a big fanfare regarding the Barcia and Tomac incidents.
I guess when the injury is as serious as Jessy's situations get over analysed, if he had just got back on his bike there would be no questions.
Deep down we all want to believe there is a solution to prevent such a severe injury whether its the track setup or rider protection, but, in reality as mentioned before freak accidents do occur even after the necessary precautions are taken and this is something we have to accept.
I wish Jessy all the best for the future and thanks for your hard work DC.
I look forward to visiting a National again soon which is always the priority in my schedule when booking dates for a US trip!
I sincerely wish him all the best and hope he'll recover as much as possible.
Getting injured sucks, injured like Jessy is way beyound what most of us can comprehend. I feel for the kid and I wish him the best in his recovery. The facts are in the society that we live in with its blame and sue-happy legal system it is amazing that companies are willing to make chest, neck and back protection devices.
Get well soon Jessy.
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