My names Dennis Jonon, and I suffer from severe head trauma

lumpy790 wrote:

Thank you for posting this Dennis. As soon as I saw Chases actions I immediately thought TBI. I would bet a $1 he has no memory...

Thank you for posting this Dennis. As soon as I saw Chases actions I immediately thought TBI.

I would bet a $1 he has no memory of this race or his crash.

lumpy790 wrote:

Thank you for posting this Dennis. As soon as I saw Chases actions I immediately thought TBI. I would bet a $1 he has no memory...

Thank you for posting this Dennis. As soon as I saw Chases actions I immediately thought TBI.

I would bet a $1 he has no memory of this race or his crash.

flarider wrote:

HI Motodrive!

rawjahdesigns wrote:

I raced, from the age of 4/5/6 years old in Arizona, Thursday night Thrasherland practices on a 60, getting multiple concussions and "waking up" with the...

I raced, from the age of 4/5/6 years old in Arizona, Thursday night Thrasherland practices on a 60, getting multiple concussions and "waking up" with the flagger helping me while I'm also gasping for air because i also knocked the wind out myself...at least 5 times before the age of 9...

amateur career, from 10 years old to 17, I raced every amateur national every year. from battling with the top guys multiple years I had my fair share of big get-offs... I had at least 10 more concessions during this 7-8 year period, approx. 5 of them I woke up hours later.... once time at Cooperland Loretta qualifier, I crashed, outcome was I woke up on i-35 in wichita.. that's a solid 2 hours down the highway...

i now go to the doctors multiple times a week and suffer from multiple different sides effects i would never wish upon my worst enemy... one i'll publicly speak about is.... Just happens to be, we can't even get my Testosterone to stay above 200... I tested at 186 5 weeks ago again... OPTIMAL is like 600-800...

The point of my post is..... Sexton got fucked up... Blair helped because he's talking to the public on TV, but he was on flat ground and couldn't get on his bike-multiple trys. They bring the camera BACK to him, and he's stumbling and the medical crew is trying to hang on to him... CRAZY

Going to be a MEGA problem if Chase Sexton is on the starting line next weekend, or for many weekends after. Let's see if supercross takes concussions as seriously as they need to because that was just embarrassing and we never see change. Any guesses on what they will do? I bet he lines up next weekend.

rawjahdesigns wrote:

I raced, from the age of 4/5/6 years old in Arizona, Thursday night Thrasherland practices on a 60, getting multiple concussions and "waking up" with the...

I raced, from the age of 4/5/6 years old in Arizona, Thursday night Thrasherland practices on a 60, getting multiple concussions and "waking up" with the flagger helping me while I'm also gasping for air because i also knocked the wind out myself...at least 5 times before the age of 9...

amateur career, from 10 years old to 17, I raced every amateur national every year. from battling with the top guys multiple years I had my fair share of big get-offs... I had at least 10 more concessions during this 7-8 year period, approx. 5 of them I woke up hours later.... once time at Cooperland Loretta qualifier, I crashed, outcome was I woke up on i-35 in wichita.. that's a solid 2 hours down the highway...

i now go to the doctors multiple times a week and suffer from multiple different sides effects i would never wish upon my worst enemy... one i'll publicly speak about is.... Just happens to be, we can't even get my Testosterone to stay above 200... I tested at 186 5 weeks ago again... OPTIMAL is like 600-800...

The point of my post is..... Sexton got fucked up... Blair helped because he's talking to the public on TV, but he was on flat ground and couldn't get on his bike-multiple trys. They bring the camera BACK to him, and he's stumbling and the medical crew is trying to hang on to him... CRAZY

Going to be a MEGA problem if Chase Sexton is on the starting line next weekend, or for many weekends after. Let's see if supercross takes concussions as seriously as they need to because that was just embarrassing and we never see change. Any guesses on what they will do? I bet he lines up next weekend.

wb173 wrote:

Have you based your post on anything other than the TV coverage?

rawjahdesigns wrote:

I raced, from the age of 4/5/6 years old in Arizona, Thursday night Thrasherland practices on a 60, getting multiple concussions and "waking up" with the...

I raced, from the age of 4/5/6 years old in Arizona, Thursday night Thrasherland practices on a 60, getting multiple concussions and "waking up" with the flagger helping me while I'm also gasping for air because i also knocked the wind out myself...at least 5 times before the age of 9...

amateur career, from 10 years old to 17, I raced every amateur national every year. from battling with the top guys multiple years I had my fair share of big get-offs... I had at least 10 more concessions during this 7-8 year period, approx. 5 of them I woke up hours later.... once time at Cooperland Loretta qualifier, I crashed, outcome was I woke up on i-35 in wichita.. that's a solid 2 hours down the highway...

i now go to the doctors multiple times a week and suffer from multiple different sides effects i would never wish upon my worst enemy... one i'll publicly speak about is.... Just happens to be, we can't even get my Testosterone to stay above 200... I tested at 186 5 weeks ago again... OPTIMAL is like 600-800...

The point of my post is..... Sexton got fucked up... Blair helped because he's talking to the public on TV, but he was on flat ground and couldn't get on his bike-multiple trys. They bring the camera BACK to him, and he's stumbling and the medical crew is trying to hang on to him... CRAZY

Going to be a MEGA problem if Chase Sexton is on the starting line next weekend, or for many weekends after. Let's see if supercross takes concussions as seriously as they need to because that was just embarrassing and we never see change. Any guesses on what they will do? I bet he lines up next weekend.

wb173 wrote:

Have you based your post on anything other than the TV coverage?

slipdog wrote:

I remember watching a race on tv years ago where a dude on a Honda yard sale'd and the dude behind on a Kawasaki almost ran...

I remember watching a race on tv years ago where a dude on a Honda yard sale'd and the dude behind on a Kawasaki almost ran his head over. This whole story sounds eerily familiar...

flarider wrote:

BTW, Dale Jr has an excellent podcast about concussions, his own concussions, his symptoms, diagnosis and why he retired from racing. He is very open about...

BTW, Dale Jr has an excellent podcast about concussions, his own concussions, his symptoms, diagnosis and why he retired from racing.

He is very open about head trauma, concussions and CTE

devindavisphoto wrote:

The worrying thing is seeing the Asterisk crew trying to help him onto his bike when he's clearly concussed and can't even stand up straight. It...

The worrying thing is seeing the Asterisk crew trying to help him onto his bike when he's clearly concussed and can't even stand up straight. It reminded me of James when he crashed at Daytona and fell trying to get back onto his bike and they were like rushing him to get back on the bike. I'm surprised teams, the AMA and Asterisk aren't taking more strict stances on head injuries for their riders. At the end of the day, championships aren't that important if you risk hitting your head again and turning into a vegetable.

scott_nz wrote:

I was happy that the medic stopped him taking off , in the past they have not ,

Francis377 wrote:

What kind of qualifications does it take to be part of the medical crew at the races? David Pingree should have some good insight, I think...

What kind of qualifications does it take to be part of the medical crew at the races?
David Pingree should have some good insight, I think he did some sort if internship as part of his training to become a firefighter.
You cannot judge from a single incident but the one that really shocked me were the pictures of Brian Moreau being dragged of the track. There may have been reasons for why Brian was handled that way but to see him get heaved off the track light that made me seriously question the level of training those guys had.

rawjahdesigns wrote:

I raced, from the age of 4/5/6 years old in Arizona, Thursday night Thrasherland practices on a 60, getting multiple concussions and "waking up" with the...

I raced, from the age of 4/5/6 years old in Arizona, Thursday night Thrasherland practices on a 60, getting multiple concussions and "waking up" with the flagger helping me while I'm also gasping for air because i also knocked the wind out myself...at least 5 times before the age of 9...

amateur career, from 10 years old to 17, I raced every amateur national every year. from battling with the top guys multiple years I had my fair share of big get-offs... I had at least 10 more concessions during this 7-8 year period, approx. 5 of them I woke up hours later.... once time at Cooperland Loretta qualifier, I crashed, outcome was I woke up on i-35 in wichita.. that's a solid 2 hours down the highway...

i now go to the doctors multiple times a week and suffer from multiple different sides effects i would never wish upon my worst enemy... one i'll publicly speak about is.... Just happens to be, we can't even get my Testosterone to stay above 200... I tested at 186 5 weeks ago again... OPTIMAL is like 600-800...

The point of my post is..... Sexton got fucked up... Blair helped because he's talking to the public on TV, but he was on flat ground and couldn't get on his bike-multiple trys. They bring the camera BACK to him, and he's stumbling and the medical crew is trying to hang on to him... CRAZY

Going to be a MEGA problem if Chase Sexton is on the starting line next weekend, or for many weekends after. Let's see if supercross takes concussions as seriously as they need to because that was just embarrassing and we never see change. Any guesses on what they will do? I bet he lines up next weekend.

wb173 wrote:

Have you based your post on anything other than the TV coverage?

rawjahdesigns wrote:

I raced, from the age of 4/5/6 years old in Arizona, Thursday night Thrasherland practices on a 60, getting multiple concussions and "waking up" with the...

I raced, from the age of 4/5/6 years old in Arizona, Thursday night Thrasherland practices on a 60, getting multiple concussions and "waking up" with the flagger helping me while I'm also gasping for air because i also knocked the wind out myself...at least 5 times before the age of 9...

amateur career, from 10 years old to 17, I raced every amateur national every year. from battling with the top guys multiple years I had my fair share of big get-offs... I had at least 10 more concessions during this 7-8 year period, approx. 5 of them I woke up hours later.... once time at Cooperland Loretta qualifier, I crashed, outcome was I woke up on i-35 in wichita.. that's a solid 2 hours down the highway...

i now go to the doctors multiple times a week and suffer from multiple different sides effects i would never wish upon my worst enemy... one i'll publicly speak about is.... Just happens to be, we can't even get my Testosterone to stay above 200... I tested at 186 5 weeks ago again... OPTIMAL is like 600-800...

The point of my post is..... Sexton got fucked up... Blair helped because he's talking to the public on TV, but he was on flat ground and couldn't get on his bike-multiple trys. They bring the camera BACK to him, and he's stumbling and the medical crew is trying to hang on to him... CRAZY

Going to be a MEGA problem if Chase Sexton is on the starting line next weekend, or for many weekends after. Let's see if supercross takes concussions as seriously as they need to because that was just embarrassing and we never see change. Any guesses on what they will do? I bet he lines up next weekend.

wb173 wrote:

Have you based your post on anything other than the TV coverage?

TDags wrote:

The TV coverage was just about a first person view of it. Chase said on Pulp he remembers everything but it sure looked like he could...

The TV coverage was just about a first person view of it. Chase said on Pulp he remembers everything but it sure looked like he could barely get his chest and arms to lift. Thats a big difference between Freise getting wobbled like a poke on the jaw. He’s going to be quick to feel fine again being a 22y/o professional athlete but jeez that didn’t look like just “being in shock”. The self control just to take a recovery day is tough, I can only image the draw from all that comes with a 450sx win/ title fight hard to blame him for wanting to get back at er.

davis224 wrote:

After listening to Pastrana talk about concussions on WTS and what he's learned from the experts, theres a lot of armchair doctoring going on here. He...

After listening to Pastrana talk about concussions on WTS and what he's learned from the experts, theres a lot of armchair doctoring going on here. He said essentially every person is different, you can lightly bounce your head on the wall and get a serious concussion, or lawn dart and be fine, but there is still a ton to learn.

Did it "look" like he knocked himself silly from the couch? Yes, but I will put more faith in what Doc Bodnar sees from actually being there and talking to Chase, who he sees every weekend and would know if something was off. If he is concussed badly, then I'm sure they will take the appropriate precautions with what we know now. If he passed protocols, then I won't be screaming conspiracy from the sidelines. Chase himself has said he gets very emotional in situations like that, it could have been him freaking out over crashing himself out of a win and championship contention. Or maybe he was in fact delirious. None of us know for sure, only the people who were there and trained to know the signs. I'm sure it's an unpopular opinion but it's what I think.

Chris_Buehler wrote:

I just listened to the WTS with Pastrana yesterday. I was happy they touched on all the concussions he's had and the testing he's had done...

I just listened to the WTS with Pastrana yesterday. I was happy they touched on all the concussions he's had and the testing he's had done in recent years. Maybe we're both being naive but I'm with you in putting my trust in Doc Bodner to look out for these guys health

sandtrack315 wrote:

After listening to Chase on Pulp, he seems to be taking it seriously. The guy was just racing for 20 minutes, it's normal to be out...

After listening to Chase on Pulp, he seems to be taking it seriously. The guy was just racing for 20 minutes, it's normal to be out of sorts after something like that, even if you have not hit your head.