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Mitch hired a good one in Archer285! Good on you!
It's actually worse than riding with one eye shut! At least then your brain could focus on the one set of messages but with one contact your brain is getting two lots of different messages and it's impossible to get a true focus..
Racing a SX like that would be a nightmare
I had a contact knocked out once while playing (high-level) football. I couldn't even run to the right spot afterward - my depth perception was so off I was missing my angles by a mile. And football is way, way slower than moto. When I ride moto and a contact goes wonky (watery eye or dirt) I usually have to pull off. I can't imagine racing with one missing.
Mine used to 'go wandering' a lot and you've really got no choice but to at least slow right down and roll your eyes around like a nutter haha
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We can talk allot about this case. But you check lungs (because of the impact, you doesn't want to have double collapse lungs). After that you "pick him up" with a scoop stretcher, than you put him in a spinal immobilization inflatable mattress, who's already lying on the stretcher. This all to be sure that the patients doesn't make any injuries worse.
Driving on a road you’ve driven hundreds of times is hard with one contact in. I can’t imagine even doubling around that track like that.
Yep, as soon as he started jumping through the whoops, he started to pull away again. How he comes back from these major injuries time and time again, and still has championship contending speed is remarkable. He'll do it again too...no doubt in my mind. It's hard not to cheer for someone with that much determination.
I can’t imagine having to fly home with his injuries. That’s really gotta hurt
+1 on this LASIK was a game changer on all levels. Surprised a top level athlete doesn't have LASIK to be honest.
Well, a Bell Moto 10 is definitely my next helmet.
glad it wasn’t worse man, that was sooooo fucked.
Was going to post the same thing. Archer taking the "high road". Its a lost art.
Thanks for pointing it out cwel11 and best wishes to Archer and his rider. We all had our breath taken away when that crash happened. Chin up boys.
Lol you guys crack me up. We ended on a positive note after he came in and called me out for saying something a few have apparently said already but chose me to quote... But he’s “taking the high road”
Taking the high road to me would not be coming here at all and picking one of a few that have said the same thing and making me out to be some insensitive douche when I literally just made an observation.
i guess this is the way the world works now though. Pick a fight then play the victim and get the “high road” praise 😂 tools
https://youtu.be/GP_0BhCw2rg?si=2OHoi4B34nRsL-F3
dude, just stop. Your making it worse for yourself 😭
I saw that and hear ya, and would normally agree if he was panicked and losing ground, but I feel it was more a lookover coming out of a 180 turn and he was just managing his race after a push from Haiden - it was almost an in-your-face look back after shutting down Deegans charge, I also noticed he seemed to be trying alternate lines I think in the sand almost right away, which showed me confidence that's when he lost a bit but corrected, regrouped and started gapping again. Like he had it and was feeling it! At one point I thought he was going to pass in the middle of the whoops but no he threads the needle down the side, the guy doesn't lack balls and hasn't lost a beat! and the next thing you know he was back in the lead, I'm starting to think, shit last week was no fluke, he's a legit threat once again - then after a couple of laps, I'm afraid to even think it; shit he's the favorite! STFU RC!! He was using excellent bike placement all night......till he wasn't - I can see why Mitch sticks by him. Moto is fucking brutal! I hope Austin's tears were more from losing another excellent title opportunity as opposed to pain, and whatever pain he is in is manageable and doesn't last long - something tells me he can handle the physical pain, and he's got Ryno and what he's already learned from him to deal with the mental side. Push the bike AF! All Fun indeed.
I just feel every time RC starts talking about a rider he throws a whoopie cat at them - could be my imagination but it happens a lot. I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with crashing while you go fast and putting yourself in a good position while you go fast which forces the announcer to mention your name. No that's a stretch. I blame Ricky.
Thank you for posting. I screamed out when I saw Austin go down, made my wife jump, I am rooting for him. He's one of the toughest mofos out there.
The sport is better with him in it!
So when can we make the Mike Tyson "broke my back, spinal" memes for this??
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Such a bummer. I couldn't believe it. I'm glad that he will be ok. I felt sick seeing him go down. Such a bummer to have come back so many times already. When Austin's time racing is done, I think he could be an amazing mental coach.
Rider worn airbag systems like the one Alpinestars has for road and rally might be the biggest improvement in safety gear when they can get them to work for MX/SX. I wonder if having a remote to have the bag fill up and have a spotter, would be an option for pro racing or in addition to the sensors they have. In a crash like Austins ,He would have had time to activate it himself. I wonder how many top guys would wear something like that if they had the option?
No offense, but....you're kidding, right? You think having someone on the side of the track with a remote controlled air bag switch is a good thing? That sounds like death if it was mistakenly deployed....
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You got me on that one. It doesn’t look great or appropriate. I don’t know the full story on it but it sounds like a big mistake on the pt movement and subsequent transport off the floor.
for all the "omg why didnt they put him on a backboard" simps
There isn't a single definitive study that unequivocally demonstrates the improvement of injury outcomes or prevention of secondary injury solely through the use of rigid backboards.
For example, a systematic review published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine in 2018 concluded that there is insufficient evidence to support or refute the routine use of backboards in trauma patients.
Another study published in Prehospital Emergency Care in 2019 found that immobilization with a rigid backboard did not significantly reduce movement in the cervical spine compared to other methods, such as using a cervical collar alone.
Show me the study, because I can imagine that they reviewed backboard against scoop board against other stuff. But I'm doubting that they put time into the option: use a neck collar and help the patient on his feet. After this let him walk to the ambulance or in this case medical mule. 😅
Have you seen the Airbag systems that they use in Rally and road racing??
Those go off with sensors that detect a crash. They have tried them in MX and SX but the sensors kept detecting multiple crashes during perfect laps.
Alpinestars is still working on a version for MX/SX . So far nobody has died during the testing as far as I know. I kinda feel like that would put a stop to development.
If they feel like the device itself would be a big help when they can get the sensors to work right, How would it be a bad thing to have some bodies only job to set off the airbag if there is a crash? To help avoid it going off by mistake?
There has been multiple threads and Dr Bodner, as cool as he is needs to go. The same thing happened to Cooper Webb a year ago AC nailed him right in the spine/back of the neck and the medical crew had him transported sitting up and walking around hugging his dad with probably a concussion/confusion and no c-collar. Right before Dungey retired he had a vertebral fracture and did not know it.
If someone takes a direct blow to the spine just like foot ball, soccer any other sport we need to take precautions for spinal chord injury. There is no place in motocross for taking extra risk with trauma to the neck or back/spinal chord injuries. Im really tired of this same topic and seeing pro racers sitting up on the stupid medical ATV, it's sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l_ADvBlWDY
Lol, you googled do backboards help with a spinal injury and you found 2 lame examples. high five Doctor.
Backboard use after a potential spinal injury have been the protocol in many sports for years and years.
Okay seriously though... is ANYONE really surprised he crashed his brains out again? My bet was round 3, didn't even make it to that.
I just meant no control group as in a controlled lab setting blind study vs pre hospital retrospective.
Actually, yeah. He had a new attitude, Ryan Hughes, he looked pretty smooth, confident and in control and then a freak accident occurred. It’s not like he was riding over his head like prior years. He’ll even his crash 2 years ago wasn’t even his fault. Jett crossed him in the air and ruined his season.
Anyone see the slowmo point of view from behind on his crash? After he cased the first jump, his left hand actually came off the bars going up the face of the next jump
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