Back to the Basics
Ok, so I have had some injuries that have put me out for a few days, but potentially could have been very serious. Over the last two and a half weeks, I have put my right arm through the handle while mastering the wake. Both times have been on transfer boxes, one which is at Gravity Research Center in Eastman, GA and the other the MasterCraft transfer box on the MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour. So the first incident happened a few days before the ATL tour stop when I was transfering and I happened to fall on a backside 270 transfer and put my arm through the handle, I ended up bending the handle at a 90 degree angle and breaking the rope. I was only out for the remainder of the day and was able to continue wake dancing the next day. Now, we fast forward two and a half weeks to the Dallas Ft. Worth Tour Stop and I was riding in the semi finals on Sunday, I had stood up my first pass and was feeling really good on my second pass until I went to transfer the box toeside. I came off the top wrong and fell out the front and when I hit the water low and behold my arm was through the handle. All I could think about laying in the water in agonizing pain was not again, when the boat got back to me, they noticed that my bicep had broke a 4000 lb test wake line, and Travis Moye the MCPWT boat driver said that I stopped the boat. I took a few minute break and got a new rope and finished out my pass which was probably not such a good idea. I have been out for the past few days on this one, and my arm is black and blue and swollen pretty bad still. Hopefully I will be able to ride tomorrow considering we have the third stop of the PWT this weekend.
So out of all of this, one would have hoped that I learned one thing, and its one thing that we should all have learned when we first started riding…if you get in a pinch and there is no way of riding a trick out, throw the damn handle. So I, along with my other fellow wakers need to keep this in mind when wakeboarding.
Also, this is addressed to Derek, first off, my high score on iCopter is 978, which is not a thousand, but I am consistantly getting in the 7 and 8 hundreds…I want you to know that I am coming after each and every one of you.
Corey