- Location
- Lake Orion, Michigan
Neck - for sure.
When not *quite* completing rotation...
When not *quite* completing rotation...
Barrell roll injuries.
- Thread starter Crab
- Start date
- Location
- Del Mar, CA
My thoughts for what they are worth:
I use the footholds for really small rolls, doubles, any kind of one footed variation, and most of the time when I roll to the right (I just don't go that way very well so it is easier in the holds for me).
I get more leverage and can roll faster with my feet in the holds, but I don't like landing hard with both feet in the holds it is just an awkward position to be in and if you come up a little short it is very hard on the inside knee and ankle especially if it is a big roll.
Any time I am rolling on anything bigger than like a 1 foot wave, I would rather have a foot forward in the strap. I'm just much more comfortable riding and landing like that. But you don't have the leverage you have when both feet are in the back, so it winds up being much harder to get a small roll around.
As far as injury goes:
I think knee and ankle injuries are just something that comes along with what we do. And I have had my share of nagging injuries. The best thing I have found to help prevent and recover from injuries has been to train. When I had lots of knee and ankle problems a couple of years ago, I starting focusing in the gym on legs and split them up in to two days a week. The past few months I hurt much less than I used to when I ride, and that is because I changed the way I train again. Typically 5+ days a week of running followed by about a 30min stretch, core work, and then training what ever muscle group we are on that day.
Hope that helps a little...
Oh and common injury I have seen from under rotation is busted ear drum...so I would say wear a good helmet.
I use the footholds for really small rolls, doubles, any kind of one footed variation, and most of the time when I roll to the right (I just don't go that way very well so it is easier in the holds for me).
I get more leverage and can roll faster with my feet in the holds, but I don't like landing hard with both feet in the holds it is just an awkward position to be in and if you come up a little short it is very hard on the inside knee and ankle especially if it is a big roll.
Any time I am rolling on anything bigger than like a 1 foot wave, I would rather have a foot forward in the strap. I'm just much more comfortable riding and landing like that. But you don't have the leverage you have when both feet are in the back, so it winds up being much harder to get a small roll around.
As far as injury goes:
I think knee and ankle injuries are just something that comes along with what we do. And I have had my share of nagging injuries. The best thing I have found to help prevent and recover from injuries has been to train. When I had lots of knee and ankle problems a couple of years ago, I starting focusing in the gym on legs and split them up in to two days a week. The past few months I hurt much less than I used to when I ride, and that is because I changed the way I train again. Typically 5+ days a week of running followed by about a 30min stretch, core work, and then training what ever muscle group we are on that day.
Hope that helps a little...
Oh and common injury I have seen from under rotation is busted ear drum...so I would say wear a good helmet.
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN
My neck is absolutely killing me today from last weekend... The part that worries me is that I actually broke my neck racing motocross about 8 years ago, and I had a couple vertrbates that slipped out of line permanently. Now I'm wondering if I should go in for an x-ray...
- Location
- Long Island
Dude wtf did you do!?!? I thought stand ups were safer than couches???lol Your making me nervous. I try not to go crazy anymore after shattering a shoulder snowboarding an narrowly missing breaking my neck in the process. But damm dude thats some number you did, please tell more.
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
the funny thing is i have never felt pain after a failed roll, and i fail them alot. maybe i'm special:newangel:
stanton
High on jetskis.
- Location
- atascadero,ca
after reading again i remember one(or two lol) things that hurt. the BALLS!
ouch, landing on the back isnt so bad but the water slappin the nuts
uhhhh.
ouch, landing on the back isnt so bad but the water slappin the nuts
uhhhh.
i HATE THAT.
- Location
- Connecticut
if i land one wrong i sometimes knock my knees together and that hurts
- Location
- So Cal
If I ride hard all day I just wake up the next day with a killer jet ski hangover. Just all around beat up.
Motorheads5
Livin the generation gap
- Location
- ketchikan alaska
Or if I forget to wear a jock strap and nut's are slappin my knee's lol
actually it is x-2 rash
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FreestyleFreak
Region 7 AM Freestyle
- Location
- 615
everytime i try to roll i go up and get almost inverted and then just slam down and it feels like the water is concrete.