Injuries!!

Injury season seems to be upon us. I'm really sad to inform you that in two separate events in the past two months, I have seen two incidents of shattered bones due to techniques gone wrong. In the first incident, respected French traceur Naim shattered all the bones in his forearm when he took a nasty fall from a height of 6 feet after bailing from a simple monkey, missing his landing and falling straight on his arm. A few days ago, Parkour Mumbai's very own Psycho bailed from a simple B-Twist, on the sandy beach no less, fell on his thigh and broke it in 5 pieces. In both cases the traceurs had to undergo major surgeries to fix their bones back together, including inserting several metal plates inside.

We visited Psycho in the hospital, and were happy to see that despite such a nasty accident he still hasn't lost his spirit or his sense of humor. Reports from France also state that Naim is showing similar fortitude after his accident.

Here's wishing both a speedy recovery, and hope that it doesn't dampen their spirit even after recovery and that we can see them back in action soon.

I would also like to take this moment to highlight the dangers of practicing parkour/freerunning/tricking once again, and also point out the dangers of training on rooftops for new/untrained individuals, even though neither accident took place on the rooftops (thankfully, otherwise it might have proven fatal). Neither of these injuries took place because of a lack of conditioning on the part of the practitioner either, but because of a momentary lack of focus. This, and my own weight training accident from a couple of months ago serve to highlight the fact that we must NEVER lose focus of what we are doing whenever training, because a momentary loss of focus is all it takes for a major incident to happen.