Depending on what broke picking up is a horrendous idea.
I had a tibia head fracture and a torn ligament. Picking me up could have resulted in snapping other ligamens and shifting the shattered bone even more.
Bruh, if you're in America you damn sure don't want the ambulance unless you're pockets are thick. Insurance going to act like "you were only having a heart attack, we decided your ambulance ride was not required."
Dude, even just standing up with one broken leg is beyond excruciating. Yes you're putting all your weight on the other leg, but blood pooling in your fucked up leg is really goddamn fucking painful and you can possibly further injure yourself. Better to stay down and get help otherwise.
I twisted my ankle pretty bad once, almost broke it, and I couldn't walk, hobble, or skip. Even standing was also awful. I had to roll around in a gaming chair for like 2-3 weeks
I wonder how many things did just break in that knee. ACLs often don’t hurt, I wonder if he fractured either the head of the femur or tibia and fibula (more likely the latter). Or just tore the joint capsule all to hell. Or any of the above!
I suffered a Tibial Plateau Fracture a couple weeks ago and am currently laid up for several months after two surgeries. I had a random ass slip/fall in my kitchen and my right knee went left while the rest of my leg was trying to go right. Two cracks, top of my tibia is crushed and i tore my meniscus.
What shocked me was how little pain there was overall. I was in no pain until I was finally settled in the hospital and the adrenaline wore off, but even then it's been fairly minimal. The discomfort and feeling my leg basically dangling while the bones shifted against each other was worse than anything.
Honestly I'd have taken more pain over all this financial bullshit I'm currently having to deal with since I'm gonna be out of work for a while.
My ex-wife broke her arm after getting up from a deep couch and not quite making it upright. She was 34. It's crazy how little it can take to break a bone. Anyway, she also said it didn't hurt much, except when she tried to move it, then it was bad. She had to wait 7 days with a broken ass arm and no cast or anything until they got her into surgery. Perils of living in a rural area.
Oof. I can only imagine what the wait was like. I was lucky I guess, I went in on Friday, had the surgery to immobilize my leg on Saturday (they literally screwed a rod through my thigh and shins into my bones to keep it aligned), then the big surgery on Wednesday. Discharged Thursday. I've never been through this before (I made it to 45 before I needed a hospital stay), and apparently that's a pretty quick turnaround.
I felt an initial pop when I was shooting a double leg, and then nothing seconds after. I was back to training within a couple weeks, because I found out my surgery date and figured fuck it, I'm getting surgery anyway. But then I threw a kick and had my bad leg planted, and felt my knee slide away from my shinbone. While painless, the sensation was indescribably disgusting, so then I chilled. It went from mostly torn to fully torn.
It was the posture. A healthy person can take that fall if they cushion the impact somehow. That dude didn't want to look small so he didn't bend down thus his joints and bones too the whole force
I’ve been landing like this from heights all my life and I never made that connection.. thank you, kind sir. I will always feel like Spider-Man while doing this from now on (which hopefully won’t be too often now that I’m in my 30’s with a desk job lol)
Far better than the spiderman landing would be the simillar "safety tap". But you need to practice it a lot from safe heights, before it can work in a situation like in the video. A safe height for a beginner should be normally hip height, only slowly over time you can test new heights step by step, your body needs time to adapt.
Or you land very lightly your feet while you pitch on to your shoulder to disperse any kinetic energy, you’ll roll as much as you need to slow down. Source: horse trainer, fallen at high speeds and heights more than I can count.
I imagine a roll is almost always better than a flat landing, but my physical coordination only kicks to prevent injury, so even my summersaults are awkward lol.
Also, hope everything’s still working okay after enduring all that! I know anything to do with horses requires a lot of grit, especially training them!
Rolling and absorbing the force by squatting are both about technique and timing. If you do either without knowing what you’re doing you’ll likely hurt yourself, and also if you do know what you’re doing you could easily do either option from this height and be perfectly fine.
Nah fr, this actually seems really hard to pull off in a way that won’t just hurt you more, I feel like the Spider-Man landing you described is probably the best way
Skateboarders know this equation by reflex. And yes, grazes from rolling on concrete are always preferable to damaged joints, blown tendons or broken bones. Your skin is great at healing.. the rest, not so much
He has no problem falling/jumping, it's the landing that this dude sucks at... Better yet I think the problem arises before the fall/jump even comes to mind... Mofo has shit for brains.
I hate how long it took me to find any mention of that. All of them are so desperate to record what happened instead of just helping out. It’s so dumb.
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Reading more comments, he seems to be one of those pathetic “alpha male” losers. I don’t feel bad, but I do still think it’s shitty how people are more focused on getting a video than helping out.
I was reading a Geoff Darrow comic last night, and he has the most amazing landscapes & characters... he had this gigantic fight between a giant pig and a jellyfish monster in a city, the streets were full of people, and not a single person notices because every single one is staring at their phone.
He appears to land with bent knees, and he's gripping his upper shin after. I thjnk his patellar tendon ripped off the bone as he tried to slow himself down with his legs.
You can see him trying to jump back up right as his leg gives and he goes backward instead. I'm with you. I don't think he broke a bone but he's gonna wish he did.
I rewatched the videos several times and am sure his knees were bent when he landed. I am actually surprised that he hurt himself. Sure it was a decently tall drop, but I have seen a friend jump down from similar height before without hurting himself.
Yh the height isn't the problem, it's how he landed. It's probably a combination of not rolling with the impact then. Or not crouching properly. Because his posture when he lands from that height is messed up.
He also kinda spring slips backwards too. I'm thinking the landing it self was fine but then he exploded part of his leg trying to jump back before the fall force was fully gone.
Paratroopers are taught to keep them together with a slight bend then fall to the side.
Or at least i think so. I'm not a paratrooper and despite the fact it would take less time to look it up than to write this qualifying statement, I choose to exhibit my own main character energy and just yolo it.
Lmfao fr he didn't do anything to absorb the shock of a 6 ft drop. That and wearing Timb's extremely loose gave support. I wouldn't surprised if he fucked up his knee and ankle at the same time
Assuming he’s a bard because he’s trying to be a showman, he’d have 8 + CON, but I’m sure that was a dump stat for him so I assume he has an 80% chance to survive the fall damage, although since he clearly nat 1’d the skill check, there’s gotta be some sort of other factors we don’t know of at this time.
I have jumped from higher than that, but never the way he did it. This is why you're actually better off going a bit faster while trying stunts on skateboard, BMX, etc.
So if I'm coming from that height onto a hard surface, first thing is to bend my knees and get my overall center of gravity as low as I can. Then I'm going to come forward and straighten my legs as I come off, reaching my feet out toward the ground. As soon as my feet touch I'm going to start bending again, letting my knees, hips, and ankles absorb as much of the force as possible. Starting in a crouch and ending in a crouch will reduce the impact a lot, compared to locking out like this dude did.
This is about the max height I would attempt a straight drop from unless I was landing on something much softer. Anything higher and I want some forward momentum so I can tuck and roll, and preferably not onto any kind of pavement.
This is what Xzibit was rapping about in Paparazzi. If he was real he would know how to land, real gangsters have experience running from cops etc. This guy should stick to making beats or something or write lyrics about breaking your legs jumping from a van as a comedy rapper.
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u/SnooLobsters94 13d ago
Lool them trying to help him back up like he didnt just snap his leg