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Just for the hell of it, I am curious to see a list of total life-time broken bones among BASE jumpers with their cause.

Here is mine:

Sternum (motorcycle)

R coracoid process (shoulder) (motorcycle)

Compounded R radius (motorcycle)

4th R compounded metacarpal (hand) (dumb fall)

1st L compounded metacarpal (thumb) (skiing)

L1, L3, and burst L2 (skydiving)

L tibia (skydiving)

L compounded fibula (skydiving)

1st L phalange (big toe) (drop 45LBS)

Grand total: 11

Left ankle tib(little crack) Fib(clean break) Skydiving.

Don't want any more.

Kris.

Never broke any bones, got my finder pinched once, in the otter door in Z-hill, which resulted in terrible scar on my index finger. It has been my only extreme activities related injury. Oh, got my ego bruised couple of times ;)

Broken right toe (high school soccer)
Broken Nose (fell down drunk on 21st B Day)


That's it. I've been really lucky so far.

No broken bones on my cliff strike

Be Safe
-Bill

Tailbone and both wrists (skydiving with low jump numbers in turbulence, hit the runway).

Never needed bone doc for all the years of Skydiving and BASE jumping.

Took up rock climbing and mountaineering and got a waiting room chair plaque with my name on it at the orthopoedic clinic. All the receptionists got to know me on sight. "Oh Hi Jon, Whadja do this time?"

I would be prouder not have any BASE related broken bones, like Yuri, but here's my short list:

Shattered femur into six pieces - nearly a compound fracture - nearly fatal - BASE jump and significantly eaten by fire ants afterwards. Consumed right arm.

Broken tailbone - BASE jumping, flight into tree trunk at high rate of speed, fell face first afterwards into a pile of large rocks

Broken nose - fighting, not sure which fight

Broken ball off inner ankle -- jumping tall fence for BASE jumping

Sliced arm -- razor wire on fence

Left elbow/severed ulnar nerve (Fighting)

Left ankle (Motorcycle)

Left collar bone (Motorcycle)

Right wrist (Cliff jumping - not BASE)

 

left arm (Being stupid)
right collar bone (I got body slammed in 5th grade)
right collar bone again (hockey)
L12 compression fracture ( fell off the roof!!)

So, you're pretty clumsy, huh?

None

Hmm, may i suggest a bigger canopy and a moped instead of a motorcycle ?

Ok, here is mine:

1 broken fibula mountainbiking.

Franco

zilch, zip, zero, none, notta-one

right tib/fib (motorcycle)

scapula, 2 vertabrae, 6 ribs and a bonus collapsed lung (tree accident)

no parachuting busts.

Well, that's eerie... I'm a month into recovering from nearly identical injuries...

scapula, 2 vertebrae, 5 ribs, tailbone, and two collapsed lungs (BASE)

Heel (BASE -- launched hard on a low exit point)

Ankle (skydiving -- dropped toggle)

Wrist (basketball)

Edit to add: Okay, I gotta ask... Which vertebrae? I burst fractured T5/T6.

i can't believe the dorkzone base forum has come to this............comparing injuries (BASE related or not)on the internet! why the fuck aren't ya'll out jumping instead of spreading non-informitive info. over a stupid internt forum??? what significance does this have to anyone? SHIT!!! we all know stupidity causes most injuries/fatalities so why don't people use this fourm as as means to educate the newbies? comparing what injuries you 've had and don't have, doesn't do shit for anyone.

holy daytime television!!

I would guess a fair number of us who post here work in offices and like to kill time by doing something besides listening to overweight co-workers talking about their kids and their favorite TV shows....it sure is part of the reason why I come here.

i don't remeber the numbers but they were the ones between my shoulder blades. i fell 35ft and landed with my back perpendicular across a tree stump.

heal fast!

Wrist- age 5-trying to do a backflip off the swing

5 metetarsuls in foot- age 14- 8 meter fall from tree after anchor failure

random fingers and toes, but those shouldnt count

Eggshelled left heel, and COMPLETELY destroyed lower tib fib, in febuary
that one has had 3 surguries thus far, one more end of summer.

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mmm, if I write something I might break something....

Ronald Overdijk

shattered right femur (skydiving - stupid hook turn)

cracked tailbone (base jump)

and proud to say nothing from a motorcycle in 15 years of riding....

Left fib skydiving...

well here goes i only did 7 base jumps last year but on my last sky dive 08/01/06 impacted ground while swooping and broke pelvis in half broke sacrum with a 5" break and 8" break, also broke both feet , and punctured fphemeral artery at which point i bled from the artery for 2hrs before bleeding was stoped. imagine that all cause of hooking it to low
one note night before me and my mentor opened up a 437' free stander i was off first held for 2 sec using a 48" pc hand held was very nice although i didnt care for my lines being out of the metal loops. was really wierd trying to flare lol dont miss skydiving but do miss base probably always will